Léa Drucker’s Acting Class
Actress
Trained under Véra Gregh and at ENSATT, Léa Drucker began her career on stage, performing notably for directors Roger Hanin, Hans Peter Cloos, Benno Besson, Zabou Breitman, Michel Fau and Bernard Murat. She has been nominated for four Molière Awards, for the plays “Danny and the Deep Blue Sea”, “84 Charing Cross Road”, “A Love That Never Ends” and “The Lady from Maxim’s”. In 2017, she played a repressed mother in Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri’s “Kitchen with Apartment” and “Family Resemblance”.
In tandem with her rich theatrical career, she performs on the big and small screen; she has notably been directed by Cédric Klapisch, Coline Serreau, Marina de Van, Mathieu Amalric, Dominik Moll, Nadav Lapid, Jérôme Bonnell and more recently Diastème in The World of Yesterday, Quentin Dupieux in Incredible but True, Lukas Dhont in Close, Grand Prix of the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, and Clovis Cornillac in The Colors of Fire. In 2007, Léa Drucker won the Best Actress Cristal Globe for Zabou Breitman’s The Man of My Life.
In 2019, she received the Best Actress César for her portrayal of a wife victimized by her husband in Xavier Legrand’s Custody, winner of the 2019 Claude Chabrol Prize. This year, the actress was nominated for the Best Actress César with Catherine Breillat’s Last Summer, presented in competition at the last Cannes Film Festival. She will next appear in Baptiste Debraux’s Chasing Johnny, selected this year at Reims Polar.
