Actress Hélène de Saint-Père (Profilage, Alex Hugo, etc.) dies at 62

On Wednesday, May 4, 2022, actress Hélène de Saint-Père died at the age of 62. If his name means nothing to you, he has nevertheless had a rich and varied career.

Born in Brazzaville, Congo, he studied on the famous Cours Florent and has expanded his experiences in theatre, film and more recently television.

His career did indeed begin on the boards, at the Théâtre des Amandiers, later directed by Pierre Romans and the great director Patrice Chéreau. He performed at the Festival d’Avignon under the direction of two directors in Heinrich von Kleist’s Penthésilée and La Petite Catherine de Heilbronn and Anton Chekhov’s Platonov.

For one of his first cinema experiences, Agnès Jaoui, Vincent Pérez, Marianne Denicourt, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Thibault de Montalembert, Bruno Todeschini, Marc Citti, Laurent Grevill…

“At that time the Amandiers theater was in full swing, we were in daily contact with the reality of the profession, this was not a classical school at all”, he confided at the time.

Hélène de Saint-Père later became the Governor’s Ball by Marie-France Pisier, Miss Missouri by Élie Chouraqui, Friday Night by Claire Denis, Easier for a camel… By Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, The love of Picture or Doing Arnaud and Jean- Marie Larrieu…

Later, in the mid-90s, the actor turned to television and starred in many TV movies and series. Audiences can indeed see her in The Judge is a Woman, Josephine, Guardian Angel, The Little Murders of Agatha Christie, Profiling, Cain, Alex Hugo, Mongeville, Commissioner Magellan or Jacqueline Sauvage: It was him or me.

In 1995 her talent was rewarded, and Hélène de Saint-Père received a silver fairy for best female interpretation for her role in A Mother’s Nightmare, a TV movie that aired on M6 at the time.

In 2019, he decided to put his experience at the service of apprentice players and became a teacher at Cours Florent.