Jérôme Deschamps

Biography

Jérôme Deschamps is an actor, director, and stage author born on October 5, 1947, in Neuilly-sur-Seine. He co-founded the Les Deschiens troupe with Macha Makeïeff in 1978 and later became artistic director of Théâtre national de Nîmes before succeeding at Théâtre national de l'Opéra-Comique in 2007. A nephew of Hubert Deschamps, he is also related to Jacques Tati through his mother's distant half-cousinship.