Audrey Vernon
Audrey Vernon (born October 31, 1980, in Marseille) is a French actress, comedian and writer. She trained in drama at the Conservatoire in Toulon, the Conservatoire du Xe arrondissement in Paris, and at Cours Florent. She began on stage, playing Ophelia in Hamlet and Polly in The Threepenny Opera.
On television she appeared in Fatou la Malienne (2001), Moot-Moot (2007), and Le Petit Poucet (2010). She also acted in stage productions like Betrayal by Harold Pinter.
From 2005 to 2013 she had a daily one-minute slot on Canal+ Décalé after La Séance au Choix. She wrote several one-woman shows, including Le spectacle le plus drôle du monde (2005) and How to Marry a Billionaire (2009), which examines money and economics. The script of How to Marry a Billionaire was published in 2015.
In 2012 she created Marx et Jenny, about Karl Marx, his wife Jenny, and their friend Engels. In 2013 she opened La Nouvelle Seine, a theater in Paris, with a run of this show. In 2014 she premiered Chagrin d'amour (Heartbreak), a show about grief, and in 2015 she created Fukushima, Work in Progress with Xavier Mathieu.
Starting in 2016 she hosted Le billet d'Audrey Vernon on France Inter on Fridays. In 2018 How to Marry a Billionaire reached its 500th performance at Théâtre Antoine in Paris. She also co-created Ecologie, maintenant il faut se battre (Ecology: Now We Must Fight) with Reporterre, featuring radical ecological readings.
In 2020 she released Billion Dollar Baby, a one-woman show about a pregnant woman and the world she will raise her child in, and she launched the BigBooks podcast about capitalism, with guests like Noam Chomsky and David Graeber. In 2022 she joined the Parlement de l'Union Populaire to support Jean-Luc Mélenchon, and in 2023 she helped lead a fund for Soulèvements de la Terre.
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