Actress and theatre director, Julie Duclos holds a bachelor's degree in cinema (University of Paris VIII) and graduated from the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique (class 2010), where she studied under the direction of Dominique Valadié, Alain Françon, and Philippe Garrel.
Directing
She created her first show at the Conservatoire, Fragments d’un discours amoureux (A lover’s discourse), based on Roland Barthes’ work. A fragmented dramaturgy, where Barthes' lovers rub shoulders with those of Marivaux and the French New Wave. The show was then performed in Paris (La loge), then at the MESS Festival in Sarajevo.
In 2012, she created Masculin/Féminin (Male/Female), a work in progress that freely experiments with the boundaries of acting, between reality and fiction. In 2014, with the same group of actors and in collaboration with Guy-Patrick Sainderichin, she directed Nos Serments (Our Oaths), very loosely inspired by Jean Eustache's film La Maman et la Putain (The Mother and the Whore), at La Colline – Théâtre National. The script was born out of improvisations with the actors. The characters and situations, inspired by those in the film, question our private utopias. The show toured for two seasons, notably at the Festival TransAmérique in Montreal. A radio drama based on the show was broadcast on France Culture, À force de rêver tout bas (By dint of dreaming softly), in collaboration with Alexandre Plank.
In 2017, she staged MayDay, a contemporary play by Dorothée Zumstein, at La Colline – Théâtre National and on tour in France. A journey through time and memory, guided by an interview, tracing the lives of several generations of women.
In July 2019, she staged Maurice Maeterlinck's Pelléas et Mélisande (Pelleas and Melisande) at the Festival d'Avignon. A script between earth and sky, both concrete and poetic, the story of a tragic love in a world on the brink of collapse. The show toured France during the 2019-20 season and was performed at the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe in Paris in February 2020. It received the Georges-Lerminier Prize (best theatrical production created in the provinces) from the Syndicat de la Critique.
In 2021, she created Lars Norén's Kliniken at the Théâtre National de Bretagne festival, a choral play bringing together 13 characters who evolve in the common room of a psychiatric hospital, a contemporary ‘fresco’ questioning the boundaries between madness and normality. The show will tour France during the 2021-22 season and will run for three weeks at the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe in May 2022.
In 2024, she created her latest show, Brecht's Grand-peur et misère du IIIe Reich (Fear and Misery of the Third Reich), at the TNB, an intimate and political immersion into Nazi Germany in the 1930s, which serves as a warning. The show is touring France and performed at the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe in January 2025. It will be performed during the 2025-26 season.
She was an associate artist at the Théâtre National de la Colline alongside Stéphane Braunschweig from 2015 to 2017, and currently at the Théâtre National de Bretagne alongside Arthur Nauzyciel, at the Comédie de Caen alongside Aurore Fattier and at the Préau – Centre Dramatique National de Normandie-Vire alongside Charlotte Lagrange.
She teaches at various acting schools, notably the TNB drama school. Since February 14, 2025, she is Knight of Order of the Arts and Letters.
She is currently preparing a production for the Comédie Française as well as her next project, Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People, which will premiere in 2027.
Affaires culturelles ǀ Arnaud Laporte ǀ France Culture ǀ May 16, 2022
In cinéma
Since 2022, she has been a member of the jury for the Jean Vigo Prize and is currently preparing a feature film produced by Jeanne Ezvan and Marthe Lamy (Apaches film).
Actress
In theater, she has performed with Geneviève Schwoebel, Jean-Pierre Vincent, and Marc Paquien, and has participated in the workshops Le corps rêvant (The dreaming body) and L'élan intérieur (The inner momentum) directed by Krystian Lupa as part of the Chantiers Nomades’professional workshops.
In cinema, she has appeared in short and medium-length films with Justin Taurand, Hélier Cisterne, and Émilie Noblet, among others. She appears in François Ozon's film Grâce à Dieu (By the Grace of God), and most recently in the TV shows Des gens bien by Stéphane Bergmans, Benjamin d'Aoust, and Matthieu Donck, and Les espions de la terreur directed by Rodolphe Tissot. She will soon appear in feature film by Pierre Le Gall (Du fioul dans les artères). She is represented by Emmanuelle Ramade at the Adéquat talent agency.