[3] He decided to become a professional actor when he was about 16 years old, as a result of learning about Molière in literature classes at school.

[a] At the age of 19, Axel Auriant made his mark in theatre in the one-man show Une vie sur mesure ('A Unique Life')[b] by Cédric Chapuis.

It propelled Axel Auriant, as well as his on-screen counterpart Maxence Danet-Fauvel, to an international level.

Les 1001 vies des Urgences by Baptiste Beaulieu [fr] and produced by Arthur Jugnot.

[3][9] He played an abridged version of it at the thirtieth night of the Molières 2020 [fr] at the Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris.