Jacques Sereys

Jacques Sereys (2 June 1928 – 1 January 2023) was a French actor and theatre director.

[1] Raised by a single mother who worked as an embroiderer, Sereys grew up in Marseille.

[2] He began to make money at the age of 14 while working for Crédit Lyonnais.

In 1951, he was admitted to the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique and attended classes taught by Henri Rollan.

In 1964, Sereys left the Comédie-Française to devote himself to boulevard theatre, a period in which he met the likes of Jacques Charon and Robert Hirsch.