Audrey Vernon

Audrey Vernon was born on October 31, 1980 in Marseille and is a French actress. Audrey Vernon studied drama at the conservatory in Toulon, the conservatory in Paris's 10th arrondissement, and the Cours Florent. She made her theater debut as Ophelia in Hamlet by William Shakespeare and as Polly in The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht. She appeared on television in the 2001 television film Fatou la Malienne, directed by Daniel Vigne; the 2007 TV series Moot-Moot, directed by Éric Judor and Ramzy Bedia; and the 2010 television film Le Petit Poucet. Following La Séance au Choix, she was given a daily one-minute slot on Canal+ Décalé from 2005 to 2013.

In 2005, she wrote her first show, Le spectacle le plus drôle du monde (The Funniest Show in the World), a critique of one-man shows. In 2009, she wrote the "first economic 'one-man' show," Comment épouser un milliardaire (How to Marry a Billionaire), which premiered at the Paname; this show's script was published in 2015 under the same title. In 2012, she created a new one-man show, Marx et Jenny, about Karl Marx, his wife Jenny, their best friend Friedrich Engels, and Helene Demuth. In July 2013, she inaugurated La Nouvelle Seine, a new theater in Paris, with a series of forty performances of this show. On February 14, 2014, she premiered Chagrin d'amour (Heartbreak), a one-man show about grief and heartbreak.

Starting in August 2016, she presented Le billet d'Audrey Vernon on Le Cinq Sept on France Inter on Fridays. On January 18, 2018, she celebrated the 500th and final performance of How to Marry a Billionaire at the Théâtre Antoine in Paris. In the winter of 2020, she presented her show Billion Dollar Baby (originally titled Cannon Fodder) at La Nouvelle Seine, directed and designed by Dorian Rossel and Delphine Lanza. In April 2020, she launched BigBooks, a podcast dedicated to sharing readings that inspire her by reading excerpts from essays and articles on capitalism and neoliberalism.