Charlotte Gabris

Charlotte Gabris is a Swiss comedian and humorist, born in Lausanne on 30 January 1987. Born to an American-Hungarian father, a psychiatrist in Lausanne, and a German mother, she discovered dance at the age of five and theatre at the age of eight. During her studies she attended the conservatoire de Lausanne, where she studied classical and contemporary theatre. She wrote her first show J'en ai marre at the age of seventeen and performed it in Switzerland.

In 2006, aged 19, Charlotte Gabris arrived from Lausanne to settle in Paris. She entered the cours Florent and stayed there two weeks. Her first contract was signed in 2007 with the production company Juste pour rire, which had her perform on the stage of the theatre de Dix Heures, where she played three times a week. She received several prizes and joined in 2008, as a columnist, the troupe of la Grosse Emission presented by Ariane Massenet on the channel Comedie+. On 2 January 2012 she joined the troupe of the Jamel Comedy Club.

Since 2014 she has appeared in various popular French films such as Babysitting, Babysitting 2, A fond, Epouse-moi mon pote and Les Aventures de Spirou et Fantasio. In 2017 she wrote her first stage play Merci pour le bruit, performed at the theatre de la Gaite-Montparnasse alongside Vincent Desagnat, directed by Sarah Lelouch. In January 2020 her first novel Dejeuner en paix was published by editions Le Cherche midi. Her distinctions include the prix Francois-Silvant at the 19e Montreux Comedy Festival in 2008 and the prix special du jury at the Dinard Comedy Festival in 2012.