Virginie Hocq

Virginie Hocq is a Belgian comedian and humorist, born in Nivelles on 26 February 1975. In 1993 she entered the Academie de Braine-l'Alleud and played in cafe-theatres such as Le cercle de Saint-Anne in works including L'Ours by Tchekhov, La Folle de Chaillot by Giraudoux and Gros Chagrin by Courteline. In 1995 she played the role of Therese in a revival of the play Le pere Noel est une ordure, then the roles of Isabelle and the mother Fanchette in Les Parades by Beaumarchais. In 1996 she was admitted to the Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles, from which she graduated with a first prize in comedy. In 1999 she created her first solo humour show, titled Dis oui !.

In 2001 she met Patrick Chaboud and took part in the show of the Magic Land Theatre, Le Magic Land regle ses contes, with which she toured France, Belgium and Canada across 96 performances. In 2003 she presented her second one-woman-show, Qui a dit faible ?, written with Patrick Ridremont, and was elected best comedian 2003 by the readers of the magazine Kiosque, also receiving the prize of the Communaute francaise at the Festival du rire de Rochefort. In 2005 she created, in coproduction with the Centre culturel des Riches-Claires, her new one-woman-show C'est tout moi in Brussels, written with Patrick Chaboud and Victor Scheffer, before presenting it the following year in Paris and then on tour in Belgium, France, Switzerland and Quebec.

In 2013 she stepped for the first time onto the stage of the Olympia with Pas d'inquietude and closed her tour with two full performances at the Cirque Royal in Brussels. She created her fifth solo show, Sur le fil, directed by Isabelle Nanty and co-written by Benjamin Gomez. In cinema she appeared in films such as La Liste de mes envies by Didier Le Pecheur in 2014, and in 2021 played in the comedies Mystere a Saint-Tropez by Nicolas Benamou and Barbaque by Fabrice Eboue. In 2025 she signed, with Jean-Marc Victor, an adaptation of the show Orgueil et Prejuges... ou presque at the Theatre Saint-Georges, freely inspired by Jane Austen's work Orgueil et Prejuges. Her daughter, Billie, was born on 14 December 2015.