--- name: "Clotilde Hesme" canonical: "https://film.one/person/clotilde-hesme" roles: ["Actor"] born: "30 July 1979" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-17T14:15:47.635700+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Clotilde Hesme Actor. Born 30 July 1979 in Troyes, Aube, France. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 30 July 1979, Troyes, Aube, France - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clotilde_Hesme, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q275664, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1202905/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/53429 ## Streaming the US now - **Tubi:** [*The Returned*](https://film.one/tv/the-returned.md) (85) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Clotilde Hesme > Clotilde Hesme acts with her whole body, in parts that would still make sense with the sound off. She is at her best as women holding a hard-won calm together, and *The Returned* gave her the finest of them. Early in *The Returned* (2012), a young man knocks on a door in a French mountain town, and the woman who opens it has spent years building a life in which he does not exist. Clotilde Hesme plays Adèle, and what she does in that doorway is what she does everywhere: she lets the body answer before the face does. The shoulders go first, then the hands, and the words, when they come, are the least of it. Fabrice Gobert's series has almost no scares and a great deal of dread, and a good share of the dread lives in Hesme. We found her harder to watch than any of the programme's dead; a woman holding together a recovery we could see fraying was more frightening, and sadder, than anything walking back into town. She came up through the theatre, with François Orsoni's company from 1999, and it shows. She is an actor of presence rather than close-up, most at ease when the frame has to hold all of her. The cinema took notice through Philippe Garrel, who gave her Lilie in *Regular Lovers* (2005) opposite Louis Garrel, and Christophe Honoré, whose musical *Love Songs* (2007) put her in front of a wider audience in a year she made four films. Then Alix Delaporte's *Angèle et Tony* (2010) gave her a lead, an atypical love story she has described plainly: "You have to play her with your whole body." That sentence is as good a summary of her method as any critic has managed. The complaint against her first decade is fair, and it is not hers to answer. The parts were secondary, the leads were men, and the films were built around them; she was the woman the young man came home to. It took Delaporte, three films together now, to keep putting her at the centre, and *Diane a les épaules* (2017) to hand her a woman who wants things and says so. Since *The Returned* she has divided herself between films of that kind and recurring television, Juliette Pellegrini in *Lupin* (2021–2023) among them, with a *Hamlet* on stage in 2024. It is a sensible way to work and a slightly frustrating one to follow, because the parts that reach the most people are not the ones that use her best. She has said she needs the theatre for her equilibrium, because there nobody minds much about image. Watching her on screen, that rings true: she has never seemed to be checking how she looks, which is rarer than it should be. Start with the first eight episodes of *The Returned*, which are as fine as this kind of television gets, and watch what she does with a door. ## Biography Clotilde Hesme is a French actress. She was born on 30 July 1979 in Troyes, Aube. She trained at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique in Paris and began her career in theatre before appearing in the 2002 film *Le Chignon d'Olga*. She is known for her role as Adèle in the television series *The Returned* (2012–2015). Other credits include *Regular Lovers* (2005), *Love Songs* (2007), *Angèle et Tony* (2010), *Chocolat* (2016) and *Lupin* (2021). She received a César Award for Most Promising Actress for *Angèle et Tony* and a nomination for *Love Songs*. Her sisters Annelise Hesme and Élodie Hesme are also actresses. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *The Returned* (2012), Fi1m 85, as Adèle — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-returned.md) ## Complete filmography (46) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *"Un tueur si proche": Ann Rule et Ted Bundy* (2026), as Reader (voice) - *Le Signal 149 kHz* (2026), series, as Olivia Dormeuil - *Upon Her Lips: Hold Me Tight* (2024), as Céline (segment "L'Attente") - *Largo Winch: The Price of Money* (2024), as Chloé Riva - *Me Too* (2024), Acting - *Chicken for Linda!* (2023), as Paulette (voice) - *The Lost Patient* (2022), as Anna Kieffer - *Expecting* (2022), as Céline - *Nona and Her Daughters* (2021), series, as Gabrielle - *The Shift* (2021), as Isabelle Verheyden - *HIP - High Intellectual Potential* (2021), series, as Roxanne - *Lupin* (2021), series, as Juliette Pellegrini - *Amour fou* (2020), series, as Rebecca Peyrac - *Last Lights* (2019), as The Actress - *Came the Wave* (2018), as Dom - *The Game of Love and Chance* (2018), as Silvia - *Diane Has the Right Shape* (2017), as Diane - *K.O.* (2017), as Ingrid - *Daydreams* (2017), as Camille Peano - *A Woman's Life* (2016), as Gilberte de Fourville - *Chocolat* (2016), as Marie Hecquet - *Eva & Leon* (2015), as Eva - *The Last Hammer Blow* (2014), as Nadia - *Le rêve de Camille* (2014), Acting - *For a Woman* (2013), as Madeleine - *Once Upon a Time...* (2013), as Adrienne Chanel - *Un chien de ma chienne* (2013), as Clotilde - *Three Worlds* (2012), as Juliette - *The Returned* (2012), series, as Adèle — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-returned.md) - *Mysteries of Lisbon* (2011), series, as Elisa de Montfort - *Angèle and Tony* (2011), as Angèle - *Mysteries of Lisbon* (2010), as Elisa de Montfort - *Suite noire – Envoyez la facture* (2009), as Rebecca - *Happy End* (2009), as Iris - *Angelo, tyran de Padoue* (2009), as La Tisbé - *La Seconde Surprise de l'amour* (2008), as La Marquise - *On War* (2008), as Louise - *The Beautiful Person* (2008), as The documentalist - *Rivals* (2008), as Corinne - *24 Bars* (2007), as Damia - *Enfances* (2007), as Gabrielle - *The Grocer's Son* (2007), as Claire - *Love Songs* (2007), as Alice - *Regular Lovers* (2005), as Lilie - *Nelly* (2004), as Mathilde - *Le Chignon d'Olga* (2002), as Marion ## Gallery - ![Clotilde Hesme à Deauville en 2020.](https://film.one/media/person/897945/gallery-3a11471caf8e.jpg) Clotilde Hesme à Deauville en 2020. — Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/CLOTILDE_HESME_DEAUVILLE_2020.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Clotilde Hesme](https://film.one/media/person/897945/gallery-63c99d8cb399.jpg) Clotilde Hesme — Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/CLOTILDE_HESME_DEAUVILLE_2020_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Clotilde Hesme](https://film.one/media/person/897945/gallery-0418ae3ed33c.jpg) Clotilde Hesme — Image via TMDB - ![Clotilde Hesme](https://film.one/media/person/897945/gallery-30350a0f1b2a.jpg) Clotilde Hesme — Image via TMDB - ![Clotilde Hesme](https://film.one/media/person/897945/gallery-3d1b03dcc792.jpg) Clotilde Hesme — Image via TMDB - ![Clotilde Hesme](https://film.one/media/person/897945/gallery-ab540a4d51ee.jpg) Clotilde Hesme — Image via TMDB - ![Clotilde Hesme](https://film.one/media/person/897945/gallery-89244d314f56.jpg) Clotilde Hesme — Image via TMDB - ![Clotilde Hesme](https://film.one/media/person/897945/gallery-3fc2b1b925f2.jpg) Clotilde Hesme — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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