Being an actress herself, how could she refuse her son to live his passion for comedy? Clovis Cornillac revealed how his mother reacted to leaving home when he was just a teenager, during his appearance on the show “A Sunday in the Country”.
Clovis Cornillac left home at 14: his mother, a renowned actress, let him do it but…
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Clovis Cornillac spent a stay rich in introspection in the company of Frédéric Lopez as well as Coeur de Pirate and Michel Leeb for the needs of the show A Sunday in the countryside on France 2. His passage will be revealed in its entirety this October 6, 2024 but an extract has just been revealed and testifies to the intensity and depth of the exchanges which took place for the guests. Indeed, the actor, who was a hit in A little something extra and now on stage in Paris in the role of Claude Monet, spoke about his childhood unlike any other.
Clovis Cornillac fell into the pot of comedy from his birth since he is the son of director Roger Cornillac and actress Myriam Boyer. The acting bug was impossible to control when he was just a teenager and he began his career at that age, starring with his mother in a four-episode soap opera broadcast on television in March 1982: Pierrot’s Childhood. The following year, he decided to gain independence by leaving the family nest in order to improve in the theater.
In A Sunday in the countrysidethe father of three children (the twins Lily and Alice, whom he had with Caroline Proust, then Nino whose mother is his wife Lilou Fogli) recounts the context of this determined choice: “For Mym [Myriam Boyer], she didn’t abandon me at all.“She accepted that her son took off with a tacit contract that she had imposed on him:”On the other hand, you don’t hang around.” Indeed, the family must earn its living and he then had to work: “II was a waiter, I was all that.“He indicates that he was a very mature child at the time and did not feign his desire for autonomy:”It wasn’t fake.”
Myriam Boyer, an actress with a rich career
Coming from a very poor background and divorced parents, Myriam Boyer began working at the age of 16 as an invoice typist. Then, she was noticed as a teenager during theater classes by Agnès Varda and appeared in 1973 in the film by her illustrious husband Jacques Demy, The Most Important Event Since Man Walked on the Moon.
Myriam Boyer can boast of having a rich career spanning cinema, television and theater. It can be seen in Black Series with Patrick Dewaere – her performance earned her the César for best supporting role – she is also in an episode of Coffee break tender break with her son Clovis Cornillac in 1989 and the following decade, she won the Molière actress award for Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf?. She gets a second one for Life ahead based on Romain Gary’s 2008 novel.
On the private side, Myriam Boyer has been the wife since 2010 of the actor Philippe Vincent, specialized in dubbing, notably Kevin Bacon, Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer. She was previously in a relationship with the filmmaker John Berry, to whom we owe Threat in the night and with whom she had a second son, Arny Berry, born in 1982.
