The actor Benjamin Lavernhe, master of ceremonies for the 2026 César Awards, has become an essential figure in cinema. And, for that, he had to leave his provincial town…
Coming from a family of four children, Benjamin Lavernhe grew up in a traditional environment. But, thanks to parents “rather open”and a mother passionate about sculpture and painting, the entire siblings have “caught the art bug”.
Where does Benjamin Lavernhe come from? “I couldn’t see myself living there…”
“My older brother is a musician, my little sister is a dancer, my younger brother wants to produce electronic music”also announced the 41-year-old actor in the columns of World. Originally from Poitiers, where his father managed a strainer factory – mesh structures for filtering water, oil or sugar – Benjamin Lavernhe left the nest after a hypokhâgne and a second year of university in the City of 100 Bell Towers.
Now settled in the capital, the resident of the Comédie Française would no longer see himself turning back. Poitiers? Very little for him. “I’m still very attached to it. But I couldn’t see myself living there”he told the local media The 7th. Before adding: “Poitiers has a lot of charm but has emptied itself. I have the feeling that it was teeming before, whereas the city center today looks like a Western setting, with no people.”
Where does Benjamin Lavernhe live today?
However, whoever will present the 51st Cesar Ceremony, on February 26 from the Olympia in Paris and live on Canal +, does not forget where he comes from. And he admits it: Poitiers marked him for his “first life experiences”. “I built myself in this city. It often occupies my dreams today”he even confided. Before specifying: “I grew up on rue Saint-Hilaire, where my parents still live. I really like this corner of the city”.
Today, the companion of actress Rebecca Marder lives in the very bohemian 11th arrondissement of Paris, rue Saint-Sabin. A godsend because, he assures us, in Poitiers, he is “a bit of a curiosity”. “When I come back to it, in the eyes of my parents and their friends, I am the artist”he explained in The World. And it’s up to him to conclude: “It’s a little annoying, moreover, to hear each time the way they call out to me with ‘so, the artist’, ‘how’s it going, the artist’, like the minstrel who is addressed in a condescending little tone”. Worthy of Muriel Robin’s cult sketch…
