Guillaume Gallienne is an actor, screenwriter, and director, and has been a member of the Comédie-Française since 2005. He received multiple awards for his comedy Me, Myself and Mum (Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table !), including the Molière Award for Most Promising Newcomer in 2010, before adapting it into a successful film in 2013. From 2009 to 2020, he hosted the literary radio program Ça peut pas faire de mal on France Inter.
In The Mist Drinker (Le Buveur de brume, Stock, 2025), he is meant to spend the night at the National Museum of Tbilisi, but instead finds himself expected at the National Gallery, where the portrait of his great-grandmother, Princess Melita Cholokashvili—known as Babou—has been relocated.
There, he begins a dialogue with his Georgian heritage, passed down through Babou, a radiant muse of Georgia’s literary scene in the early 20th century, and his beloved grandmother Caï, his childhood accomplice. By telling their stories, he revisits—with humor and tenderness—the roots of his own identity.
