Rodolphe Congé was born in 1972. He began by training as a musician at the Conservatoire, before moving on to try his hand at acting. He then continued his training at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique in Paris, where he acted under the direction of Klaus Michael Grüber (Pirandello's Les Géants de la montagne), Jacques Lassalle, Stuart Seide and others.

In the theatre, he has worked with Alain Françon (Café by Edward Bond, Visage de feu by Marius von Mayenburg, Mais aussi autre chose by Christine Angot), Stuart Seide (Moonlight by Harold Pinter), Jean Baptiste Sastre (Tamerlan), Joris Lacoste (Purgatoire), Gildas Milin (Machine sans cible, Toboggan), Frédéric Maragnani, Philippe Minyana, Yves Beaunesne, Etienne Pommeret, Gilles Bouillon... In film, he has worked with directors Pierre Schoeller (Les Anonymes), Siegrid Alnoy (Elle est des nôtres, Nos Familles, Miroir mon amour), François Duperyon (La Chambre des officiers), Benoît Jacquot, Lisa Azuelos, Éric Heumann, Cyril Brody...

He has directed Elle est là by Nathalie Sarraute and La Joie imprévue by Marivaux. He worked as dramaturge and actor on the creation of a show for the 2011 Autumn Festival (Le Vrai Spectacle) with Joris Lacoste, and in 2013-2015 performed in Le Canard sauvage directed by Stéphane Braunschweig at the Théâtre National de la Colline, and in 2014-2015 performed in Notre Faust directed by Robert Cantarella at Théâtre Ouvert.

He also teaches at La Manufacture (Haute École de Théâtre de Suisse Romande, Lausanne).