Irène Jacob

7.7	Listal rating

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Birth Name: Irène Marie Jacob

Age: 46, born 15 July 1966

Country of origin: Switzerland

Height: 5' 4"

Ethnicity: White / Caucasian

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Published 3 years, 7 months ago

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Published 4 years, 6 months ago

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Published 2 years, 8 months ago

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Irène Jacob Videos

Three Colors Red (1/12) Movie CLIP - All in a Day's Work (1994) HD

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Three Colors Red (7/12) Movie CLIP - Selfless Acts (1994) HD

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About: This beautiful, dark-haired Swiss actress made a hit with a supporting role in her first film, as the piano teacher in Louis Malle's "Au revoir, les enfants" (1987). Educated in London and Geneva, and a Paris resident since the age of 18, Jacob became a promising starlet with her Malle success and followed up with another small role in Jacques Rivette's "La bande des quatre/The Gang of Four" (1989). 5Stardom (and a Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award) arrived with Jacob's This beautiful, dark-haired Swiss actress made a hit with a supporting role in her first film, as the piano teacher in Louis Malle's "Au revoir, les enfants" (1987). Educated in London and Geneva, and a Paris resident since the age of 18, Jacob became a promising starlet with her Malle success and followed up with another small role in Jacques Rivette's "La bande des quatre/The Gang of Four" (1989). 5Stardom (and a Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award) arrived with Jacob's dual role as two women whose lives are mysteriously linked in Krzysztof Kieslowski's psychological drama "The Double Life of Veronique" (1991). She ventured to the US for a ronantic comedy, "Trusting Beatrice" (1991), fittingly, about a young French woman's arrival in the US. After the small film "The Van Gogh Wake" (1993), she played the ill-fated mother in Agnieszka Holland's touching and acclaimed "The Secret Garden" (1993). Several more small French films followed, but it took a reunion with Kieslowski to jump-start Jacob's career again. In his "Red/Rouge" (1994), the final segment of his "Three Colors" trilogy (and his swan song), Jacob starred as a Swiss fashion model who meets a cynical aging ex-judge (played by Jean-Louis Trintignant) after she runs over his dog. In the film, she served as an emotional and spiritual curative for the old man; the second time, Kieslowski employed Jacob as a woman who offers a man consolation and mystery. 6Jacob followed up as a religious devotee in Michaelango Antonioni's episodic "Beyond the Clouds/Par-dela les nuages" (1995), then ventured to England to play Desdemona to Laurence Fishburne's "Othello" (also 1995). Jacob has several foreign-made films in the can which have not yet been released in the US: she plays an East Indian beauty with Willem Defoe and Sam Neill in "Victory" (filmed in 1994), an ill-fated vacationer in "Fugueuses/Runaway" and a French actress in 1948 who befriends a mysterious tramp (Stephen Rea) in "All Men Are Mortal" (both shown at Cannes in 1995). ... (more)

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Movies

1. The Secret Garden (1993)

Rating:

6.9

882 Watched

2. Three Colors: Red (1994)

Rating:

8.1

524 Watched

3. The Double Life of Véronique (1991)

Rating:

353 Watched

4. U.S. Marshals (1998)

Rating:

498 Watched

5. Au Revoir, les Enfants (1987)

Rating:

7.9

235 Watched

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TV

1. French Beauty (2005)

Rating:

8.3

7 want to see

2. Déchaînées (2009)

Rating:

1 Watched

3. Lettre d'une inconnue (2001)

Rating:

1 want to see

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"my sympathy for her: 8/10 Movies I've seen of her: 3/49 - Trois couleurs: Rouge - The secret garden - La double vie de Véronique"

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" "U.S. Marshals" became better for having Irene Jacob there."

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"Best movies: Au Revoir, les Enfants, La Double vie de Véronique, Trois couleurs: Rouge"

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The Best Performances by Actresses in the 90's (20 person items)

"The movie: La double vie de Véronique Irène Jacob as Weronika. Irène Jacob as Veronique. "

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Underappreciated Beauties (13 person items)

"MOVIES: The Double Life of Veronique, Three Colors: Red LISTAL LISTS: 9 A-list arthouse beauty is a cinema treasure. "

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French Girls (81 person items)

" Irène Marie Jacob (born 15 July 1966) is a French-born Swiss actress considered one of the preeminent French actresses of her generation. Jacob gained international recognition and acclaim through her work with Polish film director Krzysztof Kieslowski, who cast her in the lead role of The Double Life of Véronique and Three Colors: Red. She came to represent an image of European sophistication, through her "classic beauty and thoughtful, almost melancholic style of acting.""

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