Irène Jacob
Biography
Irène Jacob is a French-Swiss actress who gained international acclaim through the films of the Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski. Born in Suresnes, a western suburb of Paris, she moved with her family to Geneva as a child and later studied acting in Paris, after time at the Geneva Conservatory and a drama studio in London. Her first film role came while she was a drama student, in Louis Malle's Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987). Kieślowski then cast her in The Double Life of Véronique (1991), in which she played two young women, and the performance won her the Best Actress award at Cannes. She was nominated for a BAFTA for Three Colours: Red (1994), and her other films include The Secret Garden (1993), Othello (1995), Beyond the Clouds (1995) and U.S. Marshals (1998). She also returned to the stage and wrote a book.
60years old
Turns 61 on July 15in 247 days
- Born Suresnes
- Star sign: CancerThe sign runs June 21 to July 22
- Irène Marie Jacob (birth name)Also credited as Irene Jacob
Movie Career
- Films
- 15
- Career span
- 32 years1987 to 2019
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A role that slipped away
Jacob turned down the lead role in Indecent Proposal, choosing instead to focus on smaller French films between 1992 and 1993.
First role
Jacob was a 21-year-old drama student when she got her first film role, playing a piano teacher in Louis Malle's Au revoir les enfants.
Big break
Krzysztof Kieślowski gave Jacob the lead in The Double Life of Veronique, a 1991 film about two young women, one in Poland and one in France, both played by her. Her work in it earned her the Best Actress prize at Cannes.
Languages
In 1995 Jacob appeared in Oliver Parker's adaptation of William Shakespeare's Othello, where she delivered all of her lines in English on film for the first time.
Languages
Jacob studied at the Geneva Conservatory of Music and got a degree in languages. She speaks French, English, German, and Italian fluently.
Irène Jacob movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
- The Secret Garden1993 Drama, Family, Fantasyas Mary's Mother / Lilias Craven
IMDb rating 7.348K votes
Most often with
Eddy Mitchell appears in three of them, more than any other actor. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Also two films together1 more actor
- Jenna ThiamShoot to Live (2016) and Salaud, on t'aime. (2014)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Box office
What Irène Jacob's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$152 million
5 of the 15 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 15 films: 5 worldwide figure; 2 us gross only; 8 figure not found.
- 5Worldwide figure
- 2US gross only
- 8Figure not found
Highest grossing
The five biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$102M67.5% of the total
- 2$40M26.4% of the total
- 3$4.5M3.0% of the total
- 4$2.8M1.8% of the total
- 5$2.0M1.3% of the total
Awards
Three awards and honors from 1991 to 2022, one of them major.
| Year | Award | Film | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cannes Film Festival | |||
| 1991 | Best Actress | The Double Life of Véronique | Won |
| Other honors | |||
| 2022 | Officer of Arts and Letters | Won | |
| 2019 | Officer of the National Order of Merit | Won | |
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