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Irène Marie Jacob (born 15 July 1966) is a French-Swiss actress known for her work with Polish film director Krzysztof Kieślowski. She won the 1991 Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for the Kieślowski film The Double Life of Veronique , and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her 1994 film Three Colours: Red .
Irène Jacob. Actress: The Double Life of Véronique. This beautiful, dark-haired French 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 ...
Irène Jacob est également la voix française de l'attraction Studio Tram Tour: Behind the Magic à Disneyland Paris, dans le parc Walt Disney Studios . En 2011, Irène Jacob a sorti un album Je sais nager, composé avec son frère Francis Jacob, guitariste de jazz. Le duo est finaliste du premier prix Georges-Moustaki .
Irène Jacob: I came to Paris when I was eighteen years old to study at a national drama school called La Rue Blanche. We went to cinemas and theaters and saw a film or a play every day. A lot of retrospectives were showing in Paris at independent cinemas, so I discovered Rohmer, Rivette, Antonioni, and Fellini.
Irène Jacob was born in Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, a western suburb of Paris. The youngest child with three older brothers, she was raised in a highly educated and intellectual family and environment: her father, Maurice Jacob, was a physicist; her mother, a psychologist; one brother, Francis Jacob, a musician; and her other two brothers, scientists.
Irène Jacob. Actress: The Double Life of Véronique. This beautiful, dark-haired French 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...
Irène Marie Jacob is a French-Swiss actress known for her work with Polish film director Krzysztof Kieślowski. She won the 1991 Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for the Kieślowski film The Double Life of Veronique, and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her 1994 film Three Colours: Red. Her other film appearances include The Secret Garden (1993), Beyond the Clouds (1995), U.S. Marshals (1998), and Eternity (2016).
