Irène Jacob

Born: 1966-07-15

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." Description above from the Wikipedia article Irène Jacob, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Au Revoir les Enfants

as Ms. Davenne, Piano Teacher
Released: 1987-10-07

Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning...

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U.S. Marshals

as Marie
Released: 1998-03-06

U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a plane load of convicts from Chicago to New York. The...

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The Secret Garden

as Mary's Mother / Lilias Craven
Released: 1993-08-13

A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She...

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Three Colors: Red

as Valentine
Released: 1994-05-12

Part-time model Valentine unexpectedly befriends a retired judge after she runs over his dog. At...

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The Double Life of Véronique

as Weronika / Véronique
Released: 1991-05-15

Véronique is a beautiful young French woman who aspires to be a renowned singer; Weronika lives...

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Beyond the Clouds

as The Girl
Released: 1995-10-27

Four tales, each centered on a woman, journey inward to explore the enigmatic reality of their...

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The French Kissers

as La mère d'Aurore
Released: 2009-06-10

An awkward adolescent boy and his angst-ridden friends try their best to fit in amongst a cast...

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Othello

as Desdemona
Released: 1995-12-15

The evil Iago pretends to be friend of Othello in order to manipulate him to serve his own end...

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Dying of the Light

as Michelle Zuberain
Released: 2014-12-04

Evan Lake, a veteran CIA agent, has been ordered to retire. But when his protégé uncovers...

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Le Voyage en pyjama

as Florence
Released: 2024-01-17

40-something Victor, humanities professor and amateur meteorologist, is a madcap, a friendly...

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Eternity

as Mère de Gabrielle
Released: 2016-09-07

Valentine marries at the end of the 19th century, and love passes through her family from...

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Who by Fire

as Hélène
Released: 2024-07-31

Seventeen-year-old Jeff is invited by his friend Max’s family to stay at the wilderness lodge of...

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Incognito

as Prof. Marieke van den Broeck
Released: 1997-11-14

Harry Donovan is an art forger who paints fake Rembrandt picture for $500,000. The girl he meets...

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Meeting with Pol Pot

as Lise Delbo
Released: 2024-06-05

Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) - 1978. Three French journalists are invited by the Khmer Rouge...

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We Love You, You Bastard

as Printemps Kaminsky
Released: 2014-04-02

A war photographer and absent father, who spends more time taking care of his camera than his...

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Battle of the Brave

as Angélique de Roquebrune
Released: 2004-11-19

In the mid-18th Century, as England and France battle over control of Canada, an epic romance...

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The Dust of Time

as Eleni
Released: 2008-11-22

A, an American film director of Greek ancestry, is making a film that tells his story and the...

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Rio Sex Comedy

as Irène
Released: 2010-09-16

A group of strangers from different countries end up on Rio's beaches. Seeking self-fulfillment,...

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The Easy Way Out

as Mathilde
Released: 2015-03-04

Patrick, a travel agent in his early 30s, lives with Arthur, an immigration lawyer; but for a...

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Re-belles

as Self
Released: 2023-05-30

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Villa Caprice

as Nancy Fontaine
Released: 2021-06-02

Famous lawyer, Luc Germon adds Gilles Fontaine, one of the most powerful bosses in France, to...

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Enak

as Lucielle Spaak
Released: 1992-01-01

The astronaut Charles Enak refuses to come back to Earth after completing a mission in orbit....

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Romantic Guide to Lost Places

as Brigitte
Released: 2020-09-24

Benno and Allegra: he's over fifty, English, and drinks like a fish; she's twenty years younger,...

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Four Play

as Fiona Delgrazia
Released: 2001-09-02

A romantic comedy about the fleeting attractions between men and women on the set of a popular...

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Shoot to Live

as Self
Released: 2022-05-11

A documentary on filmmaker Claude Lelouch, following him over seven years.

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Tales of Mexico

as Ángela
Released: 2017-10-20

The space will be witness of dreams, hopes, disappointments and dramatic destinies of its...

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Dark

as Michelle Zubarain
Released: 2017-12-11

A government agent must track down and kill a terrorist before he loses his full memory from...

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Paris, Love, Cut

as Chloé
Released: 2015-04-01

At 45 Arnaud wants to have a child with Chloe, shoot his second movie....but he is blocked.After...

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The Inner Life of Martin Frost

as Claire Martin
Released: 2007-10-11

A writer awakens one day to find a strange but beautiful woman in bed with him. He quickly falls...

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Two Snails Set Off

as (voice)
Released: 2017-06-08

A forest full of animated animals encourage a pair of snails, who are fully clad in black...

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The Lanzac Clan

as Valérie Lanzac
Released: 2013-03-02

A war of inheritance in the Lanzac family, a rich industrial family from Bordeaux, against a...

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Victory

as Alma
Released: 1996-12-13

Axel Heyst is an American recluse with a dubious past living in the Dutch East Indies port of...

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Spy Games

as Natasha Scriabina / Anna Belinka
Released: 1999-09-10

A romantic suspense-comedy about CIA agent Harry (Bill Pullman) and SVR agent Natasha (Irene...

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The Big Brass Ring

as Cela Brandini
Released: 1999-04-20

Blake Pellarin is on the campaign trail to become president of the United States. While making a...

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The Pornographer: A Love Story

as Anna
Released: 2004-05-02

The relationship between a director and an actress takes a turn when the lines between art and...

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The Education of Fairies

as Ingrid
Released: 2006-06-23

A man's life is turned upside down after he is abandoned by the woman he loves.

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My Life So Far

as Aunt Heloise
Released: 1999-08-25

A memoir of the lives of a family growing up on a post World War I British estate headed up by a...

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Gang of Four

as Marine
Released: 1989-02-08

Anna, Joyce, Claude and Lucia are all students under the tutelage of Constance Dumas, a renowned...

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Letter from an Unknown Woman

as Rose
Released: 2002-12-31

Vienna, in the 1930s. The attractive and famous writer Albert Rank receives the letter from a...

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American Cuisine

as Gabrielle Boyer
Released: 1998-10-21

Following his discharge from the Navy for hitting a superior officer, Loren takes a chance and...

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À cause des filles…?

as Eliane
Released: 2019-01-30

At a wedding where the husband runs away, everyone has his own story to tell about the trivial...

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All Men Are Mortal

as Regina
Released: 1995-11-17

Melodrama about a man cursed with immortality, who tries to declare his undying love for a...

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The Landlords

as Julie
Released: 2002-08-07

Directed by Rémi Waterhouse, Mille Millièmes is centered around an eccentric ensemble of...

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Marie Trintignant : Le Choix du jeu

as Self
Released: 2021-09-01

This film revisits the career and development of Marie Trintignant through the loving and often...

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The Man Who Made Angels Fly

as Self
Released: 2013-06-30

When the lights dim and the stage is revealed, Meschke channels life through the strings of his...

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Hôtel Silence

as Kristina
Released: 2024-03-29

In this ode to resilience and life, Jean decides to set off on a one-way trip to a country...

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Autumn

as Michelle
Released: 2004-09-10

Jean-Pierre is a hit man in Paris. He wants to stop; an incentive is reconnecting to Michelle, a...

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Le Moulin de Daudet

as Mme Daudet
Released: 1992-01-01

Based on the life of French novelist Alphonse Daudet.

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The Wild One

as Self
Released: 2023-05-10

In the work of Jack Garfein - Holocaust survivor, theater and film director, key figure in the...

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The Prediction

as Ludmila Egorova
Released: 1993-11-24

A popular middle-aged writer is warned by a fortuneteller that he will die in exactly 24 hours....

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Déchaînées

as Aurore
Released: 2009-11-02

Lucy, a 19-year old law student and intern at a Swiss television network in Geneva, comes across...

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Sayonara

as uncredited
Released: 2015-11-21

The world's first human-android acting duo, called Android Theater Project, is the collaborative...

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Runaways

as Prune
Released: 1995-08-23

Two girls meet on a train: Prune is looking for her father whom she has not seen since she was a...

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The Legend of Princess Parva

as Parva's Mother (voice)
Released: 2003-02-12

The island of Kiam was once a paradise place with a kind Maharaja as a ruler. But one day the...

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The Marcorelle Affair

as Agneska
Released: 2000-09-13

François Marcorelle, an investigation magistrate in Chambéry, finds himself in the room of a...

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Love Flesh

as Self
Released: 2013-02-06

During the course of a series of voyages, the pocket cameras of Pippo Delbono capture unique...

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François Truffaut l'insoumis

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 2014-11-02

This portrait of the world-famous French director based on his personal correspondance reveals...

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To Make a Film Is to Be Alive

as Self (uncredited)
Released: 1995-09-02

A behind-the-scenes look by wife Enrica Antonioni into Michelangelo Antonioni's passion for...

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Fallen Heroes

as Anne
Released: 2008-03-28

Forty year-old Bruno Ledeux, seen sitting across from the doctor, gives the impression of a man...

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The Scientific Proof of the Existence of God

as Christine
Released: 2019-09-25

Jean-Luc and his old gang of 1968 pacifists, now in their seventies, reunite to make a film...

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Errors of Youth

as Anne
Released: 1989-05-01

The oddest things come in pairs. In 1989, there were two foreign films on the market whose...

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Kieślowski Cannes 94

as Self
Released: 1994-12-31

A documentary about the showing of Krzysztof Kieślowski's film RED at the 1994 Cannes Film...

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Claude

as Beatrice de Lucio
Released: 1992-01-11

A hapless, bad-luck prone loser meets a free-spirited Frenchwoman who inspires him to get his...

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Les enfants rouges

as uncredited
Released: 2014-01-22

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Shikun

as uncredited
Released: 2024-03-06

A diverse cross-section of Israeli society converges in a single multi-use building, the Shikun....

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Kieslowski: Dialogue

as Self
Released: 1991-01-01

Documentary featuring a candid interview with Kieślowski and rare behind-the-scenes footage from...

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Talking Heads 2021

as Self
Released: 2021-09-23

The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski,...

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Ella Maillart: Double Journey

as Ella Maillart (voice)
Released: 2015-04-19

Summer 1939. Ella Maillart and Annemarie Schwarzenbach leave Europe for Asia. Ella hopes to make...

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Home Away From Home

as Writer
Released: 2017-06-02

A taxi driver, a young girl and a backpacker simultaneously experience a wonderful journey in...

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Les Dominos

as Irène
Released: 2020-11-01

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Angela Merkel, une histoire allemande

as Narrator
Released: 2017-09-21

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The Secret of Sarah Tombelaine

as Sarah
Released: 1991-07-10

Legend has it that Archangel Michael confronted the Dragon and imprisoned him under a huge stone...

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Letter to Theo

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 2019-01-24

The filmmaker Théo Angelopoulos died on January 24th, 2012, knocked down by a motorbike on the...

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The Prominents

as Janot Blum
Released:

Centers on a group of Nazi Germany's most prominent prisoners as they are transported across...

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The Affair

as Juliette Le Gall
First aired: 2014-10-12

The Affair explores the emotional effects of an extramarital relationship between Noah Solloway...

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The OA

as Elodie
First aired: 2016-12-16

Prairie Johnson, blind as a child, comes home to the community she grew up in with her sight...

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Spécial cinéma

as Self
First aired: 1974-09-25

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Capitaine Marleau

as Sœur Maryse
First aired: 2015-09-15

Beneath her eccentric appearance, Captain Marleau is a formidable detective. Her Sherlock Holmes...

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Capitaine Marleau

as Elisa
First aired: 2015-09-15

Beneath her eccentric appearance, Captain Marleau is a formidable detective. Her Sherlock Holmes...

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Liaison

as Sophie Saint-Roch
First aired: 2023-02-24

Two agents—and former lovers—must work together to combat international cyberattacks threatening...

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Patrick Melrose

as Jacqueline D'Alantour
First aired: 2018-05-12

A critical and often humorous look at the upper class, tracking the protagonist's harrowing...

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Cherchez la femme !

as (voice)
First aired: 2022-12-05

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Septième Ciel

as Isabelle Rotanger
First aired: 2023-01-19

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