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Irène Marie Jacob (born July 15, 1966) is a French-born Swiss actress.
Irène JacobIrène Jacob was born in Paris, France, the youngest child after
three brothers. She comes from a highly educated and intellectual family,
her father is a physicist, her mother a psychologist, and of her brothers,
one is a musician and the other two are scientists.
As an infant, her family moved to Geneva, Switzerland where, as a young girl,
she became interested in the arts, making her stage debut at the age of 11.
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She attended the Geneva Conservatory of Music, earned a degree in languages
(she speaks English, German, Italian and French), studied acting in Paris at
the prestigious Rue Blanche (the French national drama academy) and at the
Dramatic Studio in London, England.
Three years after Jacob's return to Paris, the then 21-year-old drama
student obtained her first movie role in the 1987 film Au revoir les enfants
followed by several more minor roles until her big break came when Polish
director Krzysztof Kieślowski cast her in the lead role of his 1991 motion
picture, La Double vie de Véronique. For her performance, Jacob won the Best
Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival.
An introvert by nature, Jacob has the remarkable ability to express the
emotional turmoil of her characters with very few words. This was very
evident when Kieślowski used her again to star alongside Jean-Louis
Trintignant in Three Colors: Red, the third part of his highly acclaimed
masterpiece, the Three Colors trilogy. The film, and her performance, gained
huge international recognition bringing many offers from major American
motion-picture studios. Her highest grossing US picture as of 2004 was U.S.
Marshals (released 1997), in which she starred opposite Tommy Lee Jones.
Jacob's film career slowed down in subsequent years, and after a series of
independent, mostly European, movies, she revived her theatre career. Her
2000/2001 London West-End performance as the title character in Madame
Melville opposite Macaulay Culkin was crucial to that development. |
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