Irène Jacob
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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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.8286 |
| Birthday | 1966-07-15 |
| Place of Birth | Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, France |
| Also Known As | Irene Jacob, Iren Zhakob, ایرن ژاکوب, |
1994
Three Colors: Red
7.889/1594
Part-time model Valentine unexpectedly befriends a retired judge after she runs over his dog. At first, the grumpy man shows no concern about the dog,...
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Three Colors: Red
1991
The Double Life of Véronique
7.485/914
Véronique is a beautiful young French woman who aspires to be a renowned singer; Weronika lives in Poland, has a similar career goal and looks identic...
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The Double Life of Véronique
1987
Au Revoir les Enfants
7.527/749
Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provinci...
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Au Revoir les Enfants
1998
U.S. Marshals
6.555/1864
U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a plane load of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane crashes spectacularly, and Mark Sheridan escapes....
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U.S. Marshals
1995
Beyond the Clouds
6.167/141
Four tales, each centered on a woman, journey inward to explore the enigmatic reality of their lives, connecting through a single narrative thread.
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Beyond the Clouds
2023
The Wild One
6/6
In the work of Jack Garfein - Holocaust survivor, theater and film director, key figure in the formation of the Actors Studio - past and and present f...
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The Wild One
2024
Who by Fire
6.5/16
Seventeen-year-old Jeff stays at film director Blake Cadieux's wilderness lodge after being invited by friend Max's family. When strange events occur,...
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Who by Fire
2001
Four Play
4.15/10
A romantic comedy about the fleeting attractions between men and women on the set of a popular British sitcom.
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Four Play
1998
American Cuisine
4.826/23
Following his discharge from the Navy for hitting a superior officer, Loren takes a chance and moves to France, to learn haute cuisine under a four st...
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American Cuisine
2021
Talking Heads 2021
1/1
The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his interlocut...
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Talking Heads 2021
2009
Déchaînées
6.4/12
Lucy, a 19-year old law student and intern at a Swiss television network in Geneva, comes across her double in archival footage about the woman’s libe...
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Déchaînées
1999
Spy Games
4.563/16
CIA Agent Harry Howe and SVR Agent Natasha Scriabina team up to save the world, their lives and secret love in post Cold War Helsinki.
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Spy Games
1999
The Big Brass Ring
4.607/14
Blake Pellarin is on the campaign trail to become president of the United States. While making a stop in St. Louis, a chance encounter brings his past...
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The Big Brass Ring
1997
Incognito
5.754/69
Harry Donovan is an art forger who paints fake Rembrandt picture for $500,000. The girl he meets and gets into bed with in Paris, Marieke, turns out t...
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Incognito
1996
Victory
5.214/14
Axel Heyst is an American recluse with a dubious past living in the Dutch East Indies port of Surabaya circa 1913. Staying in a German hotel there, He...
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Victory
1995
Othello
6.359/152
The evil Iago pretends to be friend of Othello in order to manipulate him to serve his own end in the film version of this Shakespeare classic.
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Othello
1999
My Life So Far
5.446/37
A memoir of the lives of a family growing up on a post World War I British estate headed up by a strong disciplinarian, her daughter, her inventor hus...
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My Life So Far
2006
The Education of Fairies
6.19/29
A man's life is turned upside down after he is abandoned by the woman he loves.
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The Education of Fairies
2002
The Landlords
6/5
Directed by Rémi Waterhouse, Mille Millièmes is centered around an eccentric ensemble of apartment residents. Kindness is noticeably absent among thei...
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The Landlords
2007
The Inner Life of Martin Frost
4.528/18
A writer awakens one day to find a strange but beautiful woman in bed with him. He quickly falls in love with her, thinking he has found his muse, but...
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The Inner Life of Martin Frost
2009
The French Kissers
5.8/485
An awkward adolescent boy and his angst-ridden friends try their best to fit in amongst a cast of varied characters.
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The French Kissers
2008
The Dust of Time
6.412/51
To trace the fading past of his parents, a grizzled Greek-American filmmaker decides to shoot a movie. By recounting the painful efforts of his mother...
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The Dust of Time
2010
Rio Sex Comedy
4.554/28
A group of strangers from different countries end up on Rio's beaches. Seeking self-fulfillment, they look for answers to existential questions. Yet i...
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Rio Sex Comedy
2023
Re-belles
9/1
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Re-belles
1989
Gang of Four
6.8/24
Anna, Joyce, Claude, and Cécile are four young actresses sharing a Paris apartment while attending intense acting workshops led by their demanding tea...
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Gang of Four
2004
Autumn
5.125/8
Jean-Pierre is a hit man in Paris. He wants to stop; an incentive is reconnecting to Michelle, a childhood friend. He's ready to commit himself to her...
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Autumn
2004
Battle of the Brave
6.348/23
In the mid-18th Century, as England and France battle over control of Canada, an epic romance between a peasant woman and a trapper unfurls
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Battle of the Brave
2022
Shoot to Live
6.2/2
A documentary on filmmaker Claude Lelouch, following him over seven years.
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Shoot to Live
1995
Runaways
6.5/3
On the Paris-Lisbon train, Marina has just accidentally killed her ‘friend’ Bruno during an argument. Rushing down the aisle, she meets Prune, who is...
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Runaways
1991
Kieslowski: Dialogue
7/1
Documentary featuring a candid interview with Kieślowski and rare behind-the-scenes footage from the set of The Double Life of Véronique
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Kieslowski: Dialogue
2006
Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski
8.5/3
Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz directed this insightful TV documentary (2005) tracing the Polish filmmaker's career. Former classmates reminisce about Kieslo...
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Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski
2021
Marie Trintignant : Le Choix du jeu
6.333/3
This film revisits the career and development of Marie Trintignant through the loving and often amused eyes of her father Jean-Louis Trintignant, as w...
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Marie Trintignant : Le Choix du jeu
1991
The Secret of Sarah Tombelaine
9/1
Legend has it that Archangel Michael confronted the Dragon and imprisoned him under a huge stone called today Mont Saint Michel. Winter 1991, the Moun...
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The Secret of Sarah Tombelaine
2013
Love Flesh
6.5/4
During the course of a series of voyages, the pocket cameras of Pippo Delbono capture unique moments, ordinary and extraordinary meetings. From a hote...
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Love Flesh
2020
Les Dominos
0/0
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Les Dominos
2012
La solitude du pouvoir
6/1
Pierre Vasseur is the French president. He has a busy schedule: resolving political crises, abating popular anger, tolerating sarcastic journalists, a...
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La solitude du pouvoir
2013
The Man Who Made Angels Fly
7/1
When the lights dim and the stage is revealed, Meschke channels life through the strings of his puppets, triggering the spiritual connection between t...
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The Man Who Made Angels Fly
2014
We Love You, You Bastard
5.509/57
A war photographer and absent father, who spends more time taking care of his camera than his four daughters, enjoys a happy life in the Alps with his...
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We Love You, You Bastard
1993
The Secret Garden
7.4/1009
A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's castle....
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The Secret Garden
1995
All Men Are Mortal
6.2/5
Melodrama about a man cursed with immortality, who tries to declare his undying love for a depressed actress.
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All Men Are Mortal
2014
Dying of the Light
4.654/355
Evan Lake, a veteran CIA agent, has been ordered to retire. But when his protégé uncovers evidence that Lake's nemesis, the terrorist Banir, has resur...
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Dying of the Light
2024
Shikun
6/3
A diverse cross-section of Israeli society converges in a single multi-use building, the Shikun. As people of different languages, origins and generat...
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Shikun
2017
Tales of Mexico
5/9
The space will be witness of dreams, hopes, disappointments and dramatic destinies of its residents, delivering an intimate human history of Mexico th...
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Tales of Mexico
2024
Le Voyage en pyjama
4.533/15
40-something Victor, humanities professor and amateur meteorologist, is a madcap, a friendly dabbler, who lives day by day, alongside is wife Anne.
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Le Voyage en pyjama
2008
Fallen Heroes
4.375/12
Forty year-old Bruno Ledeux, seen sitting across from the doctor, gives the impression of a man who is no longer young but not yet old.Condemned to re...
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Fallen Heroes
2015
Paris, Love, Cut
6.227/10
At 45 Arnaud wants to have a child with Chloe, shoot his second movie....but he is blocked.After leaving Chloe he went back to teaching theater and me...
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Paris, Love, Cut
2024
Hôtel Silence
7/6
Jean, in his fifties, has lost his lust for life. He leaves Canada for a faraway country, somewhere in Europe. A beautiful place to end his days, he t...
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Hôtel Silence
1989
Errors of Youth
8/1
The oddest things come in pairs. In 1989, there were two foreign films on the market whose titles translated to Errors of Youth or Youthful Indiscreti...
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Errors of Youth
2015
Sayonara
5.444/18
The world's first human-android acting duo, called Android Theater Project, is the collaborative brainchild of noted Japanese playwright Oriza Hirata...
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Sayonara
2024
Meeting with Pol Pot
5.868/38
Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) - 1978. Three French journalists are invited by the Khmer Rouge to conduct an exclusive interview of the regime's lead...
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Meeting with Pol Pot
2003
The Legend of Princess Parva
7.2/5
The island of Kiam was once a paradise place with a kind Maharaja as a ruler. But one day the villainous Malaw killed the island’s ruler and deprived...
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The Legend of Princess Parva
1993
The Prediction
6.4/15
A popular middle-aged writer is warned by a fortuneteller that he will die in exactly 24 hours. He then meets a man, who claims to be him. The writer...
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The Prediction
2002
Letter from an Unknown Woman
5.2/9
Vienna, in the 1930s. The attractive and famous writer Albert Rank receives the letter from a stranger. He discovers that she devoted her entire life...
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Letter from an Unknown Woman
2000
The Marcorelle Affair
4.929/7
François Marcorelle, an investigation magistrate in Chambéry, finds himself in the room of a young Polish girl that he met in a restaurant
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The Marcorelle Affair
2014
Les enfants rouges
6/1
Two lost souls are wandering through the streets of Paris.
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Les enfants rouges
2016
Eternity
5.6/108
Valentine marries at the end of the 19th century, and love passes through her family from generation to generation.
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Eternity
1995
To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
7/1
A behind-the-scenes look by wife Enrica Antonioni into Michelangelo Antonioni's passion for cinema as he directs Beyond the Clouds (1995), assisted by...
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To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
2025
Why War
4/3
In 1932, Albert Einstein was invited by the League of Nations to address a letter on any subject to any person. He chose to correspond with Sigmund Fr...
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Why War
2017
Angela Merkel, une histoire allemande
0/0
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Angela Merkel, une histoire allemande
2004
The Pornographer: A Love Story
5.722/9
The relationship between a director and an actress takes a turn when the lines between art and life are crossed.
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The Pornographer: A Love Story
1992
Le Moulin de Daudet
10/1
Based on the life of French novelist Alphonse Daudet.
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Le Moulin de Daudet
2017
Two Snails Set Off
6.1/6
A forest full of animated animals encourage a pair of snails, who are fully clad in black because they are in mourning for a dead leaf, to celebrate t...
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Two Snails Set Off
1992
Claude
6/3
A hapless, bad-luck prone loser meets a free-spirited Frenchwoman who inspires him to get his life back on track.
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Claude
2013
The Lanzac Clan
7.7/6
A war of inheritance in the Lanzac family, a rich industrial family from Bordeaux, against a backdrop of family secrets and the unsaid. Elisabeth Lanz...
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The Lanzac Clan
1994
Kieślowski Cannes 94
0/0
A documentary about the showing of Krzysztof Kieślowski's film RED at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, including interviews with the director and the ca...
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Kieślowski Cannes 94
2014
François Truffaut l'insoumis
5.75/4
This portrait of the world-famous French director based on his personal correspondance reveals the little known insurgent side of his personnality. Fe...
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François Truffaut l'insoumis
2019
For the Ones We Loved
4.017/29
At a wedding where the husband runs away, everyone has his own story to tell about the trivial misfortune of a person in love with someone that slips...
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For the Ones We Loved
2019
Letter to Theo
0/0
The filmmaker Théo Angelopoulos died on January 24th, 2012, knocked down by a motorbike on the set of his final film. In his unfinished film, he was t...
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Letter to Theo
2020
Romantic Guide to Lost Places
5.683/41
Benno and Allegra: he's over fifty, English, and drinks like a fish; she's twenty years younger, a travel blogger with lots of imagination. They both...
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Romantic Guide to Lost Places
2019
The Scientific Proof of the Existence of God
7.5/2
Jean-Luc and his old gang of 1968 pacifists, now in their seventies, reunite to make a film protesting against Swiss military export. After blowing up...
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The Scientific Proof of the Existence of God
2015
Ella Maillart: Double Journey
6.75/4
Summer 1939. Ella Maillart and Annemarie Schwarzenbach leave Europe for Asia. Ella hopes to make an ethnographic film and to help Annemarie get off dr...
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Ella Maillart: Double Journey
2021
Villa Caprice
5.435/54
Famous lawyer, Luc Germon adds Gilles Fontaine, one of the most powerful bosses in France, to his clients. He is suspected of having acquired a magnif...
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Villa Caprice
2015
The Easy Way Out
5.1/45
Patrick, a travel agent in his early 30s, lives with Arthur, an immigration lawyer; but for a long time, Patrick has been sleeping on an air mattress...
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The Easy Way Out
2017
Home Away From Home
0/0
A taxi driver, a young girl and a backpacker simultaneously experience a wonderful journey in Tokyo, where they find connections to their own homes in...
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Home Away From Home
1993
Enak
3.667/3
The astronaut Charles Enak refuses to come back to Earth after completing a mission in orbit. While he also refuses to give any explanation for his be...
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Enak
The Prominents
0/0
Centers on a group of Nazi Germany's most prominent prisoners as they are transported across Europe to be used as bargaining chips in the German surre...
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The Prominents
2026
Maigret and the Dead Lover
6/32
Commissioner Maigret rushes to the Quai d’Orsay with Lieutenant Janvier. There, they find Mademoiselle Larrieu in a state of shock. That very morning,...
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Maigret and the Dead Lover
2017
13 Summers Underwater
0/0
Parallel stories connected through an intimacy with death. The living and the dead communicate through visions, memories and reality.
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13 Summers Underwater
2005
French Beauty
10/1
A story about the riddle of femininity in French cinema.
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French Beauty
2025
A Private Life
5.491/270
When renowned psychiatrist Lilian Steiner learns of the sudden death of a patient, she suspects murder. She mounts a private investigation, enlisting...
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A Private Life
2003
Nés de la mère du monde
10/1
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Nés de la mère du monde
2025
Golem in Pompei
0/0
The film documents Amos Gitai's play "Golem" at the ancient theater in Pompeii, combined with fictional scenes. Within the historical narrative, theme...
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Golem in Pompei
Sans cesse mon chéri
0/0
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Sans cesse mon chéri
2002
Heart of the Festival
6.667/3
A short film containing some of the highlights of the Cannes Film Festival's storied history.
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Heart of the Festival
The Custom of the Country
0/0
Based on the Edith Wharton classic of the same name, Undine Spragg, a fiercely ambitious woman from the Midwest, strives for the social heights of tur...
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The Custom of the Country
2025
La Vie Pathé-Baby
0/0
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La Vie Pathé-Baby
2001
Léaud l'unique
10/1
Documentary about the work of Nouvelle Vague actor Jean-Pierre Léaud, with interview clips, film clips and contributions from directors and actors he...
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