Irène Jacob

Irène Jacob

1966-07-15 Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, France 81 Credits

Biography

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 fr...

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A Private Life

A Private Life

2025

as Vera

Acting

When renowned psychiatrist Lilian Steiner learns of the death of one of her patients she is deeply troubled. Convinced that it was murder, she decides...

Why War

Why War

2025

Acting

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...

Who by Fire

Who by Fire

2024

as Hélène Falke

6.1
Acting

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,...

Meeting with Pol Pot

Meeting with Pol Pot

2024

as Lise Delbo

6.0
Acting

Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) - 1978. Three French journalists are invited by the Khmer Rouge to conduct an exclusive interview of the regime's lead...

Hôtel Silence

Hôtel Silence

2024

as Kristina

6.8
Acting

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...

Shikun

Shikun

2024

6.0
Acting

A diverse cross-section of Israeli society converges in a single multi-use building, the Shikun. As people of different languages, origins and generat...

Le Voyage en pyjama

Le Voyage en pyjama

2024

as Florence

4.8
Acting

40-something Victor, humanities professor and amateur meteorologist, is a madcap, a friendly dabbler, who lives day by day, alongside is wife Anne.

Re-belles

Re-belles

2023

as Self

9.0
Acting
The Wild One

The Wild One

2023

as Self

6.2
Acting

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...

Shoot to Live

Shoot to Live

2022

as Self

6.2
Acting

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

Talking Heads 2021

2021

as Self

1.0
Acting

The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his interlocut...

Marie Trintignant : Le Choix du jeu

Marie Trintignant : Le Choix du jeu

2021

as Self

6.5
Acting

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...

Villa Caprice

Villa Caprice

2021

as Nancy Fontaine

5.4
Acting

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...

Les Dominos

Les Dominos

2020

as Irène

Acting
Romantic Guide to Lost Places

Romantic Guide to Lost Places

2020

as Brigitte

5.7
Acting

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 ...

The Scientific Proof of the Existence of God

The Scientific Proof of the Existence of God

2019

as Christine

7.5
Acting

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...

À cause des filles…?

À cause des filles…?

2019

as Eliane

4.1
Acting

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 ...

Letter to Theo

Letter to Theo

2019

as Narrator (voice)

Acting

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...

Tales of Mexico

Tales of Mexico

2017

as Ángela

5.3
Acting

The space will be witness of dreams, hopes, disappointments and dramatic destinies of its residents, delivering an intimate human history of Mexico th...

Angela Merkel, une histoire allemande

Angela Merkel, une histoire allemande

2017

as Narrator

Acting
13 Summers Underwater

13 Summers Underwater

2017

Acting

Parallel stories connected through an intimacy with death. The living and the dead communicate through visions, memories and reality.

Two Snails Set Off

Two Snails Set Off

2017

as (voice)

6.1
Acting

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...

Home Away From Home

Home Away From Home

2017

as Writer

Acting

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...

Eternity

Eternity

2016

as Mère de Gabrielle

5.7
Acting

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

Sayonara

Sayonara

2015

5.9
Acting

The world's first human-android acting duo, called Android Theater Project, is the collaborative brainchild of noted Japanese playwright Oriza Hirata ...

Ella Maillart: Double Journey

Ella Maillart: Double Journey

2015

as Ella Maillart (voice)

7.7
Acting

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...

Paris, Love, Cut

Paris, Love, Cut

2015

as Chloé Artaud

6.2
Acting

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...

The Easy Way Out

The Easy Way Out

2015

as Mathilde

5.1
Acting

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 ...

Dying of the Light

Dying of the Light

2014

as Michelle Zuberain

4.7
Acting

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...

François Truffaut l'insoumis

François Truffaut l'insoumis

2014

as Narrator (voice)

5.7
Acting

This portrait of the world-famous French director based on his personal correspondance reveals the little known insurgent side of his personnality. Fe...

We Love You, You Bastard

We Love You, You Bastard

2014

as Printemps Kaminsky

5.7
Acting

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...

Les enfants rouges

Les enfants rouges

2014

6.0
Acting
The Man Who Made Angels Fly

The Man Who Made Angels Fly

2013

as Self

7.0
Acting

When the lights dim and the stage is revealed, Meschke channels life through the strings of his puppets, triggering the spiritual connection between t...

The Lanzac Clan

The Lanzac Clan

2013

as Valérie Lanzac

7.7
Acting

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...

Love Flesh

Love Flesh

2013

as Self

6.5
Acting

During the course of a series of voyages, the pocket cameras of Pippo Delbono capture unique moments, ordinary and extraordinary meetings. From a hote...

La solitude du pouvoir

La solitude du pouvoir

2012

as Laurence

6.0
Acting

Pierre Vasseur is the French president. He has a busy schedule: resolving political crises, abating popular anger, tolerating sarcastic journalists, a...

Rio Sex Comedy

Rio Sex Comedy

2010

as Irène

4.6
Acting

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...

Déchaînées

Déchaînées

2009

as Aurore

6.6
Acting

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...

The French Kissers

The French Kissers

2009

as La mère d'Aurore

5.8
Acting

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

The Dust of Time

The Dust of Time

2008

as Eleni

6.4
Acting

A, an American film director of Greek ancestry, is making a film that tells his story and the story of his parents. It is a tale that unfolds in Italy...

Fallen Heroes

Fallen Heroes

2008

as Anne

4.5
Acting

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...

The Inner Life of Martin Frost

The Inner Life of Martin Frost

2007

as Claire Martin

4.4
Acting

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...

The Education of Fairies

The Education of Fairies

2006

as Ingrid

6.3
Acting

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

French Beauty

French Beauty

2005

Acting

A story about the riddle of femininity in French cinema.

Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski

2005

as Self

8.5
Acting

Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz directed this insightful TV documentary (2005) tracing the Polish filmmaker's career. Former classmates reminisce about Kieslo...

Battle of the Brave

Battle of the Brave

2004

as Angélique de Roquebrune

6.1
Acting

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

Autumn

Autumn

2004

as Michelle

5.2
Acting

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...

The Pornographer: A Love Story

The Pornographer: A Love Story

2004

as Anna

5.6
Acting

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

The Legend of Princess Parva

The Legend of Princess Parva

2003

as Parva's Mother (voice)

6.5
Acting

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 ...

Letter from an Unknown Woman

Letter from an Unknown Woman

2002

as Rose

5.4
Acting

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 ...

The Landlords

The Landlords

2002

as Julie

5.5
Acting

Directed by Rémi Waterhouse, Mille Millièmes is centered around an eccentric ensemble of apartment residents. Kindness is noticeably absent among thei...

Heart of the Festival

Heart of the Festival

2002

4.0
Acting

A short film containing some of the highlights of the Cannes Film Festival's storied history.

Four Play

Four Play

2001

as Fiona Delgrazia

3.8
Acting

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

The Marcorelle Affair

The Marcorelle Affair

2000

as Agneska

4.9
Acting

François Marcorelle, an investigation magistrate in Chambéry, finds himself in the room of a young Polish girl that he met in a restaurant

Spy Games

Spy Games

1999

as Natasha Scriabina / Anna Belinka

4.4
Acting

A romantic suspense-comedy about CIA agent Harry (Bill Pullman) and SVR agent Natasha (Irene Jacob) fighting to save the world, their lives and secret...

My Life So Far

My Life So Far

1999

as Aunt Heloise

5.7
Acting

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...

The Big Brass Ring

The Big Brass Ring

1999

as Cela Brandini

4.4
Acting

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...

American Cuisine

American Cuisine

1998

as Gabrielle Boyer

4.8
Acting

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...

U.S. Marshals

U.S. Marshals

1998

as Marie

6.5
Acting

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....

Incognito

Incognito

1997

as Prof. Marieke van den Broeck

5.8
Acting

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...

Victory

Victory

1996

as Alma

5.1
Acting

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...

Othello

Othello

1995

as Desdemona

6.4
Acting

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.

All Men Are Mortal

All Men Are Mortal

1995

as Regina

6.0
Acting

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

Beyond the Clouds

Beyond the Clouds

1995

as The Girl

6.3
Acting

Four tales, each centered on a woman, journey inward to explore the enigmatic reality of their lives, connecting through a single narrative thread.

To Make a Film Is to Be Alive

To Make a Film Is to Be Alive

1995

as Self (uncredited)

Acting

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...

Runaways

Runaways

1995

as Prune

5.8
Acting

Two girls meet on a train: Prune is looking for her father whom she has not seen since she was a little girl, Marina is looking for the mother she has...

Kieślowski Cannes 94

Kieślowski Cannes 94

1994

as Self

Acting

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...

Three Colors: Red

Three Colors: Red

1994

as Valentine

7.9
Acting

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,...

Enak

1993

as Lucielle Spaak

2.0
Acting

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...

The Prediction

The Prediction

1993

as Ludmila Egorova

6.7
Acting

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 ...

The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden

1993

as Mary's Mother / Lilias Craven

7.4
Acting

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....

Claude

Claude

1992

as Beatrice de Lucio

5.0
Acting

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

Le Moulin de Daudet

Le Moulin de Daudet

1992

as Mme Daudet

Acting

Based on the life of French novelist Alphonse Daudet.

The Secret of Sarah Tombelaine

The Secret of Sarah Tombelaine

1991

as Sarah

Acting

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...

The Double Life of Véronique

The Double Life of Véronique

1991

as Weronika / Véronique

7.5
Acting

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...

Kieslowski: Dialogue

Kieslowski: Dialogue

1991

as Self

7.0
Acting

Documentary featuring a candid interview with Kieślowski and rare behind-the-scenes footage from the set of The Double Life of Véronique

Errors of Youth

Errors of Youth

1989

as Anne

Acting

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...

Gang of Four

Gang of Four

1989

as Marine

6.8
Acting

Anna, Joyce, Claude and Lucia are all students under the tutelage of Constance Dumas, a renowned film instructor. Lucia moves in with the other girls....

Au Revoir les Enfants

Au Revoir les Enfants

1987

as Ms. Davenne, Piano Teacher

7.5
Acting

Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provinci...

The Prominents

The Prominents

N/A

as Janot Blum

Acting

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...

Maigret et le crime de la rue de Bellechasse

N/A

as Madame Maigret

Acting