birth date:
 July 15, 1966

birth place:
 Paris, France

comments:
Irene Jacob 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 Kieslowski cast her in the lead role of his 1991 motion picture, La Double vie de Véronique. For her performance, Ms. 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 Kieslowski 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.


 
 
                          

. Irene Jacob

Victory (1995)

Title: Victory
Released: 1995
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 99 min
Country: UK / France / Germany
Language: English

Plot Summary: Axel Heyst lives on a secluded island near the Dutch East Indies port of Surabaya. The year is 1913. While on personal business to the port, he visits the hotel owned by racist German Schomberg. An all-woman orchestra plays in the hotel each night, and orchestra owner, San Giacomo agrees to "sell" one of the girls, Alma, to Schomberg. She asks Heyst to save her from the villains and they escape to his island and live there with native servant Wang. Schomberg points sinister Mr. Jones and his two fellow bandits to that island, saying that the fortune lies ahead of them there.

Comments: Victory is storytelling at its finest and a seriously good screen adaptation of a great Joseph Conrad story, one of the best storytellers of modern times. Excellent performances by Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Irene Jacob, and Rufus Sewell but here the success of this film is the story itself and a director who understands and respects the material. No one could build a tale around a personality flaw better than Conrad and the characters he created are wonderfully mysterious and perplexing and a delight to meet in print or on screen.

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Trivia
Measurements: 36B-25-35 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)


Irene Jacob - Filmography
Below is a complete filmography (list of movies she's appeared in)

Nés de la mère du monde (2003) (TV) .... Clara Sidowski
Légende de Parva, La (2003) (voice) .... La mère de Parva
Mille millièmes (2002) .... Julie
... aka Landlords, The (2002) (International: English title)
Lettre d'une inconnue (2001) (TV) .... The unknown woman
... aka Brief einer Unbekannten (2001) (TV) (Germany)
Londinium (2001) .... Fiona Delgrazia
... aka Four Play (2001) (Australia: Pay-TV title)
... aka Fourplay (2001) (USA: video title)
Pornographer: A Love Story, The (2000)
Affaire Marcorelle, L' (2000) .... Agneska
... aka Marcorelle Affair, The (2000) (International: English title)

Cuisine chinoise (1999) .... Patricia
History Is Made at Night (1999) .... Natasha Scriabina/Anna Belinka
... aka Historiaa tehdään öisin (1999) (Finland)
... aka History Is Made at Night (1999) (France)
... aka Spy Games (2000) (USA: DVD title)
... aka Spy Games - Agenten der Nacht (2000) (Germany)
My Life So Far (1999) (as Irene Jacob) .... Heloise
Big Brass Ring, The (1999) .... Cela Brandini
Jack's potes (1998)
Cuisine américaine (1998) .... Gabrielle Boyer
... aka American Cuisine (1998)
U.S. Marshals (1998) .... Marie Bineaux (Sheridan's girlfriend)
Incognito (1997) .... Prof. Marieke van den Broeck
Fugueuses (1995) .... Prune
... aka Fuggitive, Le (1995) (Italy)
... aka Une fille galante (1995)
Victory (1995) .... Alma
... aka Victory (1995) (France)
Othello (1995) .... Desdemona
All Men Are Mortal (1995) .... Regina
Al di là delle nuvole (1995) .... The Girl
... aka Al di là delle nuvole (1995) (Italy)
... aka Beyond the Clouds (1996) (USA)
... aka Jenseits der Wolken (1995) (Germany)
... aka Par-delà les nuages (1996) (France)
Trois couleurs: Rouge (1994) (as Irene Jacob) .... Valentine
... aka Red (1994/II) (USA: short title)
... aka Three Colors: Red (1994) (USA)
... aka Three Colours: Red (1994) (UK)
... aka Trzy kolory: Czerwony (1994) (Poland)
Predskazaniye (1993) (as Iren Zhakob) .... Lyuda
... aka Prédiction, La (1993) (France)
... aka Prediction, The (1993)
... aka Prophecy, The (1994) (International: English title: informal literal title)
Claude (1993) .... Beatrice
... aka Trusting Beatrice (1993)
Secret Garden, The (1993) .... Mary's Mother/Aunt
Enak (1992)
Moulin de Daudet, Le (1992) .... Mme Daudet
... aka Daudet's Windmill (1992)
Secret de Sarah Tombelaine, Le (1991) .... Sarah
... aka Secret of Sarah Tombelaine, The (1991) (International: English title)
Double vie de Véronique, La (1991) .... Weronika/Véronique
... aka Double Life of Veronique, The (1991) (USA)
... aka Podwójne zycie Weroniki (1991) (Poland)
... aka Podwojne zycie Weroniki (1991) (Poland)
Passion Van Gogh, La (1990) .... Joanna
... aka Van Gogh Wake, The (1990)
Veillée, La (1990) .... Johanna

"Nick chasseur de têtes" (1989) (mini) TV Series
Mannequins d'osier, Les (1989) .... Marie
Erreur de jeunesse (1989) .... Anne
Bande des quatre, La (1988) .... Marine
... aka Gang of Four (2002) (USA: DVD title)
... aka Gang of Four, The (1988) (USA)
Au revoir les enfants (1987) .... Mlle Davenne
... aka Auf Wiedersehen, Kinder (1987) (West Germany)
... aka Goodbye Children (1987)