Irène Jacob
Irène Marie Jacob ( born July 15, 1966 in Suresnes near Paris ) is a French -Swiss film and theater actress, The Double Life of Veronique and Three Colours by her starring role in the two films of Krzysztof Kieślowski: Red became internationally known.
Life
Jacob was born in 1966 as the daughter of a physicist and a psychologist near Paris. She has three older brothers. At the age of three she moved with her parents to Geneva and lived there until 1984, when she was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique. After finishing school, she lived first in Lyon, but moved back to Paris when her film career began. Her first appearance in a film they had as a piano teacher in Louis Malle's Goodbye, kids. By this film she discovered Kieślowski, who then gave her the lead role in his film The Double Life of Veronique. Through this Jacob was well known In 1991, she was awarded the prize for Best Actress at the Film Festival of Cannes. In 1998, she starred in a big Hollywood production. She put the woman Wesley Snipes ' in On the hunt dar.
In addition to her acting work, Jacob has also sung about in the French rock group " Weepers Circus" and with Vincent Delerm.