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Lugar y fecha de nacimiento. Irène Jacob (1966 - ) Actress Born: July 15, 1966, Geneva, Switzerland Education: Dramatic Studio; Geneva Conservatoire di Musique; National Drama School (theater) This beautiful, dark-haired Swiss actress made a hit with a supporting role in her first film, as the piano teacher in Louis Malle's AU REVOIR, LES ENFANTS (1987). Educated in London and Geneva, and a Paris resident since the age of 18, Jacob became a promising starlet with her Malle success and followed up with another small role in Jacques Rivette's LA BANDE DES QUATRE (1989). Stardom (and a Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award) arrived with Jacob's dual role as two women whose lives are mysteriously linked in Krzysztof Kieslowski's psychological drama LA DOBLE VIDA DE VERONIKA (1991). She ventured to the US for a ronantic comedy, TRUSTING BEATRICE (1991), fittingly, about a young French woman's arrival in the US. After the small film THE VAN GOGH WAKE (1993), she played the ill-fated mother in Agnieszka Holland's touching and acclaimed EL JARDIN SECRETO (1993). Several more small French films followed, but it took a reunion with Kieslowski to jump-start Jacob's career again. In his ROUGE (1994), the final segment of his Three Colors trilogy (and his swan song), Jacob starred as a Swiss fashion model who meets a cynical aging ex-judge (played by Jean-Louis Trintignant) after she runs over his dog. In the film, she served as an emotional and spiritual curative for the old man; the second time, Kieslowski employed Jacob as a woman who offers a man consolation and mystery. Jacob followed up as a religious devotee in Michelangelo Antonioni's episodic PAR-DELA LES NUAGES (1995), then ventured to England to play Desdemona to Laurence Fishburne's OTELO - EL DEMONIO DE LOS CELOS (1995). Jacob has also appeared as an East Indian beauty with Willem Dafoe and Sam Neill in VICTORY (1994), an ill-fated vacationer in FUGUESES (1995), and a French actress in 1948 who befriends a mysterious tramp (Stephen Reaa) in ALL MEN ARE MORTAL (1995), ambas presentadas en Cannes.
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