Jacques Weber

Known for ActingBorn 1949-08-23 (age 76)Paris, France

Jacques Weber (born 23 August 1949) is a French actor, director, and writer. Weber joined the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique at the age of 20, and won the Prix d'Excellence when he left. He joined Robert Hossein in Rheims, and began a rich theatrical career and a sporadic cinema career. Marcel Cravenne hired him in 1970 for Tartuffe. In 1972, he was Haroun in Faustine et le Bel Été and played the role of Hugo in État de siège by Costa-Gavras. He was seduced by Claude Jade in Le Malin Plaisir (1975), and by Anicée Alvina in Une femme fatale (1976). The young actor with much sex-appeal (he appeared in Le Malin Plaisir completely naked) was in Bel Ami (1983) after the 1885 novel by Guy de Maupassant in the adaptation by Pierre Cardinal. On television, he was, among others, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo by Denys de La Patellière and Judge Antoine Rives in the show by Gilles Béhat. Noticeable on film as Comte de Guiche in Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) and Don Juan (1998), where he seduces Emmanuelle Béart. In 2008, he joined Isabelle Adjani in a televised adaptation of Figaro which he directed for France 3. From 1979 to 1985, he appeared at the Centre dramatique national in Lyon (Théâtre du 8th), and from 1986 to 2001, the Théâtre de Nice, Centre dramatique national Nice-Côte d'Azur. He has starred and directed in many of the great roles of classical theatre, including Cyrano, where he excelled for many seasons. Jacques Weber published Des petits coins de paradis in October 2009, his first work, which relates to his work as an artist and his friends. He is married to Christine Weber and has three children: two sons, Tommy and Stanley, and one daughter, Kim. Source: Article "Jacques Weber" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA.Read more

Movies & web series

Tel père, telle flic

Papa est un mirage

À deux minutes près

Cyrano de Bergerac

Spécial cinéma

Les Poneys sauvages

The Barons

Sooner or Later

Bari

In Treatment

Mystery in Paris

Vaines recherches

Hilda Muramer

Le Grand Échiquier

Lancelot of the Lake

Murders in...

Bérénice

Les Damnés de la Commune

Le Loup blanc

Cyrano de Bergerac

Meurtres en Haute-Savoie

La Mante

The Passenger

Figaro

A Day in the Life of French Cinema

The Disappearance of Kimmy Diore

State of Siege

Rupture(s)

Je ne t'aime pas

Bel ami

Le Loup blanc

The Little Boy

Une femme fatale

Tartuffe

Un ange passe

The Origin of Evil

Crescendo

Mom Lost It!

Champs-Elysées

Jacques Villeret, drôlement tragique

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel

The Horseman on the Roof

Let There Be Light!

Philharmonia

Death in Sarajevo

Ruy Blas

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

The Razor's Edge