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Yves Jacques
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Yves Jacques OC (born 10 May 1956) is a Canadian film, television and stage actor.
Jacques was born in Quebec City in 1956. He studied theatre at the CĂ©gep de Saint-Hyacinthe, and began acting on stage in both Quebec City and Montreal. He became more widely known to film and television audiences beginning in 1981 as a sketch performer in TĂ©lĂ©vision de Radio-Canada's annual Bye Bye New Year's Eve variety special, and soon began appearing more widely in film and television roles. To international audiences, he is best known as Claude, the gay academic in Denys Arcand's The Decline of the American Empire and The Barbarian Invasions. On stage, he is noted for originating the role of Lydie-Anne âŠ
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Yves Jacques OC (born 10 May 1956) is a Canadian film, television and stage actor. Jacques was born in Quebec City in 1956. He studied theatre at the CĂ©gep de Saint-Hyacinthe, and began acting on stage in both Quebec City and Montreal. He became more widely known to film and television audiences beginning in 1981 as a sketch performer in TĂ©lĂ©vision de Radio-Canada's annual Bye Bye New Year's Eve variety special, and soon began appearing more widely in film and television roles. To international audiences, he is best known as Claude, the gay academic in Denys Arcand's The Decline of the American Empire and The Barbarian Invasions. On stage, he is noted for originating the role of Lydie-Anne in the premiere of Michel Marc Bouchard's play Lilies. He has been in several movies by French filmmaker Claude Miller, including Of Woman and Magic and Little Lili. His fame has continued to grow with films and theatrical productions in both France and Quebec. Since 2001, he has toured the world in two shows by Robert Lepage, Far Side of the Moon (La Face cachĂ©e de la lune) and Le Projet Andersen, where he played all the roles. Since 2018, he has appeared regularly in Mathieu Quesnelâs theatrical creations. More recently, he played in Aline by ValĂ©rie Lemercier, in Maria by Alec Pronovost, and in ChloĂ© Robichaudâs Les jours heureux. In 2022, Yves Jacques played in Martin Villeneuve's The 12 Tasks of Imelda (Les 12 travaux d'Imelda), co-starring playwright Robert Lepage and actress-signer Ginette Reno. He was named Chevalier de lâOrdre des Arts et des Lettres by the MinistĂšre de la Culture et de la Communication de France in February 2001, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2009, for his performances in theatre, television and film, in Canada and abroad. He is openly gay. Source: Article "Yves Jacques" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Aurore: entre mythe et réalité
as Curé Leduc (archive footage)
Sisters and Neighbors!
as Monsieur Lebel
The Successor
as Dominique Duchesne
Days of Happiness
as Yves
Testament
as Emmanuel d'Argenson
Katak: The Brave Beluga
as Cyrano (voice)
Imelda 7: Pipo
as Vétérinaire
The 12 Tasks of Imelda
as Vétérinaire
Embrasse
as Yves Saint Laurent
Aline
as Second TV Presenter
Maria
as Yves Jacques
La face cachée de la Lune
Le chemin de Noël
Night Slice
as Antoine
Forgotten Flowers
as Marie-Victorin
Ca$h Nexu$
as Michel
A Man in a Hurry
as Eric
Father and Guns 2
as Bernard
False Confessions
as Dubois
Father Son Therapy
Boundaries
as Francis Perreault
Maurice
as Narrator (voice)
An Eye for Beauty
as Pascal Montambault
Grace of Monaco
as M. Delavenne
Darling Trap
as Nolan Smith
Me, Myself and Mum
as Le psychanalyste tuyau
Anna et Otto
as Art critic at the Montreal exhibition
La danse de l'albatros
as Jacques
ThérÚse
as L'avocat de ThérÚse Desqueyroux
Laurence Anyways
as Michel Lafortune
French Immersion
as Pierre-Ămile
See How They Dance
as George Bliss
Second Chance
as Maxime Dupont
Cabotins
as Lady Moon
Traceless
as MaĂźtre Bardon
The Last Escape
as Andre
Les figures
as Jean
You'll Miss Me
as André, le coiffeur
48 Hours a Day
as Arnaud
A Secret
as Le commandant Beraud
Twice Upon a Time
as Doctor Trudeau
Aurore
as Curé Leduc
Let's Be Friends
as Germain
The Girl from the Chartreuse
as Baldi
The Aviator
as Waiter
Ordo
as Richard FĂ©raud
Little Lili
as Serge
The Barbarian Invasions
as Claude
SĂ©raphin: Heart of Stone
as Notaire Le Potiron
The Collector
as François Berger / Babette Brown
Betty Fisher and Other Stories
as René le Canadien
Wedding Night
as Bernard
Léon Blum : ThérÚse et Léon
as Marcel Bouchard
Requiem contre un plafond
No Poster
Via crucis
Life after love
as Docteur Bilodeau
Of Woman and Magic
as le docteur Fish
The Widow of Saint-Pierre
as le contre-amiral
Le bogue de l'an 2000
as Hubert Hyves
Memories Unlocked
as Mortimer
Changement de cap
as Cariou
Class Trip
as The Visitor
Michael Kael vs. the World News Company
as Charles Robert
Louis the 19th, King of the Airwaves
as Michel Gobeil
The Evening Traveler
as Arthur
Montreal Stories
as Accessoiriste studio
Milena
as Max Brod
Duplex
as Albert
Ding et Dong : Le film
as Jigi
Jesus of Montreal
as Richard Cardinal
The Decline of the American Empire
as Claude
Hold-up
as Un otage (400 $)
The Crime of Ovide Plouffe
as Bob
Sonatine
as The Subway Station Janitor
Red Eyes
C'est pas le pays des merveilles
Les jumeaux
as Pierrot Langlois