Jacques Weber
Jacques Weber in 2012
Born	Paris, France
Occupation(s)	Actor, director, writer
Years active	1970–present
Spouse	Christine Weber
Children	3, including Stanley Weber

Jacques Weber is a French actor, director, and writer.

Life and career

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.^[1]

He is married to Christine Weber and has three children: two sons, Tommy and Stanley, and one daughter, Kim.

Filmography

Theatre

• 1969 : Tchao by Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon, directed by Jacques-Henri Duval, Théâtre Saint-Georges

Audiobooks

• 2004 : Le Joueur d'échecs, by Stefan Zweig, Éditions Thélème, Paris, 2005 ISBN 978-2-87862-293-5

Honours

• Chevalier of the ordre national du Mérite
• 1992 : Officer of the ordre des Arts et des Lettres
• 1996 : Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur,^[2] promoted to officer on 2008^[3]

Awards and nominations

• 1991 : César Award for Best Supporting Actor at the 16th Awards, for Cyrano de Bergerac

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jacques Weber.

• Jacques Weber at IMDb
• (in French) Jacques Weber at Radioscopie, on the site of the INA : 18 February 1975 and 29 October 1980