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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
May 10, 1956
Place of Birth
Québec City, Québec, Canada
Also Known As
- Ів Жак
Yves Jacques
0.3 Popularity
Biography
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 Cégep 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 Télévision 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 cachée de la lune) and Le Projet Andersen, where he played all the roles. Since 2018, he has appeared regularly in Mathieu Quesnel’s theatrical creations. More recently, he played in Aline by Valérie Lemercier, in Maria by Alec Pronovost, and in Chloé Robichaud’s 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 l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Ministère 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.
Known For
8.0
Curé Leduc (archive footage)
Aurore: entre mythe et réalité
2025
0.0
Serge à Paris
2024
7.0
Monsieur Lebel
Sisters and Neighbors!
2024
6.5
Dominique Duchesne
The Successor
2023
6.4
Yves
Days of Happiness
2023
6.7
Emmanuel d'Argenson
Testament
2023
6.0
Cyrano (voice)
Katak: The Brave Beluga
2023
0.0
Vétérinaire
Imelda 7: Pipo
2022
6.8
Vétérinaire
The 12 Tasks of Imelda
2022
0.0
Yves Saint Laurent
Embrasse
2022
Credits
Aurore: entre mythe et réalité
as Curé Leduc (archive footage)
2025
8.0
Serge à Paris
2024
0.0
Sisters and Neighbors!
as Monsieur Lebel
2024
7.0
The Successor
as Dominique Duchesne
2023
6.5
Days of Happiness
as Yves
2023
6.4
Testament
as Emmanuel d'Argenson
2023
6.7
Katak: The Brave Beluga
as Cyrano (voice)
2023
6.0
Imelda 7: Pipo
as Vétérinaire
2022
0.0
The 12 Tasks of Imelda
as Vétérinaire
2022
6.8
Embrasse
as Yves Saint Laurent
2022
0.0
Paris Paris
as Fabioli
2022
6.0
Aline
as Présentateur deuxième TV
2021
6.6
Maria
as Yves Jacques
2021
9.0
Ça fait la job
as Self
2021
0.0
La face cachée de la Lune
2021
0.0
Le chemin de Noël
2020
0.0
Night Slice
as Antoine
2020
9.0
🎬
Benezra reçoit
as Self
2020
0.0
Happily Married
as Le Consigliere
2020
6.6
Forgotten Flowers
as Marie-Victorin
2019
6.5
Mythomaniac
as Mr. Brunet
2019
6.2
Bonsoir bonsoir!
as Self
2019
4.0
Ca$h Nexu$
as Michel
2019
4.0
L'effet Wow
as Self
2019
0.0
A Man in a Hurry
as Eric
2018
6.5
Cette année-là
as Self
2018
0.0
En tout cas
2018
8.0
Father and Guns 2
as Bernard
2017
6.4
Y'a du monde à messe
as Self
2017
7.5
False Confessions
as Dubois
2017
5.2
Father Son Therapy
2016
5.3
Boundaries
as Francis Perreault
2016
5.8
Les échangistes
as Self
2016
0.0
🎬
Maurice
as Narrator (voice)
2015
0.0
Ti-Mé Show
as Self - Guest Star
2015
0.0
An Eye for Beauty
as Pascal Montambault
2014
3.4
Grace of Monaco
as M. Delavenne
2014
6.0
Mensonges
as Martin Champagne
2014
4.3
Darling Trap
as Nolan Smith
2014
4.8
Me, Myself and Mum
as Le psychanalyste tuyau
2013
6.7
Entrée principale
as Self
2013
0.0
Anna et Otto
as Art critic at the Montreal exhibition
2013
6.2
La danse de l'albatros
as Jacques
2012
4.1
Thérèse
as L'avocat de Thérèse Desqueyroux
2012
5.8
Laurence Anyways
as Michel Lafortune
2012
7.6
French Immersion
as Pierre-Émile
2011
3.3
🎬
Bar ouvert
as Self
2011
0.0
See How They Dance
as George Bliss
2011
3.3
Second Chance
as Maxime Dupont
2011
5.7
Cabotins
as Lady Moon
2010
5.0
Les Enfants de la télé
as Self
2010
6.5
Traceless
as Maître Bardon
2010
6.3
The Last Escape
as Andre
2010
6.6
Les figures
as Jean
2009
6.0
En direct de l'univers
as Self
2009
1.0
You'll Miss Me
as André, le coiffeur
2009
4.2
48 Hours a Day
as Arnaud
2008
5.2
A Secret
as Le commandant Beraud
2007
6.4
Curieux Bégin
as Self
2007
7.0
Mafiosa
as Mathieu Zamponi
2006
7.0
Twice Upon a Time
as Doctor Trudeau
2006
5.9
L'État de Grace
as Bertrand Saint-Amor
2006
1.0
René Lévesque
as Doris Lussier
2006
3.0
Aurore
as Curé Leduc
2005
7.5
The Girl from the Chartreuse
as Baldi
2005
7.2
Let's Be Friends
as Germain
2005
5.5
The Aviator
as Waiter
2004
7.2
H2O
as Québec Premier Marcel Coté
2004
9.0
Ordo
as Richard Féraud
2004
4.4
Tout le monde en parle
as Self
2004
4.2
The Barbarian Invasions
as Claude
2003
7.0
Little Lili
as Serge
2003
5.4
Séraphin: Heart of Stone
as Notaire Le Potiron
2002
6.1
Napoleon
as Lucien Bonaparte
2002
6.8
Viens voir les comédiens
as Self
2002
0.0
The Collector
as François Berger / Babette Brown
2002
5.7
Betty Fisher and Other Stories
as René le Canadien
2001
6.1
Wedding Night
as Bernard
2001
3.6
Léon Blum : Thérèse et Léon
as Marcel Bouchard
2001
0.0
🎬
Requiem contre un plafond
2001
0.0
🎬
Via crucis
2000
0.0
Life after love
as Docteur Bilodeau
2000
5.2
Of Woman and Magic
as le docteur Fish
2000
5.6
The Widow of Saint-Pierre
as le contre-amiral
2000
6.5
Le bogue de l'an 2000
as Hubert Hyves
1999
0.0
Memories Unlocked
as Mortimer
1999
5.8
Changement de cap
as Cariou
1999
6.0
Class Trip
as The Visitor
1998
5.7
Michael Kael vs. the World News Company
as Charles Robert
1998
3.4
Ces enfants d'ailleurs
as Jerzy Pawlowski
1997
9.0
🎬
Belle Époque
as Augustin
1995
10.0
Louis the 19th, King of the Airwaves
as Michel Gobeil
1994
5.1
The Evening Traveler
as Arthur
1993
0.0
Montreal Stories
as Accessoiriste studio
1991
4.7
Milena
as Max Brod
1991
2.0
Duplex
as Albert
1991
0.0
Ding et Dong : Le film
as Jigi
1990
7.0
Jesus of Montreal
as Richard Cardinal
1989
6.9
The Decline of the American Empire
as Claude
1986
6.7
Avec un grand A
1986
0.0
Hold-up
as Hostage 400 $
1985
6.1
The Crime of Ovide Plouffe
as Bob
1984
6.3
🎬
The Crime of Ovide Plouffe
1984
1.0
Sonatine
as The Subway Station Janitor
1984
6.9
Poivre et sel
as Pierrot Séguin
1983
6.0
Red Eyes
1982
5.0
Bye Bye
1968
6.5
Les jumeaux
as Pierrot Langlois
N/A
0.0