Cast
Yves Jacques
Acting
Cast
Yves Jacques
Known for
Acting
Born
1956-05-10
From
Québec City, Québec, Canada
Also known as Ів Жак
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.
★7.2
MOVIE2004
The Aviator
as Waiter
★7.1
MOVIE2003
The Barbarian Invasions
as Claude
★7.6
MOVIE2012
Laurence Anyways
as Michel Lafortune
★6.0
MOVIE2014
Grace of Monaco
as M. Delavenne
★6.1
MOVIE1985
Hold-up
as Un otage (400 $)
★4.1
MOVIE2012
La danse de l'albatros
as Jacques
★6.6
MOVIE2021
Aline
as Second TV Presenter
★3.4
MOVIE2014
An Eye for Beauty
as Pascal Montambault
★6.6
MOVIE2013
Me, Myself and Mum
as Le psychanalyste tuyau
MOVIE1991
Duplex
as Albert
★6.3
MOVIE2010
Traceless
as Maître Bardon
★6.1
MOVIE2001
Betty Fisher and Other Stories
as René le Canadien
★5.8
MOVIE2012
Thérèse
as L'avocat de Thérèse Desqueyroux
★5.5
MOVIE2003
Little Lili
as Serge
★6.5
MOVIE2023
The Successor
as Dominique Duchesne
★5.0
MOVIE1991
Montreal Stories
as Accessoiriste studio
★7.2
MOVIE2005
The Girl from the Chartreuse
as Baldi
★6.7
MOVIE1986
The Decline of the American Empire
as Claude
MOVIE2022
Embrasse
as Yves Saint Laurent
★6.2
MOVIE2013
Anna et Otto
as Art critic at the Montreal exhibition
★6.9
MOVIE1989
Jesus of Montreal
as Richard Cardinal
★5.7
MOVIE2011
Second Chance
as Maxime Dupont
★5.9
MOVIE2006
Twice Upon a Time
as Doctor Trudeau
★6.5
MOVIE2007
A Secret
as Le commandant Beraud
★6.0
MOVIE2009
Les figures
as Jean
★6.0
MOVIE2023
Katak: The Brave Beluga
as Cyrano (voice)
★6.5
MOVIE2018
A Man in a Hurry
as Eric
★8.0
MOVIE2025
Aurore: entre mythe et réalité
as Curé Leduc (archive footage)
★6.3
MOVIE2024
Sisters and Neighbors!
as Monsieur Lebel
★6.2
MOVIE2000
Life after love
as Docteur Bilodeau
★5.2
MOVIE2017
False Confessions
as Dubois
★4.3
MOVIE1991
Milena
as Max Brod
★6.1
MOVIE2002
Séraphin: Heart of Stone
as Notaire Le Potiron
MOVIE2022
Imelda 7: Pipo
as Vétérinaire
★5.7
MOVIE1998
Class Trip
as The Visitor
★6.7
MOVIE1999
Changement de cap
as Cariou
★7.5
MOVIE2005
Aurore
as Curé Leduc
★7.0
MOVIE1990
Ding et Dong : Le film
as Jigi
★6.6
MOVIE2000
The Widow of Saint-Pierre
as le contre-amiral
MOVIE2015
Maurice
as Narrator (voice)
★4.5
MOVIE2009
You'll Miss Me
as André, le coiffeur
★4.0
MOVIE1998
Michael Kael vs. the World News Company
as Charles Robert
★5.9
MOVIE2002
The Collector
as François Berger / Babette Brown
★9.0
MOVIE2020
Night Slice
as Antoine
★5.9
MOVIE2023
Days of Happiness
as Yves
★5.3
MOVIE2016
Father Son Therapy
★5.3
MOVIE2008
48 Hours a Day
as Arnaud
★6.8
MOVIE2023
Testament
as Emmanuel d'Argenson
★6.0
MOVIE1981
C'est pas le pays des merveilles
★5.5
MOVIE2005
Let's Be Friends
as Germain
★3.3
MOVIE2011
French Immersion
as Pierre-Émile
★6.5
MOVIE2017
Father and Guns 2
as Bernard
★6.6
MOVIE2010
The Last Escape
as Andre
★6.5
MOVIE2019
Forgotten Flowers
as Marie-Victorin
★7.0
MOVIE2000
Via crucis
MOVIE2020
Le chemin de Noël
★5.9
MOVIE1999
Memories Unlocked
as Mortimer
★5.8
MOVIE2016
Boundaries
as Francis Perreault
★4.0
MOVIE2001
Wedding Night
as Bernard
★5.0
MOVIE2010
Cabotins
as Lady Moon
★4.8
MOVIE2014
Darling Trap
as Nolan Smith
★9.0
MOVIE2001
Léon Blum : Thérèse et Léon
as Marcel Bouchard
★7.3
MOVIE1984
The Crime of Ovide Plouffe
as Bob
★9.0
MOVIE1993
The Evening Traveler
as Arthur
★3.3
MOVIE2011
See How They Dance
as George Bliss
★7.0
MOVIE1984
Sonatine
as The Subway Station Janitor
★5.7
MOVIE1994
Louis the 19th, King of the Airwaves
as Michel Gobeil
★5.7
MOVIE1982
Red Eyes
MOVIE1999
Le bogue de l'an 2000
as Hubert Hyves
★5.9
MOVIE2000
Of Woman and Magic
as le docteur Fish
MOVIETBA
Les jumeaux
as Pierrot Langlois
★4.8
MOVIE2004
Ordo
as Richard Féraud
★6.0
MOVIE2021
Maria
as Yves Jacques
MOVIE2021
La face cachée de la Lune
★6.8
MOVIE2022
The 12 Tasks of Imelda
as Vétérinaire
★8.0
MOVIE2001
Requiem contre un plafond
★4.0
MOVIE2019
Ca$h Nexu$
as Michel