Yves Jacques

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: Acting

Born: Québec City, Québec, Canada, 1956-05-10

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1982	Red Eyes		50
2	1984	Sonatine	The Subway Station Janitor	69
3	1984	The Crime of Ovide Plouffe	Bob	63
4	1985	Hold-up	Hostage 400 $	62
5	1986	The Decline of the American Empire	Claude	68
6	1989	Jesus of Montreal	Richard Cardinal	70
7	1990	Ding et Dong : Le film	Jigi	70
8	1991	Duplex	Albert	0
9	1991	Milena	Max Brod	20
10	1991	Montreal Stories	Accessoiriste studio	50
11	1993	The Evening Traveler	Arthur	0
12	1994	Louis the 19th, King of the Airwaves	Michel Gobeil	56
13	1998	Michael Kael vs. the World News Company	Charles Robert	34
14	1998	Class Trip	The Visitor	57
15	1999	Changement de cap	Cariou	60
16	1999	Memories Unlocked	Mortimer	62
17	1999	Le bogue de l'an 2000	Hubert Hyves	0
18	2000	The Widow of Saint-Pierre	le contre-amiral	65
19	2000	Of Woman and Magic	le docteur Fish	55
20	2000	Life after love	Docteur Bilodeau	52
21	2000	Via crucis		0
22	2001	Requiem contre un plafond		0
23	2001	Léon Blum : Thérèse et Léon	Marcel Bouchard	0
24	2001	Wedding Night	Bernard	40
25	2001	Betty Fisher and Other Stories	René le Canadien	62
26	2002	The Collector	François Berger / Babette Brown	56
27	2002	Séraphin: Heart of Stone	Notaire Le Potiron	62
28	2003	Little Lili	Serge	54
29	2003	The Barbarian Invasions	Claude	71
30	2004	Ordo	Richard Féraud	47
31	2004	The Aviator	Waiter	72
32	2005	Let's Be Friends	Germain	55
33	2005	The Girl from the Chartreuse	Baldi	72
34	2005	Aurore	Curé Leduc	74
35	2006	Twice Upon a Time	Doctor Trudeau	59
36	2007	A Secret	Le commandant Beraud	65
37	2008	48 Hours a Day	Arnaud	46
38	2009	You'll Miss Me	André, le coiffeur	42
39	2009	Les figures	Jean	60
40	2010	The Last Escape	Andre	66
41	2010	Traceless	Maître Bardon	63
42	2010	Cabotins	Lady Moon	50
43	2011	Second Chance	Maxime Dupont	57
44	2011	See How They Dance	George Bliss	40
45	2011	French Immersion	Pierre-Émile	34
46	2012	Laurence Anyways	Michel Lafortune	76
47	2012	Thérèse	L'avocat de Thérèse Desqueyroux	58
48	2012	La danse de l'albatros	Jacques	48
49	2013	Anna et Otto	Art critic at the Montreal exhibition	62
50	2013	Me, Myself and Mum	Le psychanalyste tuyau	67
51	2014	Darling Trap	Nolan Smith	48
52	2014	Grace of Monaco	M. Delavenne	60
53	2014	An Eye for Beauty	Pascal Montambault	34
54	2015	Maurice	Narrator (voice)	0
55	2016	Boundaries	Francis Perreault	58
56	2016	Father Son Therapy		53
57	2017	False Confessions	Dubois	52
58	2017	Father and Guns 2	Bernard	63
59	2018	A Man in a Hurry	Eric	65
60	2019	Ca$h Nexu$	Michel	50
61	2019	Forgotten Flowers	Marie-Victorin	65
62	2020	Night Slice	Antoine	90
63	2020	Aline	Présentateur deuxième TV	66
64	2020	Le chemin de Noël		0
65	2021	La face cachée de la Lune		0
66	2021	Maria	Yves Jacques	90
67	2022	Embrasse	Yves Saint Laurent	0
68	2022	The 12 Tasks of Imelda	Vétérinaire	68
69	2022	Imelda 7: Pipo	Vétérinaire	0
70	2023	Katak: The Brave Beluga	Cyrano (voice)	64
71	2023	Testament	Emmanuel d'Argenson	66
72	2023	Days of Happiness	Yves	62
73	2023	The Successor	Dominique Duchesne	65
74	2024	Sisters and Neighbors!	Monsieur Lebel	70
75		Les jumeaux	Pierrot Langlois	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1968	Bye Bye		57
2	1983	Poivre et sel	Pierrot Séguin	60
3	1984	The Crime of Ovide Plouffe		0
4	1986	Avec un grand A		0
5	1995	Belle Époque	Augustin	100
6	1997	Ces enfants d'ailleurs	Jerzy Pawlowski	90
7	2002	Viens voir les comédiens	Self	0
8	2002	Napoleon	Lucien Bonaparte	69
9	2004	Tout le monde en parle	Self	42
10	2004	H2O	Québec Premier Marcel Coté	90
11	2006	L'État de Grace	Bertrand Saint-Amor	10
12	2006	Mafiosa	Mathieu Zamponi	75
13	2007	Curieux Bégin	Self	70
14	2009	En direct de l'univers	Self	10
15	2010	Les Enfants de la télé	Self	65
16	2011	Bar ouvert	Self	0
17	2013	Entrée principale	Self	0
18	2014	Mensonges	Martin Champagne	43
19	2015	Ti-Mé Show	Self - Guest Star	0
20	2016	Les échangistes	Self	0
21	2017	Y'a du monde à messe	Self	75
22	2018	En tout cas		80
23	2018	Cette année-là	Self	0
24	2019	L'effet Wow	Self	0
25	2019	Bonsoir bonsoir!	Self	40
26	2019	Mythomaniac	Mr. Brunet	64
27	2020	Happily Married	Le Consigliere	68
28	2020	Benezra reçoit	Self	0
29	2021	Ça fait la job	Self	0
30	2022	Paris Paris	Fabioli	60

Yves Jacques

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