Yves Jacques
Acting
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.
Aurore: entre mythe et réalité
Curé Leduc (archive footage)
Sisters and Neighbors!
Monsieur Lebel
The Successor
Dominique Duchesne
Days of Happiness
Yves
Testament
Emmanuel d'Argenson
Katak: The Brave Beluga
Cyrano (voice)
Imelda 7: Pipo
Vétérinaire
The 12 Tasks of Imelda
Vétérinaire
Embrasse
Yves Saint Laurent
Aline
Second TV Presenter
Maria
Yves Jacques
La face cachée de la Lune
Le chemin de Noël
Night Slice
Antoine
Forgotten Flowers
Marie-Victorin
Ca$h Nexu$
Michel
A Man in a Hurry
Eric
Father and Guns 2
Bernard
False Confessions
Dubois
Father Son Therapy
Boundaries
Francis Perreault
Maurice
Narrator (voice)
An Eye for Beauty
Pascal Montambault
Grace of Monaco
M. Delavenne
Darling Trap
Nolan Smith
Me, Myself and Mum
Le psychanalyste tuyau
Anna et Otto
Art critic at the Montreal exhibition
La danse de l'albatros
Jacques
Thérèse
L'avocat de Thérèse Desqueyroux
Laurence Anyways
Michel Lafortune
French Immersion
Pierre-Émile
See How They Dance
George Bliss
Second Chance
Maxime Dupont
Cabotins
Lady Moon
Traceless
Maître Bardon
The Last Escape
Andre
Les figures
Jean
You'll Miss Me
André, le coiffeur
48 Hours a Day
Arnaud
A Secret
Le commandant Beraud
Twice Upon a Time
Doctor Trudeau
Aurore
Curé Leduc
The Girl from the Chartreuse
Baldi
Let's Be Friends
Germain
The Aviator
Waiter
Ordo
Richard Féraud
Little Lili
Serge
The Barbarian Invasions
Claude
Séraphin: Heart of Stone
Notaire Le Potiron
The Collector
François Berger / Babette Brown
Betty Fisher and Other Stories
René le Canadien
Wedding Night
Bernard
Léon Blum : Thérèse et Léon
Marcel Bouchard
Requiem contre un plafond
Via crucis
Life after love
Docteur Bilodeau
Of Woman and Magic
le docteur Fish
The Widow of Saint-Pierre
le contre-amiral
Le bogue de l'an 2000
Hubert Hyves
Memories Unlocked
Mortimer
Changement de cap
Cariou
Class Trip
The Visitor
Michael Kael vs. the World News Company
Charles Robert
Louis the 19th, King of the Airwaves
Michel Gobeil
The Evening Traveler
Arthur
Montreal Stories
Accessoiriste studio
Milena
Max Brod
Duplex
Albert
Ding et Dong : Le film
Jigi
Jesus of Montreal
Richard Cardinal
The Decline of the American Empire
Claude
Hold-up
Hostage 400 $
The Crime of Ovide Plouffe
Bob
Sonatine
The Subway Station Janitor
Red Eyes
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