Jacques Weber Bio - Biography

Name Jacques Weber
Height
Naionality Franch
Date of Birth 23-August-1949
Place of Birth Paris, France
Famous for Acting
Jacques Weber is a French actor, director and writer. Passionate about drama from his youth, Jacques Weber joined the Conservatoire national superieur d'art dramatique at the age of 20, and won the prix d'Excellence when he left. He joined Robert Hossein in Reims. He then 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 Ete and played the role of Hugo in Etat de siege by Costa-Gavras.

He was seduced by Claude Jade in Le Malin Plaisir, and by Anicee Alvina in Une femme fatale. The young actor with lots of sex-appeal (he appearered in Le Malin Plaisir completely naked) was in 1982 Bel Ami 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 Patelliere and Judge Antoine Rives in the show by Gilles Behat. Noticeable on film as Comte de Guiche in Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) and Don Juan (1998), where he seduces Emmanuelle Beart. In 2008, he joined Isabelle Adjani in a televised adaptation of Figaro which he directed for France 3.

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