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.
109 acting credits
Acting · 109
Tout le monde en parle
2004
Bonsoir bonsoir!
2019
Les Enfants de la télé
2010
En direct de l'univers
2009
The Aviator
2004
Entrée principale
2013
Les échangistes
2016
Y'a du monde à messe
2017
Mafiosa
2006
Happily Married
2020
Bye Bye
1968
Viens voir les comédiens
2002
Napoleon
2002
Mensonges
2014
Cette année-là
2018
Paris Paris
2022
Curieux Bégin
2007
Mythomaniac
2019
Ça fait la job
2021
Poivre et sel
1983
H2O
2004
Ti-Mé Show
2015
Grace of Monaco
2014
Avec un grand A
1986
Aline
2021
Belle Époque
1995
L'effet Wow
2019
Laurence Anyways
2012
A Secret
2007
Bar ouvert
2011
Me, Myself and Mum
2013
Testament
2023
René Lévesque
2006
The Barbarian Invasions
2003
The Successor
2023
Serge à Paris
2024
Let's Be Friends
2005
Aurore
2005
The Decline of the American Empire
1986
Twice Upon a Time
2006
Katak: The Brave Beluga
2023
En tout cas
2018
Hold-up
1985
L'État de Grace
2006
Benezra reçoit
2020
Michael Kael vs. the World News Company
1998
Little Lili
2003
Ces enfants d'ailleurs
1997
An Eye for Beauty
2014
The Crime of Ovide Plouffe
1984
Betty Fisher and Other Stories
2001
Thérèse
2012
Second Chance
2011
Traceless
2010
Milena
1991
Séraphin: Heart of Stone
2002
Montreal Stories
1991
Father Son Therapy
2016
Days of Happiness
2023
A Man in a Hurry
2018
Ordo
2004
Father and Guns 2
2017
The Widow of Saint-Pierre
2000
The Collector
2002
Class Trip
1998
Jesus of Montreal
1989
The Last Escape
2010
Louis the 19th, King of the Airwaves
1994
Cabotins
2010
The Crime of Ovide Plouffe
1984
Of Woman and Magic
2000
Boundaries
2016
False Confessions
2017
Darling Trap
2014
French Immersion
2011
The Girl from the Chartreuse
2005
Wedding Night
2001
You'll Miss Me
2009
Life after love
2000
Duplex
1991
La danse de l'albatros
2012
48 Hours a Day
2008
Forgotten Flowers
2019
Night Slice
2020
Les jumeaux
—
Sisters and Neighbors!
2024
Léon Blum : Thérèse et Léon
2001
Embrasse
2022
Imelda 7: Pipo
2022
See How They Dance
2011
Maria
2021
Sonatine
1984
Anna et Otto
2013
The 12 Tasks of Imelda
2022
Ca$h Nexu$
2019
Memories Unlocked
1999
Ding et Dong : Le film
1990
Maurice
2015
Red Eyes
1982
The Evening Traveler
1993
C'est pas le pays des merveilles
1981
La face cachée de la Lune
2021
Les figures
2009
Le bogue de l'an 2000
1999
Changement de cap
1999
Aurore: entre mythe et réalité
2025
Via crucis
2000
Requiem contre un plafond
2001
Le chemin de Noël
2020