Jacques Weber

Jacques Weber (born 23 August 1949) is a French actor, director, and writer.

Life and career Weber joined the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique at the age of 20, and won the Prix d'Excellence when he left. He joined Robert Hossein in Rheims, and 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 Été and played the role of Hugo in État de siège by Costa-Gavras. He was seduced by Claude Jade in Le Malin Plaisir (1975), and by Anicée Alvina in Une femme fatale (1976). The young actor with much sex-appeal (he appeared in Le Malin Plaisir completely naked) was in Bel Ami (1983) after the 1885 novel 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 Patellière and Judge Antoine Rives in the show by Gilles Béhat. Noticeable on film as Comte de Guiche in Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) and Don Juan (1998), where he seduces Emmanuelle Béart. In 2008, he joined Isabelle Adjani in a televised adaptation of Figaro which he directed for France 3.

From 1979 to 1985, he appeared at the Centre dramatique national in Lyon (Théâtre du ), and from 1986 to 2001, the Théâtre de Nice, Centre dramatique national Nice-Côte d'Azur. He has starred and directed in many of the great roles of classical theatre, including Cyrano, where he excelled for many seasons.

Jacques Weber published Des petits coins de paradis in October 2009, his first work, which relates to his work as an artist and his friends.

In the 2012 presidential election, he endorsed François Hollande. In the 2017 and 2022 presidential elections, he endorsed Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

He is married to Christine Weber and has three children: two sons, Tommy and Stanley, and one daughter, Kim.

Filmography

Theatre 1969 : Tchao by Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon, directed by Jacques-Henri Duval, Théâtre Saint-Georges

1970–1979 1971 : La Convention de Belzébir by Marcel Aymé, directed by René Dupuy 1971 : Crime et Châtiment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, directed by Robert Hossein, Reims 1972 : Les Bas-fonds by Maxime Gorki, directed by Robert Hossein, Reims, Théâtre de l'Odéon 1973 : Jean-Baptiste Poquelin directed by Jacques Weber 1973 : Les Fourberies de Scapin by Molière, directed by Jacques Weber 1975 : Crime et Châtiment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, directed by Robert Hossein, Théâtre de Paris 1976 : Le Neveu de Rameau by Denis Diderot, directed by Jacques Weber 1977 : La Putain respectueuse by Jean-Paul Sartre, directed by Jacques Weber, Théâtre Gérard Philipe 1977 : Le Nouveau Monde by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, directed by Jean-Louis Barrault 1977 : Arrête ton cinéma by Gérard Oury, directed by the author, Théâtre du Gymnase 1978 : Maître Puntila et son valet Matti by Bertolt Brecht, directed by Guy Rétoré, Théâtre de l'Est Parisien 1979 : The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare, directed by Jacques Weber

1980–1989 1980 : Le Mariage de Figaro by Beaumarchais, directed by Françoise Petit and Maurice Vaudaux, Théâtre de Paris 1980 : Les Amours de Jacques le Fataliste by Denis Diderot, directed by Francis Huster 1980 : Deux heures sans savoir, directed by Jacques Weber 1980 : Spartacus by Bernard-Joseph Saurin, directed by Jacques Weber 1982 : Une journée particulière after the film by Ettore Scola, directed by Françoise Petit, Théâtre du 8e Lyon 1983 : Le Rêve de d'Alembert by Denis Diderot, directed by Jacques Kraemer 1983 : Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, directed by Jérôme Savary, Théâtre Mogador 1985 : Deux sur la balançoire by William Gibson, directed by Bernard Murat 1985 : À vif directed by Jacques Weber 1987 : Monte Cristo after Alexandre Dumas, directed by Jacques Weber, Grande Halle de la Villette 1987 : Dom Juan by Molière, directed by Francis Huster, Théâtre Renaud-Barrault 1988 : Nocturnes after Stefan Zweig, directed by Jacques Weber, Serge Marzolff 1988 : Le Misanthrope by Molière, directed by Jacques Weber 1988 : Le Chant du départ by Ivane Daoudi, directed by Jean-Pierre Vincent

1990–1999 1991 : Seul en scène, directed by Jacques Weber 1991 : Maman Sabouleux and 29 degrés à l'ombre by Eugène Labiche, directed by Isabelle Nanty 1991 : L'École des femmes by Molière, directed by Jean-Luc Boutté, Théâtre Hébertot, Théâtre des Célestins 1992 : Mystification mix of texts by Denis Diderot, directed by Jacques Weber 1993 : La Mégère apprivoisée by William Shakespeare, directed by Jérôme Savary 1995 : Le Tartuffe by Molière, directed by Jacques Weber, Théâtre de Nice 1996 : La Tour de Nesle by Roger Planchon after Alexandre Dumas, directed by Roger Planchon, Théâtre de Nice, TNP Villeurbanne 1996 : Gustave et Eugène after Gustave Flaubert, directed by Jacques Weber, Arnaud Bédouet 1997 : La Tour de Nesle by Roger Planchon after Alexandre Dumas, directed by Roger Planchon, Théâtre Mogador 1998 : Une journée particulière after the film by Ettore Scola, directed by Jacques Weber, Théâtre de Nice, Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin 1999 : La Controverse de Valladolid by Jean-Claude Carrière, directed by Jacques Lassalle, Théâtre de l'Atelier

2000–2009 2000 : La Vie de Galilée by Bertolt Brecht, directed by Jacques Lassalle, Théâtre national de la Colline 2002 : Phèdre by Jean Racine, directed by Jacques Weber, Théâtre Déjazet 2002 : Le Limier, by Anthony Shaffer, directed by Didier Long, Théâtre de la Madeleine 2003 : Jacques Weber raconte... Monsieur Molière ! after Mikhaïl Boulgakov 2004 : L'Évangile selon Pilate by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, directed by Christophe Lidon, Théâtre Montparnasse 2004 : Seul en scène, Théâtre de la Gaîté-Montparnasse 2004 : Ondine by Jean Giraudoux, directed by Théâtre Antoine (with Laetitia Casta and Vytas Kraujelis) 2006 : Cyrano, adapted by Christine Weber, directed by André Serre, Théâtre de la Gaîté-Montparnasse 2006 : Love letters by Albert Ramsdell Gurney, directed by Sandrine Dumas 2007–2008 : Débats 1974–1981, after the televised debates between Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and François Mitterrand for the Presidential elections of 1974 and 1981, directed by Jean-Marie Duprez, Théâtre de la Madeleine 2008 : Sacré nom de dieu by Arnaud Bédouet after the correspondence of Gustave Flaubert, directed by Loïc Corbery, Théâtre de la Gaîté-Montparnasse 2009 : César, Fanny, Marius after Marcel Pagnol, adapted and directed by Francis Huster, Théâtre Antoine 2009 : Seul en scène, Théâtre Marigny

Audiobooks 2004 : Le Joueur d'échecs, by Stefan Zweig, Éditions Thélème, Paris, 2005

Honours Chevalier of the ordre national du Mérite 1992 : Officer of the ordre des Arts et des Lettres 1996 : Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, promoted to officer on 2008

Awards and nominations 1991 : César Award for Best Supporting Actor at the Awards, for Cyrano de Bergerac