Jacques Weber

Jacques Weber 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.

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

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 ISBN 978-2-87862-293-5

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