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Yves Jacques
Born: 10th May 1956 Québec City, Québec, Canada
Dept: 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.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 109
Film: 77 (71%)
Television: 32 (29%)
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Filmography
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Les Jumeaux follows the lives of two twin artists struggling to make their mark in a vibrant urban city, far from their wealthy, small-town roots. As ... view
Character:
Pierrot Langlois
2025
The tragic story of little Aurore Gagnon has left its mark on the collective imagination of Québec. This documentary revisits the myth, which still r ... view
Character:
Curé Leduc (archive footage)
Sep 2024 (first aired)
Serge Denoncourt confirms or denies Quebecers' prejudices about the French in this magazine that questions our values and highlights our friends ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Original title: Nos belles-sœurs
2024
The story of Germaine Lauzon, a housewife who wins a million stamps which, she believes, will allow her access to happiness and a new world that she h ... view
Character:
Monsieur Lebel
Original title: Le Successeur
2023
Happy and accomplished, Ellias becomes the new artistic director of a famous French Haute Couture house. When he learns that his father, whom he has n ... view
Character:
Dominique Duchesne
Original title: Les jours heureux
2023
Emma, a talented conductor and rising star on the Montreal scene, has a complicated relationship with her father and agent Patrick. She has to face up ... view
Character:
Yves
2023
A retired archivist is annoyed and confused by a group of protestors who are angered by a mural inside the retirement home where he resides that glori ... view
Character:
Emmanuel d'Argenson
Original title: Katak, le brave béluga
2023
While his peers have all turned white, Katak is still small and grey. To prove that he has grown up and to grant the last wish of his adored grandma, ... view
Character:
Cyrano (voice)
2022
With the help of daughter Diane, Imelda brings her dog Pipo to a veterinarian. As Diane digs deeper into her mother's personal life, however, an untol ... view
Character:
Vétérinaire
Original title: Les 12 travaux d'Imelda
2022
Imelda, a larger-than-life character inspired by the director's grandmother, sets herself on a quest to settle old scores before celebrating her 100th ... view
Character:
Vétérinaire
2022
Hugo is an only child. A public altercation seems to confirm the rumor of domestic violence. Passionate about fashion and infatuated with beauty, this ... view
Character:
Yves Saint Laurent
Jan 2022 (first aired)
One day, a tunnel opens up between Philippe's basement in Paris, Ontario and Paris, France. Here's a chance for Philippe, caught up in a midlife crisi ... view
Character:
Fabioli (13 ep.)
2021
A fictionalized biopic of Aline Dieu, a multitalented singer from a musically inclined family. ... view
Character:
Second TV Presenter
2021
When Maria thinks she's at the bottom of the barrel, she discovers that this barrel has a double bottom: no job, no money, no worthy accomplishment an ... view
Character:
Yves Jacques
Original title: Tranche de nuit
2020
Stuck in a depressing and mind numbing routine, Pierre decides to trade the sweaty atmosphere of the factory for the conditioned air of a hotel room. ... view
Character:
Antoine
Sep 2020 (first aired)
In 1974, in the quiet suburb of Sainte-Foy, two discontented couples bring their kids to summer camp. Once home, they must face the pitiful state thei ... view
Character:
Le Consigliere (5 ep.)
Original title: Les fleurs oubliées
2019
Brother Marie-Victorin, founder of Montreal’s Botanical Garden, is bored with heaven and decides to return earth to help former agronomist turned be ... view
Character:
Marie-Victorin
Sep 2019 (first aired)
Burned out and taken for granted, a working mom suspects her partner is cheating, so to win back his attentions, she feigns a medical diagnosis. ... view
Character:
Mr. Brunet (12 ep.)
Apr 2019 (first aired)
Each day, Jean-Philippe Wauthier welcomes guests on the show in warm, friendly setting. His interviews focus on their newsworthy achievements but also ... view
Character:
Self (3 ep.)
2019
Jimmy is trapped in a spiral of street drug addiction and withdrawal. One day, Jimmy is forced to get back in contact with his family. The pariah’s ... view
Character:
Michel
Original title: Un homme pressé
2018
The story revolves around Alain, a busy businessman who is always in a rush. In his life, there is no room for spare time or family. But one day, he s ... view
Character:
Eric
Sep 2018 (first aired)
A culture show set hosted by Marc Labrèche and his collaborators, Simon Boulerice, Émilie Perreault and Fred Savard. Each week, based on a significa ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
Original title: De père en flic 2
2017
A few years after they infiltrated a therapy program for fathers and sons, Marc Laroche is having some issues with his girlfriend Alice and Jacques is ... view
Character:
Bernard
May 2017 (first aired)
Public figures from different backgrounds meet each week. At first glance, these guests would seem to have little in common. However, something does u ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
Original title: Les Fausses confidences
2017
Dorante, an impoverished young man, is taken on as a secretary by Araminte, a rich widow with whom he is secretly in love. The valet Dubois does all h ... view
Character:
Dubois
Original title: Père Fils Thérapie !
2016
A cop and his son have to put away their differences while undercover on a therapeutic trip. ... view
Character:
Original title: Pays
2016
Emily Price tries to balance family life and leading crunch negotiations between a Canadian politician and the president of a country whose natural re ... view
Character:
Francis Perreault
Apr 2016 (first aired)
Host Penelope McQuade welcomes three celebrities each evening, along with two different swapping contributors who will intervene, make critical commen ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
2015
Everything would be fine. Maurice had made up his mind. He had made a list: pick a date, announce his retirement, sell the car, see old friends, and e ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
Jan 2015 (first aired)
Each week, in front of a fired-up audience, personalities from all areas come on Ti-Mé’s show for an hour of comedy and quirks. A variety show wher ... view
Character:
Self - Guest Star (1 ep.)
Original title: Le Règne de la beauté
2014
An architect and his wife see their relationship challenged. ... view
Character:
Pascal Montambault
2014
The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and F ... view
Character:
M. Delavenne
Mar 2014 (first aired)
Psychological crime series following the investigations of interrogation experts Julie Beauchemin and Maxime Moreli. ... view
Character:
Martin Champagne (6 ep.)
Original title: Belle comme la femme d'un autre
2014
Clémence is pathologically jealous. Gabriel has asked her to marry him. To test whether he is faithful, unbeknownst to him she arranges that he cross ... view
Character:
Nolan Smith
Original title: Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table !
2013
How to become a man when your mother and your closed circle have decided otherwise? This is the challenge Guillaume took up. The film recounts Guillau ... view
Character:
Le psychanalyste tuyau
Sep 2013 (first aired)
In this off-the-wall lifestyle magazine, host André Robitaille and his band of contributors report on the latest and greatest the scene has to offer. ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
2013
Otto and Anna, a brother and sister in their twenties, separated by the divorce of their parents, live on two continents. The vagaries of life keep th ... view
Character:
Art critic at the Montreal exhibition
Original title: Thérèse Desqueyroux
2012
An unhappily married woman struggles to break free from social pressures and her boring suburban setting. ... view
Character:
L'avocat de Thérèse Desqueyroux
2012
The story of an impossible love between a woman named Fred and a transgender woman named Laurence who reveals her inner desire to become her true self ... view
Character:
Michel Lafortune
2011
Four Anglo-Canadians and a New Yorker find themselves in a two-week long total French immersion program in the fictional, remote town of St-Isidore-du ... view
Character:
Pierre-Émile
Original title: Voyez comme ils dansent
2011
A French video artist traverses Canada on a train that takes her from the east to the west through the snow. This journey leads her to encounter the l ... view
Character:
George Bliss
Original title: La Chance de ma vie
2011
Julien Monnier has a serious problem. Though he's a brilliant couples counselor, he can't keep a woman in his life for more than two weeks. Indeed, ev ... view
Character:
Maxime Dupont
2010
To avoid total bankruptcy, a down-on-his-luck show-business legend puts on one last show. ... view
Character:
Lady Moon
Original title: Sans laisser de traces
2010
Étienne Meunier (Benoît Magimel) is a young executive who has everything going for him. His career is skyrocketing and he is about to become #1 at w ... view
Character:
Maître Bardon
Original title: La dernière fugue
2010
Christmas approaches and the Lévesque family has once again gathered for their traditional celebration. But this time there is a mixture of emotions ... view
Character:
Andre
2009
A heartbroken mother running around in the park and asks for her missing 6-year-old son. ... view
Character:
Jean
Original title: Je vais te manquer
2009
In an airport, six destinies, during a short moment, will change, separate and meet. And if these characters were going through, without knowing it, t ... view
Character:
André, le coiffeur
Original title: 48 heures par jour
2008
A young professional woman takes radical action to force her husband's help with the household chores. ... view
Character:
Arnaud
Original title: Un secret
2007
In 1953, a sensitive French boy finds out from a neighbor that his family's Jewish. François Grimbert becomes a physician, and gradually peels the la ... view
Character:
Le commandant Beraud
Dec 2006 (first aired)
By the will of her dead uncle who was murdered Sandra Paoli is propelled to the head of a powerful mafia clan. She becomes a respected, but also hated ... view
Character:
Mathieu Zamponi (8 ep.)
Original title: Désaccord Parfait
2006
Alice d'Abanville and Louis Ruinard are two extraordinary personalities. They were the most strikingly glamorous couple of the 70s. But this pair have ... view
Character:
Doctor Trudeau
Sep 2006 (first aired)
L'État de Grace was a French television show that featured France's first female president. ... view
Character:
Bertrand Saint-Amor (6 ep.)
Sep 2006 (first aired)
René Lévesque was a Canadian television miniseries that aired on CBC Television in 2006. It stars Emmanuel Bilodeau as former-Quebec premier René L ... view
Character:
Doris Lussier (3 ep.)
2005
After the sudden death of her mother, Aurore Gagnon is abused by her disturbed step-mother as her town remains in the silence followed by her death. B ... view
Character:
Curé Leduc
Original title: Je préfère qu'on reste amis…
2005
The two friends Claude and Serge are fundamentally different in their temperament. Similarities arise only when they try to have a relationship with a ... view
Character:
Germain
Original title: La petite Chartreuse
2005
Eight-year-old Eva and her mother have a very positive CHILD-TO-CHILD-RELATION. The mother is incapable of mature behaviour when problems arise. When ... view
Character:
Baldi
2004
A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer ... view
Character:
Waiter
Oct 2004 (first aired)
H2O is a Canadian political drama two-part miniseries that first aired on the CBC Television October 31, 2004. It starred Paul Gross and Leslie Hope, ... view
Character:
Québec Premier Marcel Coté (2 ep.)
2004
Ordo Tupikos, a french sailor with greek origins, discover that his first wife, Estelle, with whom he had remained married a few months only 16 years ... view
Character:
Richard Féraud
Sep 2004 (first aired)
Host Guy A. Lepage brings together six to eight personalities from different milieus—sports, politics, stage productions and more—that are the sub ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
Original title: La Petite Lili
2003
This film, loosely inspired by Anton Chekov's The Seagull, weaves a story about sex, family and the business of making films. When the young and overl ... view
Character:
Serge
Original title: Les invasions barbares
2003
In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. ... view
Character:
Claude
Original title: Séraphin: Un homme et son péché
2002
The story takes place during the colonization of the Laurentian region in Quebec towards the end of the 19th century (approx. 1885-90), near Sainte-Ad ... view
Character:
Notaire Le Potiron
Oct 2002 (first aired)
A masterful soldier, tactician and statesmen, Napoleon Bonaparte's courage and love for his country sees him rise from an unpaid general consumed with ... view
Character:
Lucien Bonaparte (2 ep.)
Sep 2002 (first aired)
Viens voir les comédiens is a television show on the Canadian French-language arts and culture television network ARTV. ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
Original title: Le Collectionneur
2002
The detective Maud Graham hides her sensibility behind the image of a strong and independant woman. She frequently offers her hospitality to a 16-year ... view
Character:
François Berger / Babette Brown
Original title: Betty Fisher et autres histoires
2001
When bestselling novelist Betty Fisher loses her young son in a tragic accident, her unstable mother resorts to unusual actions to alleviate Betty's g ... view
Character:
René le Canadien
Original title: Nuit de noces
2001
Florence and Nicolas live happily together. Until the sister of Nicolas them points to a contest you get to win the first prize, a wedding with all ex ... view
Character:
Bernard
2001
In 1936, the political and marital tribulations of Léon Blum, elected President of the Council at the head of the Popular Front. ... view
Character:
Marcel Bouchard
Original title: La vie après l'amour
2000
After 20 years of marriage and almost perfect love, Sophie leaves her husband Gilles for another guy. Many misadventures await Gilles in his nervous b ... view
Character:
Docteur Bilodeau
Original title: La Chambre des magiciennes
2000
Claire Weygand, a thirty-year-old young woman who is about to defend her anthropology thesis, unfortunately not only feels bad but even worse and wors ... view
Character:
le docteur Fish
Original title: La Veuve de Saint-Pierre
2000
In 1850, on the isolated French island of Saint-Pierre, a murder shocks the natives. Two fishermen are arrested. One of them, Louis Ollivier, dies in ... view
Character:
le contre-amiral
Original title: Souvenirs intimes
1999
In this French Canadian drama, the life of a paraplegic painter implodes when an old girlfriend comes back into his life and accuses him of raping her ... view
Character:
Mortimer
1999
During a cruise, two women marked by life become friends. ... view
Character:
Cariou
Original title: La Classe de neige
1998
A schoolboy Nicholas always worries about something. When he goes on a school skiing trip, all his visions and nightmares take him over. ... view
Character:
The Visitor
Original title: Michael Kael contre la World News Company
1998
A naive French reporter is sent to an African town to cover a sensational news story, unaware that it has been faked by an international news giant in ... view
Character:
Charles Robert
Mar 1997 (first aired)
The story of a Polish family during the Second World War. ... view
Character:
Jerzy Pawlowski (8 ep.)
Jan 1995 (first aired)
It all begins when Lucien Lachenay (André Dussollier), famous builder of the moving sidewalk for the 1900 Universal Exhibition, saves the life of the ... view
Character:
Augustin (3 ep.)
Original title: Louis 19, le roi des ondes
1994
Louis Jobin is an ordinary young man from Montreal who sells televisions at an electronics store. He wins a contest sponsored by the local cable compa ... view
Character:
Michel Gobeil
Character:
Arthur
Original title: Montréal vu par…
1991
Six stories about Montreal. 1: A young housewife from Toronto samples the nightlife using basic French. 2: The tale of a painting of Montreal's first ... view
Character:
Accessoiriste studio
1991
Prague, 1920. Milena's father wants her to follow in his footsteps and be one of the first female doctors in Czechoslovakia, but she is determined to ... view
Character:
Max Brod
1991
An archaeologist who has been charged with bringing a pre-Columbian statue back to France meets a journalist during a stay in the jails of South Ameri ... view
Character:
Albert
1990
Two harum-scarums who think they are good stand-up comics try to make a career in showbiz, partly for the career, partly to seduce women. They try alt ... view
Character:
Jigi
Original title: Jésus de Montréal
1989
A group of actors putting on an interpretive Passion Play in Montreal begin to experience a meshing of their characters and their private lives as the ... view
Character:
Richard Cardinal
Original title: Le Déclin de l'empire américain
1986
Four very different Montreal university teachers gather at a rambling country house to prepare a dinner. Remy (married), Claude (a homosexual), Pierre ... view
Character:
Claude
Feb 1986 (first aired)
L'Amour avec un Grand A is a French-Canadian television series which aired from 1988 to 1995. The series explores different complex sexual and taboo i ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
1985
Dressed as a clown, the clever rascal Grimm holds up the most secure bank of Montreal and takes 30 hostages. While confusing and ridiculing the police ... view
Character:
Hostage 400 $
Original title: Le crime d'Ovide Plouffe
1984
Ovide Plouffe has married Rita. She still tries to attract other men even after their marriage. Unhappy Ovide feels for Marie - a young French woman h ... view
Character:
Bob
Jun 1984 (first aired)
Ovide's wife Rita continues to flirt with other men after marriage. Unhappy Ovide falls for Marie but can't divorce due to his Catholic beliefs. He br ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (6 ep.)
1984
Two teenaged friends have separate difficult experiences that make the girls seriously consider suicide. ... view
Character:
The Subway Station Janitor
Original title: Les yeux rouges
1982
A city neighborhood is frightened by a strangler and a voyeur. The police detectives, headed by Léopold Latour, are not very efficient in their inves ... view
Character:
Dec 1968 (first aired)
Broadcast on December 31st, Bye Bye is a comic year-in-review which consists of sketches that parody the political, cultural and social events of the ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Comédien supplémentaire (1 ep.)