Her big breakthrough came when she first worked with Polish film director Krzysztof Kieślowski, with her role in Kieślowski's 1991 film The Double Life of Veronique (1991), an allegorical story of two young women, a choir soprano in Poland and a music teacher in France, Ms. Jacob played both parts.
It was 1994's Three Colours: Red, another Kieślowski film, that really catapulted Ms. Jacob into international stardom. In that movie she played a University of Geneva student who gets involved with other people despite knowing little fo them or having little in common with them. It was the final movie in a trilogy from Kieślowski exploring the values of republican France, and his last movie overall before he died two years later. It's still considered one of the best European movies ever made.
Ms. Jacob has made several movies since, among them Antonioni's Beyond the Clouds and, with Willem Dafoe and Sam Neill, Victory. Her American film credits include 1998's U.S. Marshals with Wesley Snipes and Tommy Lee Jones, 1999's The Big Brass Ring with William Hurt, and 1999's Spy Games with Bill Pullman and Bruno Kirby. More recently, she's done television miniseries in America, France and Britain.
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