Irène Jacob

An introvert by nature, Jacob has the remarkable ability to express the emotional turmoil of her characters with very few words. She married Kamal Amrohi who directed some of her best films. Jacob won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival. One reason for this popularity was her private life, which at times rivaled the plot of any movie. For her performance, Ms. However, her studied reserve, chaste diction and -- most of all -- extraordinary voice, that struck the right balance between the erotic and the pathetic, ensured her place in the hearts of the Indian movie-going public. Jacob's return to Paris, the then 21-year-old drama student obtained her first movie role in the 1987 film Au revoir les enfants followed by several more minor roles until her big break came when Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski cast her in the lead role of his 1991 motion picture, La Double vie de Véronique. The following years saw her appear in a number of films, where she played many, largely indistinguishable, self-mortifying women.

Three years after Ms. She was never really able to shake off this image of a tragidienne, and at times this severely impeded her in the exercise of the full range of her histrionic talents. As an infant, her family moved to Geneva, Switzerland where, as a young girl, she became interested in the arts, making her stage debut at the age of 11. She attended the Geneva Conservatory of Music, earned a degree in languages (she speaks English, German, Italian and French), studied acting in Paris at the prestigious Rue Blanche (the French national drama academy) and at the Dramatic Studio in London, England. Her evocative portrayal of the perennially suffering Indian woman struck a responsive chord in millions of women. She comes from a highly educated and intellectual family, her father is a physicist, her mother a psychologist, and of her brothers, one is a musician and the other two are scientists. By 1953, Meena Kumari had starred in three other commercially successful films: Daera, Do Bigha Zameen and Parineeta. Parineeta became a turning point in her career. Irène Jacob was born in Paris, France, the youngest child after three brothers. She therefore heralded a new era of actresses that included Nargis, Nimmi, Suchitra Sen and Nutan.

Irène Marie Jacob (born July 15, 1966) is a French-born Swiss actress. Meena Kumari entered the limelight at a time when histrionics were taking over from glamour (as epitomized by such beauties as Naseem, Veena, Sofia and Jayshree). Au revoir les enfants - 1987. Her early films were rather unremarkable and mythological. La Bande des quatre - 1988. She took on the name Meena Kumari for Vijay Bhatt's immensely popular musical Baiju Bawra. Les Mannequins d'osier - 1989. Mahajabeen acted in her first film at the age of six.

La Veillée - 1990. Her mother Prabhawati (later Iqbal Begam), a stage dancer and actress, was a descendant of the Tagore family. La Passion Van Gogh - 1990. Her father Ali Bakhsh was an actor in films and Parsi theatre, apart from composing music for a few films. Erreur de jeunesse - 1990. She was born Mahjabeen Bano in Bombay. Le Secret de Sarah Tombelaine - 1991. She shot into stardom in 1952 with the release of Baiju Bawra.

La Double vie de Véronique - 1991. Meena Kumari (August 1, 1933 - March 31, 1972) was an Indian actress, whose name has become synonymous with the tragic heroine. Enak - 1992. NewDelhi: East West Press, 1974. Claude - 1992. The Kaleidoscope of Indian Cinema. The Secret Garden - 1993. Mahmood, Hameeduddin.

Trois couleurs: Rouge - 1994. London: British Film Institute; New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994. Predskazaniye - 1994. Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema. Le Moulin de Daudet - 1994. Rajadhyaksha, Ashish; Willemen, Paul. Victory - 1995.

Par-delà les nuages - 1995. Othello - 1995. Fugueuses - 1995. Faire un film pour moi c'est vivre - 1995.

All Men Are Mortal - 1995. Beyond The Clouds - 1996. Incognito - 1997. Marshals - 1998.

U.S. Cuisine américaine - 1998. My Life So Far - 1999. History Is Made at Night - 1999.