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. 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 :