Background
Her father was a dental surgeon and her mother orthodontist.
Her father was a dental surgeon and her mother orthodontist.
Born in Paris on 16 December 1956, Catherine Jacob spent part of her childhood and adolescence in Compiègne, where she was educated at primary school and then high school Pierre d"Ailly. From 1978 to 1980, she studied acting at the Ecole Florent François, then located on Saint Louis Island.
After obtaining a diploma in architecture, Catherine Jacob moved to Paris. Then, in 1985, she wrote a one woman show, Welcome to the club, tracing eleven portraits of characters too sure of them. In 2015, She read on stage some letters of the Royallieu-Compiègne internment camp"s deportees.
In 2016, she is the godmother of the Dinard Comedy Festival.
She has shot advertisements for Canalsat and LCL South America She had been two-time president of the Lumières Award.
She is known for her voice and her charisma. Movies starring Catherine Jacob with more than a million of entries in France.