Jacob was born in Suresnes, France, a western suburb of Paris. The youngest child with three older brothers, Irène grew up in a highly educated and intellectual family and environment: her father was a physicist, her mother a psychologist, one brother a musician, and two brothers scientists. In 1969, at the age of three, Irène moved with her family to Geneva, Switzerland where she became interested in the arts.
Irène developed an interest in performing after seeing the films of Charlie Chaplin. "They took my heart," she recalled. "They made me laugh and cry, and that was exactly what I was waiting for in a film: to awaken me to my feelings."
She made her stage debut in 1977 at the age of eleven. She attended the Geneva Conservatory of Music and earned a degree in languages (she speaks English, German, French and Italian). In 1984, she moved to Paris, where studied acting at the prestigious Rue Blanche (the French national drama academy) and at the Dramatic Studio in
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