Biography
Jacques Picoux (9 November 1948 – 16 October 2016) was a French actor and lecturer. He taught French language and literature at National Taiwan University after moving to Taipei in 1979, retiring in 2004. He also worked as a translator and subtitler for several films by directors including Hou Hsiao-hsien, Wong Kar-wai and Zhang Yimou.
Picoux appeared as Kongkonger (also credited as Lady Tian's Teacher or Kong Kong) in Hou Hsiao-hsien's The Assassin (2015). He provided a voice for The Hole (1998) and was known as a collage painter, holding a solo exhibition in 2012.
