---
name: "Jan Decorte"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jan-decorte"
fi1m_id: "jan-decorte"
imdb_id: "nm0213964"
tmdb_id: 130032
wikidata_id: "Q2601509"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "9 May 1950"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T17:57:03.293660+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Jan Decorte

## Identity

Jan Decorte

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jan-decorte
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jan-decorte
- **IMDb ID:** nm0213964
- **TMDB ID:** 130032
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2601509
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2601509, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0213964/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/130032

Actor. Born 9 May 1950 in Wilrijk, Belgium.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 9 May 1950, Wilrijk, Belgium
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2601509, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0213964/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/130032

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles*](https://film.one/film/jeanne-dielman-23-quai-du-commerce-1080-bruxelles.md) (72)

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## Biography

Jan Decorte is a Belgian theatre maker, actor and director. Born on 9 May 1950 in Wilrijk, he is the son of actors Marc Decorte and Jo Crab. He began working in the 1970s as an actor and theatre maker with the company Het Trojaanse Paard.

Decorte played the role of Sylvain Dielman in Chantal Akerman’s *Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles* (1975). In the same period he directed the feature films *Pierre* (1977) and *Hedda Gabler* (1978). He met his long-term collaborator and partner Sigrid Vinks in the early 1980s.

In 1981 Decorte directed Friedrich Hebbel’s *Maria Magdalena* for the Kaaitheater Festival. He became artistic leader of the company in 1982; it was later renamed Jan Decorte en Cie and then Bloet. His work centres on minimalist adaptations of classical texts.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, avilafilm.be, nl.wikipedia.org, fr.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles* (1976), Fi1m 72, as Sylvain Dielman — [page](https://film.one/film/jeanne-dielman-23-quai-du-commerce-1080-bruxelles.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Energy of Delusion* (2015), Actor
- *Les variations Dielman* (2010), as Sylvain Dielman (archive footage)
- *Toute une nuit* (1982), Actor
- *Hedda Gabler* (1978), Producer, Editor, Writer, Director
- *Pierre* (1977), Producer, Director, Writer
- *Gombrowicz: Incidents, Adventures* (1977), Director, Writer
- *Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles* (1976), as Sylvain Dielman — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/jeanne-dielman-23-quai-du-commerce-1080-bruxelles.md)

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Toneelschrijfprijs 1991: Toneelschrijfprijs (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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