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Benoît Gouin
Benoît Gouin (born January 27, 1961) is a Canadian actor from Pointe-du-Lac, Quebec.Natalie Slight"Benoît Gouin: l’amitié, au coeur de son métier" ''7 Jours'', September 9, 2019. He is most noted as a two-time Jutra Award nominee for Best Supporting Actor, receiving nods at the 5th Jutra Awards in 2003 for his performance as Michel Gauvin in ''Québec-Montréal'' and at the 16th Jutra Awards in 2014 for his performance as Laurent in '' Gabrielle''.Éric Moreault"Prix Jutra: Louis Cyr champion des nominations" ''Le Soleil'', January 27, 2014. He has also appeared in the films ''Love and Magnets (Les Aimants)'', ''The Broken Line (La ligne brisée)'', ''I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère)'', '' The Last Escape (La dernière fugue)'', '' Suspicions (Jaloux)'', ''Silence Lies (Tromper le silence)'', ''Sarah Prefers to Run (Sarah préfère la course)'', ''Origami'', ''Infiltration (Le problème d'infiltration)'', ''Antigone'' and ''Dusk for a Hitman (Crépuscule pour un tueu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pointe-du-Lac
Pointe-du-Lac is one of the six boroughs of the city of Trois-Rivières and a former municipality in Quebec, Canada on the St. Lawrence River. It was founded in 1738 and its current church dates from 1882. Another old building in the village is the Moulin Seigneurial, founded in 1721 and rescued in the 70s by resident Mariette Chenay. The municipality was amalgamated into the City of Trois-Rivières Trois-Rivières (, – 'Three Rivers') is a city in the Mauricie administrative region of Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Saint-Maurice River, Saint-Maurice and Saint Lawrence River, Saint Lawrence rivers, on the north shore of the Sain ... in 2002. Population (2001 census) 6,902. Populated places established in 1738 Populated places disestablished in 2002 Neighbourhoods in Trois-Rivières Former cities in Quebec 1738 establishments in the French colonial empire {{quebec-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Origami (film)
''Origami'' is a Canadian science fiction thriller film, directed by Patrick Demers and released in 2017. The film stars François Arnaud as David, a man struggling to make sense of whether his apparent ability to travel back and forth in time is the result of a psychotic break or a timeline that is genuinely folding in on itself.Norman Wilner"Cinefranco review: Origami" ''Now'', October 3, 2018. The film's cast also includes Nobuya Shimamoto, Max Laferriere, Stefanie Nakamura, Benoît Gouin, Alexa-Jeanne Dubé, Normand D'Amour, Patrick Forest, Tania Kontoyanni and Milton Tanaka. The film premiered on July 18, 2017 at the Fantasia Film Festival, before going into commercial release in 2018. Critical response Norman Wilner of ''Now'' rated the film three N's, writing that "the charismatic Arnaud ('' Blindspot'', ''The People Garden'') does a fine job of holding the whole thing together, even as when it briefly flirts with turning into a bad remake of ''The Butterfly Effect''." An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Quebecers
French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with France ** French cuisine, cooking traditions and practices Fortnite French places Arts and media * The French (band), a British rock band * "French" (episode), a live-action episode of ''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!'' * ''Française'' (film), 2008 * French Stewart (born 1964), American actor Other uses * French (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) * French (tunic), a particular type of military jacket or tunic used in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union * French's, an American brand of mustard condiment * French catheter scale, a unit of measurement of diameter * French Defence, a chess opening * French kiss, a type of kiss involving the tongue See also * France (other) * Franch, a surname * French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Male Stage Actors
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, and ec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Male Television Actors
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, and ec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Male Film Actors
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, and ec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1961 Births
Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 (Koivulahti air disaster): Douglas DC-3C OH-LCC of Finnish airline Aero crashes near Kvevlax (Koivulahti), on approach to Vaasa Airport in Finland, killing all 25 on board, due to pilot error: an investigation finds that the captain and first officer were both exhausted for lack of sleep, and had consumed excessive amounts of alcohol at the time of the crash. It remains the deadliest air disaster to occur in the country. * January 5 ** Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti marches into the U.S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ** After the 1960 military coup, General Cemal Gürsel forms the new government of Turkey (25th gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryse Warda
Maryse Warda (born 1961) is an Egyptian Canadian translator. She primarily translates English language, English screenplays, plays of Canadians, Canadian origin into French language, French. Her work is described as being "faithful to the original with an unostentatious use of Quebec idiom". Biography Warda was born in Cairo, Egypt, but immigrated to Montréal, Quebec, Canada with her parents at the age of 9. She first learned English language, English from watching ''Happy Days'' on television. She graduated from the Université de Montréal with a degree in English literature. At the time, she did not intend to pursue a career in translation. In 1991, she began working as an assistant at the Théâtre de Quat'Sous, Théâtre de Quat’Sous under Pierre Bernard. Bernard persuaded her to translate her first play, ''Brilliant Traces'' by Cindy Lou Johnson. This was a success, earning her a Prix de la critique nomination from the Association québécoise des critiques de théâtre. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Faille
''La Faille'' (English: ''The Flaw'') or ''The Wall'' (French: ''Le Mur'') is a French Canadian television crime drama series of three seasons, with a total of 25 episodes, which started broadcasting on Club Illico in 2019. The series is written by Frédéric Ouellet, directed by (first two seasons) and Daniel Roby (third season), and produced by Dominique Veillet for / Quebecor Content. The first season of eight episodes was broadcast in Canada from December 12, 2019 and in France as ''The Wall: Cover Your Tracks'' from April 26, 2020 via 13ème Rue. The second season, ''La Faille 2'' or ''The Wall: The Chateau Murder'' (French: Le meurtre du château), of nine episodes was broadcast from October 17, 2021. ''La Faille 3'', the third and final season of eight episodes, was aired on November 16, 2022. The first season is set in the mining town of Fermont, north-eastern Quebec, Canada. Fermont's major structural feature is popularly known as the Wall, which compri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Hauts Et Les Bas De Sophie Paquin
''Les Hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin'' (''The Highs and Lows of Sophie Paquin'') is a Canadian television comedy-drama series, which premiered on Radio-Canada in 2006. The show stars Suzanne Clément as Sophie Paquin, a single mother and businesswoman who operates her own talent agency. The cast also includes Éric Bernier, Élise Guilbault, Jean-Nicolas Verreault, Pauline Martin, Isabelle Vincent, Christiane Pasquier, Catherine De Léan, Danny Blanco Hall, François Létourneau and Anthony Lemke. The show was created by Richard Blaimert and its executive producer is Jocelyn Deschênes. In 2008, CBC Television CBC Television (also known as CBC TV) is a Canadian English-language broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster. The network began operations on September 6, 1952. Its French-l ... began airing an English-language adaptation, '' Sophie'', which was also created by Blaimert and produced by Deschê ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dusk For A Hitman
''Dusk for a Hitman'' (french: Crépuscule pour un tueur) is a Canadian crime drama film, directed by Raymond St-Jean and released in 2023. The film stars Éric Bruneau as Donald Lavoie, a hitman for the Dubois brothers crime gang, as he begins to come under pressure from detective Patrick Burns (Sylvain Marcel) to testify against his bosses in a police investigation, while simultaneously being asked to prove his loyalty to his boss Claude Dubois (Benoît Gouin) following a botched double murder."« Crépuscule pour un tueur » avec Éric Bruneau, un film de Raymond St-Jean, en salle le 10 mars 2023" ''CTVM'', February 20, 2023. The cast also includes |
