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Marie-Chantal Perron
Marie-Chantal Perron (born February 1, 1967) is a Canadian actress and fashion designer. She was born in Châteauguay, Quebec. Biography Perron studied at the National Theatre School of Canada, graduating in 1989. She began her career playing in numerous Téléromans and television series, including ''Marguerite Volant'' (1996), ''Le Volcan tranquille'' (1997) and ''Réseaux'' (1998). Additionally, she was active in stage productions, appearing in fifteen plays with directors like Serge Denoncourt, René Richard Cyr ou Robert Gravel. In 2002, she played the title role of Mademoiselle Charlotte in the children's film '' La Mystérieuse Mademoiselle C.'' Her performance earned her a nomination for "Best Actress" at the 2003 Jutra Awards for Quebec cinema. Perron reprised her role in the 2004 sequel ''L'Incomparable Mademoiselle C.''. In 2005, she was cast in the role of Élise Belzile in the television series ''Nos étés'', which she was nominated for "Best Supporting Actre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Châteauguay
Châteauguay ( , , ) is an off-island suburb of Montreal, in southwestern Quebec, located both on the Chateauguay River and Lac St-Louis, which is a section of the St. Lawrence River. The population of the city of Châteauguay at the 2021 Census was 50,815, and the population centre was 75,891. History The land was first given to Charles Lemoyne by the governor of New France at the time, the Comte de Frontenac with the intention of setting up a seigneurie in the area. Afterwards the seigneurie was assumed by Zacharie Robutel de la Noue in 1706. In 1763 France relinquished its claims in Canada and Châteauguay was now under British mandate. The seigneurie was bought by Marguerite d'Youville, a founder of the Quebec religious society the Grey Nuns in 1765 and 10 years later construction began on the Church of Saint-Joachim. Châteauguay played an important part in the colonial history of North America. With the United States having declared war on Britain in 1812, Châteaugu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Boys
''Les Boys'' is a 1997 Quebec-made comedy film directed by Louis Saia. It has spawned three sequels and by any measure ( profit, box office or attendance) is the most successful Quebec made film series of all time, and one of the most successful Canadian-made film series of all time. Plot The plot revolves around the players on a hockey team ("Les Boys") that play in a low level amateur hockey league. They are made up of a wide variety of professions and personalities, including a police officer, a barely competent doctor, a mechanic, an unemployed hockey trivia buff who has lost his confidence as a goaltender, a shifty real estate salesman and a closeted gay lawyer. The team is sponsored by a pub owner, whose son desperately wants to play hockey with the older men. The film starts at the time of the league championship, at which time the team is soundly thrashed in the final. Meanwhile, the pub owner is losing at poker to the head of the local organized crime syndicate, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actresses From Quebec
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the tragic chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' ( acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of actingpertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role," which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in ancient Greece and the medieval world, and in England at the time of Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prix Gémeaux
The Prix Gémeaux () or Gémeaux Awards honour achievements in Canadian television and digital media that is broadcast in French. It has been sponsored by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television since 1987. Introduced as a French-language equivalent to the Gemini Awards, the Canadian Academy's former presentation for English-language television, it remains separate from the contemporary Canadian Screen Awards despite being presented by the same parent organization. History In 1986, ACTRA transferred their awards to the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. The Academy called their television awards the Gemini Awards, or Prix Gémeaux in French. After their first Gemini awards ceremony for English-language television, the academy decided to have an awards ceremony for French-language television in 1987. In 2003 the Academy added categories for digital media. The first webcast for the awards ceremony was in 2008. In 2013, the Academy decided to keep the Prix Gémeaux separ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
30 Vies
''30 vies'' is a French-language Canadian television series directed by Fabienne Larouche Fabienne is a feminine French and English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, o ..., produced by Aetios Productions and broadcast between 10 January 2011 and 14 April 2016 on ICI Radio-Canada Télé, with 4 episodes per week. Artist sues after TV show films Montreal building that he had tagged with graffiti. Awards References External links *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Rescapés
''Les Rescapés'' is a Canadian television drama series, which debuted on Télévision de Radio-Canada in the 2010-11 television season. Cyberpresse, September 1, 2010. The series stars and as Gérald and Monique Boivin, the patriarch and matriarch of a family from 1960s-era |
Fred's Head
''Fred's Head'' (''Blaise le blasé'', translated '' Blaise the jaded) is'' an animated series made by Spectra Animation (now Echo Media) and Galaxy 7, and featuring Fred, a sixteen-year-old and his not-so-normal life. It is co-produced by France at 35% and by Quebec at 65%. The show premiered on October 29, 2007 and concluded its first season on July 6, 2008 with 26 episodes produced and aired. The French-language DVD collection was released 9 January 2012 in Europe. The show was formerly reran on Teletoon, and then it was moved to the Canadian French-language television channel, Unis, on September 1, 2014. Plot The show is a glimpse into the whirlwind life of a teenager with serious reservations about the adult world. In the courses of his adventures, a multitude of eccentric characters pull him in all directions in search of his identity: a psychotic psychologist, an extremely odd best friend, an exotic lady immune to his charms, fashion trends devotees, and a horror film afi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cover Girl (TV Series)
''Cover Girl'' is a Canadian French language television sitcom, which aired on Radio-Canada in 2005."Cover Girl is no reality show". ''Montreal Gazette'', January 8, 2005. Created and written by Richard Blaimert, the series revolved around three drag queens sharing ownership of Cover Girl, a gay nightclub and drag cabaret in downtown Montreal. The series premiered in the winter of the 2004-05 television season, and was renewed for a second season which aired in fall 2005, for a total of 26 episodes. One of Quebec's most noted drag queens, Mado Lamotte, criticized the show as unrealistic. The series garnered several Gemeaux Award nominations in 2006, including Best Comedy Series and nods for René Richard Cyr and Vincent Bolduc as Best Actor in a Comedy Series."A fine list of Gemeaux nominees". ''Montreal Gazette'', October 20, 2006. Cast * René Richard Cyr - Mathieu Picard/Veronica Sinclair * Vincent Bolduc - Justin Pearson-Faucher-Brodeur/Joujou Velcro * Frédéric Pierre - N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dans Une Galaxie Près De Chez Vous
''Dans une galaxie près de chez vous'' (English: ''In a galaxy near you'') is a Quebec French language television series that aired on Canal Famille (later Vrak.TV) from January 25, 1999 to November 25, 2001, and a movie of the same name, released in 2004. The second movie, ''Dans une galaxie près de chez vous 2'', was released in April 2008. There have been rumours of a third movie since 2016, but no official announcements have been made. It is a humorous sci-fi parody. Television show Synopsis The series chronicles the long, futuristic voyage of a team of Québécois space explorers who venture outside our galaxy, looking for a planet capable of sustaining life for all humankind in the year 2034, after the destruction of the ozone layer through excessive human pollution, prompting the need to find a new planet Earth. The few habitable planets encountered are ultimately abandoned either because they are already occupied (emphasizing the wrongdoing of invading other civilizatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two's A Crowd (TV Series)
''Two's a Crowd'' (french: Jamais deux sans toi) is a Canadian television sitcom, which aired in French on Télévision de Radio-Canada from 1977 to 1980 and from 1990 to 1992, and in English on CBC Television in 1978. Premise The series starred Jean Besré and Angèle Coutu as Rémi and Francine Duval, an apparently incompatible married couple who love each other despite their differences, and Stéphane L'Écuyer and Valérie Gagné as their children Christian and Dominique. The cast also included Micheline Lanctôt and Donald Pilon, as well as Serge Thériault as one of the first gay characters in a Quebec television series. The series was revived by Radio-Canada in 1990, airing until 1992. Cast additions at this time included Antoine Durand as the adult Christian, although Valérie Gagné retained the role of Dominique. A sequel series titled ''Les Héritiers Duval'' aired in 1995 and 1996. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ésimésac
''Ésimésac'' is a Canadian fantasy drama film, directed by Luc Picard and released in 2012. Although an unofficial sequel to the 2008 film ''Babine'', unlike the earlier film ''Ésimésac'' was not directly based on Fred Pellerin's previously published stories; instead, the film's screenplay placed some of Pellerin's established characters in a new original story. The film stars Nicola-Frank Vachon as Ésimésac Gélinas, a young but physically strong man whose distinguishing trait is that he does not cast a shadow. He convinces the village of Saint-Élie-de-Caxton to plant and maintain a community garden after an economic crisis has left many of the townspeople hungry, but finds himself in conflict with village blacksmith Riopel's ( Gildor Roy) plan to focus on building tracks for a railroad. The film's cast also includes Picard as Toussaint Brodeur, Sophie Nélisse as Marie Gélinas, Marie-Chantal Perron as Jeannette Brodeur, Marie Brassard as Madame Gélinas, Maude Laurend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hair Of The Beast
''The Hair of the Beast'' (french: Le Poil de la bête) is a Canadian comedy horror film, directed by Philippe Gagnon and released in 2010.Charles-Henri Ramond"Poil de la bête, Le – Film de Philippe Gagnon" ''Films du Québec'', September 1, 2010. Set in colonial New France in the 1660s, the film stars Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge as Joseph Côté, a man who has escaped from prison after being sentenced to death for a crime; hiding out in Beauport after taking on the identity of a Jesuit priest, he falls in love with Marie Labotte (Viviane Audet), a '' fille du roy'' whom nobody else wants to marry, while simultaneously discovering that he is the only one who can battle the werewolves who terrorize the community at night. The cast also includes Gilles Renaud, Patrice Robitaille, Antoine Bertrand, Marc Beaupré, Marie-Chantal Perron, Sébastien Huberdeau, Mirianne Brûlé, Pierre-Luc Lafontaine, Martin Dubreuil, Marie-Thérèse Fortin, Patrick Drolet, Benoît McGinnis, Mic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
