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Prix Iris For Best Actress
Québec Cinéma presents an annual award for Best Actress (french: Prix Iris de la meilleure interprétation dans un premier rôle féminin) to recognize the best in the Cinema of Quebec. Until 2016, it was known as the Jutra Award for Best Actress in memory of influential Quebec film director Claude Jutra. Following the withdrawal of Jutra's name from the award, the 2016 award was presented under the name Québec Cinéma. The Prix Iris name was announced in October 2016. 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s See also *Canadian Screen Award for Best Actress References {{Quebec Cinema Awards Awards established in 1999 Film awards for lead actress Actress 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 (), li ... Quebec-related lists 1999 establishments in Canada * ...
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Québec Cinéma
Québec Cinéma is a Canadian organization based in Quebec, whose mission is to promote and develop the Cinema of Quebec. The organization's programs include the Prix Iris, the annual film awards for Quebec films; the Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma, an annual film festival; the Lab Québec Cinéma, which works with schools to facilitate the use of Quebec films in educational contexts; and Tournée Québec Cinéma, which presents an annual touring minifestival of Quebec films in English Canadian cities where French-language films from Quebec would not otherwise receive theatrical distribution. In December 2018, the organization announced a partnership with Netflix to launch Talent Lab, a professional development program for people entering the film industry."Québec Cinéma et Netflix veu ...
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Karine Vanasse
Karine Vanasse (born 24 November 1983) is a French-Canadian actress, who had roles in the films '' Polytechnique'', '' Séraphin: Heart of Stone (Séraphin: un homme et son péché)'', ''Switch'' and '' Set Me Free (Emporte-moi)''. Internationally she is best known for her roles as Colette Valois in ''Pan Am'', Margaux LeMarchal in ''Revenge'' and Lise Delorme in ''Cardinal''. Life and career Vanasse was born in Drummondville, Quebec, the daughter of Conrad Vanasse, a council worker, and Renée (née Gamache), who was her manager at the beginning of her career. At the age of nine, Vanasse expressed her desire to sing or to act and she fulfilled that wish when she appeared in the teen show ''Club des 100 watts'' after winning a "lip sync" competition. It was then, with the help of her mother, that Vanasse began to audition for, and take part in, TV commercials and to play minor and supporting roles in various French Canadian TV movies. In 1998, the production company now known as ...
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Fanny Mallette
Fanny Mallette (born September 5, 1975) is a Canadian actress. Biography She was nominated for a Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for her role in ''Continental, a Film Without Guns (Continental, un film sans fusil)''. She has twice been nominated for a Jutra Award for Best Actress in ''The Orphan Muses (Les Muses orphelines)'' and '' A Girl at the Window (Une jeune fille à la fenêtre)''. Her other credits include '' Nos étés'', ''Cheech'', '' The Master Key (Grande Ourse: La Clé des possibles)'', ''7 Days (Les 7 jours du Talion)'' and ''Scoop''. She won "Best Actress" at the film festival Pacific Meridian in 2011. Selected filmography *''The Woman Who Drinks (La Femme qui boit)'' - 2001 *''The Broken Line (La ligne brisée)'' - 2008 *''7 Days (Les 7 jours du Talion)'' - 2010 *'' Vertige'' - 2012 *''Arwad'' - 2013 *''You're Sleeping Nicole (Tu dors Nicole)'' - 2014 *''Chorus'' - 2015 *''With Love (L'Amour)'' - 2019 *''Apapacho'' - 2019 *'' ...
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Montreal Gazette
The ''Montreal Gazette'', formerly titled ''The Gazette'', is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Three other daily English-language newspapers shuttered at various times during the second half of the 20th century. It is one of the French-speaking province's last two English-language dailies; the other is the ''Sherbrooke Record'', which serves the anglophone community in Sherbrooke and the Eastern Townships southeast of Montreal. Founded in 1778 by Fleury Mesplet, ''The Gazette'' is Quebec's oldest daily newspaper and Canada's oldest daily newspaper still in publication. The oldest newspaper overall is the English-language ''Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph'', which was established in 1764 and is published weekly. History Fleury Mesplet founded a French-language weekly newspaper called ''La Gazette du commerce et littéraire, pour la ville et district de Montréal'' on June 3, 1778. It was the first entirely French-language newspaper i ...
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The Bottle (2000 Film)
''The Bottle'' (french: La bouteille) is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Alain DesRochers and released in 2000."Bouteille, La – Film d’Alain Desrochers"
''Films du Québec'', January 5, 2009.
The film stars Réal Bossé and François Papineau as Réal and François, two longtime friends who decide to recover a beer bottle, containing a paper on which they wrote down their hopes and dreams for the future, which they buried 15 years earlier in the back yard of Antoine (Jean Lapointe), a grumpy old man. The film's cast also includes Hélène Loiselle, Pascale Bussières, Louis Champagne, Sylvie Moreau and Jean-Pierre Ferland. DesRochers received a Genie Award nomination for Canadian Screen Award for Best Director, Best Director at the 21st Genie Aw ...
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Hélène Loiselle
Hélène Loiselle (March 17, 1928 – August 7, 2013) was a Canadian actress living and working in Quebec. Life She was born in Montreal and studied acting with Charlotte Boisjoli, François Rozet, and during the 1940s. Loiselle joined the theatre troupe Compagnons de Saint-Laurent and performed works by Jean Giraudoux, Racine, Edmond Rostand and Shakespeare. She spent two years in the early 1950s in Paris developing her technique. On her return, she performed in plays that included Chekhov's '' Three Sisters'' and ''Uncle Vanya'', ''Antigone'' and '. In 1995, Loiselle received a Prix Gémeaux for her role in the television drama '. She also played several witches in the popular Radio Canada television show for children '' Fanfreluche''. Loiselle married the comedian ; he died in 2000. In 2006, she received the Prix Denise-Pelletier. She died at the age of 85 after suffering from Alzheimer's disease for a number of years. Her brother Hubert Loiselle was also a well-kn ...
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Maelström (film)
''Maelström'' is a 2000 Canadian psychological drama film written and directed by Denis Villeneuve. It stars Marie-Josée Croze as a depressed young businesswoman who becomes romantically involved with the son of a man she killed in a hit-and-run accident. Employing fantasy and comedic elements, ''Maelström'' is narrated by a talking fish. Villeneuve conceived of the story, basing it on his interest in car accidents and modelling the protagonist after various women he knew. He cast Croze, then a novice actress, in the lead role. Filming took place in Montreal in 1999, with animatronics to depict the fish narrator. The film premiered at the Montréal World Film Festival in August 2000 and received positive reviews, with some detractors. It won five Genie Awards, including Best Motion Picture, and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 51st Berlin International Film Festival. Plot While being gutted alive by a fishmonger, a dying fish chooses to share a story that took place in Quebec dur ...
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Marie-Josée Croze
Marie-Josée Croze (; born February 23, 1970) is a Canadian actress. She also holds French citizenship, which she obtained in December 2012. Early life Croze was born in Montreal, Quebec, was adopted, and grew up in Longueuil with four other children. She studied fine arts at the Cégep du Vieux Montréal from 1986 to 1987. Career She received the award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role at the 21st Genie Awards for her role in Denis Villeneuve's '' Maelström'' (2000). She won the Best Actress award at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival for her performance in ''The Barbarian Invasions''. She was cast by director Steven Spielberg in his film ''Munich'', released in December 2005. She also appeared as a speech therapist in Julian Schnabel's 2007 film adaptation of Jean-Dominique Bauby's memoir '' The Diving Bell and the Butterfly''. In November 2012, she was selected as a member of the main competition jury at the 2012 International Film Festival of Marrakech ...
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3rd Jutra Awards
The 3rd Jutra Awards were held on February 25, 2001 to honour films made with the participation of the Quebec film industry in 2000."Maelstrom hooks 8 more: Denis Villeneuve's fish fable takes best picture, actress, director". ''Montreal Gazette'', February 26, 2001. The hosts of the ceremony were Yves Jacques and Élise Guilbault Élise Guilbault (born April 8, 1961) is a Canadian film and television actress. She won the Genie Award for Best Actress for her role in the film ''The Woman Who Drinks (La Femme qui boit)'', and was a nominee for ''Cap Tourmente''. She also sta .... Winners and nominees References {{Quebec Cinema Awards 2001 in Quebec Jutra 03 2000 in Canadian cinema ...
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Matroni And Me
''Matroni and Me'' (french: Matroni et moi) is a Canadian comedy film, directed by Jean-Philippe Duval and released in 1999."Matroni and Me"
'''', October 18, 1999.
Based on a theatrical play by Alexis Martin, the film stars Martin as Gilles, an academic who meets Guylaine () while on vacation in

Guylaine Tremblay
Guylaine Tremblay (born October 14, 1960) is a Canadian actress from Quebec. She is most noted for her performance in the film '' Summit Circle (Contre toute espérance)'', for which she won the Prix Jutra for Best Actress at the 10th Jutra Awards in 2008. She was also nominated in the same category at the 2nd Jutra Awards in 2010 for ''Matroni and Me (Matroni et moi)'', at the 11th Jutra Awards in 2009 for ''Honey, I'm in Love (Le Grand Départ)'' and at the 13th Jutra Awards in 2011 for '' Mourning for Anna (Trois temps après la mort d'Anna)'', and for Best Supporting Actress at the 3rd Jutra Awards in 2001 for '' Life After Love (La Vie après l'amour)'' and at the 6th Jutra Awards in 2004 for '' 8:17 p.m. Darling Street (20h17 rue Darling)''.Odile Tremblay"Les Invasions barbares, La Grande Séduction et Gaz Bar Blues dominent la course aux Jutra" ''Le Devoir ''Le Devoir'' (, "Duty") is a French-language newspaper published in Montreal and distributed in Quebec and ...
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Pierrette Robitaille
Pierrette Robitaille C.M. (born June 6, 1950) is a Canadian film and television actress from Quebec. Career Robitaille is a two-time Genie Award nominee for Best Actress, for her role as Mme Therrien in ''It's Your Turn, Laura Cadieux (C't'à ton tour, Laura Cadieux)'' and its sequel ''Laura Cadieux II (Laura Cadieux...la suite)'', and a Jutra Award winner for Best Actress for her performance as Vic in '' Vic et flo ont vu un ours''. Her other credits have included the films '' Mambo Italiano'', '' Intimate Power (Pouvoir intime)'', ''Poverty and Other Delights (Joyeux calvaire)'', ''Wedding Night (Nuit de noces)'', ''A Sense of Humour (Le sens de l'humour)'', ''Alice's Odyssey (L'Odyssée d'Alice Tremblay)'' and '' Séraphin: Heart of Stone (Séraphin: un homme et son péché)''. Robitaille was appointed a member of the Order of Canada The Order of Canada (french: Ordre du Canada; abbreviated as OC) is a Canadian state order and the second-highest honour for merit in ...
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