Marie Gignac is a two-time

Genie Award The Genie Awards were given out annually by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to recognize the best of Canadian cinema from 1980–2012. They succeeded the Canadian Film Awards (1949–1978; also known as the "Etrog Awards," for scu ...

–nominated

actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a Character (arts), 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 ...

. Gignac has been nominated twice in the category of Best Supporting Actress each for ''

The Confessional ''The Confessional'' (french: Le Confessionnal) is a 1995 mystery-drama film directed by Robert Lepage. The film is set in Quebec City, in two distinct time periods. In the present day, Pierre Lamontagne (Lothaire Bluteau) searches for his estran ...

(Le Confessionnal)'' and ''

The Secret Life of Happy People ''The Secret Life of Happy People'' (french: La vie secrète des gens heureux) is a 2006 Canadian comedy-drama film. Plot Thomas Dufresne (Marc Paquet) is the black sheep of his bourgeois family. One day, he meets a free-spirited waitress named A ...

(La Vie secrète des gens heureux). In 2011, she was made 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 the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada, after the Order of Merit. To coincide with the ...

"for her contributions to the performing arts as an actress, director, playwright and artistic director of Québec’s Carrefour international de théâtre."

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