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Line Renaud (born 2 July 1928) is a French singer, actress and
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activist.


Early life

Line Renaud was born Jacqueline Ente in Pont-de-Nieppe on 2 July 1928. Her mother Simone was a shorthand typist; her father was a truck driver during the week, but he played the trumpet on weekends, in a local brass band. Line showed the first signs of her talent in primary school, when at the age of seven she won an amateur competition. During the
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, Jacqueline's father was mobilised, spending five years away from the family. During this time, Jacqueline was brought up by her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. Her grandmother had a café in
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, where she used to sing for passing soldiers.


Early career and meeting Loulou Gasté

She auditioned at Conservatoire de Lille, singing songs written by
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"Sainte-Madeleine" and "Mon âme au diable".
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was at that time a well-known French composer. At the end of the audition, she was approached by the director of Radio Lille who was looking for a singer. She took the pseudonym of Jacqueline Ray and joined the station singing a repertoire based on the songs by Loulou Gasté. In 1945, she moved to Paris and got her first gig in Folies Belleville, where she was introduced to Gasté. She was 16, and Gasté was 37. He became her mentor, changing her image and her name.


Music career

Line Renaud made her national debut on Radio Luxembourg, singing on a Sunday morning program. After signing a contract with Pathe Marconi, she recorded "Ma Cabane au Canada", written by Loulou Gasté, which won le Grand Prix du Disque. She also sang with
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in the Théâtre de l'Etoile. She toured Europe and Africa extensively, came back to Paris to star at the ABC, and recorded numerous adaptations of American songs such as " Ma petite folie", " Étoile des neiges" and " Le Chien dans la vitrine". In 1954, while performing at
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, she met
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and subsequently appeared in five episodes of ''
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'' in the US. During this trip, she also sang in the
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(New York) and the Cocoanut Grove (Los Angeles), appeared on
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,
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and
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shows and recorded with
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the songs "Relax-Ay-Voo" and "
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". In 1959, she started a four-year run of ''Plaisir de Paris'' for Henri Varna and then went on to perform in a
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show at
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from 1963 to 1965. In 1966 she returned to Paris and the Casino de Paris starring in a new show, ''Desir de Paris''. In 1968, she returned to Las Vegas for a number of performances. In France, in 1973 she created an American show which she toured for two years around the country. She then helped
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, threatened by closing, by putting on a show called ‘Paris – Line’ with Loulou Gasté, which ran for four years. In the 1980s, she starred in a TV show ''Telle est Line'' for
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and recorded songs in English and French. At Casino de Paris, she put on a one-off show which retraced her forty-year career. Also, in 1981, she served as an unofficial on-air "guide" for Merv Griffin when he taped "The Merv Griffin Show" in Paris, and in 1982 she was a guest on
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's Christmas special in Paris. In 1989, she toured around Japan as part of a festival which marked the bicentennial of the
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. In March 2019, Renaud was hospitalized due to a fall in her garden.


Selected filmography

* 1951 – ''Ils sont dans les vignes'' (Robert Vernay) * 1952 – ''
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'' (Pierre Montazel; music by Loulou Gasté) * 1953 – ''La route du bonheur'' (
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) * 1953 – '' Double or Quits'' (
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) * 1953 – ''
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'' (Maurice de Canonge) * 1955 – '' Madelon'' (she won Prix du Prestige de la France) * 1957 – ''
Mademoiselle and Her Gang ''Mademoiselle and Her Gang'' (French: ''Mademoiselle et son gang'') is a 1957 French comedy film directed by Jean Boyer and starring Line Renaud, Noël Roquevert and Philippe Nicaud.Powrie & Stilwell p.143 It was shot at the Billancourt Studios ...
'' (Jean Boyer; music written by Loulou Gasté) * 1959 – '' The Indestructible'' and Mademoiselle et son flirt (Jean Boyer) * 1988 – ''Marriage of Figaro'' (Roger Coggio) * 1990 – ''Ripoux contre Ripoux'' (Claude Zidi) * 1994 – '' J’ai pas sommeil'' (
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) * 1995 – ''Sixieme classique'' (
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) * 1995 – ''Ma femme me quitte'' (Didier Kaminka) * 1998 – ''Louise et les marchés'' (Marc Rivière) * 1999 – ''
Belle maman ''Belle maman'' (Step Mother) is a 1999 comedic French film starring Catherine Deneuve, Vincent Lindon, Line Renaud, Stéphane Audran, Idris Elba (in his debut), Françoise Lépine and directed by Gabriel Aghion. The title translates into English ...
'' (Gabriel Aghion) * 2001 – ''
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'' (Coline Serreau) * 2003 – ''18 ans après'' (Coline Serreau) * 2003 - ''Suzie Berton'' (
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) * 2004 – '' Le Miroir de l'eau'' (Edwin Baily) * 2004 – ''Menteur ! Menteuse !'' (Henry Helman) * 2005 – ''Le Courage d'aimer'' (Claude Lelouch) * 2005 – ''Les Sœurs Robin'' * 2005 – ''
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'' (
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) * 2006 – '' La Maison du Bonheur'' (
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) * 2008 – ''
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'' (Dany Boon) * 2008 – ''Le Silence de l'Epervier'' (Dominique Ladoge) * 2010 – ''Isabelle disparue'' (
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) * 2011 – ''
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'' (Pascale Pouzadoux) * 2015 – ''
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'' (Antoine Garceau) * 2019 – ''Huguette'' (Antoine Garceau) * 2022 – ''
Driving Madeleine ''Driving Madeleine'' (french: Une belle course) is a 2022 French-Belgian drama film directed by Christian Carion. Premise The film stars Line Renaud as Madeleine, an elderly woman in Paris who is moving into a nursing home; en route, she asks ta ...
(Une belle course)''


Theatre

* 1981 – ''Folle Amanda'' (
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and
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) * 1986 – ''The Incomparable Loulou'' (Charles Nelson-Reilly) English version of ''Folle Amanda'', played in the US * 1991 – ''Pleins Feux'' (Didier Kaminka after Mary Orr) * 1995 – ''La visite de la vieille dame'' (Friedrich Dürrenmatt) * 2002 – ''
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'' (
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) * 2007 – ''Fugueuses'' (Pierre Palmade, Christophe Duthuron) * 2012 – ''Harold et Maude'' (by Colin Higgins, French version
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) as Maude, opposite Thomas Solivéres as Harold at the
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Personal life

In 1950, she married Loulou Gasté and stayed with him until his death in 1995. In 2000, a Golden Palm Star on the
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, Walk of Stars was dedicated to her.


AIDS activism

In 1985, she created l'Association des Artistes Contre le Sida and organised televised art events which enabled her to raise funds for helping
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scientific research in France. In 2009, as vice-president of
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, she condemned the statements of Pope
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, who claimed condoms promoted behavior which causes AIDS.Le pape continue de choquer
leparisien.fr; accessed 14 September 2014.


References


External links


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