Marie-Jo Thério (born July 3, 1965, in
Shediac
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,
New Brunswick
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) is a Canadian actress and musician.
["Marie-Jo Thério, l’artiste sensible au parcours unique"]
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, August 22, 2019. She is most noted for her performance in the 1999 film ''
Full Blast'', for which she won the
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for
Best Supporting Actress at the
3rd Jutra Awards in 2001.
Raised in Shediac and
Moncton
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, she moved to
Montreal
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at age 17 to pursue work as a musician and actress.
[ She appeared in ]Michel Tremblay
Michel Tremblay (born 25 June 1942) is a Canadian writer, novelist and playwright.
Tremblay was born in Montreal, Quebec, where he grew up in the French-speaking neighbourhood of Plateau Mont-Royal; at the time of his birth, a neighbourhood ...
's musical play ''Nelligan'' in 1990, in the television series '' Chambres en ville'' in 1991 and in the film '' Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives'' in 1992 before releasing her debut album ''Comme de la musique'' in 1995.[
In 2006 she won the ]Félix Award
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The award
The firs ...
for Folk Album of the Year for her album ''Les matins habitables''."Marie-Jo Thério remporte un Félix"
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, October 24, 2006.
Filmography
Film
Television
Discography
* 1995: ''Comme de la musique''
* 2000: ''La Maline''
* 2004: ''Les Matins habitables''
* 2011: ''Chasing Lydie''
* 2014: ''Trois petits tours d'automne''
References
External links
*
1965 births
Living people
Acadian musicians
Actresses from New Brunswick
Canadian film actresses
Canadian television actresses
Canadian stage actresses
Canadian musical theatre actresses
Canadian women singer-songwriters
Félix Award winners
French-language singers of Canada
Musicians from Moncton
People from Shediac
20th-century Canadian actresses
20th-century Canadian women singers
21st-century Canadian actresses
21st-century Canadian women singers
Audiogram (label) artists
Best Supporting Actress Jutra and Iris Award winners
20th-century Canadian singer-songwriters
21st-century Canadian singer-songwriters
Singers from New Brunswick
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