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Isabelle Guérard
Isabelle Guérard (born July 1, 1978) is a Canadian film and television actress. She garnered a Canadian Screen Award nomination as Best Actress at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in 2013 for '' The Storm Within (Rouge sang)'', and a Jutra Award nomination as Best Actress in 2010 for ''Detour (Détour)''. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Guérard first came to prominence as a cast member on the teen drama series ''Watatatow'', she also appeared in the films '' White Skin (La Peau blanche)'', '' Angel's Rage (La Rage de l'ange)'', '' Piché: The Landing of a Man (Piché: entre ciel et terre)'', ''French Kiss'' and '' The Guide to the Perfect Family (Le Guide de la famille parfaite)'', and the television series ''Le Négociateur'', ''Mensonges'' and '' Motel Paradis'' (2022). She was formerly living with her ''Watatatow'' castmate Hugo St-Cyr and later separated in 2008. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montreal
Montreal is the List of towns in Quebec, largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec, the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest in Canada, and the List of North American cities by population, ninth-largest in North America. It was founded in 1642 as ''Fort Ville-Marie, Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", and is now named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked mountain around which the early settlement was built. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal and a few, much smaller, peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is east of the national capital, Ottawa, and southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City. the city had a population of 1,762,949, and a Census geographic units of Canada#Census metropolitan areas, metropolitan population of 4,291,732, making it the List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, second-largest metropolitan area in Canada. French l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angel's Rage
''Angel's Rage'' () is a 2006 Canadian drama film directed by Dan Bigras. The film earned two 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), known as the "Etrog Awards" for sculptor ... nominations in the categories of Best Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design and Best Achievement in Music - Original Song for the song "L'Astronaute". References External links * 2006 films Films shot in Montreal 2000s French-language films 2006 drama films Canadian drama films Quebec films French-language Canadian films 2000s Canadian films French-language drama films {{2000s-Canada-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Film Actresses
Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity and Canadian values. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1978 Births
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Le Journal De Montréal
is a daily French-language tabloid newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It has the largest circulation of any newspaper in Quebec and is also the largest French-language daily newspaper in North America. Established by Pierre Péladeau in 1964, it is owned by Quebecor Media, and is hence a sister publication of TVA flagship CFTM-DT. It is also Canada's largest tabloid newspaper. Its head office is located on 4545, rue Frontenac in Montreal. covers mostly local and provincial news, as well as sports, arts and justice. It is known for its sensationalist news, and its columnists who are often public figures. Since 2013 the newspaper also has an investigation desk that has published several major news stories about Quebec's politics, businesses, crime and national security. It is the only Montreal newspaper that prints on Sundays since '' La Presse'' and '' The Gazette'' dropped their Sunday editions (La Presse has had an electronic edition on Sunday since the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo St-Cyr
Hugo St-Cyr (November 23, 1978 – September 24, 2015) was a Canadian actor and presenter. He became known for his role as Michel Couillard in the popular youth series '' Watatatow'', which aired for fourteen years on Radio-Canada Television from 1991 to 2005. This role earned him five MetroStar prizes and Gemini Awards. Biography Saint-Cyr was born in Longueuil. Alongside Vincent Bolduc (Alexis) in 1993, he played the prominent role of Clément Fortin, a teenager who commits suicide in the dramatic TVA series '' Ent'Cadieux'', written by Guy Fournier. He played the role of Paul Rose in the miniseries '' October 1970'', tracing the tragic events that occurred in October 1970 in Quebec. It was broadcast on CBC Television and Télé-Québec. Since 2007, he hosted the show '' Podium Xtrême'' on Ztélé, dealing with emission technology in extreme sports. In the winter, he hosted ''The Car Guide'' on the channel Vox in Montreal. On September 25, 2014, '' Echos Vedettes'' ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motel Paradis
''Motel Paradis'' (English: ''Paradise Motel'') is a Canadian television crime drama series, which was broadcast on Club Illico from October 11, 2022. Its six episodes are directed by Sophie Deraspe, who co-wrote the screenplay with Stéphane Hogue. It stars Nahéma Ricci as Jen, who believes her teen sister Noémie (Vivi-Anne Riel) did not die by suicide, three years earlier. Jen returns to her village of Val-Paradis and is assisted by retired police detective, Alain (). The series is set in rural Quebec. It was streamed via Australia's SBS on Demand from August 2024. Premise In 2021, Jen has a near-death experience, which results in visions of her missing sister, Noémie. Jen returns to her rural village of Val-Paradis with former police detective, Alain to resolve the mystery of Noémie's disappearance in 2018. Jen's mother, Brigitte resides in the family's now-defunct Motel Paradis. Jen and Noémie had both been cleaners there before Noémie's disappearance. Fellow local ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guide To The Perfect Family
''The Guide to the Perfect Family'' () is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Ricardo Trogi and released in 2021. The film stars Louis Morissette and Catherine Chabot as Martin Dubois and Marie-Soleil Blouin, a married couple with a tendency toward helicopter parenting. This creates problems for Rose ( Émilie Bierre), Louis's 16-year-old daughter from his prior marriage to Caroline (Isabelle Guérard). The film premiered theatrically in Quebec on July 14, 2021. It was acquired by Netflix Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service. The service primarily distributes original and acquired films and television shows from various genres, and it is available internationally in multiple lang ... for international distribution. In its year-end review of Canadian film and television in 2021, the trade magazine '' Playback'' ranked it as the Film of the Year.Mark Dillon"Film of the Year: Le Guide de la famille parfaite" '' Playback'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Kiss (2011 Film)
''French Kiss'' is a 2011 French-language Canadian romantic comedy directed by Sylvain Archambault. Plot Frédérik ( Claude Legault) is a businessman prone to flirting. Meeting Juliette (Céline Bonnier), a lonely librarian, he tries the old pick-up line A pick-up line or chat-up line is a conversation opener with the intent of engaging a person for romance or dating. As overt and sometimes humorous displays of romantic interest, pick-up lines advertise the wit of their speakers to their target ...: "Haven't we met somewhere before?" To his surprise, Juliet mistakes him a former colleague named Robert. Frédérik has trapped himself and plays along pretending to be Robert.André Duchesne"French Kiss: l'amour en période de quarantaine" '' La Presse'', March 5, 2011. References External links * 2011 films 2011 romantic comedy films Canadian romantic comedy films Films directed by Sylvain Archambault French-language Canadian films 2010s Canadian films 2010s French-la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Landing Of A Man
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Skin (film)
''White Skin'' () is a 2004 Canadian horror film directed by Daniel Roby and starring Marc Paquet and Marianne Farley. It was released on video in the United States under the title ''Cannibal''. The film won the award for Best Canadian First Feature Film at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival,"Hotel Rwanda wins top festival prize". ''The Globe and Mail'', September 20, 2004. and the Claude Jutra Award for best feature film by a first-time director at the 25th Genie Awards.Claude Jutra Award . Premise Two men discover that one's girlfriend is a |
