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Marie-Évelyne Lessard
Marie-Evelyne Lessard is a Canadian film and television actress. She is most noted for her performance in the 2012 film '' Fair Sex (Les Manèges humains)'', for which she received a Jutra Award nomination for Best Actress at the 16th Jutra Awards in 2014.Odile Tremblay"Domination musclée de Louis Cyr aux nominations des Jutra" ''Le Devoir (, ) is a French-language newspaper published in Montreal and distributed in Quebec and throughout Canada. It was founded by journalist and politician Henri Bourassa in 1910. is one of few independent large-circulation newspapers in Quebec ...'', January 28, 2014. She has also appeared in the films '' Ville-Marie'', '' The Decline (Jusqu'au déclin)'' and '' Fanmi'', the television series ''Unité 9'', ''Les Argonautes'', '' Trauma'' and '' 19-2'', and the web series '' Féminin/Féminin''. References External links * Canadian film actresses Canadian television actresses Black Canadian actresses Actresses from Quebec Living ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Georgia Straight
''The Georgia Straight'' is a free Canadian weekly news and entertainment newspaper published in Vancouver, British Columbia, by Overstory Media Group. Often known simply as ''The Straight'', it is delivered to newsboxes, post-secondary schools, public libraries and a large variety of other locations. ''The Straight'' has a long history of independent, unconventional editorials and content, and is known as a vocal critic of government, notably the former Liberal government of Gordon Campbell. As surveyed by VAC its per-issue circulation average , was once 119,971 copies, and its average weekly readership was once 804,000 . Its website traffic once ranked 92,215 globally and 5,395 within Canada, from Alexa. In January 2020, the newspaper's acquisition by Media Central Corporation was announced, a few weeks after the same company announced a deal to acquire the similar Toronto publication '' Now''. In September 2022, after Media Central Corporation filed for bankruptcy, ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19-2 (2011 TV Series)
''19-2'' is a French-Canadian police drama television series. Set in Montreal, the show centres on the professional and personal lives of patrol officers from Poste 19 of the Service Police Metropolitan, a fictitious version of the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal. The series name comes from the call sign of the patrol car of the main characters.According to thSPVM SPVM Montreal Police site they have 33 stations, none of which are currently numbered #19. Th2001 Annual Reportshowed that the former SPCUM Montreal Police had a station 19 covering the downtown east side and Plateau Mont-Royal. The actors speak in Joual (Quebec French) and Quebec English. It aired on public broadcaster Radio-Canada starting in 2011 and concluded in 2015. An English-language adaptation premiered on Bravo on January 29, 2014, and concluded production in 2017. The fourth and final season of the English version premiered on CTV in Canada on July 31, 2017. Synopsis Nicolai "Nick" Berrof and his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Actresses From Quebec
An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. 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 (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the tragic chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' (acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of acting pertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role", which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in ancient Greece and the medieval ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Canadian Actresses
Black is a color that results from the absence or complete Absorption (electromagnetic radiation), absorption of visible spectrum, visible light. It is an achromatic color, without Colorfulness#Chroma, chroma, like white and grey. It is often used symbolically or figurative language, figuratively to represent darkness.Eva Heller, ''Psychologie de la couleur – effets et symboliques'', pp. 105–26. Black and white have often been used to describe opposites such as good and evil, the Dark Ages (historiography), Dark Ages versus the Age of Enlightenment, and night versus day. Since the Middle Ages, black has been the symbolic color of solemnity and authority, and for this reason it is still commonly worn by judges and magistrates. Black was one of the first colors used by artists in Neolithic cave paintings. It was used in ancient Egypt and Greece as the color of the underworld. In the Roman Empire, it became the color of mourning, and over the centuries it was frequently asso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Television 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 Multiculturalism, 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 Immigration to Canada, immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of New France, French and then the much larger British colonization of the Americas, 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 Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Féminin/Féminin
''Féminin/Féminin'' is a 2014 French Canadian web series about the lives of six lesbians living in Montreal. It was created by director Chloé Robichaud and Florence Gagnon (president of the LezSpreadTheWord website). The first episode was posted on LezSpreadTheWord.com in early 2014 and the remaining 7 episodes were made available in June 2014 on the website femininfeminin.com. All episodes were written and directed by Robichaud. In 2016, the series appeared on ICI ARTV Ici ARTV (stylized as ICI artv) is a Canadian French language specialty channel owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (known in French as Société Radio-Canada). The channel broadcasts the arts and culture including music, dance, theat .... Awards and recognition The series won a Gemeaux Award. References External links * {{Official, http://femininfeminin.com/episodes/ 2014 web series debuts 2014 web series endings Canadian drama web series Canadian LGBTQ-related web series Lesbian-relat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trauma (Canadian TV Series)
''Trauma'' is a Canadian French language television medical drama series, which was broadcast from January 5, 2010 to April 2, 2014 on Ici Radio-Canada Télé. The series is set in the trauma unit of the fictional Hôpital Saint-Arsène in Montreal, Quebec. Cast * Isabel Richer : Julie Lemieux * Gilbert Sicotte : Antoine Légaré * Jean-François Pichette : Mathieu Darveau * James Hyndman : Pierre Meilleur * Christian Bégin : David Roche * Pascale Montpetit : Diane Hevey * Stéphane Demers : Julien Léveillée * Laurence Leboeuf : Sophie Léveillée * Yan England : Étienne Labrie * Catherine De Léan : Caroline Lemelin * Maxime Le Flaguais : Éric Lanoue * Isabelle Blais : Véronique Bilodeau * Madeleine Péloquin : Martine Laliberté * Cristina Rosato : Amaro Giulia * Alice Morel-Michaud : Julie Lemieux (as child in flashbacks) Music For each season, all soundtrack music for the series has been provided by a noted pop singer from Quebec, who has recorded cover ver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fair Sex
''Fair Sex'' () is a Canadian drama film, directed by Martin Laroche and released in 2012. The film stars Marie-Evelyne Lessard as Sophie, a young immigrant woman who has just graduated from film school. While working on her first film project she meets and develops a romantic interest in Frédéric (Marc-André Brunet), which brings up her own unresolved emotional trauma around having been a childhood victim of female genital mutilation. The cast also includes Normand Daoust, Stephanie Dawson, Alexandre Dubois and Michel Vézina. The film premiered at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2012, and was screened at the Abitibi-Témiscamingue International Film Festival and the Whistler Film Festival later in the year, before going into commercial release in early 2013. Lessard won the Borsos Competition award for Best Actress in a Canadian Film at Whistler. The film received four Jutra Award nominations at the 16th Jutra Awards, for Best Actress (Lessard), Best Supp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fanmi
''Fanmi'' is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers and Carmine Pierre-Dufour and released in 2021."Fanmi, un hommage aux liens familiaux" , September 10, 2021. The film stars Mireille Metellus and as Monique and Martine, a mother and daughter who are supporting each other through difficult times as Martine's partner Simon has recently committed suicide, while Monique is awaiting the results of medical tests to determine whether or not she has a se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Decline (film)
''The Decline'' (, "Until the Decline") is a 2020 Canadian action thriller film directed by Patrice Laliberté in his feature debut.André Duchesne"Le premier film québécois de Netflix aux Rendez-vous Québec cinéma" '' La Presse'', February 11, 2020. It is the first film made in Quebec to be produced as a Netflix original film.Christopher Reynolds"Quebec gets its first Netflix original film amid tax, cultural content concerns" CBC News, Montreal, November 21, 2018. The film stars Guillaume Laurin as Antoine, a man from Montreal who becomes worried about a natural disaster and joins a survivalist training program in rural Nord-du-Québec led by an experienced middle-aged survivalist, Alain ( Réal Bossé). While the participants at first bond with the charismatic Alain, they become divided after a trainee dies in an accident. The film's cast includes Marc-André Grondin, Isabelle Giroux, Marilyn Castonguay, Marc Beaupré, Marie-Evelyne Lessard and Guillaume Cyr.Marie-Jos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
