Helene Loiselle

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Hélène Loiselle (born March 17, 1928 in Montreal , † August 8, 2013 in Québec ) was a Canadian actress with character roles in film, television and theater. She was considered a versatile theater actress and also played in various French cinema productions between the 1950s and 2000s, including My Uncle Antoine and State of Emergency .

life and career

Hélène Loiselle was born in Montreal in 1928. At the age of seven she played her first stage roles in boarding school. At seventeen, she auditioned for private lessons with François Rozet, who at the time was running a drama school. From there she moved to Compagnons de Saint-Laurent in 1945 , where she also got to know foreign classics. With her husband the actor Lionel Villeneuve, she left Canada in 1952 for Paris . Open to contemporary as well as classical theater, Hélène Loiselle has played in plays by Marcel Dubé, Racine , Réjean Ducharme , Neil Simon , Françoise Loranger, Chekhov , Tennessee Williams and Wajdi Mouawad .

In the mid-1950s, Loiselle turned to television and appeared in episodes of successful French series. Hélène Loiselle played her first film role in 1959 in Louis Portugai's production Il était une guerre . In 1971 it was director Claude Jutra who cast her for his drama My Uncle Antoine . At the beginning of the 1970s she played in cinema productions by directors such as Jean Bissonnette, Louis-Georges Carrier and Denys Arcand . The director Michel Brault gave her in 1974 the female lead in his historical drama state of emergency .

She played her last movie role in 2006 for the production Dans les Villes by director Catherine Martin.

Hélène Loiselle died on August 8, 2013 at the age of 85.

Awards

  • 2001: Prix ​​Jutra nomination in the Meilleure Actrice category for La Bouteille
  • 2006: Prix Denise-Pelletier

Actress roles (selection)

movie theater

  • 1959: Il était une guerre
  • 1971: My Uncle Antoine (Mon oncle Antoine)
  • 1971: Tiens-toi bien après les oreilles à Papa
  • 1972: La maudite galette
  • 1972: Le p'tit vient vite
  • 1973: Réjeanne Padovani
  • 1974: State of emergency (Les ordres)
  • 1982: Doux aveux
  • 1989: Sous les draps, les étoiles
  • 1992: Montréal vu par ...
  • 1999: Post Mortem
  • 2000: La bouteille
  • 2001: Mariages
  • 2006: Dans les villes

watch TV

  • 1955: Cap-aux-sorciers (TV series, one episode)
  • 1956: Le survenant (TV series, one episode)
  • 1957: Opération-mystère (TV series, one episode)
  • 1970: À la branche d'Olivier (TV series, one episode)
  • 1976: Le grenier (TV series, one episode)
  • 1977: Duplessis (TV miniseries)
  • 1984: Laurier (TV miniseries)
  • 1987: Lise, Pierre et Marcel (TV miniseries)
  • 1993: Blanche (TV series, four episodes)
  • 1995: Sous un ciel variable (TV series, one episode)
  • 1996: Virginie (TV series, one episode)

Short film

  • 1960: Walk Down Any Street
  • 1972: Françoise Durocher, Waitress
  • 2005: Une chapelle blanche
  • 2008: Gilles

theatre

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for Hélène Loiselle in: Le Devoir
  2. ^ Obituary for Hélène Loiselle in: TVA Nouvelles
personal data
SURNAME Loiselle, Hélène
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian actress in film, television and theater
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal , Quebec , Canada
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 2013
Place of death Quebec , Canada