Manda Parent

Manda Parent ( Marie-Jeanne-Aurore Perreault ; born July 16, 1907 in Montreal , † August 3, 1992 in Montreal) was a Canadian actress.

Parent appeared in the title role of La petite Aurore, l'enfant-martyr at the age of twenty . From 1926 she was a member of Juliette Pétrie's acting troupe . At the Théâtre National she appeared in a supporting role alongside Avi Rosenberg and Paul Hébert . Impressed by her quick-wittedness and her comic talent, she accepted Eugène Martel into his acting troupe. At his suggestion, she took on the stage name Manda Parent , while he himself appeared as Joseph Martel . As Joseph et Manda , both were present in the cabaret scene in Montreal in the late 1920s.

Alone or with Martel, she appeared in the shows of Tizoune and Mary Bolduc in the 1930s . In the shows and revues of Rose Ouellette she was a regular guest at the side of Juliette Huot , Alys Robi , Juliette Petrie, Olivier Guimond , Tizoune and others. With the company of Ouellette she undertook Trouneen through Québec, New Brunswick and the USA. Her sketch Trois heures du matin with Guimond became famous .

With the decline of cabaret, Parent switched to classical comedy and went to Gilles Latulippes Théâtre des Variétés , where she performed until the 1980s. In the 1970s she also began a career in film. She appeared in three films by Jean-Claude Lord ( Les colombes , Bingo and Parlez-nous d'amour ). She found great acclaim in the role of Germaine Lauzon in André Brassard's film Il était une fois dans l'Est, an adaptation of the play Les Belles-Sœurs by Michel Tremblay . She appeared on television as Madame Pigeon in the series Symphorien .

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• Manda Parent - Le gens du cinema
• Manda Parent in the Internet Movie Database (English)