Macha Grenon (born June 7, 1968) is a Canadian film and television actress. [1]
Born in Montreal, Quebec, Grenon's credits include roles in the television series Urban Angel , Scoop , Le cœur a ses raisons , Emily of New Moon , Nouvelle adresse and H2O , as well as the films The Pianist , Stardom , Familia , Windsor Protocol , You Can Thank Me Later , Days of Darkness (L'Âge des ténèbres), Barney's Version and The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom . She garnered a Best Actress nomination at the 26th Genie Awards for her performance in Familia.
Her father, Michel Grenon, was a history professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal, [1] and her grandfather, Hector Grenon, was a historian who wrote several books on the history of Montreal. [1]
Georges-Henri Denys Arcand is a Canadian filmmaker. During his four decades career, he became one of the most internationally-recognized director from Quebec, earning widespread acclaim and numerous accolades for his "intensely personal, challenging, and intellectual films."
The Prix Iris is a Canadian film award, presented annually by Québec Cinéma, which recognizes talent and achievement in the mainly francophone feature film industry in Quebec. Until 2016, it was known as the Jutra Award in memory of influential Quebec film director Claude Jutra, but Jutra's name was withdrawn from the awards following the publication of Yves Lever's biography of Jutra, which alleged that he had sexually abused children.
Days of Darkness, also known as The Age of Ignorance, is a 2007 black comedy-drama film written and directed by Denys Arcand and starring Marc Labrèche, Diane Kruger and Sylvie Léonard. Presented as the third part of Arcand's loose trilogy also consisting of The Decline of the American Empire (1986) and The Barbarian Invasions (2003), it was followed by a fourth film with similar themes, The Fall of the American Empire (2018). The film follows a depressed québecois bureaucrat who, feeling insignificant, retreats into a fantasy world.
Marc Labrèche is a Canadian actor, comedian and host.
Jean-François Bergeron is a Canadian film editor, most noted as a winner of the Jutra Award for Best Editing at the 9th Jutra Awards in 2007 for his work on Bon Cop, Bad Cop. He has also been nominated in the same category four other times, and is a five-time Genie Award nominee for Best Editing.
Paule Baillargeon is a Canadian actress and film director. She won the Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, and was a nominee for Best Director for The Sex of the Stars . Her film roles have included August 32nd on Earth , Jesus of Montreal , A Woman in Transit , Réjeanne Padovani and Days of Darkness .
Cher... Special is a television special starring American singer/actress Cher that was broadcast on ABC on April 3, 1978, at 9:00 pm ET/PT and was recorded at ABC Studios in Burbank, California. Cher ... Special was a ratings success for ABC and it was ranked among the Top 10 most watched programs of the week. In the fall of 1978, it was honored with a technical Emmy Award for "Best Achievement in Lighting Direction". It also received an Emmy nomination for "Best Art Direction for a Comedy-Variety or Musical Special" and Dolly Parton was also nominated for an Emmy in the category of "Best Supporting Actress in a Variety or Musical Special".
Caroline Néron is a Canadian actress, singer and fashion designer (accessories). She has appeared in a number of roles on television and also on films. She was born in Boucherville, Quebec.
Évelyne de la Chenelière is a Canadian writer and actress. She is best known for her plays Désordre public, which won the Governor General's Award for French-language drama in 2006, and Bashir Lazhar, which was the screenplay basis for the 2011 film Monsieur Lazhar.
Monia Chokri is a Canadian actress and filmmaker.
Family Pack is a 2000 drama film, directed by Chris Vander Stappen.
Mylène Mackay is a Canadian actress. She received a Canadian Screen Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards for her performance in Endorphine. In 2016, she appeared as Nelly Arcan in Anne Émond's film Nelly, and as Marguerite in André Forcier's film Kiss Me Like a Lover .
Adrien Francis Morot is a Canadian makeup artist. In 2023 he won the Best Makeup and Hairstyling Oscar for The Whale, having earlier received an additional nomination in the same category for the film Barney's Version, and he has won the Genie Award for Best Makeup twice for his work on Barney's Version and Cruising Bar 2.
Rita Lafontaine was a Canadian theatre, film, and television actor. Born in Trois-Rivières, Quebec. She has been described as the muse of playwright Michel Tremblay and director André Brassard. Her career spanned over fifty years and left an "indelible mark on Québec theatre, film and television". She is a four-time recipient of the Gémeaux Award; three times for Best Lead Actress and once for Best Supporting Actress. She was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2005 and an Officer of the National Order of Quebec in 2011.
Mistaken Identity, also sometimes billed as Mistaken Person, is a Canadian thriller film, directed by Gilles Noël and released in 1996.
Marie-Michèle Desrosiers is a Canadian pop and rock singer from Quebec. She is most noted as a former member of the influential rock group Beau Dommage, and for her album Marie Michèle Desrosiers chante les classiques de Noël, which won the Juno Award for Francophone Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 1998.
Françoise Graton was a Québécoise actress who lived and worked in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She contributed much to the advancement of theatre in Montreal and particularly in involvement with children.
The Ideal Man is a Canadian romantic comedy film, directed by George Mihalka and released in 1996. The film stars Marie-Lise Pilote as Lucie, a successful magazine editor who feels her biological clock ticking as she has reached the age of 35 without becoming a mother, and sets out on a quest to meet as many men as possible over the next three months in the hopes of finally finding the ideal man to father a child.
Thrill of the Hills is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Richard Roy and released in 2011. Set in Quebec in the late 1960s, the film stars Antoine Olivier Pilon as Frisson, a young boy whose father Aurèle is killed in a workplace accident, who responds to his grief by enlisting his father's friend Tom to take him to Woodstock so that he can see his musical idol, Jimi Hendrix, perform.
Danielle Fichaud is a Canadian actress from Quebec. She is most noted for her performance in the 2021 film Aline, for which she was a César Award nominee for Best Supporting Actress at the 47th César Awards and a Prix Iris nominee for Best Actress at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards.