The Prix Gémeaux or Gémeaux Awards honour achievements in Canadian television and digital media that is broadcast in French. It has been sponsored by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television since 1987. Introduced as a French-language equivalent to the Gemini Awards, the Canadian Academy's former presentation for English-language television, it remains separate from the contemporary Canadian Screen Awards despite being presented by the same parent organization.
Claude Legault is a Canadian actor and television writer from Quebec.
Julien Poulin is a Canadian actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer. He has portrayed numerous roles in several popular Quebec films and series.
Chartrand et Simonne is a French-Canadian biographical drama television mini-series about social activists Michel Chartrand and Simonne Monet. The series lasted for a total of twelve episodes, with the first six airing in 2000 on Radio-Canada and the remaining six in 2003 on Télé-Québec. The series was directed by Alain Chartrand, one of the couple's sons.
Virginie was a French-language Canadian television series that aired Monday through Thursday on Radio-Canada. It debuted in 1996. The show examined the public and private lives of teachers, students, and families at the fictional Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc high school. It frequently dealt with controversial social topics, such as teen drug use, ethnic prejudice, divorce, and other subjects touching on contemporary Quebec life. "Virginie" was a téléroman-style drama that often used "cliffhangers" in the storylines. It aired 120 episodes per year of 30 minutes each.
Nicolas Maranda is a Canadian singer-songwriter, composer, musician and record producer based in Montreal. His compositional style is eclectic, blending acoustic, electric and electronic elements into distinct soundscapes. His compositions have appeared on record, in television series and feature films. His productions have covered many styles of music, from house music to tango and from rock to Arabic. His performances on record include various guitars, basses, keyboards, and percussion instruments, as well as more exotic instruments such as oud and didgeridoo. He has played hundreds of shows in Canada, the United States, Europe, The Middle East, Australia, Haïti, and exotic locations such as the North Pole and the jungles of East Timor.
Sylvie Léonard is a French-Canadian actress. She has acted in theater, film and television for over 40 years. Her most notable roles include Mimi Jarry in Rue des Pignons, Annick Jacquemin in Terre Humaine, Julie Galarneau in L'Héritage, Sylvie in Un gars, une fille and most recently Madeleine in Lâcher prise.
Sous le signe du lion is a Quebec television series comprising thirty 30-minute episodes, directed by Jean-Pierre Sénécal and broadcast in 1961. A two-season remake was broadcast in 1997 and in 2000. The original screenplay was written by Françoise Loranger. Hélène Pedneault adapted it in 1997 and Guy Fournier in 2000. The 1997 adaptation was directed by Maude Martin, and the 2000 by Yvon Trudel.
Omertà or Omertà, The Code of Silence is a Quebec television series of 11 forty-five-minute episodes, created by Luc Dionne and aired from January to April 1996 on Radio-Canada. In France, the series aired on France 3 in 1998.
Daniel Grou, frequently credited as Podz, is a Canadian film and television director, director of six feature films as well as episodes in dozen 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 callsign of the patrol car of the main characters.
François Létourneau is a Canadian actor and writer, best known as co-creator and star of the television series Les Invincibles, Série noire and Happily Married .
Lâcher prise, also known in English as Freefall or Let Go, is a Canadian television comedy series, which premiered in 2017 on Ici Radio-Canada Télé. The series stars Sophie Cadieux as Valérie Danault, a single mother struggling to keep it together after suffering burnout in her professional and personal life.
Les Compagnons de Saint-Laurent was a theatre company that was founded in August 1937 at Collège de Saint-Laurent in Saint-Laurent, Quebec, by Émile Legault, Roger Varin, and Léonide Lavinge. According to The Canadian Encyclopedia it was the "[...] most influential theatrical company in the history of Québec". The company dissolved in 1951.
Fugueuse is a French Canadian television drama series which premiered on January 8, 2018, on TVA. The series stars Ludivine Reding as Fanny Couture, a teenage girl from a middle-class family, who is methodically manipulated into a world of prostitution by a network of human traffickers. The plot continues four years later in Season 2, which premiered on January 6, 2020.
Magalie Lépine-Blondeau is a Canadian actress and television host.
Adulthood is a Canadian comedy-drama web series, which premiered in 2017 on Ici TOU.TV. The series focuses on Alex, Tom and Lucille-Maude Noël, three young adult siblings whose lives undergo significant changes that send shock waves through their family dynamics, with each season centring on a personal crisis in one of their lives.
Happily Married is a Canadian crime comedy-drama series, which premiered on Ici TOU.TV in 2020.
Vincent-Guillaume Otis is a Canadian actor from Quebec. He is most noted for his roles in the television series District 31, for which he won the Prix Gémeaux for Best Actor in a Drama Series in 2018, and the film Norbourg, for which he won the Prix Iris for Best Actor at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2022.
Les Pays d'en haut is a Canadian television drama series, which aired on Ici Radio-Canada Télé from 2016 to 2021. The second television adaptation of Claude-Henri Grignon's 1933 novel Un Homme et son péché following the long-running Les Belles Histoires des pays d'en haut in the 1950s and 1960s, the series is a historical drama set in the Laurentides region of Quebec in the 1880s.
