Marie-Josée Croze is a Canadian actress. She also holds French citizenship, which she obtained in December 2012.
Micheline Lanctôt is a Canadian actress, film director, screenwriter, and musician.
Marie Lise Monique Émond, better known as Monique Mercure, was a Canadian stage and screen actress. She was one of the country's great actors of the classical and modern repertory. In 1977, Mercure won a Cannes Film Festival Award and a Canadian Film Award for her performance in the drama film J.A. Martin Photographer.
Ginette Reno is a Canadian author, composer, singer, and actress. She has received nominations for the Genie and Gemini Awards and is a multi-recipient of the Juno Award. She is a gold and platinum selling Canadian musician.
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2016, it was known as the Jutra Award in memory of influential Quebec film director Claude Jutra, but Jutra's name was withdrawn from the awards following the publication of Yves Lever's biography of Jutra, which alleged that he had sexually abused children.
Gabriel Arcand is a Canadian actor. He is the brother of film director Denys Arcand.
Louise Marleau is a Canadian actress. She won the 1985 Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for her role in A Woman in Transit and was nominated in the same category in 1980 for her role in Heartbreak (L'Arrache-cœur), a role for which she won Best Actress at the 1979 Montreal World Film Festival.
Marie Tifo is a Canadian actress, and a major star in French-speaking Canada.
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.
Monique Proulx is a Canadian novelist, short story writer and screenwriter. She is a two-time nominee for the Governor General's Award for French language fiction for Le Cœur est un muscle involontaire at the 2002 Governor General's Awards and Champagne at the 2008 Governor General's Awards, and won the Prix Québec-Paris in 1993 for Homme invisible à la fenêtre.
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 .
Winter Stories is a Canadian sports drama film, released in 1999. Directed by François Bouvier and written by Bouvier and Marc Robitaille as an adaptation of Robitaille's book Des histoires d'hiver, avec des rues, des écoles et du hockey, the film centres on a young boy's obsession with ice hockey in the 1960s.
France Castel, née Bégin in Sherbrooke, Quebec) is a Canadian singer, actress and broadcaster.
Frédérique Collin is a Canadian actress, screenwriter and film director. She is most noted for her performance in Marie in the City , for which she received a Genie Award nomination for Best Actress at the 9th Genie Awards.
Laura Cadieux II is a Canadian comedy film, directed by Denise Filiatrault and released in 1999. A sequel to the 1998 film It's Your Turn, Laura Cadieux , the film placed the characters from the first film, which was a direct adaptation of the novel by Michel Tremblay, in an original story written entirely by Filiatrault.
Mum's the Word is a Canadian documentary short film, directed by Paul Carrière and released on September 10, 1996. The film centres on Rachel, Suzanne, Jeannine and Paulette, four Franco-Ontarian women in their mid-40s in Sudbury, Ontario, who, after marrying and raising children, are in the process of coming out as lesbian.
In the Belly of the Dragon is a Canadian comedy science fiction film, directed by Yves Simoneau and released in 1989. The film stars David La Haye as Lou, an aimless slacker who is dissatisfied with his job distributing flyers around the city, and signs up to be a drug testing subject for two mysterious scientists ; meanwhile, his delivery colleagues Steve and Bozo must team up to find and rescue him before the medical experiments go horribly wrong.
Sonia Vachon is a Canadian actress. She is most noted for her performance in the film 5150 Elm's Way , for which she was both a Genie Award nominee for Best Supporting Actress at the 30th Genie Awards and a Jutra Award nominee for Best Supporting Actress at the 12th Jutra Awards.
Sylvain Guy is a Canadian screenwriter and film director from Quebec. He is most noted for the 2004 film Machine Gun Molly , for which he and Luc Dionne won the Genie Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 25th Genie Awards in 2005. He was also previously nominated in the same category for Black List at the 16th Genie Awards in 1996, and subsequently at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022 for Confessions of a Hitman (Confessions).
Denis Bouchard is a Canadian actor and playwright from Quebec. He is most noted for his performances in Denise Filiatrault's 1998 film It's Your Turn, Laura Cadieux , for which he received a Jutra Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 1st Jutra Awards in 1998, and François Bouvier's 1999 film Winter Stories , for which he received a Genie Award nomination for Best Actor at the 20th Genie Awards in 2000.
