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- 1 2 Ray Conlogue (2002-03-02). "Bilingual on bikes". The Globe and Mail . Retrieved 2020-07-18.
But The Last Chapter, the $10-million CBC miniseries about biker wars, has a quiet but probably longer-lasting claim to fame. It's the first time a major Canadian miniseries has been filmed two times: once in French and once in English.
- ↑ Brian Bethune (2002-03-04). "Joining gangland's two solitudes". Macleans magazine . Retrieved 2020-07-18.
Assassinations and beatings. Greed and overarching ambition. Vendettas, treachery and counter-treachery. The Last Chapter, CBC s six-hour miniseries (starting on March 3) about drug-dealing bikers, is a hugely entertaining Jacobean drama on wheels. Its also highly topical, especially in Quebec, where rival bikers have been murdering one another for years, and in Toronto, scene of the recent infamous handshake between Mayor Mel Lastman and a Hells Angel celebrating his gangs first anniversary in Ontario.
- ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0299283/
- ↑ https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/quebec-biker-war
- 1 2 "The Alienist : Michel Ironside rejoint le casting" [The Alienist: Michel Ironside joins the cast]. Just about TV (in French). 2017-08-03. Retrieved 2020-07-18.
En 2003, il a obtenu un prix pour sa performance dans le rôle d'un chef de gang de motards dans la mini-série canadienne The Last Chapter II : The War Continues.
- ↑ Agnes Guadet (2017-02-05). "Marina Orsini". Journal de Montreal (in French). Retrieved 2020-07-18.
Cette même année, elle remportait un prix Gemini pour son rôle dans The Last Chapter II et on pouvait aussi la voir dans Cauchemar d'amour aux côtés de Pierre Brassard.
