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.
Les Hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin is a Canadian television comedy-drama series, which premiered on Radio-Canada in 2006. The show stars Suzanne Clément as Sophie Paquin, a single mother and businesswoman who operates her own talent agency.
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.
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.
Juan Cristóbal Tapia de Veer is a Chilean-born Canadian film and television score composer, arranger, producer and multi-instrumentalist based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is best known for his score of the British TV series Utopia, for which he won a Royal Television Society award in the best original score category in 2013, and Channel 4's National Treasure, which earned him a BAFTA in 2017. He has received awards from the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada in 2013 and 2017.
Charles Lafortune is a Canadian actor and radio and television host.
Kif-Kif is a Quebec teen-oriented téléroman produced by Vivaclic and broadcast by Radio-Canada.
Série noire is a Quebec Comedy drama thriller series which was originally broadcast on Radio-Canada and TOU.TV in 2014–2015. The series centres on Denis and Patrick, the writers of a popular but critically reviled crime drama series, La loi de la justice, as they embark on a crime spree following the end of the show's first season in the hope of accumulating the personal experience necessary to make the writing more realistic in the show's second season.
Patrick Hivon is a Canadian actor from Montreal, Quebec.
Richard Blaimert is the stage name and pen name of Richard Tremblay, a Canadian television actor, writer and producer from Quebec. He is best known as the creator and writer of several television series for both English and French networks in Canada, including Les Hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin, Cover Girl, Sophie, Nouvelle adresse and This Life.
Nouvelle adresse is a Canadian television drama series, which premiered in 2014 on Ici Radio-Canada Télé. Created by Richard Blaimert, the series focuses on Nathalie Lapointe, a single mother in her early forties whose terminal cancer diagnosis sends her on a quest to help her three teenage children get ready for the future.
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 .
19-2 is a Canadian police procedural crime drama television series developed by Bruce M. Smith, based on the Canadian French-language series of the same name created by Réal Bossé and Claude Legault. It was produced by Sphere Media Plus and Echo Media, in association with Bell Media; Smith served as showrunner. The series premiered on Bravo in Canada on January 29, 2014, and aired for three seasons, before it moved to CTV for its fourth and final season. It finished its four-year run on September 18, 2017, with 38 episodes.
Pier-Luc Funk is a Canadian film and television actor from Quebec. He is most noted for his role as Maxime in the 2018 film Genesis (Genèse), for which he received a Prix Iris nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 21st Quebec Cinema Awards.
Magalie Lépine-Blondeau is a Canadian actress and television host.
Marie-Chantal Perron is a Canadian actress and fashion designer. She was born in Châteauguay, Quebec.
Happily Married is a Canadian crime comedy-drama series, which premiered on Ici TOU.TV in 2020.
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.
Antoine Pilon is a Canadian actor from Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Quebec. He is most noted for his role as Émile Lapointe in the television drama series Nouvelle adresse, for which he was a Gémeaux Award nominee for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2015.
Macha Limonchik is a Canadian actress from Quebec. She is most noted for her roles as Céline in the web series Féminin/Féminin, for which she won the Gémeaux Award for Best Actress in a Web Series in 2015, and Danielle Bergeron in Nouvelle adresse, for which she won the Gémeaux Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2016.
