Andrée Lachapelle
Andrée Lachapelle (November 13, 1931 – November 21, 2019) was a French Canadian actress. Born in Montreal, she trained at age 14 at the Studio XV theatre school under Gerard Vleminckx, later attended teacher's college and taught elementary school for a few years. In 1952 she met actor Robert Gadouas, performed with him, and had three children before his death in 1969. She later appeared in plays by Michel Tremblay, Samuel Beckett and Tennessee Williams and in the films Rope Around the Neck (La corde au cou), YUL 871, Laura Laur, Léolo, Cap Tourmente, Route 132, The Last Escape and Don't Let the Angels Fall. In 1985, Andrée Lachapelle was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 1997, she was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec. On November 21, 2019, Lachapelle died via assisted suicide at the age of 88 following a battle with cancer. She posthumously won the Prix Iris for Best Actress at the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards, for her final performance in the film And the Birds Rained Down (Il pleuvait des oiseaux).
Léolo
as PsychiatristThe story of an imaginative boy who pretends he is the child of a sperm-laden Sicilian tomato...
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Jesus of Montreal
as uncreditedA group of actors putting on an interpretive Passion Play in Montreal begin to experience a...
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Dear Father
as GiuliaIn Caro papá, Dino Risi is telling the story of the decadent lifestyle, and dysfunctional...
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Dans le ventre du dragon
as Madame CôtéThe title of this French-Canadian film translates to In the Belly of the Dragon, but don't...
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Route 132
as AlbertaTwo old friends and small-time crooks embark on a crime spree, but take an unexpected detour...
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And the Birds Rained Down
as Marie-DesneigeA photographer sets off toward a mysterious forest to find Boychuk, witness and victim of the...
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Daniel and the Superdogs
as GrandmotherA young boy still recovering from his mother's recent death teams with his two best friends to...
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Cap Tourmente
as Jeanne O'NeilAlex has a deeply troubled mind. He also has a seriously dysfunctional - not to say incestuous -...
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Nelligan
as Robertine BarryThis historical drama with music examines the life and times of Émile Nelligan, one of the major...
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Straight for the Heart
as Invitée au dînerPierre is a Montreal photojournalist who returns from Nicaragua to find that his ten-year menage...
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The Passion of Augustine
as Mère Marie-StéphaneThe nuns of a musical convent work hard in order to prevent the religious school from closing.
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Happy Memories
as Voix de mamanA woman attempts to resume her place in the family that she abandoned years earlier.
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YUL 871
as MadeleineAn engineer from Paris flies to Montreal, partly on business, partly in search of parents...
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Don't Let the Angels Fall
as ProstituteThe lives of a businessman and his family begin to spiral downward after he has an affair at an...
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The Meteor
as The Mother (voice)Forty-something Pierre is serving a fourteen year prison sentence. His mother, who is...
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Caroline
as Narrator (voice)Twenty-four year old Montréaler Caroline works as a sales representative for a telephone...
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Games of the Heart
as uncreditedA woman in love with a musician has a change of heart on her 18th birthday.
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The Last Escape
as La mereChristmas approaches and the Lévesque family has once again gathered for their traditional...
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Yamaska
as Florence BergmanThe lives of three families are forever changed by an unexpected death.
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Viens voir les comédiens
as SelfViens voir les comédiens is a television show on the Canadian French-language arts and culture...
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Shooting Stars
as Mme Lapointe"Les étoiles filantes" is the story of two friends in their late thirties whose lives have taken...
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