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    Louise Forestier

    1943-08-10 (81 years old) in Shawinigan, Québec, Canada

    Louise Forestier (born Louise Belhumeur on August 10, 1942) is a Canadian singer, songwriter and actress. Born in Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada, Forestier was trained in acting at the National Theatre School in Montreal, but it was as a singer that she first became known in 1966, when she received the Renée Claude Trophy from Le Patriote, a boîte à chansons in east-end Montreal, and was named Discovery of the Year on the Radio-Canada TV program Jeunesse Oblige. In 1968 she was part of the extraordinarily successful revue L'Osstidcho, followed the next year by L'Osstidchomeurt with Robert Charlebois, Yvon Deschamps and Mouffe. She and Charlebois recorded the landmark song "Lindberg'" and toured France in 1969. In April 1970 Forestier starred in the Michel Tremblay, François Dompierre musical, Demain matin Montréal m'attend. She continued with acting, appearing in Jacques Godbout's 1972 film IXE-13, singing on the original film score. Forestier topped the Quebec charts in 1973 with a version of the folk song "La Prison de Londres", performed with guitarist Claude Lafrance, and pianist Jacques Perron. With this song Forestier started to turn away from the hard rock of her early career to a repertoire largely inspired by Quebec folk music, and to a more personal style, which she continued through the 1970s. In 1980 Forestier played Marie-Jeanne, the robot waitress in the Montreal production Luc Plamondon, Michel Berger rock opera Starmania. Two years later, with Plamondon as producer, she staged the hit show Je suis au rendez-vous. This was the first of a series of shows in the 1980s, culminating in an appearance with Belgian singer Maurane as part of the Francofolies de Montréal in 1989. In 1990 she appeared at the Place-des-Arts in Montreal as Émilie Nelligan, the mother of the poet in the romantic opera Nelligan by Michel Tremblay and André Gagnon. Forestier defended Yann Martel's novel Histoire de Pi in the French version of Canada Reads, which was broadcast on Radio-Canada in 2004. In March 2019, she was one of 11 singers from Quebec, alongside Ginette Reno, Diane Dufresne, Céline Dion, Isabelle Boulay, Luce Dufault, Laurence Jalbert, Catherine Major, Ariane Moffatt, Marie Denise Pelletier and Marie-Élaine Thibert, who participated in a supergroup recording of Renée Claude's 1971 single "Tu trouveras la paix" after Claude's diagnosis with Alzheimer's disease was announced. Source: Article "Louise Forestier" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

    Movies

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    L'osstidquoi ? L'osstidcho!
    0 %|Aug 24, 2023
    Documentary, Music
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    Dying Alive
    0 %|Dec 17, 2021
    Drama
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    2 Seconds
    45 %|Sep 12, 1998
    Drama, Romance
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    The Postmistress
    40 %|Apr 10, 1992
    Comedy
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    Angel Life
    0 %|Mar 25, 1979
    Comedy, Drama
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    Orders
    74 %|Sep 27, 1974
    Drama, History
    actor
    Backyard Theatre
    0 %|Jan 1, 1973
    Documentary
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    IXE-13
    56 %|Jan 26, 1972
    Comedy
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    Hold on to Daddy's Ears
    0 %|Dec 25, 1971
    Comedy

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    La semaine des 4 Julie
    20 %|Jan 6, 2020
    Talk
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    On va se le dire
    20 %|Sep 9, 2019
    Talk
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    Bonsoir bonsoir!
    40 %|Apr 1, 2019
    Talk
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    Kebec
    0 %|Jan 8, 2019
    Documentary, Family
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    Y'a du monde à messe
    75 %|May 12, 2017
    Talk
    actor
    Vox pop
    100 %|Apr 19, 2016
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    Les enfants de la télé
    65 %|Sep 15, 2010
    Talk
    actor
    Épitaphe
    0 %|Nov 8, 2018
    Documentary
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    Cette année-là
    0 %|Sep 15, 2018
    Talk
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    Viens-tu faire un tour?
    0 %|May 25, 2014
    Talk
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    Tic tac show
    0 %|Sep 16, 2013
    actor
    La liste
    0 %|Aug 19, 2009
    actor
    Les p'tites vues
    0 %|Apr 4, 2007
    Documentary
    actor
    La petite séduction
    20 %|May 1, 2006
    Documentary
    actor
    Le match des étoiles
    0 %|Oct 5, 2005
    Reality
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    Numéro un
    60 %|Apr 5, 1975
    Reality
    actor
    Samedi soir
    60 %|Jan 9, 1971
    Talk