Acting
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).
Filmography
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La petite séduction
Dany Turcotte invites celebrities to discover a small rural towns in unexpected and surprising ways. Events are...
Le match des étoiles
A dance-off where stars learn, prepare and present dance routines that they must show to a select panel of judg...
Viens voir les comédiens
Viens voir les comédiens is a television show on the Canadian French-language arts and culture television netwo...
Yamaska
The lives of three families are forever changed by an unexpected death.
Le temps d'une paix
Léolo
The story of an imaginative boy who pretends he is the child of a sperm-laden Sicilian tomato upon which his mo...
Shooting Stars
"Les étoiles filantes" is the story of two friends in their late thirties whose lives have taken very different...
En tout cas
Grande Ourse
Jesus of Montreal
A group of actors putting on an interpretive Passion Play in Montreal begin to experience a meshing of their ch...
Dear Father
In Caro papá, Dino Risi is telling the story of the decadent lifestyle, and dysfunctional family, of a wealthy...
The Last Escape
Christmas approaches and the Lévesque family has once again gathered for their traditional celebration. But thi...
Daniel and the Superdogs
A young boy still recovering from his mother's recent death teams with his two best friends to turn a regular p...
Nelligan
This historical drama with music examines the life and times of Émile Nelligan, one of the major Canadian poets...
And the Birds Rained Down
A photographer sets off toward a mysterious forest to find Boychuk, witness and victim of the Great Fire that s...
Cap Tourmente
Alex has a deeply troubled mind. He also has a seriously dysfunctional - not to say incestuous - family. Why th...
Dans le ventre du dragon
The title of this French-Canadian film translates to In the Belly of the Dragon, but don't assume that it's jus...
The Passion of Augustine
The nuns of a musical convent work hard in order to prevent the religious school from closing.
Route 132
Two old friends and small-time crooks embark on a crime spree, but take an unexpected detour that could lead th...
Don't Let the Angels Fall
The lives of a businessman and his family begin to spiral downward after he has an affair at an insurance conve...
Moody Beach
A man and a woman, who are both trying to run away from the banalities of life, fall in love.
The Meteor
Forty-something Pierre is serving a fourteen year prison sentence. His mother, who is approaching eighty, visit...
Straight for the Heart
Pierre is a Montreal photojournalist who returns from Nicaragua to find that his ten-year menage a trois is ove...
...Comme un voleur
A garagist must take care of his sick mother and irresponsible brother.
Happy Memories
A woman attempts to resume her place in the family that she abandoned years earlier.
Rope Around the Neck
A misfit desperately looking for the murderer who has just killed his wife.
A Family Secret
A woman learns secrets about her family while attending the funeral of her father.
Albertine in Five Times
YUL 871
An engineer from Paris flies to Montreal, partly on business, partly in search of parents displaced by World Wa...
Les beaux dimanches
Caroline
Twenty-four year old Montréaler Caroline works as a sales representative for a telephone company. She's married...
La pension des étranges
Games of the Heart
A woman in love with a musician has a change of heart on her 18th birthday.
Echo
Built up on a structure of an international noir thriller, Echo starts as from a devastating terrorist assault...