Frédérique Collin
Frédérique Collin (born 1944 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian actress, screenwriter and film director.[1] She is most noted for her performance in Marie in the City (Marie s'en va-t'en ville),[2] for which she received a Genie Award nomination for Best Actress at the 9th Genie Awards.[3]
Her other acting credits have included the films Réjeanne Padovani, Once Upon a Time in the East (Il était une fois dans l'est), Gina,[4] Lucien Brouillard, To Be Sixteen (Avoir 16 ans), Lessons on Life (Trois pommes à côté du sommeil) and Au fil de l'eau,[5] and the television series Témoignages and Fortier. Her stage roles included productions of Anne Legault's Conte d'hiver 70[6] and Michel Tremblay's High Mass for a Full Moon of Summer (Messe solonnelle pour une pleine lune d'été).[7]
She was also co-director and co-writer with Paule Baillargeon of the 1980 film La cuisine rouge.[8]
She dropped out of acting after 2003, reemerging in the early 2010s as a mental health and art therapy advocate after going public about her battles with alcoholism, drug addiction and compulsive gambling.[9]
References
- ^ "FRÉDÉRIQUE COLLIN : ESPRIT DE RÉVOLTE" Voir, January 13, 2000.
- ^ "Marie proves to be just another hooker with a heart of gold". Toronto Star, August 26, 1988.
- ^ "Quebec film picks up 14 nominations Zoo paces race for Genies". The Globe and Mail, February 17, 1988.
- ^ "Arcand, long before Stardom". Toronto Star, February 25, 2001.
- ^ "7 actors in search of a plot". Montreal Gazette, March 7, 2003.
- ^ "Play about October Crisis wallows in banal realism, goes nowhere". Montreal Gazette, February 17, 1992.
- ^ "THEATRE REVIEW MESSE SOLONNELLE POUR UNE PLEINE LUNE D'ETE". The Globe and Mail, February 23, 1996.
- ^ "Paule Baillargeon and Philippe Baylaucq named cineastes en residence". Canada NewsWire, April 8, 2009.
- ^ "L'art comme issue de secours". La Presse, December 10, 2010.
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