Geneviève Bujold (French pronunciation: ​[Ê'É™nvjÉ›v byÊ'o]; born
July 1, 1942) is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her
portrayal of Anne Boleyn in the film Anne of the Thousand Days (1969),
for which she won a Golden Globe Award and received an Academy Award
nomination. Subsequent film credits include The Trojan Women (1971),
Earthquake (1974), Obsession (1976), Coma (1978), Murder by Decree
(1979), Tightrope (1984), Choose Me (1984), Dead Ringers (1988), The
House of Yes (1997), and Still Mine (2012).Bujold was born in
Montreal, Quebec, the daughter of Laurette (née Cavanagh), a maid,
and Joseph Firmin Bujold, a bus driver. She is of French Canadian
descent, with distant Irish ancestry.Bujold received a strict convent
education for twelve years, which she disliked. She was expelled from
the convent for reportedly reading Fanny by Marcel Pagnol. She entered
the Montreal Conservatory of Dramatic Art, where she was trained in
the classics of French theatre.Two months before she was to graduate
she made her stage debut as Rosine in Le Barbier de Séville in 1961
with Theatre de Gesu. She quit the school and was rarely out of work,
being in demand for radio, stage, TV and film. Bujold made her TV
debut with Le square (1963), a 60-minute TV film based on a play by
Maguerite Duras co-starring Georges Groulx. She was in episodes of
Jeudi-théâtre ("Atout... Meurtre") and Les belles histoires des pays
d'en haut ("La terre de Bidou") and guest starred on Ti-Jean caribou.
Her Canadian feature film debut was in Amanita Pestilens (1963). She
was then in an international co production La fleur de l'âge, ou Les
adolescentes (1964) and had a lead role in La terre à boire (1964),
the first Quebec feature to be privately financed. Bujold starred in
two 30 minute shorts, La fin des étés (1964) and Geneviève (1964).
She toured Canada performing plays also worked steadily in radio and
was voted actress of the year in Montreal.
July 1, 1942) is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her
portrayal of Anne Boleyn in the film Anne of the Thousand Days (1969),
for which she won a Golden Globe Award and received an Academy Award
nomination. Subsequent film credits include The Trojan Women (1971),
Earthquake (1974), Obsession (1976), Coma (1978), Murder by Decree
(1979), Tightrope (1984), Choose Me (1984), Dead Ringers (1988), The
House of Yes (1997), and Still Mine (2012).Bujold was born in
Montreal, Quebec, the daughter of Laurette (née Cavanagh), a maid,
and Joseph Firmin Bujold, a bus driver. She is of French Canadian
descent, with distant Irish ancestry.Bujold received a strict convent
education for twelve years, which she disliked. She was expelled from
the convent for reportedly reading Fanny by Marcel Pagnol. She entered
the Montreal Conservatory of Dramatic Art, where she was trained in
the classics of French theatre.Two months before she was to graduate
she made her stage debut as Rosine in Le Barbier de Séville in 1961
with Theatre de Gesu. She quit the school and was rarely out of work,
being in demand for radio, stage, TV and film. Bujold made her TV
debut with Le square (1963), a 60-minute TV film based on a play by
Maguerite Duras co-starring Georges Groulx. She was in episodes of
Jeudi-théâtre ("Atout... Meurtre") and Les belles histoires des pays
d'en haut ("La terre de Bidou") and guest starred on Ti-Jean caribou.
Her Canadian feature film debut was in Amanita Pestilens (1963). She
was then in an international co production La fleur de l'âge, ou Les
adolescentes (1964) and had a lead role in La terre à boire (1964),
the first Quebec feature to be privately financed. Bujold starred in
two 30 minute shorts, La fin des étés (1964) and Geneviève (1964).
She toured Canada performing plays also worked steadily in radio and
was voted actress of the year in Montreal.
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