Pascale Bussières (born June 27, 1968) is a French Canadian
actress.Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Pascale Bussières first
attracted attention as a suicidal teenager in Micheline Lanctôt’s
1984 film Sonatine; however, it was Blanche, the 1993 Radio-Canada
series directed by Charles Binamé that gave her star status in
Quebec. After Blanche, and then a lead in Binamé’s Generation-X
picture Eldorado, Bussières became the 1990s heir to Geneviève
Bujold and Carole Laure â€" the most charismatic actress of her
generation. It’s a measure of Bussières’s range as an actress
that her follow-up to Eldorado was the role of a prim-and-proper
mythology teacher who discovers her lesbian desires in Patricia
Rozema's When Night Is Falling. She also gives a standout performance
as an alienated fashion model who wants to conceive a child in Denis
Villeneuve's debut feature, August 32nd on Earth (Un 32 août sur
terre), and won both the 2004 Best Actress Prix Jutra and Genie Award
for her dramatic impersonation of Quebec singing star Alys Robi in
Bittersweet Memories (Ma vie en cinemascope).
actress.Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Pascale Bussières first
attracted attention as a suicidal teenager in Micheline Lanctôt’s
1984 film Sonatine; however, it was Blanche, the 1993 Radio-Canada
series directed by Charles Binamé that gave her star status in
Quebec. After Blanche, and then a lead in Binamé’s Generation-X
picture Eldorado, Bussières became the 1990s heir to Geneviève
Bujold and Carole Laure â€" the most charismatic actress of her
generation. It’s a measure of Bussières’s range as an actress
that her follow-up to Eldorado was the role of a prim-and-proper
mythology teacher who discovers her lesbian desires in Patricia
Rozema's When Night Is Falling. She also gives a standout performance
as an alienated fashion model who wants to conceive a child in Denis
Villeneuve's debut feature, August 32nd on Earth (Un 32 août sur
terre), and won both the 2004 Best Actress Prix Jutra and Genie Award
for her dramatic impersonation of Quebec singing star Alys Robi in
Bittersweet Memories (Ma vie en cinemascope).
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