Monique Mercure

Monique Mercure
Born	November 14, 1930 (1930-11-14) (age 80) Montreal, Quebec

Monique Mercure, CC (born November 14, 1930) is a Canadian actress.

Career

Mercure was born in Montreal, Quebec. At the 1977 Cannes Film Festival she won the award for Best Actress for the film J.A. Martin Photographer.^[1] She also won the Canadian Film Award for best actress for the same film (in the same year.)

In 1992 she won a Genie award for her role as Fadela in The Naked Lunch.

In 1979, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 1993.

In 1999, she won another Genie award for her role as Grace Gallagher, an elderly resident in Conquest set in Conquest, Saskatchewan.

She has received the Canadian Governor General's Award for Performing Arts, the Prix Denise Pelletier and the Prix Gascon Roux du Théâtre du Nouveau Monde. In 2006, she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. ^[1]

References

1. ^ "Festival de Cannes: J.A. Martin Photographer". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/2015/year/1977.html. Retrieved 2009-05-10. 

External links

• Monique Mercure at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Mercure, Monique
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Date of birth	November 14, 1930
Place of birth	Montreal, Quebec
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