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Louise Forestier

Louise Forestier (born Louise Belhumeur on August 10, 1942) is a Canadian singer, songwriter and actress. Born in Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada, Forestier was trained in acting at the National Theatre School in Montreal, but it was as a singer that she first became known in 1966, when she received the Renée Claude Trophy from Le Patriote, a boîte à chansons in east-end Montreal, and was named Discovery of the Year on the Radio-Canada TV program Jeunesse Oblige. In 1968 she was part of the extraordinarily successful revue L'Osstidcho, followed the next year by L'Osstidchomeurt with Robert Charlebois, Yvon Deschamps and Mouffe. She and Charlebois recorded the landmark song "Lindberg'" and toured France in 1969. In April 1970 Forestier starred in the Michel Tremblay, François Dompierre musical, Demain matin Montréal m'attend. She continued with acting, appearing in Jacques Godbout's 1972 film IXE-13, singing on the original film score. Forestier topped the Quebec charts in 1973 with a version of the folk song "La Prison de Londres", performed with guitarist Claude Lafrance, and pianist Jacques Perron. With this song Forestier started to turn away from the hard rock of her early career to a repertoire largely inspired by Quebec folk music, and to a more personal style, which she continued through the 1970s. In 1980 Forestier played Marie-Jeanne, the robot waitress in the Montreal production Luc Plamondon, Michel Berger rock opera Starmania. Two years later, with Plamondon as producer, she staged the hit show Je suis au rendez-vous. This was the first of a series of shows in the 1980s, culminating in an appearance with Belgian singer Maurane as part of the Francofolies de Montréal in 1989. In 1990 she appeared at the Place-des-Arts in Montreal as Émilie Nelligan, the mother of the poet in the romantic opera Nelligan by Michel Tremblay and André Gagnon. Forestier defended Yann Martel's novel Histoire de Pi in the French version of Canada Reads, which was broadcast on Radio-Canada in 2004. In March 2019, she was one of 11 singers from Quebec, alongside Ginette Reno, Diane Dufresne, Céline Dion, Isabelle Boulay, Luce Dufault, Laurence Jalbert, Catherine Major, Ariane Moffatt, Marie Denise Pelletier and Marie-Élaine Thibert, who participated in a supergroup recording of Renée Claude's 1971 single "Tu trouveras la paix" after Claude's diagnosis with Alzheimer's disease was announced. Source: Article "Louise Forestier" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.


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Born:
Aug 10, 1943 In Shawinigan, Québec, Canada
Movie/TV Credits:
30
First Appeared:
In the series Le Grand spectacle de la Fête nationale à Montréal
Latest Project:
Movie L'osstidquoi ? L'osstidcho! 2023-08-24
Known For
Poster of L'osstidquoi ? L'osstidcho!
Poster of Dying Alive
Poster of Le Grand spectacle de la Fête nationale dans la Capitale
Poster of Backyard Theatre
Filmography
Series Le Grand spectacle de la Fête nationale à Montréal Self 2025
Movie L'osstidquoi ? L'osstidcho! Herself 2023-08-24
Movie Dying Alive Françoise (voice) 2021-12-17
Series La semaine des 4 Julie Self 2020-01-06
Series Kebec Self 2019-01-08
Series On va se le dire Self 2019-09-09
Series Bonsoir bonsoir! Self 2019-04-01
Series Cette année-là Self 2018-09-15
Series Épitaphe Self 2018-11-08
Series Y'a du monde à messe Self 2017-05-12
Series Vox pop Self 2016-04-19
Series Viens-tu faire un tour? Self 2014-05-25
Series Tic tac show Self 2013-09-16
Series Les enfants de la télé Self 2010-09-15
Series La liste Self 2009-08-19
Series Les p'tites vues Self 2007-04-04
Series La petite séduction Self 2006-05-01
Series Le match des étoiles Self 2005-10-05
Movie 2 Seconds Mom 1998-09-12
Series Le Grand spectacle de la Fête nationale dans la Capitale Self 1998-06-23
Movie The Postmistress La mairesse 1992-04-10
Movie Angel Life 1979-03-25
Movie Ti-Cul Tougas, ou, Le bout de la vie 1976-10-08
Series Numéro un Self 1975-04-05
Movie Orders Claudette Dusseault 1974-09-27
Movie Backyard Theatre 1973-01-01
Movie IXE-13 Taya, Gisèle Dubœuf, Lydia Johnson 1972-01-26
Movie The Wise Guys Narratrice 1972-03-20
Series Samedi soir Self 1971-01-09
Movie Hold on to Daddy's Ears Armande Lebel 1971-12-25