Celebrity Biographies
Monique Mercure
He won the acting award at the Cannes Film Festival. Canadian Monique Mercure died on May 17, 2020, of cancer, at the age of 89, at the St. Raphael’s House palliative hospital in Montreal, where she remained hospitalized. “We have lost a great actress. Monique Mercure has had a profound impact on generations of Canadians. She helped promote Quebec cinema beyond our borders and her legacy will live on through her work. My thoughts are with her loved ones today,” said Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of the North American country.
Born November 14, 1930, in Montreal, Marie Lise Monique Emond (her birth name) studied music and married composer Pierre Mercure in 1949. They had three children before separating in 1958. She studied acting at l’École Jacques -Lecoq, from Paris, before returning to Montreal, where she began her film career, with titles such as Mon oncle Antoine , by Claude Jutra and JA Martin photographe , by Jean Beaudin , for which she won the Best Actress award at Cannes .
In addition to lavishing himself on stage, he was under the orders of great filmmakers, such as David Cronenberg , in Naked Lunch , Claude Chabrol, in With the Blood of Others, Robert Altman , in Quintet and François Girard , in The Red Violin .