Macha Grenon

Macha Grenon

Born: June 7, 1968
in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Macha Grenon is a Montreal-based actress who has been working in film, television and the theatre for the past 20 years. She has received Gemeaux, Gemini and Genie nominations for her work in both French and English including Juliette Pommerleau, Familia, Mon meilleur ennemi, as well as for her role of Nathalie Belding in Ann Wheeler's critically acclaimed CBC production of the Sleep Room.

Movies for Macha Grenon...

Title: The Emperor
Released: January 4, 2023
Type: TV
A charismatic, benevolent young man grows into a tyrannical, ruthless aggressor as his victims come and go.
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Title: Les honorables
Character: Lucie Dessureaux
Released: January 10, 2019
Type: TV
The tragic death of Gabrielle and the acquittal of her killer plunges the Dessureaux family into a living hell.
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Title: Les invisibles
Character: Macha Grenon
Released: January 7, 2019
Type: TV
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Title: Cette année-là
Character: Self
Released: September 15, 2018
Type: TV
A culture show set hosted by Marc Labrèche and his collaborators, Simon Boulerice, Émilie Perreault and Fred Savard. Each week, based on a significant year in history, they revisit a cultural event of a previous era and compare it with today’s yardstick. The hosts and their guests examine subjects that link the chosen year to what’s hot in cultural circles right now.
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Boundaries
Title: Boundaries
Character: Danielle Richard
Released: November 18, 2016
Type: Movie
Emily Price tries to balance family life and leading crunch negotiations between a Canadian politician and the president of a country whose natural resources are being exploited.
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Title: Web thérapie
Character: Maya Ganesh
Released: June 21, 2016
Type: TV
Florence Champagne is a therapist who has very little patience for her patients. She’d had enough of listening to their problems for 50 interminable minutes at a stretch, so she invented a new kind of therapy: 3-minute online video sessions (where she usually ends up becoming the subject, by the way). If you choose her as your therapist, something’s definitely not right…
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April and the Extraordinary World
Title: April and the Extraordinary World
Character: Annette (voice)
Released: November 4, 2015
Type: Movie
France asleep in the nineteenth century, governed by steam and Napoleon VI, where scientists vanish mysteriously, a girl, Avril, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.
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Title: Le chalet
Character: Annabelle
Released: January 13, 2015
Type: TV
Sarah, Lily, Francis and Antoine are all hard-core skiers and snowboarders, and they’re sharing a winter cottage to be as close as possible to the mountain. When Sarah invites her friend Catherine to move in with them for the winter, everyone except Lily is happy to welcome a new addition to the gang. But this new arrival quickly upsets the group dynamics and destabilizes each individual member. Our six friends will soon realize how much the upcoming ski season will be just like their many downhill runs: emotional, eventful and sometimes unbelievable.
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Title: Nouvelle adresse
Character: Nathalie A. Lapointe
Released: September 8, 2014
Type: TV
Nathalie Lapointe is in her early forties, a single mother of three with a successful career as columnist at a major newspaper. Just as she’s starting to think she might be able to pay more attention to her own needs, she gets terrible news: the cancer from which she recovered two years previously is back. How can she break the news to her kids? How can the family plan for the future with this sword of Damocles hanging over them? Despite the shock, life goes on. Nathalie must cope with evolving circumstances at the paper as well as at home. She wonders if she can allow herself to fall in love with her daughters’ school principal. As for her children, they must deal with their own teenage life challenges, all the while knowing that their mother may soon be gone. Nathalie’s best friend and neighbor is particularly hard-hit by the news: she’s already suffering from her husband’s infidelity and from the absence of her son, who is overseas. Nathalie’s misfortune also has a powerful effect on her three siblings. They must re-think their priorities at a time when all three are facing crucial choices in their emotional and professional lives. For Nathalie’s parents Janine and Gérard, her illness makes no sense. How do you face the very real possibility that your child will die before you?
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Title: Deux hommes en or
Character: Self
Released: September 13, 2013
Type: TV
Presented in the form of a large live set, the hosts enlightening interviews with personalities from all walks of life who have made their mark in the news.
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Title: Les pêcheurs
Character: Macha Grenon
Released: September 11, 2013
Type: TV
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1st Love
Title: 1st Love
Character: Marie
Released: June 21, 2013
Type: Movie
Antoine, 13, spends the summer vacation with his parents in a rented cottage on an island in the middle of the Saint-Lawrence River. His neighbour, 17-year-old Anna, is an enigmatic and lively young woman. Antoine begins to experience the first stirrings of love-which soon yield a troubling brew of anxiety, desire and obsession. He eventually comes across a terrible secret that will forever change his life.
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Title: Les bobos
Character: Macha Grenon
Released: September 14, 2012
Type: TV
Two bourgeois-bohemians struggle to stay on the cutting edge of trends and fashion while never sacrificing a single ounce of comfort, style or social conscience.
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Title: Le Tricheur
Character: Self
Released: January 8, 2012
Type: TV
This daily quiz show puts strategy front and centre, as five celebrities answer general-knowledge questions to win money for their favourite charity. But here’s the catch: one of the five participants is cheating, because they’re secretly being fed the answers. The cheater’s mission is to play it smart so they can fool the other players and win the game without getting caught.
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Title: Aubaines & cie
Character: Herself
Released: September 10, 2011
Type: TV
A fun and friendly one-hour magazine program that offers viewers shopping tips and tricks. Whether the topic is health products, fashion or décor matters, travel or pet care, Josée Turmel and Benoît Gagnon seek out expert advice and helps viewers make the best decisions possible!
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Rated R for Nudity
Title: Rated R for Nudity
Character: (voice)
Released: May 13, 2011
Type: Movie
A playful stab at mass hypnosis. Celebrating the mesmerizing power of movies, mischievous glimpses into a subconscious world inhabited by Bergman, Spielberg... and Bo Derek.
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The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom
Title: The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom
Character: Marion
Released: March 4, 2011
Type: Movie
Elizabeth Alison Gray is just your average suburban 11-year old waiting for adolescence to arrive when she finds out her whole life has been a lie. With only her imagination to guide her, she runs away to find the truth.
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Barney's Version
Title: Barney's Version
Character: Solange
Released: October 26, 2010
Type: Movie
The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky.
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The Child Prodigy
Title: The Child Prodigy
Character: Mimi Mathieu
Released: May 28, 2010
Type: Movie
On the keyboard, the young hands fly rapidly and the melody rises. For the child, nothing is easier; he hears the sounds in his head. These hands belong to 6 years old André Mathieu. He won his audiences and fired up concerts halls in London, New York, Paris and around the world. Adulated, hailed, praised, the child prodigy seemed to have everything to succeed. From the top of his vertiginous successes, to depths of torment, the life of the "Little Canadian Mozart" blends into his music. A romantic and passionate composer wishing for happiness, his story is nevertheless played on tragic notes.
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Title: Club social
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 2008
Type: TV
A magazine show about culture and trends and how they can shape society in unexpected ways.
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Secrets of the Summer House
Title: Secrets of the Summer House
Character: Professor Jill Ambrose
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
Hosting a new exhibit, artist Nikki Wickersham, (Lindsay Price) and her husband George Wickersham, (David Jones) are called out to Maine to sort through his father's belongings after he dies. Arriving there to find they've inherited an island with a large mansion on it, they quickly learn of an old story surrounding the house about it being haunted through the years, yet friends Margie Mancuso, (Sadie LeBlanc) and Peter Hughes, (Niall Matter) convince them to stay there anyway. While working on a special project, a series of strange events around the house has them convinced that the house has indeed a spirit roused by a secret from the past, and they work to rid it from their house before it strikes them as well.
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The Secret
Title: The Secret
Character: Tara Corbett
Released: October 10, 2007
Type: Movie
Husband, wife, and daughter have moved from Boston to Williamstown. At 16, Samantha treats her mother shabbily, but when the two of them are in a horrific car crash, the mother wills Sam to live, somehow losing her own life while her spirit enters Sam.
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Days of Darkness
Title: Days of Darkness
Character: Béatrice de Savoie
Released: September 26, 2007
Type: Movie
Jean-Marc is a man without qualities living in times that are out of joint. His wife and children ignore him; he's a mid-level government functionary in Montreal doing his job without care. He has an active imagination of sexual conquest, but his only real feelings come when he visits his aged mother, whose health is failing. When his wife leaves abruptly to work in Toronto, Jean-Marc sets out to reorder things with his daughters, his social life, and at work. In a world that at best is a farce, does he stand a chance?
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Title: Bon Voyage
Character: Sarah
Released: October 24, 2006
Type: TV
When Neil and Elizabeth take their children on a camping holiday to France, they find themselves continually bumping into over-friendly couple Simon and Linda. Elizabeth finds the couple weird, but when they begin to spot Simon and Linda's campervan in their rear view mirror, and a young boy goes missing from the campsite, they realise the couple are more than creepy....they're dangerous.
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Familia
Title: Familia
Released: September 15, 2005
Type: Movie
When gambling addict Michele moves in with her childhood friend Janine, their teenaged daughter’s burgeoning friendship produces both humorous and heartbreaking results.
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Title: Le cœur a ses raisons
Character: Megan Barrington-Montgomery
Released: February 3, 2005
Type: TV
In the fictional city of Saint Andrews, Brett Montgomery, a wealthy cosmetics businessman and doctor at the local hospital, and Brad, his evil twin brother, battle for control of the Montgomery family fortune. Brett’s fiancée, Cricket, is a journalist with the local television station and has a twin sister, Ashley, who is a nurse at the hospital.
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Daniel and the Superdogs
Title: Daniel and the Superdogs
Character: Julie
Released: October 27, 2004
Type: Movie
A young boy still recovering from his mother's recent death teams with his two best friends to turn a regular pooch into a stunt-performing super-dog in this affectionate comedy for the whole family. Losing a parent is never easy, but for 11 year old Daniel it's been especially hard; when his father dives into work in an attempt to keep his grief at bay, Daniel starts causing mischief around the neighborhood with his best friends William and Colin. When the kids catch wind of a canine.
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Title: Il va y avoir du sport
Character: Self
Released: September 17, 2004
Type: TV
A program that tackles major subjects – human, political, cultural, economic and ethical issues – and presents them in a debate format that encourages lively discussion.
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Title: Tout le monde en parle
Character: Self
Released: September 12, 2004
Type: TV
Host Guy A. Lepage brings together six to eight personalities from different milieus—sports, politics, stage productions and more—that are the subject of everyone’s conversations and/or are important figures in recent events. Participants are invited to speak freely, voicing their opinions on headline news or on a subject that is near and dear to them. 
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The Barbarian Invasions
Title: The Barbarian Invasions
Character: Arielle
Released: September 24, 2003
Type: Movie
In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. His ex-wife, Louise, asks their estranged son, Sebastian, a successful businessman living in London, to come home. Sebastian makes the impossible happen, using his contacts and disrupting the Canadian healthcare system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while reuniting some of Remy's old friends, including Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude, who return to see their friend before he passes on.
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Title: Viens voir les comédiens
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 2002
Type: TV
Viens voir les comédiens is a television show on the Canadian French-language arts and culture television network ARTV.
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Dead Awake
Title: Dead Awake
Character: W.D.
Released: November 6, 2001
Type: Movie
An insomniac who walks the streets at night witnesses a murder which triggers a strange chain of events.
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Family Pack
Title: Family Pack
Character: Odile
Released: July 4, 2001
Type: Movie
A young woman tries to ease herself out of the closet without terrifying her parents in the process in this comedy-drama. The year is 1969, and Sacha (Marie Bunel) is a young Belgian woman living in Canada. Sacha's family sent her to Canada to attend medical school, but she hasn't had the heart to tell them that she's dropped out of college to devote herself to her new interest in photography. Sacha also hasn't told her parents that she's a lesbian -- and that she has a new girlfriend, Odile (Macha Grenon). Odile is tired of being kept a secret, and insists that Sacha tell her parents the truth before American astronauts land on the moon in a few months -- or else. Sacha flies home to Belgium for a visit, planning to come clean to her folks, but she discovers they've arranged a huge welcome home party for the entire neighborhood. With everyone so excited that the soon-to-be-doctor is paying them a visit, Sacha wonders when the time will be right to give her family the news.
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Stardom
Title: Stardom
Character: Model Agency Owner
Released: October 13, 2000
Type: Movie
A young girl is plucked from small-town obscurity and thrust into the spotlight of the glamorous world of super-models.
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Café Olé
Title: Café Olé
Character: Karen Kaye
Released: September 24, 2000
Type: Movie
Malcolm's (28) new love, Alicia (25), an illegal Chilean refugee, will be short-lived if he does not make the right choice.
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The Little Match Girl
Title: The Little Match Girl
Character: Adriana (voice)
Released: October 20, 1999
Type: Movie
Three-time Caldecott Honor artist Jerry Pinkney brings new relevance to the classic Hans Christian Andersen story The wintry streets of an American city are thronged with shoppers, in preparation for New Year's Eve. But no one is interested in buying the matches and artificial flowers offered by one little girl. Wishing to avoid the cold welcome awaiting her at home, she lights her matches for what little heat they can provide. The visions that she sees in their flickering glow warm her spirit, even as the brutal cold of night destroys her body.
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The Windsor Protocol
Title: The Windsor Protocol
Character: Catherine
Released: November 10, 1998
Type: Movie
Based on the novels by Jack Higgins, Sean Dillon is a maverick British agent who uncovers a plot to take over the presidency of the United States.
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You Can Thank Me Later
Title: You Can Thank Me Later
Character: Linda
Released: May 23, 1998
Type: Movie
In this Canadian comedy-drama, Shirley Cooperberg heads a Montreal Jewish family. During her husband's operation, her brood arrives at the hospital -- failed writer Eli, neurotic Susan, and successful theatrical producer Edward. An onslaught of one-liners find targets amid sibling rivalries and angst-ridden animosities.
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The Sleep Room
Title: The Sleep Room
Released: March 31, 1998
Type: Movie
At the height of the cold war, the C.I.A. secretly funded Dr. Ewen Cameron, director of the Allan Memorial Institute, and his experimental research into brainwashing techniques. Twenty-five years later, the last nine survivors of those gruesome experiments fight to expose the truth...of The Sleep Room.
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Coyote Run
Title: Coyote Run
Character: Seira
Released: June 17, 1997
Type: Movie
A traumatized Vietnam veteran crosses paths with a mobster on the run with $15 million, and takes it as an opportunity to play the hero and heal in the process.
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The Haven
Title: The Haven
Character: Claire Ricard
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Police detective Jacques Laniel's life becomes a nightmare the day drive-by shootists gun down his partner Thomas Colin. His colleagues make matters worse by blaming him for the death, and after his wife leaves him, Laniel decides to quit the force and launch a private investigation into Colin's murder. Soon afterward, Laniel finds the bullet-riddled body of famed author and literature professor Zachary Osborne tied to his car hood. The professor's wife hires Laniel to solve the murder, but what the detective finds is ugly: Osborne was a part of a lucrative land-speculation deal that involved the sale of a crumbling old rectory that had been turned into a halfway house called the Haven of the Monsters. The name is apt, for all the residents are convicted killers who were given inordinately light sentences. When Lanier starts questioning the Haven's tenants and their crimes are revealed via flashback, it takes on the character of a David Lynch production.
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L'homme idéal
Title: L'homme idéal
Character: Virginie
Released: May 29, 1996
Type: Movie
Marie, incapable of choosing between three marriage proposals, decides to give up. Circumstances mean that the three men meet. Far from being hostile, Stéphane, Fabrice and Paul console each other....
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Mistaken Person
Title: Mistaken Person
Character: Maria
Released: May 26, 1995
Type: Movie
Charles Renard, a police officer who has lost his hearing following an ear injury during an operation, is entrusted upon his return to work with the investigation of credit card thefts committed by a woman who uses newspaper classified ads to lure her prey.
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Les Légendes du Grand Nord
Title: Les Légendes du Grand Nord
Released: March 25, 1995
Type: Movie
A mixed group of adventurers searches for Esperanza, a legendary gold treasure, in the Yukon territory in this Jack London-based tale.
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The Myth of the Male Orgasm
Title: The Myth of the Male Orgasm
Character: Paula
Released: May 28, 1993
Type: Movie
The excesses of feminism and political correctness come in for some serious ribbing in this Canadian comedy, which might just give Rush Limbaugh a belly-laugh or two, along with anyone else who has ever thought that his pet term "feminazi" was humorous. In the story, Jimmy (Bruce Dinsmore) is having a mid-life crisis, and in order to get a handle on why he has so much trouble with women, decides to participate in a college-sponsored study on male sexuality. What he doesn't know is that the study is being run by some extremely radical, doctrinaire feminists, and that he's in for a nightmarish grilling. He shows up for his first sessions, is blindfolded, and is then put through his paces as a relentless female interrogator puts him constantly on the defensive for everything he has ever done with women throughout his entire life.
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Title: Scoop
Character: Stéphanie Rousseau
Released: January 8, 1992
Type: TV
Follow both the professional and personal lives of reporters working for The Express, a daily Montréal Newspaper.
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Heritage Minutes: Underground Railroad
Title: Heritage Minutes: Underground Railroad
Character: Young Girl
Released: March 31, 1991
Type: Movie
An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.
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The Pianist
Title: The Pianist
Released: January 31, 1991
Type: Movie
Jean and her sister, played by Macha Grenon, have a life long infatuation with the Japanese Pianist who once lived across the street from them during their high school years. The film is set during the family's reunion on Vancouver Island and flashes back and forth over the last 10 years. By coincidence, Yoshi who is now a world famous Pianist is giving a concert in Vancouver and Amy is anxious to see him again but her sister curiously is not at all interested. The girls explore old passions, stalking, sibling rivalry and wrong life choice based on the fantasies of their youth.
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Power Games
Title: Power Games
Character: Kiddie
Released: November 30, 1989
Type: Movie
A group of teenagers training for the national Power Commando championship games mistakenly find themselves on land owned by drug merchants. With only harmless paint bullets as their weapons, they must match their skills against live ammunition and the ruthless men behind it.
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Liberace: Behind the Music
Title: Liberace: Behind the Music
Character: Joanne
Released: October 8, 1988
Type: Movie
A gifted classical pianist, fueled by poverty, Wladiziu Valentino Liberace was already playing with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the age of 17. Through a variety of his highs and lows, chaptered in TV-style format, Liberace's life from his early years through his death are chronicled.
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Coeur de nylon
Title: Coeur de nylon
Character: Marianne
Released: August 28, 1988
Type: Movie
A bum named Richard (Yves Desgagnés) is like many others, apart he always carries a red suitcase with him everywhere he goes, from which a curled wire is attached to his chest. This is very intriguing to young runaway Christian (Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge), who finds refuge at Christian's place.