Dominique Quesnel

Dominique Quesnel

Born: March 8, 1964
in Saint-Lambert, Quebec, Canada
Dominique Quesnel is a Quebec actress born March 8, 1964 in Saint-Lambert . A percussionist, she is also a founding member of the musical group Les Secretaires percutantes.

Movies for Dominique Quesnel...

Title: L'air d'aller
Character: Odile Lortie
Released: March 23, 2023
Type: TV
The touching story of four friends in their 20s who need some air, literally. They have all been diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. With their urgency to live, they make every day memorable, for better and for worse!
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Title: Motel Paradis
Character: Julie Richard
Released: October 27, 2022
Type: TV
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Laughter
Title: Laughter
Character: La mère
Released: January 31, 2020
Type: Movie
As a civil war shakes the Quebec province of Canada, Valerie is the sole survivor of a mass execution where her boyfriend is killed. Years later, she’s in a close relationship with her new partner, Gabriel. At the Long Term Care Center where she works as an orderly, she befriends Jeanne, an erudite and funny woman, dealing with an important physical handicap. Mixing realism and worrying strangeness, The Laugh presents a humane exploration of the survivor’s syndrome, the grieving process, the distance of time, the power of love, and the joy of being alive.
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Title: The Wall
Character: Hélène Fournier
Released: December 12, 2019
Type: TV
Fermont: A remote mining colony in the endless frozen hell that is Canada's far North. The body of a young exotic dancer is found and the Quebec City police sends one of their toughest, most experienced detectives to investigate. Céline sure is always up for a challenge. Being cooped up in the massive structure that is the colony – the inhabitants simply call it “The Wall” – soon presents her with some challenges that exceed her investigative efforts.
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Pauline Julien, Intimate and Political
Title: Pauline Julien, Intimate and Political
Character: Elle-même (voix)
Released: September 21, 2018
Type: Movie
With a meticulous selection of interviews, performances and photos drawn from a vast and rich archival collection, Pauline Julien, Intimate and Political follows the iconic Quebec singer and eternally free spirit on a journey through key moments in the province’s history.
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Yolanda
Title: Yolanda
Character: L’itinérante
Released: February 25, 2018
Type: Movie
Coming from the countryside to visit a friend, Solange 75, rediscovers Montreal. She talks to everyone with confidence and does some portraits of the people she meets. She meets Tom, a younger, moody and disillusioned man. Fictional scenes are interwoven with documentary scenes: portraits of Montrealers and snatches of conversations taken from life.
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Le Pier
Title: Le Pier
Released: January 1, 2014
Type: Movie
What do we know about childhood other than the constructions we make of it? A little girl died inside the day her father left. As an adult, she is still there, frozen, stuck in the sand, ready to dissolve in the storm of her childhood. But is he really gone? Can memory lie to us? A film where characters from the past are transformed into actors in the present. A cinematic essay, based on images that the filmmaker has filmed over the years and family archives dating from the 1940s, all shot in the same place, on the same beach in Old Orchard, Maine, USA.
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The Torrent
Title: The Torrent
Character: Dominique
Released: October 26, 2012
Type: Movie
It’s 1922 in the Quebec countryside, and Claudine Perreault has big plans for her son, François. He’ll enter the priesthood so that God will forgive her for bearing a child out of wedlock. But 17-year-old François is dead set against joining the seminary. Enraged, Claudine strikes him so violently he goes deaf. After his mother’s death, François begins a different kind of relationship with a woman when he buys the wild and aloof young Amica from an Innu peddler.
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Seven Days
Title: Seven Days
Character: Marise Pleau
Released: June 22, 2010
Type: Movie
Like many happy people, Bruno Hamel is leading an uneventful life until one afternoon, when his daughter is raped and murdered. When the murderer is arrested, a terrible project germinates in Bruno's darkened mind. He plans to capture the "monster" and make him pay for his crime.
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Cruising Bar 2
Title: Cruising Bar 2
Character: Stuntwoman
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
Fifteen years later, the heroes from Cruising Bar may hardly have changed but the world around them most certainly has! For the Bull, reality is brutal. His wife of 30 years, sick of his infidelity, decides to show him the door. But the Bull, who has a positive outlook on life, isn't so easily defeated and fights for his survival. The Lion too faces a break-up when his girlfriend leaves. All alone, he's force to relearn the art of seduction. The Peacock, on the other hand, is trying to figure out his sexual identity with the help of a psychologist. As for the Earthworm, his long wait for a soulmate will, at last, be requited.
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Continental, a Film Without Guns
Title: Continental, a Film Without Guns
Character: Femme de chambre
Released: November 9, 2007
Type: Movie
The mysterious disappearance of a man affects the lives of four different people, all living in loneliness in the suburbs of Quebec: the wife of the missing person, an aging ex-gambler, a young receptionist who want to share her life with somebody, and a father looking to help his family.
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May God Bless America
Title: May God Bless America
Character: Carole Migneault
Released: February 17, 2006
Type: Movie
On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, six people become suspicious about a stranger in their neighborhood.
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Dodging the Clock
Title: Dodging the Clock
Character: Pharmacist
Released: August 1, 2005
Type: Movie
The passage of time is probably the only concrete proof we have that justice exists in this cruel world. Some people would like to stop time in its tracks, while others choose to follow its path. In this story, three men in their early thirties have reached that age when it's time to start thinking about "getting a life", perhaps starting a family. But how do you handle the fact that your friendships are changing? That, slowly, your new family is becoming the center of your ever-shrinking world? What do you do when you realize your youth is a thing of the past?
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Love and Magnets
Title: Love and Magnets
Released: October 1, 2004
Type: Movie
Back in Montréal after spending five years in Guatemala, Julie moves in with her elder sister, Jeanne, a chronic liar and woman of rather loose sexual morals... Disillusioned with love, Jeanne is nevertheless engaged to Noël. However, Jeanne and Noël lead separate lives, and only communicate by leaving each other messages on the fridge.Everything suddenly becomes very complicated. Jeanne compels Julie to take up with Noël so she can have a fling with a passionate musician. Noël, meanwhile, sets Julie up with Michel -- without Jeanne's knowledge. Julie mixes things up even further. Egged on by her friend Marie-Ève, she alters the contents of the messages on the fridge in an attempt to breathe new life into Jeanne and Noël's relationship. Along the way, she also begins to fall for the seductive Michel. The tables are turned on everyone... In the game of love and truth, illusion leads to betrayal, but love conquers all.
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Dangerous People
Title: Dangerous People
Character: Rachel
Released: December 6, 2002
Type: Movie
It has kidnapped Roxane Labelle, a Canadian singer covered gold records and awards. To his captors, no question of release without payment of a large ransom. Father and manager of the star, Paul Labelle asks a small accountant do it. Easier said than done, especially the payer also has a large sum to the Mafia and, rapidly, what Québec account scoundrels, thieves and killers are chasing the fabulous bonanza.
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The Widow of Saint-Pierre
Title: The Widow of Saint-Pierre
Character: le propriétaire
Released: April 19, 2000
Type: Movie
In 1850, on the isolated French island of Saint-Pierre, a murder shocks the natives. Two fishermen are arrested. One of them, Louis Ollivier, dies in custody. The other, Neel Auguste, is sentenced to death by the guillotine. The island is so small that it has neither a guillotine nor an executioner. While those are sent for Auguste is placed under the supervision of an army Captain.
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Jesus of Montreal
Title: Jesus of Montreal
Released: May 17, 1989
Type: Movie
A group of actors putting on an interpretive Passion Play in Montreal begin to experience a meshing of their characters and their private lives as the production takes form against the growing opposition of the Catholic church.