Hélène Loiselle

Hélène Loiselle

Born: March 17, 1928
Died: August 8, 2013
in Montréal, Québec, Canada
Hélène Loiselle was a Canadian actress living and working in Quebec.

She was born in Montreal and studied acting with Charlotte Boisjoli, François Rozet, Jean Valcourt and Lucie de Vienne during the 1940s. Loiselle joined the theatre troupe Compagnons de Saint-Laurent and performed works by Jean Giraudoux, Racine, Edmond Rostand and Shakespeare. She spent two years in the early 1950s in Paris developing her technique. On her return, she performed in plays that included Chekhov's Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya, Antigone and Victor ou les Enfants au pouvoir.

In 1995, Loiselle received a Prix Gémeaux for her role in the television drama Sous un ciel variable. She also played several witches in the popular Radio Canada television show for children Fanfreluche.

Loiselle married the comedian Lionel Villeneuve; he died in 2000.

In 2006, she received the Prix Denise-Pelletier.

She died at the age of 85 after suffering from Alzheimer's disease for a number of years.

Movies for Hélène Loiselle...

Dans les villes
Title: Dans les villes
Character: Joséphine
Released: September 12, 2006
Type: Movie
Four strangers are wandering through town. Fanny, a young woman who takes care of trees, will cross paths with three people along her way and offer them her help: Jean-Luc is blind, Joséphine has reached the end of her life, and Carole is suicidal.
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Une chapelle blanche
Title: Une chapelle blanche
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
An elderly woman's quiet routine is interrupted when the local chapel undergoes a makeover.
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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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Marriages
Title: Marriages
Character: Maria
Released: August 27, 2001
Type: Movie
Yvonne is a young woman living in Quebec in the latter half of the 19th century, under the controlling influence of both her elder sister, Hélène, and the repressive Victorian society that pervades the area. Yvonne has a sensual passion that her sister hopes to extinguish by placing her in a convent. As summer arrives, a strange dream suggests a different future, and Yvonne confronts the unexpected return of both her mother and her first love.
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The Bottle
Title: The Bottle
Character: Yvonne
Released: October 13, 2000
Type: Movie
Réal and François are two old buddies in their early 30s who reunite at last to unearth a time capsule bottle which contains their dreams and ambitions from 15 years earlier. The problem is, their little treasure is buried on a plot of land that now belongs to a grumpy old coot, Antoine. Paying big bucks to get at their bottle, they discover that Antoine's daughter, Lea is trying to become pregnant and seeks the help of a gay friend to do it. Back in boyhood mode, Lea becomes the object of their desire.
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Post Mortem
Title: Post Mortem
Character: Madame Faucher
Released: March 28, 1999
Type: Movie
A mother who supports her child with a credit card scam and an accused rapist meet and form a unique bond.
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Montreal Stories
Title: Montreal Stories
Character: Madeleine
Released: November 8, 1991
Type: Movie
Six stories about Montreal. 1: A young housewife from Toronto samples the nightlife using basic French. 2: The tale of a painting of Montreal's first mayor, Jacques Viger. 3: During a hockey game, Madeleine tries to tell Roger she wants a divorce after forty years of marriage. 4: A visitor to a conference on pictographs arrives at the airport, where the female customs officer steals a momento from each person. 5: As she is being driven to the hospital in an ambulance after an auto accident, Sarah recalls her life. 6: At a diplomatic reception, an older woman reminisces about her grand love in Montreal.
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Sweet Lies and Tender Oaths
Title: Sweet Lies and Tender Oaths
Character: Rose-Alma Corriveau
Released: September 12, 1982
Type: Movie
An eccentric old grandmother decides to leave her nagging daughter's house to live on her own. Her teenaged granddaughter seizes the opportunity to go too.
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Orderers
Title: Orderers
Character: Marie Boudreau
Released: September 27, 1974
Type: Movie
A fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec.
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Réjeanne Padovani
Title: Réjeanne Padovani
Character: Mrs. Biron
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
The unexpected return of his ex-wife and the assembly of a group of protesters both threaten to wreck a corrupt contractor's inauguration party for his new superhighway.
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Dirty Money
Title: Dirty Money
Character: Mother
Released: June 15, 1972
Type: Movie
This French-Canadian crime/action drama, which satirizes U.S. crime films, was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 1972 and was well received. In the picture, perfectly ordinary people murder, steal, and torture one another with casual abandon in order to solve their everyday problems.
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Françoise Durocher, Waitress
Title: Françoise Durocher, Waitress
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Fictional character played by 24 different actresses, Françoise Durocher is altogether small time waitress, hostess and barmaid. Together, according to the author, they represent the archetypical Québec waitress that everyday waits on us with a smile, despite whatever problems she faces in her personal life. First cinematographic experience of the Brassard-Tremblay tandem, this film full of ironic joy details all the nuances of the waitress living conditions.
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Hold on to Daddy's Ears
Title: Hold on to Daddy's Ears
Released: December 25, 1971
Type: Movie
The tribulations of two Québec nationalists in the English-speaking world of insurance. A satire that draws its irony from a specific social situation. A typical example of the era's popular comedies based on television and trendy stars, which gave birth to a certain commercial stream in Québec cinema.
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Mon oncle Antoine
Title: Mon oncle Antoine
Character: Madame Poulin
Released: November 12, 1971
Type: Movie
Set in cold rural Quebec at Christmas time, we follow the coming of age of a young boy and the life of his family which owns the town's general store and undertaking business.
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Title: Rue des Pignons
Character: Irène Milot
Released: September 6, 1966
Type: TV
Rue des Pignons was a French-Canadian TV series which ran from 1966 to 1977. Radio-Canada has reportedly lost most of the episodes of the series, only managing to trace about 35 of the 427 episodes from 1966 to 1977. The program's theme song was composed and recorded by Pierre Brabant who also played much of the show's background music.
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Il était une guerre
Title: Il était une guerre
Character: Monique épouse de Marcel
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
We witness the race for marriage of thousands of young people, wanting at all costs to escape conscription, then we are transported to the war factories and we thus witness the difficulties of work in this place. Then it's the Italian campaign in 1943 and, finally, the return to Quebec where readjustment to civilian life proves more difficult than it seems. These events are experienced and told by the voice of a young man.