Andrée Lachapelle

Andrée Lachapelle

Born: November 13, 1931
Died: November 21, 2019
in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Andrée Lachapelle (November 13, 1931 – November 21, 2019) was a French Canadian actress. Born in Montreal, she trained at age 14 at the Studio XV theatre school under Gerard Vleminckx, later attended teacher's college and taught elementary school for a few years. In 1952 she met actor Robert Gadouas, performed with him, and had three children before his death in 1969. She later appeared in plays by Michel Tremblay, Samuel Beckett and Tennessee Williams and in the films Rope Around the Neck (La corde au cou), YUL 871, Laura Laur, Léolo, Cap Tourmente, Route 132, The Last Escape and Don't Let the Angels Fall.

In 1985, Andrée Lachapelle was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 1997, she was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec.

On November 21, 2019, Lachapelle died via assisted suicide at the age of 88 following a battle with cancer. She posthumously won the Prix Iris for Best Actress at the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards, for her final performance in the film And the Birds Rained Down (Il pleuvait des oiseaux).

Movies for Andrée Lachapelle...

And the Birds Rained Down
Title: And the Birds Rained Down
Character: Marie-Desneige
Released: September 13, 2019
Type: Movie
A photographer sets off toward a mysterious forest to find Boychuk, witness and victim of the Great Fire that swept through Northern Ontario at the turn of the 20th century. But before she arrives, she learns that Boychuck has just perished. Survivors of the long-ago fire, Tom and Charlie, two elderly men who have chosen to live out their last days in the woods, are introduced to Marie Desneige, whose 60 year institutionalization has only fueled her passion for life. Meanwhile, the photographer is discovering that Boychuck had been a painter, whose life’s work had been entirely inspired by the Great Fire. The story immerses us in a historical drama while captivating us with the strange lives of these men of the forest. Three men who, in choosing freedom above all else, made a deal with death.
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Title: En tout cas
Released: January 8, 2018
Type: TV
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The Passion of Augustine
Title: The Passion of Augustine
Character: Mère Marie-Stéphane
Released: March 20, 2015
Type: Movie
The nuns of a musical convent work hard in order to prevent the religious school from closing.
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The Meteor
Title: The Meteor
Character: The Mother (voice)
Released: January 16, 2013
Type: Movie
Forty-something Pierre is serving a fourteen year prison sentence. His mother, who is approaching eighty, visits him every week. Suzanne, Pierre's current wife, has moved on since he was sent away. Each character gives us a frank account of a period in their lives that seems suspended in time by the fragile connection between life on the inside and the world outside. Their destinies are linked by crime, guilt and loneliness, and like casualties of love and desire, they are dying to stick their heads above the water and breathe the air of life.
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Route 132
Title: Route 132
Character: Alberta
Released: October 6, 2010
Type: Movie
Two old friends and small-time crooks embark on a crime spree, but take an unexpected detour that could lead them down the road to redemption.
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The Last Escape
Title: The Last Escape
Character: La mere
Released: February 26, 2010
Type: Movie
Christmas approaches and the Lévesque family has once again gathered for their traditional celebration. But this time there is a mixture of emotions running through each person. The patriarch of the family suffers from a combination of Parkinson’s Disease and heart failure. His life reduced in every way, the end approaches and there are unhappy memories of his once violent and authoritarian past. But his wife, ten children and many grandchildren try to maintain a semblance of the Christmas season.
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Title: Yamaska
Character: Florence Bergman
Released: September 28, 2009
Type: TV
The lives of three families are forever changed by an unexpected death.
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La belle empoisonneuse
Title: La belle empoisonneuse
Released: October 2, 2007
Type: Movie
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Title: Shooting Stars
Character: Mme Lapointe
Released: January 11, 2007
Type: TV
"Les étoiles filantes" is the story of two friends in their late thirties whose lives have taken very different paths. Twenty years after their band broke up and all dreams of that elusive recording contract had faded away, the two men meet up once again. They now live in very different worlds, worlds that are destined to clash from the moment that the incorrigible, free-spirited Daniel turns up on Jacques the math teacher’s doorstep. Daniel calmly tells his old friend that he has only six months left to live. The nomad parks his trailer in Jacques’ yard and proceeds to carve himself a place in the household’s well organized routine. However, he mischievously makes the most of every opportunity to shake up the family’s tidy world. This series tells a tale of friendship – albeit a frequently strained one – where values of stability and freedom humorously polarize and keep us smiling throughout.
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Title: La petite séduction
Character: Self
Released: May 1, 2006
Type: TV
Dany Turcotte invites celebrities to discover a small rural towns in unexpected and surprising ways. Events are carefully planned cater to the celebrity’s tastes, desires and passions.
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Title: Le match des étoiles
Character: Self
Released: October 5, 2005
Type: TV
A dance-off where stars learn, prepare and present dance routines that they must show to a select panel of judges.
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Daniel and the Superdogs
Title: Daniel and the Superdogs
Character: Grandmother
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: 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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Games of the Heart
Title: Games of the Heart
Released: February 9, 2001
Type: Movie
A woman in love with a musician has a change of heart on her 18th birthday.
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Albertine in Five Times
Title: Albertine in Five Times
Character: Albertine 60 ans
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
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Cap Tourmente
Title: Cap Tourmente
Character: Jeanne O'Neil
Released: May 27, 1993
Type: Movie
Alex has a deeply troubled mind. He also has a seriously dysfunctional - not to say incestuous - family. Why then, has he returned from his merchant seaman job to the rocky coasts of his home? Perhaps he couldn't cut manage to march in his father's footsteps in that job. His mother doesn't seem to mind, and lets him stay at her bed and breakfast hotel. His sister still seems to have the hots for him, just as she does for his (and her) old boyfriend Jean-Louis, who has just shown up. Even his mother seems to find him sexy. All these people appear eager to get their hands on his body, but he's too wrapped up in what's going on inside his head to notice.
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Léolo
Title: Léolo
Character: Psychiatrist
Released: September 16, 1992
Type: Movie
The story of an imaginative boy who pretends he is the child of a sperm-laden Sicilian tomato upon which his mother accidentally fell.
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Nelligan
Title: Nelligan
Character: Robertine Barry
Released: September 27, 1991
Type: Movie
This historical drama with music examines the life and times of Émile Nelligan, one of the major Canadian poets of the 19th century who struggled through a difficult childhood with the help of his loving mother, only to see his career cut short by tragic circumstances.
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Moody Beach
Title: Moody Beach
Character: Antique Dealer
Released: August 25, 1990
Type: Movie
A man and a woman, who are both trying to run away from the banalities of life, fall in love.
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...Comme un voleur
Title: ...Comme un voleur
Character: Gabrielle
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
A garagist must take care of his sick mother and irresponsible brother.
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Dans le ventre du dragon
Title: Dans le ventre du dragon
Character: Madame Côté
Released: May 26, 1989
Type: Movie
The title of this French-Canadian film translates to In the Belly of the Dragon, but don't assume that it's just another kung fu epic. Rather, the film is a likeable mixture of science fiction and humor, centered around the money-making schemes of star David La Haye. Unable to make ends meet with his minimum-wage job, La Haye hires himself out as a guinea pig to genially loopy scientist Marie Tifo. It is the doctor's contention that a person's intelligence can be artificially increased. La Haye proves her right...up to a point, that is. Extremely popular in Canada, Dans le Ventre du Dragon has yet to receive proper distribution in the States.
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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.
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Straight for the Heart
Title: Straight for the Heart
Character: Invitée au dîner
Released: September 30, 1988
Type: Movie
Pierre is a Montreal photojournalist who returns from Nicaragua to find that his ten-year menage a trois is over. Haunted by his mid-life crisis, he becomes obsessed with trying to find out why his two lovers, Sarah and David, have left him.
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Happy Memories
Title: Happy Memories
Character: Voix de maman
Released: October 8, 1981
Type: Movie
A woman attempts to resume her place in the family that she abandoned years earlier.
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Title: Le temps d'une paix
Character: Marie-Thérèse Fournier
Released: October 29, 1980
Type: TV
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Dear Father
Title: Dear Father
Character: Giulia
Released: April 11, 1979
Type: Movie
In Caro papá, Dino Risi is telling the story of the decadent lifestyle, and dysfunctional family, of a wealthy businessman (played to perfection by Risi's favorite leading man, Vittorio Gassman). Risi paints his portrait against a backdrop of an Italy where the new permissiveness has run rampant, traditional socio-cultural values have been usurped by consumerism, and the streets have become an open battleground for politically extremist groups (the '70s were dubbed "The Years of Lead" due to the great number of terrorist acts, and politically motivated assassinations).
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Les beaux dimanches
Title: Les beaux dimanches
Character: Évelyne
Released: October 10, 1974
Type: Movie
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Don't Let the Angels Fall
Title: Don't Let the Angels Fall
Character: Prostitute
Released: June 7, 1969
Type: Movie
The lives of a businessman and his family begin to spiral downward after he has an affair at an insurance convention.
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YUL 871
Title: YUL 871
Character: Madeleine
Released: July 30, 1966
Type: Movie
An engineer from Paris flies to Montreal, partly on business, partly in search of parents displaced by World War II, and partly because of the prevailing restlessness of the age.
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La Corde au cou
Title: La Corde au cou
Character: Suzanne
Released: November 4, 1965
Type: Movie
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Caroline
Title: Caroline
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Twenty-four year old Montréaler Caroline works as a sales representative for a telephone company. She's married to Claude, the two who have a young son. On their fourth wedding anniversary, about which Claude seems to have forgot or doesn't care, Caroline seems unhappy with her life, although she approaches it with a certain efficiency. When she was growing up, she, like any girl, had several ideas which changed all the time of what she wanted to do with her life when she grew up. But her life hasn't seemed to come close to any of those dreams. Can Claude or anyone else reassure Caroline about her life, especially on this milestone?