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Thérèse Cadorette
b. May 4, 1925 in Montreal, Québec.
d. March 13, 2007 in Montréal, Québec
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The image of the left is from a still set for the 1968 film Isabel. On the right is an original from the 1976 film, Obsession. Both images are part of the Northernstars Collection.
Geneviève Bujold grew up with a
brother and a sister in Montreal's East
End; her father was a bus driver. At convent school she
was always the girl called upon to read
the welcoming address to visiting notables.
At 16, she was caught reading Marcel
Pagnol's proscribed but unexceptionable
play, Fanny. Asked to leave, Bujold enrolled in Quebec's Conservatory
of Drama. By day she learned
the classical tradition of Racine, Corneille
and Moliere; by night, she was an
usherette in a local cinema. With just two month left before she was to have graduated, she decided
that experience was better than a scrap
of paper and signed on for the Théatre
du Gesu's production of The Barber
of Seville. The man responsible for that
first break was Monique Leyrac's husband,
Jean Dalmain. She would go on to star as St. Joan for the same company. Shortly after making her screen debut she was touring France with Montreal's Théatre du Rideau
Vert's French production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. She was spotted by Alain Resnals and given a screen test to play
with Yves Montand in La Guerre Est Flnale. She got the part and decided to stay in Paris after that to make two more films: King of
Hearts (with Alan Bates, directed by Philippe de Broca) and Le Voleur (The Thief of
Paris with Jean-Paul Belmondo, directed by Louis Malle) - then
proceded to turn down offers from Roger Vadlm, Harry Saltzman,
Sam Spiegel (who wanted her to star opposite Burt Lancaster in The Swimmer), and Darryl Zanuck ("I heard that what Zanuck
wants, Zanuck gets - well, he wasn't going to get me," she was quoted as saying). The part
she did take was the famously risky one of Saint Joan in an NBC
television special (December 1967), followed by the title role in the
small Canadian film, Isabel (written, produced and directed by
her husband, Paul Almond). She played the lead role in another of her
husband's films, The Act of the Heart (opposite Donald Sutherland),
before taking the title role in Anne of the Thousand Days (with
Richard Burton), for which she was nominated for an Academy
Award.
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Features & TV Movies:
VR indicates Direct-to-Video Release
Au parc Lafontaine (1947, short)
Isabel (1968)
Et du fils (1972)
Réjeanne Padovani (1973)
TV Series - Cast:
La famille Plouffe (1953-1957)
Les belles histoires des pays d'en haut (1961-1970)
TV Series - Guest appearances:
The House of Water (1957)
Arsene Lupin (1960)
The Canterville Ghost (1962)
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