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Louise Marleau
Louise Marleau outside the Outremont theatre in 2016
Born	(1944-08-26) August 26, 1944 (age 80) Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupation	actor

Louise Marleau (born August 26, 1944) is a Canadian actress. She won the 1985 Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for her role in A Woman in Transit (La Femme de l'hôtel) and was nominated in the same category in 1980 for her role in Heartbreak (L'Arrache-cœur), a role for which she won Best Actress at the 1979 Montreal World Film Festival.

Born in Montreal, she has been acting since she was a child, and she made her professional debut in 1962 at 18. Since that time she has worked with all the major theatrical companies in Canada, including the Stratford Festival, performing in works by Molière, Feydeau, Genet, Cocteau and Shakespeare.

Marleau recently translated Eve Ensler's play The Vagina Monologues into French (Canadian French).

Filmography

Beau temps, mauvais temps - 1955
Fleur de l'âge, ou Les adolescentes - 1964
YUL 871 - 1966
Au retour des oies blanches - 1971
In Praise of Older Women - 1978
Heartbreak (L'Arrache-cœur) - 1979
Alexandre 1980
Contamination - 1980
Good Riddance (Les Bons débarras) - 1980
A Woman in Transit (La Femme de l'hôtel) - 1984
Anne Trister - 1986
Exit - 1986
Straight for the Heart (À corps perdu) - 1988
Cruising Bar - 1989
Le grand secret - 1989
An Imaginary Tale (Une histoire inventée) - 1990
The Mirage - 1992
The Dance Goes On - 1992
The Countess of Baton Rouge - 1998
External Affairs - 1999
Le Pays dans la gorge - 2000
Canada: A People's History - 2000
Fortier - 2001
The Baroness and the Pig - 2002
Bunker, le cirque - 2002

References

"Films look at slices of two kinds of life". The Globe and Mail, September 13, 1979.

External links

Louise Marleau at IMDb

v t e Canadian Screen Award for Best Lead Performance in a Film
Actor (1968–2021)	Gerard Parkes (1968) No award (1969) Doug McGrath and Paul Bradley (1970) Jean Duceppe (1971) Gordon Pinsent (1972) Jacques Godin (1973) No award (1974) Stuart Gillard (1975) André Melançon (1976) Len Cariou (1977) Richard Gabourie (1978) Christopher Plummer (1980) Thomas Peacocke (1981) Nick Mancuso (1982) Donald Sutherland (1983) Eric Fryer (1984) Gabriel Arcand (1985) John Wildman (1986) Gordon Pinsent (1987) Roger Lebel (1988) Jeremy Irons (1989) Lothaire Bluteau (1990) Rémy Girard (1991) Tony Nardi (1992) Tom McCamus (1993) Maury Chaykin (1994) David La Haye (1995) William Hutt (1996) Ian Holm (1997) Roshan Seth (1998) Bob Hoskins (1999) Tony Nardi (2000) Brendan Fletcher (2001) Luc Picard (2002) Rémy Girard (2003) Roy Dupuis (2004) Michel Côté (2005) Roy Dupuis (2006) Gordon Pinsent (2007) Natar Ungalaaq (2008) Joshua Jackson (2009) Paul Giamatti (2010) Mohamed Fellag (2011) James Cromwell (2012) Gabriel Arcand (2013) Antoine Olivier Pilon (2014) Jacob Tremblay (2015) Stephan James (2016) Nabil Rajo (2017) Théodore Pellerin (2018) Mark O'Brien (2019) Michael Greyeyes (2020) Liam Diaz (2021)
Actress (1968–2021)	Geneviève Bujold (1968) No award (1969) Geneviève Bujold (1970) Ann Knox (1971) Micheline Lanctôt (1972) Geneviève Bujold (1973) No award (1974) Margot Kidder (1975) Marilyn Lightstone (1976) Monique Mercure (1977) Helen Shaver (1978) Kate Lynch (1980) Marie Tifo (1981) Margot Kidder (1982) Rae Dawn Chong (1983) Martha Henry (1984) Louise Marleau (1985) Margaret Langrick (1986) Martha Henry (1987) Sheila McCarthy (1988) Jackie Burroughs (1989) Rebecca Jenkins (1990) Pascale Montpetit (1991) Janet Wright (1992) Sheila McCarthy (1993) Sandra Oh (1994) Helena Bonham Carter (1995) Martha Henry (1996) Molly Parker (1997) Sandra Oh (1998) Sylvie Moreau (1999) Marie-Josée Croze (2000) Élise Guilbault (2001) Arsinée Khanjian (2002) Sarah Polley (2003) Pascale Bussières (2004) Seema Biswas (2005) Julie Le Breton (2006) Julie Christie (2007) Ellen Burstyn (2008) Karine Vanasse (2009) Lubna Azabal (2010) Vanessa Paradis (2011) Rachel Mwanza (2012) Gabrielle Marion-Rivard (2013) Anne Dorval (2014) Brie Larson (2015) Tatiana Maslany (2016) Sally Hawkins (2017) Émilie Bierre (2018) Nahéma Ricci (2019) Michelle Pfeiffer (2020) Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers (2021)
Lead Performance in a Film (2022)	Lamar Johnson (2022)
Lead Performance in a Comedy Film (2023–present)	Jay Baruchel (2023)
Lead Performance in a Drama Film (2023–present)	Amrit Kaur (2023)
Canadian Film Awards 1968–1978, Genie Awards 1980-2011, Canadian Screen Awards 2012–present. Separate awards were presented by gender prior to 2022; a single unified category for best performance regardless of gender has been presented since.

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