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- Thibault de Montalembert was born on 10 February 1962 in Laval, Mayenne, France. He is an actor, known for All Quiet on the Western Front (2022), The King (2019) and The Tunnel (2013).
- Actor
- Soundtrack
- Writer
Raphaël Roberge was born in July 26th, 1996 in Laval, Quebec. From a young age Raphaël realised He was a movie buff as well a music enthusiast. He took classes of all kind; Theater, camera acting, musical theater, Diction and Improvisation; He quickly realised that he wanted to act. In 2010, he started to take singing classes to add it to his resume... He got caught because now he has two passions, singing and acting. From that moment on he participated in tons of amateur singing contest. Several TV credits including Ni plus Ni Moi, C.A, Un Tueur si proche (in French) and even some projects in English including: This Life and Compiling as well as stage plays and musicals. In 2014, he was selected from more than 6000 candidates for a singing competition called Mix4 that was broadcasted on Vrak, a popular channel for teenagers in Quebec. It was an enriching experience that gave him the occasion to meet people with the same passion as him, industry people and to tour across the Quebec and New-Brunswick for 50 representations, including the Francofolies, a concert 15,000 persons attended. In the summer of 2015 he performed more than 15 times in solo including: St-Jean Richelieu balloon festival, le festiblues, etc.). In September 2015 he was cast in l'Aventure Magique as Peter Pan. They did more than 60 shows across the Quebec and Ontario. This show gave him the occasion to explore a more theatrical style of acting. Raphaël is really implicated socially; in 2015 he was the spokesperson in Ste-Thérèse (where he lives) for the week of intellectual disabilities. It's a cause that's really important to him because he believes everyone should be treated equally. Raphaël was a judge for singing contests as well as well as for oral presentations contests. He released his first single «Libre Comme L'air» on June 15, 2015. The single reached a peak of #4 on the iTunes French Pop chart and #60 in one the L'adisq charts. The song has 10,000 plays on Spotify and more 9000 views on YouTube. He also released a single called «Menaces Invisibles» and his first single in English «Alive». His first EP was released on December 15, 2015 and reached the top 12 on the iTunes French pop chart. He wrote or co-wrote all the songs. He launched the EP on December 14 to a sold-out crowd.- Actor
- Art Department
- Writer
Michel Courtemanche was born on 11 December 1964 in Laval, Quebec, Canada. He is an actor and writer, known for The City of Lost Children (1995), Casanova (2005) and The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne (2000).- Actor
- Writer
- Art Director
Martin Matte was born on 14 April 1970 in Laval, Québec, Canada. He is an actor and writer, known for Les beaux malaises (2014), Les Beaux Malaises (2016) and Nitro (2007).- Camille Felton was born on 21 October 1999 in Laval, Québec, Canada. She is an actress, known for Noémie: Le secret (2009), Fires (2016) and Matthias & Maxime (2019).
- Actor
- Writer
- Stunts
François Papineau was born in 1966 in Laval, Québec, Canada. He is an actor and writer, known for Route 132 (2010), La bouteille (2000) and Unité 9 (2012). He has been married to Bénédicte Décary since 2013. They have one child. He was previously married to Sylvie Moreau.- Actor
- Music Department
Gordie Brown was born on 15 June 1963 in Laval, Québec, Canada. He is an actor, known for Twice in a Lifetime (1999), Life with Louie (1994) and An Evening at the Improv (1981).- Jean Galland was born on 28 May 1887 in Laval, Mayenne, France. He was an actor, known for Le jugement de minuit (1933), The Adventurer of Seville (1954) and Fantômas (1932). He was married to Germaine Dermoz. He died on 18 July 1967 in Évian-les-Bains, Haute-Savoie, France.
- Writer
- Producer
Alexandre Daigle was born on 7 February 1975 in Laval, Québec, Canada. He is a writer and producer, known for Palm Springs Jump!, TSN Hockey (1987) and Chosen One: Alexandre Daigle (2024). He is married to Genevieve Daigle.- Éléonore Loiselle was born on 27 February 2001 in Laval, Québec, Canada. She is an actress, known for Goddess of the Fireflies (2020), Désobéir: le choix de Chantale Daigle (2023) and Falcon Lake (2022).
- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Yves Pelletier was born on 15 January 1961 in Laval, Québec, Canada. He is an actor and writer, known for Les aimants (2004), Karmina (1996) and Face Time (2010).- Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang was born on 18 June 1989 in Laval, France.
- Olympic diver, Roseline Filion was born in Laval, Quebec, Canada. Her parents are Helene and Marc Filion. Growing up in Laval, she began competitively diving when she was 10 years old. Roseline attended the University of Montreal, earning a Bachelor of Communications degree. Joining Canada's national team in 2005, she competed in 3 Olympics (Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016) and won 2 bronze medals. After retiring from competitive diving in 2017, she resides in Montreal and is a sports columnist.
- Actor
- Writer
Quebecois stand-up comedian and screenwriter, born in Montreal in 1968. He is the creator, writer and main character of the successful comedy series "Les Pêcheurs" (season 1 and 2) (IciRadioCanada télé 2013, 2014). His first film Starbuck, has seen two remakes, Delevery Man (Dreamworks) and Fonzy (Made in PM). He is famous for is award-winning one-man shows and for hosting comedy galas at Just for laugh's.- Sébastien Bolduc was born on 6 August 1993 in Laval, Québec, Canada. He is an actor, known for X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019).
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Eric Paulhus was born on 8 January 1979 in Laval, Québec, Canada. He is an actor, known for The Barbarian Invasions (2003), Let Go (2017) and Les Argonautes (2013).- Actor
- Director
Zilon was born on 25 July 1956 in Laval, Québec, Canada. He was an actor and director, known for Y.U.L. (1998), Testament (2023) and Seasonal Depression (2019). He died on 27 July 2023 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.- Alfred Jarry was born on 8 September 1873 in Laval, Mayenne, France. He was a writer, known for Ubu (2023), Ubu król (2003) and Král Ubu (1996). He died on 1 November 1907 in Paris, France.
- Alexandre Despatie was born on 8 June 1985 in Laval, Québec, Canada. He is an actor, known for Taking the Plunge (2007), Taking the Plunge 2 (2009) and Bye-Bye (1968).
- Vanessa Pilon was born on 26 July 1985 in Laval, Québec, Canada. She is an actress, known for Jo for Jonathan (2010), Devil's Rose (2005) and Y2o (2013).
- Composer
- Music Department
Michel Smith was born in 1958 in Laval, Québec, Canada. Michel is a composer, known for Katryn's Place (2002), Cosmos (1996) and Mort subite d'un homme-théâtre (2012).- Henri Rousseau (Le Douanier) was born on May 21, 1844, in Laval, Northern France. His father was a plumber. Young Rousseau finished the Lycee in Laval and started as a lawyer's clerk. From 1863-1868 he served in the French Army. From 1869-1893 Russeau worked in a toll booth on the edge of Paris, as a municipal toll collector. For that job he was called "Le Douanier." He never really was a customs officer, but a second-class clerk; he was never promoted on his job and basically collected a fee from farmers coming to Paris markets.
Rousseau began painting in his forties. In 1884 he obtained a permit to sketch in the national museums and spent many hours sketching classical art masterpieces in the Louvre. His job as a toll collector gave him little income, but much time to paint. He also earned some cash as a street musician. Rousseau was self-taught, although he admitted he had received some advice from established Academic artists, including that of Jean-Leon Gerome. Rousseau was inspired by the jungle, but he never was there. His sources of imagination were illustrated books and visits to the Zoo and Botanical Gardens in Paris. He also used images from a drawing book of his daughter. He could paint bananas growing upside-down and in a few paintings he grouped animals from different continents, that in reality could never have been seen together. It was the genuine feeling and high decorative quality of his paintings that brought him attention from other artists. Pablo Picasso saw a painting by Rousseau being sold on the street as a canvas to be painted over. Picasso bought Rousseau's paintings in recognition of his genius.
His child-like art was created in the Post-Impressionist period and was categorized as Naive or Primitive. From 1886 Rousseau exhibited every year at the Salon des Independants along with the works of Georges Seurat, Armand Guillaumin, Odilon Redon, Paul Signac, Paul Gauguin, and other Post-Impressionists. His greatest wish was to master an academic style, and he genuinely believed that his pictures were real and convincing. Rousseau himself was such a sincere and genuine person, that he interpreted even sarcastic remarks literally and took them as praise. His positive disposition helped him endure great poverty. His working class background was seen as his big drawback by many contemporary critics. Finally the innocence and charm of his works won him the admiration of the leading artists. In 1905 he exhibited his large jungle composition 'The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope' along with Henri Matisse at the first showing of Les Fauves (The Wild Ones).
Rousseau had an influence on such artists as Pablo Picasso, Robert Delaunay, Wassily Kandinsky, Félix Vallotton, Paul Gauguin, and many others. In 1908 Pablo Picasso bought a few works from Rousseau and gave a banquet at his studio in Rousseau's honor. At the banquet Rousseu was praised by Guillaume Apollinaire, Robert Delaunay, Max Jacob and by other artists in a manner, which was half-serious, half-burlesque. Rousseau sincerely believed in the serious half, and later told Picasso: "There are only two real artists in the world, you in "Egyptian style" and I am in "Classical." That's how different and naive was the world of Rousseau, whose genuine views impressed Pablo Picasso as much as his works. During 1909 and 1910 many of Rousseau's paintings were acquired by the dealers Ambroise Vollard and Joseph Brummer. Rousseau's paintings were shown posthumously in 1911, in a retrospective exhibition at the Salon des Independants. Rousseau's works were chosen by Wassily Kandinsky for the first exhibitions of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) in 1911 and 1912 that toured Germany. The surrealist movement later considered Rousseau as one of their forerunners.
Henri Rousseau died on September 2, 1910, in Paris, and was laid to rest in the Cimetiere de Bagneux, in Paris, France.
Guillaume Apollinaire wrote the epitaph on Rousseau's tombstone:
We salute you Gentile Rousseau you can hear us
Delaunay his wife Monsier Queval and myself
Let our luggage pass duty free through the gates of heaven
We will bring you brushes paints and canvas
That you may spend your sacred leisure in the light of truth
Painting as you once did my portrait
Facing the stars - Abdel-Aziz Essayed was born on 3 September 1972 in Laval, Mayenne, France. He is an actor, known for For a Fistful of Diamonds (2009), Vertiges (1997) and Casting sauvage (2013).
- Cinematographer
- Additional Crew
- Special Effects
Born Thierry Christian Charles Franc in the picturesque countryside of Laval (Mayenne, Pays-de-la-Loire), France on 28 May 1940, Thierry Pathé was a Franco-American Producer, Director, Cinematographer, and Educator.
Grandson of the legendary French filmmaker, studio executive, and recording mogul Charles Morand Pathé, founder of Pathé Frères along with his brothers Émile, Théophile, and Jacques in 1896, he moved to the United States with his family at the age of 2, eventually becoming a naturalized U.S. Citizen and adopting the last name of his grandfather as an adult.
As a young man, he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force, where he was trained as a cinematographer. Like his grandfather, Thierry loved the film camera; his grandfather had, indeed, been extremely innovative with early camera technology, designing both studio and hand-held film cameras which greatly improved upon the patents which Pathé Frères had acquired from the Lumière brothers in 1902. After completing his military service, he began his civilian career as cinematographer on the set of the classic television series Batman (1966).
Pathé made his professional entrée into the world of feature filmmaking as special effects supervisor, laboratory supervisor, and technical supervisor for the Spanish film El Colleccionista de Cadaveres (Cauldron of Blood, also known in English as Blind Man's Bluff) (1970), produced by Robert D. Weinbach and Edward Mann, and written and directed by Edward Mann. The film starred the legendary Boris Karloff as the eccentric, blind sculptor Franz Badulescu, and Viveca Lindfors in the role of Tania Badulescu, the artist's psychopathic wife. It was one of the last horror films of Boris Karloff's iconic career.
Pathé later produced the American cult hicksploitation film Hooch (1977) for Edward Mann, who wrote and directed the film. Featuring Gil Gerard as shine-runnin' "Eddie Joe Rodgers" and Danny Aiello as carpetbaggin' mobster "Tony" seeking a cut of the profits, Hooch inspired the popular, and controversial, American television series Dukes of Hazzard (1979), which aired for seven seasons on CBS and served as inspiration for the coining of the pop fashion term "Daisy Dukes".
Encouraged by the cinematic tradition within his own family, as well as by Edward Mann's mastery of both the pen and the craft of film production, he wrote a number of screenplays which were sadly never produced, and produced and/or directed a number of films which were sadly never released (among them, "Toot Suite"). Thus, a significant portion of his work is not yet known to the public. Several years prior to his death, he was cinematographer for Growing Down in Brooklyn (2000), a semi-autobiographical film recounting the tragic spiral of 4 young Italian-American men from Midwood, Brooklyn, starring Anthony Caso, Amy Hargreaves, Donnie Keshawarz, Tina Louise, and Vincent Pastore.
Well-loved by generations of NYU filmmaking students, both within the School of Professional Studies and the Tisch School of the Arts, Thierry Pathé's work demonstrates a love for his native France and for culture and community across the American landscape which became his home, as well as a love for addressing the concerns of young people and young adults coming of age, all of which was simultaneously manifest in his parallel career as an Educator.
In an interview with France 3 (then FR3) while visiting Chevry-Cossigny (Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France), France in May 1992 for an exhibition celebrating Charles Pathé's life as a film industry pioneer, Thierry admired that his grandfather "was not afraid to face a challenge, to try new things, to continue when other people stopped", qualities celebrated and embraced by filmmakers from generation to generation. On this occasion, he also visited the house where his ingenious grandfather was born - then the home of the Mayor of Chevry-Cossigny - for the very first time.
Thierry Pathé died of cancer in New York City on 6 April 2002, at the age of 61, leaving behind one son, a half-sister, and hundreds, if not thousands, of former students with whom he shared his love for the Seventh Art, a number of whom have gone on to master their craft at the highest level, including Oscar winners Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, Angelina Jolie, and Joel and Ethan Coen, and Oscar nominee Susan Seidelman.
(Published 25 March 2020)- Tina Garabedian was born on 13 June 1997 in Laval, Quebec, Canada. She has been married to Ari Mirzayan since 13 November 2021.