Chantal Renaud
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Chantal Renaud (born 26 August 1946) is a Québécoise script writer, and a past yé-yé singer and actress. She was the wife of former Quebec Premier and former Parti Québécois leader Bernard Landry.
Renaud began her career as a yé-yé singer, with a hit called "Comme un garçon", originally performed by Sylvie Vartan, in France. After acting in the sitcom Moi et l'autre and films such as Here and Now (L'Initiation) and ,[1] Renaud relocated to France, where she built a respectable career as an award-winning script writer.
On 26 June 2004, after a courtship of some years, she married former Premier of Quebec and then Parti Québécois leader Bernard Landry. She figures prominently in the 2003 documentary À Hauteur d'homme about the 2003 Quebec general election, during which Landry defended his post as leader of Quebec.
See also[]
- Yé-yé
- List of Quebec musicians
- List of Quebec actors
- Music of Quebec
- Culture of Quebec
References[]
- ^ Pratley, Gerald (November 2003). A century of Canadian cinema: Gerald Pratley's feature film guide, 1900 to the present. Lynx Images. pp. 77, 107. ISBN 9781894073219.
External links[]
- Writers from Quebec
- Canadian television actresses
- French Quebecers
- 1946 births
- Living people
- Canadian writers in French
- Actresses from Quebec
- Musicians from Quebec
- Quebec writer stubs