Pascale Bussières


Pascale Bussières is a French Canadian actress.

Life and work

Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Pascale Bussières first attracted attention as a suicidal teenager in Micheline Lanctôt’s 1984 film Sonatine; however, it was Blanche, the 1993 Radio-Canada series directed by Charles Binamé that gave her star status in Quebec. After Blanche, and then a lead in Binamé’s Generation-X picture Eldorado, Bussières became the 1990s heir to Geneviève Bujold and Carole Laure – the most charismatic actress of her generation. It’s a measure of Bussières’s range as an actress that her follow-up to Eldorado was the role of a prim-and-proper mythology teacher who discovers her lesbian desires in Patricia Rozema's When Night Is Falling. She also gives a standout performance as an alienated fashion model who wants to conceive a child in Denis Villeneuve's debut feature, August 32nd on Earth , and won both the 2004 Best Actress Prix Jutra and Genie Award for her dramatic impersonation of Quebec singing star Alys Robi in Bittersweet Memories .

Filmography

Film

Television