1. Ginette Reno has received nominations for the Genie and Gemini Awards and is a multi-recipient of the Juno Award.
22 Facts About Ginette Reno
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Ginette Reno is a gold and platinum selling Canadian musician.
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Ginette Reno's biggest hit in English was her 1970 song "Beautiful Second Hand Man".
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Ginette Reno played the mother in Jean-Claude Lauzon's 1992 film Leolo.
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Ginette Reno played Laura Cadieux in Denise Filiatrault's 1998 film It's Your Turn, Laura Cadieux.
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Ginette Reno was again nominated at the 2000 Genie Awards.
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Ginette Reno played the role of Maria Barberini in the 2003 Canadian independent film Mambo Italiano.
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Ginette Reno played Blanche in the 2006 film A Family Secret, earning her a Best Actress in a leading role Genie Award nomination.
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In 2022, Ginette Reno came back to the big screen after 16 years in Martin Villeneuve's The 12 Tasks of Imelda, co-starring playwright Robert Lepage, in which she plays Martin and Denis Villeneuve's maternal grandmother Simone, Imelda's lifelong adversary.
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Ginette Reno was twice nominated for a Gemini at the 1999 Gemini Awards and 2000 Gemini Awards.
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On 5 August 2000, Ginette Reno performed at the wedding of the Hell's Angel Rene Charlebois, serenading the Angels with such hits as "Mon May", for which she was paid $1 million, and at the same wedding posed for photographs with Maurice "Mom" Boucher, the leader of the Angels in Quebec at the time.
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Ginette Reno had just returned from heart surgery, and her rendition of the anthem was very well received.
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Ginette Reno has since returned to sing for the 2015 and 2017 Stanley Cup playoffs.
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Ginette Reno previously did the anthems for the Quebec Nordiques as well in the 1980s and 1990s and as well as the 64th Grey Cup in 1976.
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Ginette Reno won the Top Female Vocalist at the Gold Leaf Awards of 1970.
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Ginette Reno was nominated for a Juno in 1998 in the category Best Selling Francophone Album for her album Versions Ginette Reno.
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Ginette Reno was again nominated at the Juno Awards of 1999 for Best Female Vocalist.
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In 2010 Ginette Reno was nominated for a Juno Fan Choice Award.
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In 1999, Ginette Reno was awarded the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts.
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The Canada Gazette announced on 30 April 2011 that Mme Ginette Reno was appointed as a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the President of the French Republic.
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The Canada Gazette announced on 24 April 2021, that Ginette Reno was appointed as a Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honour, in which she was invested in on 28 April 2022.
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In 2002 and 2012, Mme Ginette Reno received the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal and Diamond Jubilee Medal, in particular due to her induction as an Officer in the Order of Canada.