Monique Mercure was one of the country's great actors of the classical and modern repertory.
11 Facts About Monique Mercure
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Monique Mercure's parents enrolled her as a young child in diction, tap dancing, musical theory and cello classes.
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Monique Mercure studied music and dance before studying theatre at St Lawrence College, Ontario.
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Monique Mercure won the Canadian Film Award for Best Actress at the 28th Canadian Film Awards for the same film that same year.
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Monique Mercure was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1977.
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Monique Mercure was promoted to Companion seventeen years later in 1994.
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At the 4th Genie Awards in 1983, Monique Mercure was a Best Actress nominee for Beyond Forty.
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Monique Mercure won a Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1992 for her role as Fadela in Naked Lunch.
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Monique Mercure received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, the Prix Denise Pelletier, and the Prix Gascon Roux du Theatre du Nouveau Monde.
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Monique Mercure died on 16 May 2020, at a palliative-care centre in Outremont, Montreal.
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Monique Mercure was 89, and had been suffering from throat cancer.