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The Gift of Reading spokesperson
Marie TurgeonActress
“I feel like dreaming of the future … and helping our future to dream. When you give, you receive so much! I’m giving a book… How about you?” Marie Turgeon is now in her sixth year as spokesperson for The Gift of Reading. |
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Biography
After growing up in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Marie studied theatre and communications in Ottawa, where she acted in several plays, including La Cité interdite, La poupée de Pélopia, Les Muses orphelines, French adaptations of Macbeth and The Tempest, and Patrice Desbiens’s Les Cascadeurs de l’amour. After several years with TVOntario as host of a children’s show and a film magazine program, she has now been living in Montreal almost 12 years.
On TV
Marie Turgeon plays Julia, in Providence, on Radio-Canada, and Maxime, in Caméra Café, on TVA, two series in their final season this year. For six years, she had the role of Sandra McLaren in the Radio-Canada TV series Rumeurs. She was also seen in Bienvenue aux dames, C.A., Au nom de la loi, KiKi Tronic, Virginie and 11 Somerset.
This year, viewers will see her on several other shows, among them TVA's Rock and Rolland and Télé-Québec's children's show, Tactik.
At the movies
Marie Turgeon was in the cast of Filière 13, a film by Patrick Huard that came out in 2010. In 2008, she was in Tout est parfait, a movie directed by Yves Christian Fournier that has enjoyed considerable international success.
On stage
In January 2012, Marie Turgeon will be seen in Claude Guilmain’s Requiem pour un trompettiste at Théâtre de l’Espace libre. She was in Marc Camoletti’s play, Boeing Boeing, directed by Serge Postigo and produced by Just For Laughs Inc. In 2008, she was in the cast of Silence en coulisses! (Noises Off) directed by Benoît Brière for Théâtre du Vieux-Terrebonne, and she played in Martin Thibaudeau’s Lucidité passagère, seen at Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui and produced by Théâtre de la zone grise, a young company she belongs to.