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The Gift of reading®

 

Marie Turgeon

Actress

 

“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 played Sandra McLaren for six years in the Radio-Canada TV series Rumeurs. She was also seen in C.A.II, KiKi Tronic, Virginie and 11 Somerset.

On TV

This year, she has been in several TV programs, notably Bienvenue aux dames on V, Caméra Café on TVA and in Providence on Radio-Canada. She will also be making appearances in Les Boys, and in the teen show, Une grenade avec ça?

At the movies

She is to be on the cast of Filière 13, Patrick Huard’s next feature film. In 2008, she was in Tout est parfait, a movie directed by Yves Christian Fournier that has enjoyed considerable international success.

On stage

Last year, she was in Marc Camoletti’s play, Boeing Boeing, directed by Serge Postigo and produced by Just For Laughs Inc. In 2008, 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.

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 10 years.

Marie Turgeon is now in her fourth year as spokesperson for The Gift of Reading®.