MARITAL STATUS
Professions Actress , Director , Screenwriter more
Canadian nationality
Birth August 5, 1948 (Shawinigan, Canada Shawinigan – Canada)
BIOGRAPHY
Real name Carole Champagne, Carole Laure, adopted child, continued her education in a religious school and developed a passion for the piano. Although she thought of becoming a teacher, she decided very early on to devote herself to comedy. After her debut on stage, she appeared on screen in 1971 in Chabot ‘s My Childhood in Montreal and took part in the incredible adventures of agent Ixe-13 in Jacques Godbout ‘s pastiche . Carole Laure was revealed in 1973 by The Death of a Lumberjack , in which she played a young woman who left for Montreal in search of her origins. Presented at the Cannes Film Festival, the film marks the start of a fruitful collaboration with director Gilles Carle : the actress notably stars in the rural chronicle Maria Chapdelaine and in Fantastica , a musical comedy adapted from a show by her husband Lewis Furey . Carole Laure will lead a successful career as a singer in the company of this musician and choreographer she met in 1977. That year, Carole Laure shot her first film in France, La Menace , a thriller by Alain Corneau . Deliberately provocative – her appearance, naked in a bathtub of chocolate, in Sweet Movie in 1974, left a lasting impression – she was chosen by the sulphurous Bertrand Blier to play Solange, a woman in love with a 13-year-old child, in Prepare vos mouchoirs , Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 1978. The French public fell under the spell of the Canadian mutiny, which they then found in Mocky ( To Death the Arbitrator! ) and Tacchella ( Croque la vie ). Devoting herself mainly to music in the 90s, Carole Laure launched a new challenge in 2001 by going behind the camera: with Les Fils de Marie , then Tout trois du sol – in which she directed her daughter, the young dancer Clara Furey – the actress signs two very personal works, presented at the Cannes festival as part of Critics’ Week. She returned to the camera in 2006 for La Belle Bête , directed by Karim Hussain , in which she played a widow with conflicting family relationships. In 2007, she shot her third feature film for which she also wrote the screenplay, La Capture , a drama about family violence.
