Known for starring in many soap operas from the 1960s to the 1990s, Quebec actress Gisèle Dufour died on Friday at the age of 91 from type B non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
She breathed her last at the St-Raphaël palliative care home in Montreal, according to her son Michel Dufour, who has postponed his life to accompany his mother for the past three months.
Throughout her career, Gisèle Dufour has played in several soap operas. In the early 1960s, he was Gilberte Doyon Daughter of Evewith Monique Lepage and Andrée Lachapelle, on Radio-Canada television.
Still on the airwaves of Radio-Canada in the 1960s, he was part of the cast of Cove Streetthen Gable Street at Heaven on earthwhich ended in 1972. Gisèle Dufour played the character of Gaétane Damphousse.
In the mid -1970s, we also saw him, among other things, in The small country. In the early 1980s, he held one of the main roles in the series The Maya and the Chaffinches, broadcast on TVA. In the late 1980s, he participated in one stage of the drama series Love with capital Awritten by Janette Bertrand.
Featured in scale model grief in 1987
Gisèle Dufour also introduced herself to the theater, playing The Threepenny Opera and in 8 women in the 1960s, but also in the cinema. In the late 1980s, he starred in film scale model griefby Robert Morin.
He will have a diverse career, Michel Dufour underlined. She led this journey as a single mother. It is a self -made.
Gisèle Dufour often defines bourgeois, sophisticated and isnobby women, as in paradise on earth o sa The Maya and the Chaffinchesin which he played Marie-Hélène Pinson, the wife of a lawyer.
So he wanted to change the register by rubbing shoulders with a different character. He loves challenges, like when he performed in the play The Horrible Parentin Toronto, because it was a difficult duty [celui d’une femme malade]or in an episode about menopause’s Love with capital A.
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Source: Radio-Canada