Josée Deschênes

Josée Deschênes

Birthday: 1961-08-09

Place of Birth: Jonquière, Québec, Canada

Biography: Josée Deschênes (born August 9, 1961 in Jonquière (now Saguenay, Quebec)) is a Canadian actress from Quebec. She is most noted for her performances in the films Polygraph, for which she was a Genie Award nominee for Best Supporting Actress at the 17th Genie Awards in 1996 and Ghost Town Anthology (Répertoire des villes disparues), for which she was a Prix Iris nominee for Best Actress at the 21st Quebec Cinema Awards in 2019.

Movies

Love and Magnets
Love and Magnets

Back in Montréal after spending five years in Guatemala, Julie moves in with her elder sister, Jeann...

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That Kind of Summer
That Kind of Summer

In a countryside house where they are meant to explore the troubles in their sexuality, three women ...

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One Summer
One Summer

For more than 25 years, Marc Côté, street chaplain and parish priest, has lived with the poor and th...

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Niagara
Niagara

A comedy drama about the fall, mourning and rebuilding of oneself around three brothers in their fif...

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Solo
Solo

Emerging Montreal drag queen Simon must deal with two impossible loves: a passionate, yet destructiv...

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Émilie
Émilie

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Suburban Bliss
Suburban Bliss

Catherine, a rebellious pre-teen who has been deeply affected by her parents’ divorce, plays a game ...

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The Little Queen
The Little Queen

Julie, star cyclist, is two races away from winning the World Cup. It is the culmination of years of...

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The Seat of the Soul
The Seat of the Soul

This Canadian science-fiction film takes place at the beginning of the 20th Century in an unnamed ci...

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Ghost Town Anthology
Ghost Town Anthology

It is a small village somewhere in Quebec with only 215 inhabitants. When young Simon Dubé dies in a...

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Noël chez les Paré
Noël chez les Paré

At the Paré household, Christmas is part of a long tradition of squabbles, depressing gift exchanges...

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Le Polygraphe
Le Polygraphe

In this French Canadian thriller, an actress wins the role of a murder victim in a film based on the...

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Le bogue de l'an 2000
Le bogue de l'an 2000

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Hantée
Hantée

Mathilde, a marginalized teenager, must move to the countryside with her family for a reason she wou...

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