Louisette Dussault
{{Short description|Canadian actress and writer (1940–2023)}}
Louisette Dussault (12 June 1940 – 14 March 2023) was a Canadian actress and writer from Quebec.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LkyZIbi3cUAC&pg=PA2048 |title=Dictionnaire des artistes du théâtre québécois |page=2048 |last=Vaïs |first=Michel |year=2008 |publisher=Québec Amerique |isbn=978-2764421567 |language=fr}}
Life and career
Louisette Dussault was born in Thetford Mines and studied at the National Theatre School of Canada. With Jean-Claude Germain, she founded Les Enfants de Chénier and took part in their show Grand Spectacle d'adieu. She performed in works by André Brassard and Michel Tremblay, including the film Françoise Durocher, Waitress, first readings of Les Belles-Soeurs, {{Interlanguage link multi|Demain matin, Montréal m'attend|fr}} and Tremblay's translations of Lysistrata and Dario Fo's Mistero Buffo. She appeared in the important feminist works La Nef des sorcières and Les Fées ont soif, as well as in her own monologue Moman. This last work was translated into English as Mommy and was included in the collection Anthology of Quebec Women's Plays in English Translation Vol I (1966–1986) (2006).{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Dussault%2C%20Louisette |title=Dussault, Louisette |encyclopedia=Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia}} Dussault wrote and performed in the play Pandora ou Mon p'tit papa. She appeared in the title role in the award-winning play Le voyage magnifique d'Emily Carr.{{cite news |url=http://www.lapresse.ca/le-soleil/arts-et-spectacles/theatre/201103/27/01-4383673-louisette-dussault-mere-vierge-putain.php |title=Louisette Dussault: mère, vierge, putain |newspaper=Le Soleil |date=January 27, 2011 |language=fr}}
Dussault also performed on television and in film. From 1964 to 1971, she performed in the title role of the children's television series {{Interlanguage link multi|la souris verte|fr}}. She also appeared in the television series {{Interlanguage link multi|Marilyn (TV series)|fr|3=Marilyn|lt=Marilyn}}, Les héritiers Duval, Rumeurs, {{Interlanguage link multi|Les étoiles filantes|fr|3=Les Étoiles filantes (série télévisée)}} and {{Interlanguage link multi|Destinées (TV series)|fr|3=Destinées (série télévisée, 2007)|lt=Destinées}}.{{cite web |url=http://biographie.radio-canada.ca/personnalites/louisette-dussault |title=Louisette Dussault |publisher=Radio Canada |language=fr}}
Dussault was awarded the {{Interlanguage link multi|Prix Victor-Morin|fr}} in 1995.{{cite web |url=http://bilan.usherbrooke.ca/bilan/liste.jsp?titreListe=110 |title=Liste des Lauréates et lauréats du prix Victor-Morin |work=Bilan du Siècle |publisher=University of Sherbrooke |language=fr}}
Dussault died on 14 March 2023, at the age of 82.[https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2023/03/14/la-comedienne-louisette-dussault-seteint-a-82-ans La comédienne Louisette Dussault s'éteint] {{in lang|fr}}
References
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External links
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Category:Actresses from Quebec
Category:Canadian stage actresses
Category:Canadian television actresses
Category:Canadian film actresses
Category:20th-century Canadian actresses
Category:21st-century Canadian actresses
Category:Canadian women dramatists and playwrights
Category:Canadian dramatists and playwrights in French
Category:20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
Category:20th-century Canadian women writers
Category:People from Thetford Mines
Category:National Theatre School of Canada alumni
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