Michèle Magny

{{Short description|Canadian actress, playwright and theatre director}}

Michèle Magny (born 1944) is a Canadian actress, playwright and theatre director from Montreal, Quebec.[https://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Magny%2C%20Mich%E8le "Magny, Michèle"]. Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia, July 17, 2020. She was a Governor General's Award nominee for French-language drama at the 1995 Governor General's Awards, for her play Marina, le dernier rose aux joues.Judy Stoffman, "Book award finalists surprising". Toronto Star, October 27, 1995.

A 1968 graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, she began her career with roles in films such as Don't Let the Angels Fall and The House of Light (La Chambre blanche).Charles-Henri Ramond, [https://www.filmsquebec.com/films/chambre-blanche-jean-pierre-lefebvre/ "Chambre blanche, La – Film de Jean Pierre Lefebvre"]. Films du Québec, January 3, 2009. Her other credits have included the films O or the Invisible Infant (Ô ou l'invisible enfant), Taureau, La Piastre, The Disappearance, The Machine Age (L'Âge de la machine), To Be Sixteen (Avoir 16 ans) and Wild Flowers (Les Fleurs sauvages), and the television series Mont-Joye, Maigrichon et Gras-Double and La Bonne Aventure.

More prominent as a stage actress, her performances have included productions of the collective play La Nef des sorcières, Michel Tremblay's Bonjour, là, bonjour, Anne Legault's O'Neill,Pat Donnelly, "Legault's O'Neill's hauntingly close to Tremblay's Albertine; Play is preoccupied with writing process". Montreal Gazette, March 12, 1990. Denise Boucher's Les Fées ont soif,"Controversial feminist play reopens to raves". The Globe and Mail, June 6, 1979. and a French translation of Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing.John Hare, "The Real thing really too long". Montreal Gazette, May 15, 1987. She has directed productions of Jacques Rampal's Célimène et le cardinal,Pat Donnelly, "Two fine actors join forces as art imitates advertising". Montreal Gazette, February 3, 1993. Jovette Marchessault's Anaïs dans la queue de la comète,Marianne Ackerman, "A loving portrait of Anais Nin". Montreal Gazette, September 28, 1985. Sam Shepard's Fool for Love,Wayne Grigsby, "Reworked Fool for Love not necessarily improved". Montreal Gazette, January 21, 1987. Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,Pat Donnelly, "Translated Virginia Woolf plays it safe". Montreal Gazette, March 9, 1988. and Elliott Hayes's Homeward Bound.Pat Donnelly, "All going well for Homeward Bound; Trail-blazing English Canadian comedy a hit with francophones". Montreal Gazette, November 26, 1994.

Her second stage play, Un carré de ciel (2004), portrayed the life of writer Jacques Ferron. She has also written two radio plays for Ici Radio-Canada Première, La plume et le scalpel and Histoire de gare et d'amour.