Louise Portal
Louise Portal (born May 12, 1950) is a Canadian actress, film director, singer and writer. She won the Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film The Decline of the American Empire, and was a nominee for Best Actress for Sous-sol (Not Me!).
Her other film roles have included Full Blast, Séraphin: Heart of Stone (Séraphin: un homme et son péché), The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions barbares), The Five of Us (Elles étaient cinq), The Happiness of Others (Le Bonheur des autres), Adrien (Le Garagiste), Paul à Québec, The Orphan Muses (Les Muses orphelines), Les Salopes, or the Naturally Wanton Pleasure of Skin and Cordélia.
Portal was born in Chicoutimi, Quebec. Her twin sister Pauline Lapointe (died 2010) was also an actress.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 10.948 |
| Birthday | 1950-05-12 |
| Place of Birth | Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada |
| Also Known As | Louise Lapointe, |
2006
Heading South
5.5/32
A story of three female tourists who visit Haiti, in order to enjoy the sexual nature of the young men.
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Heading South
2003
The Barbarian Invasions
7.06/357
In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer....
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The Barbarian Invasions
2009
A Happy Man
4.5/16
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A Happy Man
1986
The Decline of the American Empire
6.8/146
Four very different Montreal university teachers gather at a rambling country house to prepare a dinner. Remy (married), Claude (a homosexual), Pierre...
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The Decline of the American Empire
2009
Angel at Sea
5.2/13
Louis is a twelve year old boy who lives with his parents and older brother in southern Morocco. Louis is very happy until the day his father shares a...
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Angel at Sea
2011
Le Bonheur Des Autres
6/3
Twenty years before the events in the film's story, Jean-Pierre left his wife, Louise. At that moment, Marion and Sylvie, Jean-Pierre's two children,...
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Le Bonheur Des Autres
2002
Séraphin: Heart of Stone
6/13
The story takes place during the colonization of the Laurentian region in Quebec towards the end of the 19th century (approx. 1885-90), near Sainte-Ad...
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Séraphin: Heart of Stone
2000
Saint Jude
1/1
Teen-aged sisters Jude and Maureen, living with their volatile father in Montréal, live a life of substance abuse, hustling and petty theft. After Jud...
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Saint Jude
1996
Not Me!
0/0
In this Canadian psychological drama a repressed young man struggles with his phobia of sex. It began when he was a sensitive 11-year old awakened in...
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Not Me!
2002
Dangerous People
3.3/7
It has kidnapped Roxane Labelle, a Canadian singer covered gold records and awards. To his captors, no question of release without payment of a large...
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Dangerous People
2000
The Orphan Muses
5.8/6
Haunted by the death of their father and the disappearance of their mother, four children, three girls and a boy, take refuge in an ideal and deliriou...
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The Orphan Muses
1989
My Best Pals
6.5/80
They are the best friends of the world. Five friends who shared everything: may 68, hippies years, the rock and their love for Bernadette. This Bernad...
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My Best Pals
1984
Wild Animals
4.714/7
Berg and Bela are married stunt drivers, but one night Bela dies in an accident. Jaded and reclusive, Berg becomes a nighttime security guard where he...
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Wild Animals
1999
The Big Snake of the World
5/2
This feature drama tells the story of Tom Paradise, a young 40-something refusing to grow up. Behind the wheel of his bus, he drives endlessly through...
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The Big Snake of the World
1987
Tinamer
4/2
Tinamer is 27 years old when her mother dies. The funeral of this last one makes her relive certain events of her childhood which marked her forever.
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Tinamer
2014
The Wolves
6.2/8
A woman travels from the big city to the countryside. The locals are suspicious.
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The Wolves
1972
Dream Life
4/2
Two twenty-something women dream of the ideal man and slowly realize that reality is very different from their fantasies.
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Dream Life
2015
Adrien
5.6/4
Is having control of our life a right? Are living and dying freedoms, duties or responsibilities? How should we love? How should we live? How should w...
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Adrien
2015
Paul à Québec
6.7/19
In 1999, Paul and his partner Julie experienced beautiful moments with their young daughter. They are looking for a house in Montreal and frequently s...
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Paul à Québec
1980
Cordélia
6.8/2
In a little village at the end of the 1890's, a young woman offends all the 'right-thinking' villagers by allowing men in her house in the absence of...
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Cordélia
1973
Taureau
5.2/5
A family that does not conform to the social norms of a small village must suffer the intolerance of the other villagers when the mentally-challenged...
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Taureau
1979
A Scream from Silence
5.7/6
A director and an editor, both women, cannot work on a movie presenting the rape of a nurse without reacting on the scenes they're working on, the sit...
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A Scream from Silence
1982
Larose, Pierrot et la Luce
0/0
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Larose, Pierrot et la Luce
2017
Nous sommes le Freak show
0/0
A bingo game. An allegorical, wild and humorous portrait. An hommage to eccentricity and entertainment, to those things that remain unchanged.
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Nous sommes le Freak show
1999
Full Blast
4.6/5
A strike at a sawmill in a small Canadian town puts Steph and Piston out of work. They want to resurrect their band but Marie-Lou, Piston's ex-wife an...
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Full Blast
2006
From My Window, Without a Home
6/1
After abandoning her four-year-old daughter in Lebanon to pursue a better life in Quebec, Sana cuts every link to her Lebanese ties and never looks ba...
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From My Window, Without a Home
1993
Bye Bye Love
4/3
Two women, a friendship. Two parallel love stories. Marianne has a passionate affair with Nino while the relationship of Lea and David is falling apar...
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Bye Bye Love
2018
The Natural Sweetness of Skin
6.222/9
Revealing women, showing men Dermatology professor Marie-Claire is embarking on a new project linking skin cells and sexuality, when unexpected events...
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The Natural Sweetness of Skin
2018
Everything outside
0/0
When circumstances conspire to leave Louise, an established Quebec painter, and Ahmed, an aspiring Lebanese-Canadian actor, sharing a remote lake hous...
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Everything outside
2019
And the Birds Rained Down
7.3/17
A photographer sets off toward a mysterious forest to find Boychuk, witness and victim of the Great Fire that swept through Northern Ontario at the tu...
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And the Birds Rained Down
2021
The Guide to the Perfect Family
6.5/95
A couple in Québec deals with the pitfalls, pressure and high expectations of raising kids in a society obsessed with success and social media image.
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The Guide to the Perfect Family
2022
Confessions of a Hitman
6.429/35
A paid assassin working for the biker gangs of Quebec outsmarts both the police and the underworld for decades, committing 28 hits over 25 years.
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Confessions of a Hitman
1979
Angel Life
0/0
Two strangers have a fateful one-night stand in Montréal.
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Angel Life
2019
Roseline like in the movies
0/0
Roseline is a renowned actress with an impressive career. After a lifetime on camera, she gets ready to play her greatest role yet. Fiction and realit...
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Roseline like in the movies
2016
L'odeur après la pluie
0/0
Claire, a recently retired widow, shares her suburban house with her sister Gisele. On a scorching summer day, Julien an old flame, shows up unexpecte...
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L'odeur après la pluie
1974
Les beaux dimanches
6.3/5
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Les beaux dimanches
2012
Le Chevreuil
0/0
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Le Chevreuil
2004
The Five of Us
6.2/15
In Montreal, the teenagers Manon, Anne, Isa, Claudie and Sophie are friends since their childhood. While spending a couple of days in the cottage of S...
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The Five of Us
2002
Alice's Odyssey
5.1/11
After reading a bedtime story to her daughter, Alice Tremblay leaves her daughter's room and enters her own fairytale.
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Alice's Odyssey
2010
Lance et compte
3.4/7
After an hockey game in Lac St-Jean, the National climbs into their bus and begins the long ride from Roberval to Quebec City. On one of the sharp cur...
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Lance et compte
2021
The Cold
0/0
Unable to accept the death of her husband, a woman keeps him secretly in their apartment. Helped by the cold, she tries to keep the corpse preserved f...
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The Cold
1999
Memories Unlocked
6.2/9
In this French Canadian drama, the life of a paraplegic painter implodes when an old girlfriend comes back into his life and accuses him of raping her...
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Memories Unlocked
2021
The Mother Eagle
0/0
After learning of her convent's closure, a nun prays to Marie of the Incarnation and receives an answer in person.
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The Mother Eagle
2021
F*ckin' Coffin!
5/2
May 20, 1980. After his father's passing, Raymond Tremblay, tax investigator, begins to suspect the funeral home of fraudulent activities. Accompanied...
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F*ckin' Coffin!
1974
The Klutz
6/1
Have you ever had "one of those days" when nothing seems to go right? Well, imagine how Claude feels-his entire life has been one screwy day after ano...
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The Klutz
2017
L'érotisme et le vieil âge
0/0
The director deals with the subject of the sexuality of older people, an often taboo subject. The actress Louise Portal and her partner Jacques Hébert...
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L'érotisme et le vieil âge
Le grand vide
0/0
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