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Pelletier, Gilles
Gilles Pelletier
Actor/director born in St-Jovite, Quebec, in 1925; died September 5, 2018 at the age of 93. Brother of Denise Pelletier.
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Gilles Pelletier was a dominant figure in Quebec theatre.
His father was a notary and he spent his childhood travelling between St-Jovite, Montreal and Kamouraska. He began his career with Équipe, after having served in the French navy during WWII, and since then he worked constantly in radio, television, and cinema, as well as on stage.
He is one of the founders of Nouvelle Compagnie Théâtrale / Théâtre Denise-Pelletier which he helmed from 1964-82.
While he led the Company he directed the works of Chekhov, Calderon, Marcel Dubé, Ionesco, Molière, Goldoni and many others.
As an actor, he was notable for magnificent presence and voice, which he applied to leads in Shakespeare's La nuit des rois/Twelfth Night and La mégère apprivoisée/Taming of the Shrew; Michel Tremblay's A toi, pour toujours, ta Marie-Lou; Pirande