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- Actress
- Writer
Astrid Veillon was born on 30 October 1971 in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, Rhône, France. She is an actress and writer, known for Swordfish (2001), Highlander (1992) and Fabio Montale (2001).- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
François Létourneau was born in 1974 in Sainte-Foy, Québec, Canada. He is an actor and writer, known for Cheech (2006), Les invincibles (2009) and Série Noire (2014).- Pierre Cassignard was born on 19 December 1965 in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, Gironde, France. He was an actor, known for Empreintes criminelles (2010), Le sourire du clown (1999) and Russian Dolls (2005). He died on 20 December 2021 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.
- Composer
- Music Department
Born and raised in the professional music industry, JSR has a multifaceted musical career that includes composing (live and computer music), performing, arranging, and sound engineering.
He wrote his first musical piece at age 10 and five years later, he was one of the top 10 finalists (out of 3000 candidates) in a Pepsi contest to score their next national campaign. He wrote his first professional music piece that same year for a local radio ad.
At age 18, aside from songwriting on a daily basis, he was performing nightly in all the major "top 40" clubs around Quebec. At 21, he began working as a sound engineer for Genie Award winner composer Jean Robitaille. His true talent, his passion for music, his sensitivity and his extensive technical knowledge quickly got him involved on several productions as a composer instead of an engineer.
Amongst others, he wrote the score for Quebec's version of the very popular TV show "Fear Factor", and in 2004, he was one of the three composers who scored the 6 times Award-winning feature film "Bittersweet Memories" aka "My life in cinemascope" (Directed by Denise Filiatrault and produced by Cinémaginaire).
Over the last 15 years, JSR has written scores for hundreds of commercials, TV series, documentaries, short-films and he has just finished his first score for a video game - "The Golden Compass" (from the feature-film) for Nintendo DS.- Writer
- Actor
- Director
French playwright, screenwriter, and actor. born Marcel-Auguste Ferréol in Sainte-Foylès-Lyon (Rhône) on July 5, 1899. The circumstances of his birth are both uncertain and unusual. At one point, Achard stated as fact that ""I was born thanks to a special authorization from the Pope and the President of the Republic: my father had married the daughter of his sister, so that my grandfather was, at the same time, my great-grandfather; my father, my great-uncle; and my mother, my cousin." As a teenager during the First World War, he became a schoolteacher. By 20, he was a prompter at the famous Parisian Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier and then a journalist for La Figaro. He began writing for the stage at 22 and had immediate success when theatrical manager Charles Dullin staged Achard's Voulez-vous jouer avec moâ? at the Atelier. Achard quickly became a very popular playwright, most of his works derived from traditions of the Commedia del'Arte. Although frequently criticized for the dreamy, romantic quality of his most popular works, Achard did stretch those boundaries. His play Adam was a controversial and realistic look at the life of a homosexual man, and though the play was scandalous for its time, it has been revived frequently in more recent times and seen as a powerful exposé. His 1962 comedy L'Idiote was transferred to the screen as the Blake Edwards-Peter Sellers hit A Shot in the Dark. Achard had several plays produced on Broadway, though only two (I Know My Love and A Shot in the Dark, adapted by S.N. Behrman and Harry Kurnitz, respectively) were hits. Throughout his career as a playwright, Achard also wrote screenplays and acted in films. His best-known screenplay, probably, was for the 1936 version of Mayerling. Although he had done some directing in collaboration with other directors, Achard successfully directed his first solo film, La Valse de Paris, a biography of Offenbach, in 1949. He served as head of the Cannes and Venice Film festivals during the period of 1958-1960. Elected late in life to the Académie française, Achard died from complications of diabetes at 75, in Paris, on September 4, 1974. His wife Lily survived him.- Roger Vincent was born on 30 May 1878 in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, Gironde, France. He was an actor, known for Le cabaret du grand large (1946), Trois balles dans la peau (1934) and Casque d'Or (1952). He died on 6 November 1959 in Paris, France.
- Hubert Mounier was born on 21 September 1962 in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, Rhône, France. He was an actor, known for L'Affaire Louis' Trio: Il y a ceux (1989) and Les années bonheur (2006). He died on 2 May 2016 in Lavilledieu, Ardèche, France.
- Simon Gagne was born on 29 February 1980 in Sainte-Foy, Québec, Canada. He has been married to Karine since 2004.
- French art critic and historian Elie Faure was born in Ste. Foy, Gironde, France, in 1873. His father was a grower of wine grapes. At 17 years of age Elie was sent to the Lycee Henri IV in Paris, where he studied medicine, receiving his degree in 1899. He became a respected surgeon, but his first love was always art--although he was not a painter himself--and from childhood he had been entranced with paintings and painters (during his college days in Paris he would spend much of his off time in The Louvre). He married at 24 and his wife gave birth to two sons, one of whom died in infancy. He was so traumatized by this tragic incident that he went for many years without even looking at a painting. It was when he became involved in what became known as The Dreyfus Affair--when French Army Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, a Jew, was convicted by the French army leadership of spying for Germany, a charge motivated entirely by anti-Semitism--that he regained his love of art, mainly due to his association with writer Émile Zola, a staunch defender of Dreyfus. It was through Zola that Faure met the painters he had most admired, and this was the start of his career as an art historian.
In 1904 he published a brochure about the painter Velazquez. The next year he co-founded the Universite Populaire, a school for adult education. It was while he was an instructor there that he came out with what is considered to be his greatest work, the epic "History of Art".
When World War I broke out he joined the French army and served as a surgeon, returning to his art career at war's end. He published many brochures on the major French artists, such as Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse, and and became good friends with the renowned Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. Rivera even painted a portrait of Faure in his old French army uniform.
Elie Faure died in Paris, France, in 1937 at age 64.