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A graduate from the University of Ottawa theatre department, France is an accomplished bilingual actress who has worked in television & film, radio, cartoons, theatre, announcing, hosting and moderating live events. You may have seen her on stage at Théâtre la Seizième in L’Astronome, Cendres de Cailloux, Les Voisins, or Lentement la beauté (nominated for Best Production for a Jessie Richardson Award). At the Fringe Festival in An Evening with Beckett, Trouble at the Pork & Strike(which she co-produced), A Dog Called Bitch, or Get Off The Cross Mary! - Winner of the HERO award for Best Production in 2008. Last year, she was seen in a run of the play Plan B, by Michael Healy with Sea Theatre, at Presentation House. On television, you may have seen her in an episode of Dead Zone, The L Word, Battlestar Galactica, or Hiccups, to name a few. She also co-starred in the short film Say Yes, which screened at the Montreal International Film Festival and the Whistler Film Festival. Peking Turkey was selected to play on CityTV, and has won five Audience Choice Awards, around the globe. In February 2008, she participated, as an actor, in the esteemed Women in the Directors Chair Workshop – at the Banff Centre, with directors Karen Hines and Peggy Thompson. The Sunflower Hour, written and directed by Aaron Houston, Unpaved Productions, just screened at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the Check Republic, winning the Independent Camera award, as well as screening at the VIFF 2011, where it won Best Ensemble Cast. Her latest short film, which she co-produced and stars in, entitled Theatrics, was an official selection of the Vancouver International Film Festival 2011, as well as the 8th Annual Big Apple Film Festival. France has also lent her voice in a variety of ways; as “Bulma” on Dragon Ball Z, as “Kip” in Stan Lee’s The Condor, as “Kuea” on Elemental Gelade, she has guest starred on Martha Speaks, and was also heard in Barbie: Thumbelina as well as Barbie: A Fashion Fairy-tale. In a variety of commercials (Lipton, CAA Manitoba, Freschetta Pizza, Jell-O, Millionaire Life (English & French)) as well as narrating vignettes for the Variety Club Show of Hearts for the past seven years, on The Global TV Network, not to mention voicing tags for CTV for a variety of VANOC commercials. Having been “bilingual House MC” for the Canadian Association of Broadcasters 76th, 80th, 81st & 82nd annual conferences and being the Bilingual Announcer during The Official Logo Launch and The Official Mascot Launch for VANOC France is just as comfortable doing live hosting, (she hosted LIVE on the Global TV Network during the Variety Club: Show of Hearts Telethon in 2011, and will again in February 2012), as she is to dubbing German television series (Lady Cop, Siska, Spice of Life). Her MC capabilities have permitted her to host the Youth Skills Canada competitions as well as, MC’ing, live in Victoria, the festivities for the 25th Anniversary Terry Fox Run. She also announced LIVE at the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of The 2007 Canada Winter Games, which was broadcast on CBC Newsworld, and in Halifax for The 2011 Canada Winter Games, broadcast on TSN2. She was also the LIVE Bilingual Announcer during the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games. In the theatre world, she is a recipient of a Jessie Richardson Award for Best Ensemble Performance for the play Clonage.PA, and was nominated at Les Masques twice, for best Franco-Canadian play for Cendres de Cailloux as well as for the play Clonage.PA. France made her directorial debut as part of the 30th anniversary season at Théâtre la Seizième, with Les Contes Vancouveroisand she followed that with directing Deeds at the Beaumont Theatre for Broads’Way Theatre. Her play for kids entitled Amédée was part of a workshop series, which saw it in workshops in Saskatoon, Edmonton and Vancouver. Amédée will be finished in 2012. She is in the creation/writing process with women from Edmonton, and Vancouver, on a project entitled RESOUCHE. This project was invited to do a short reading, as part of the festival Zones Théâtrales, in Ottawa, at the NAC, in September 2011. In the past few years, she helped create The French Talent Network (visit www.thefrenchtalentnetwork.com ), with fellow francophone voice artists, in order for producers and directors to find French talent more easily, in Vancouver. |
