Actors

Geneviève Bujold

Geneviève Bujold

Genevieve Bujold spent her first twelve school years in Montreal's oppressive Hochelaga Convent, where opportunities for self-expression were limited to making welcoming speeches for visiting clerics. As a child she felt "as if I were in a long dark tunnel trying to convince myself that if I could ever get out there was light ahead." Caught reading a forbidden novel, she was handed her ticket out of the convent and she then enrolled in Montreal's free Conservatoire d'Art Dramatique. There she was trained in classical French drama and shortly before graduation was offered a part in a professional production of Beaumarchais' "The Barber of Seville." In 1965 while on a theatrical tour of Paris with another Montreal company, Rideau Vert, Bujold was recommended to director Alain Resnais (by his mother) who cast her opposite Yves Montand in La guerre est finie (1966). She then made two other French films in quick succession, the Philippe de Broca cult classic Le roi de coeur (1966) and Louis Malle's Le voleur (1967). She was also very active during this time in Canadian television where she met and married director Paul Almond in 1967. They had one child and divorced in 1974. Two remarkable appearances - first as the titular Saint Joan (1967) on television, then as Anne Boleyn in her Hollywood debut Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), co-starring Richard Burton - introduced Bujold to American audiences and yielded Emmy and Oscar nominations respectively. Immediately after "Anne," while under contract with Universal, she opted out of a planned Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) ("it would be the same producer, the same director, the same costumes, the same me") prompting the studio to sue her for $750,000. Rather than pay, she went to Greece to film The Trojan Women (1971) with Katharine Hepburn. Her virtuoso performance as the mad seer Cassandra led critic Pauline Kael to prophesy "prodigies ahead" but to assuage Universal, Bujold eventually returned to Hollywood to make Earthquake (1974), co-starring Charlton Heston, which was a box office hit. A host of other films of varying quality followed, most notably Obsession (1976), Coma (1978), The Last Flight of Noah's Ark (1980), and Tightrope (1984), but she managed nevertheless to transcend the material and deliver performances with her trademark combination of ferocious intensity and childlike vulnerability. In the 1980s she found her way to director Alan Rudolph's nether world and joined his film family for three movies including the memorable Choose Me (1984). Highlights of recent work are her brave performance in the David Cronenberg film Dead Ringers (1988) and a lovely turn in the autumnal romance Les noces de papier (1990).
Geneviève Doang

Geneviève Doang

Geneviève Doang is a French-Asian actress of Chinese descent born in Paris, bilingual in English. She is skilled in Kung Fu and stage combat and known as the French voice of Ciri in Wiedzmin 3: Dziki Gon (2015), D.Va in Overwatch (2016), Lunafreya in Final Fantasy XV (2016) and Evangelyne in Wakfu (2008). In 2020, she is joining the third season of French TV series Munch (2016) (TF1) as a regular, playing Police Captain Wang. In 2019, she was featured in Terminator: Dark Fate (2019) where she plays the role of a Resistance Nurse opposite actress Mackenzie Davis. In 2018, she played 25 year-old intern Jia in the French TV show Nina (2015)) and entered the family of the comedy show Scènes de ménages (2009) (as daughter-in-law of one of the main couples Liliane et José). In 2017 she played Enlai, a guest of episode in the French TV series Transferts (2017) premium short series platform). As a kung-fu / action performer and actress, she played the co-lead role as a martial art-skilled special agent in the French action / comedy short movie 'Tranh & Nowak' in 2016 for which she was awarded « Best Actress » in the Fighting Spirit Film Festival 2018 in London. The short also received a number of awards in worldwide film festivals for Best Short film, Best Action sequence, Best Action Choreography, etc. In 2016 she played the lead role's girlfriend Mai Linh in the short movie Mui Diên n'est pas mort (2016), starring Frédéric Chau (, the French famous Asian actor from the feature film Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au Bon Dieu? (2014), the French Box Office greatest hit in 2014 and Lucy (2014). She grew up practicing Kung Fu since childhood, after five years of classical ballet, while learning music and piano at the conservatory of her hometown. After a Master of Science in Management with Honors in Neoma Business School in Reims, she decided to pursue a career as an actress. She is also prolific in the dubbing and voice over industry in France. She is notably the French voice of Constance Wu in Crazy Rich Asians (2018), Ali Wong in Always Be My Maybe (2019), Jamie Chung (Office Christmas Party (2016), The Hangover Part II (2011) & The Hangover Part III (2013), Once Upon a Time (2011), Premium Rush (2012), Believe (2014)...), Jerrika Hinton (as Stephanie Edwards in Grey's Anatomy (2005)), Bae Doona (Sense8 (2015), Cloud Atlas (2012), Jupiter Ascending (2015)...), Janel Parrish (Pretty Little Liars (2010)...), Diana Bang (The Interview (2014), Bates Motel (2013), Second Chance (2016)...), Arden Cho (Teen Wolf (2011), Tomb Raider (2013)...) among others. As she has a clear voice tone and can easily vary the pitch of her voice, she is also skilled in dubbing children and teenager's voices. As a singer, she played in the Musical 'Marco Polo: an Untold Love Story' directed by Rogelio Saldo Chua in 2015, at le Vingtième Théâtre in Paris, France.