Sylvie Potvin
Birthday: Born in 1954-02-04 in
Deathday: Alive
TV Credits
Prière de ne pas envoyer de fleurs
Character: Self
A variety show with a twist: a celebrity guest get to attend their own memorial service – an entertaining send-off filled with eulogies and some gentle ribbing....
Les beaux malaises
Character:
Fictional series based on the life (and starring) Martin Matte, a comedian and popular figure in PQ, Canada. It tells the story of the awkward but funny moments that the stand-up man has to face everyday....
Le bonheur
Character: Mamie #1
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Rock et Rolland
Character: Nicole
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La Petite Vie
Character: Linda
La petite vie was first a stage sketch of the comedy duo Ding et Dong, formed by Claude Meunier and Serge Thériault, and later a hit Quebec television sitcom aired by Radio-Canada from 1993 to 1999. In total, 59 episodes were created plus 3 specials, two for Christmas and one for New Year's 2000. It is to date the only Canadian TV show to ever gather more than 4 million viewers, a performance it achieved twice in 1995....
Sans rendez-vous
Character: Claire
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Conseils de famille
Character: Diane
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Les dieux de la danse
Character: Herself
Quebec's favourite celebrities hit the dance floor to show off their best moves. Each week, four of them have to learn a different choreography and perform it for a worked-up audience and a panel of judges with lots of personality....
On passe à l'Histoire
Character: Self
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La Petite Vie
Character: Self
La petite vie was first a stage sketch of the comedy duo Ding et Dong, formed by Claude Meunier and Serge Thériault, and later a hit Quebec television sitcom aired by Radio-Canada from 1993 to 1999. In total, 59 episodes were created plus 3 specials, two for Christmas and one for New Year's 2000. It is to date the only Canadian TV show to ever gather more than 4 million viewers, a performance it achieved twice in 1995....
Des squelettes dans le placard
Character: Self
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Les Boys
Character: Lisette
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Les fleuristes
Character: Sarah Schwartz
Struggling to succeed in show business, the aspiring comedian Walid Bensalem agrees to work for his uncle Akmar, a renowned florist with unconventional sales techniques. Determined to become a successful comedian, Walid will do everything to sign with Sarah Schwartz, the best manager in Quebec....
Avec un grand A
Character:
L'Amour avec un Grand A is a French-Canadian television series which aired from 1988 to 1995. The series explores different complex sexual and taboo issues. Some notable subjects include: Rape, Teen Obsession, Age Difference in love, Homosexuality and Married, Schizophrenia, Spousal Abuse. The series lasted 7 years and was very popular in Quebec. It was written by Janette Bertrand....
Le Tricheur
Character: Self
This daily quiz show puts strategy front and centre, as five celebrities answer general-knowledge questions to win money for their favourite charity. But here’s the catch: one of the five participants is cheating, because they’re secretly being fed the answers. The cheater’s mission is to play it smart so they can fool the other players and win the game without getting caught....
À tour de rôles
Character: Self
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Movie Credits
Heritage Minutes: John Humphrey
Character: Reporter
Legal scholar, jurist, and human rights advocate John Humphrey drafts the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights....
Karmina 2
Character: La Baronne
All the vampires have to take a special potion made by Ghyslain Chabot to be human. Chabot's wife isn't a vampire yet but wishes to become one. Ghyslain doesn't share her desire because of all the rules and responsibilities inherent in being a vampire. As a result, Ghyslain's wife throws him out of the house without the potion....
The Boys - 25th Anniversary
Character: Self
The Boys - 25th Anniversary follows a night with Michel Charette welcoming the core cast members to his bar! Rémy Girard, Marc Messier, Pierre Lebeau, Patrick Labbé, Yvan Ponton, Patrick Huard, Roc Lafortune and Paul Houde discuss their experiences filming Les Boys!...
Dix-neuf 95
Character: Mère de Mathilde
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Ding et Dong : Le film
Character: Serveuse
Two harum-scarums who think they are good stand-up comics try to make a career in showbiz, partly for the career, partly to seduce women. They try alternatively the scene, a movie set and TV. They only succeed in making a fool of themselves...
Aurélie Laflamme's Diary
Character: Soeur Rose
Aurelie Laflamme feels alone in the world, especially since her father's death five years ago. What if her father had been an alien who left Earth to return to his own planet? In that case, Aurelie would be an alien too. That would explain many things such as why she feels different from others, especially her mother, why she can't string two words together without making a mistake, and why boys really get on her nerves. Through the pages of her diary, Aurelie confides her joys and sorrows, succ...
French Girl
Character: Aunt Claudette
Sweet Gordon, an affable English teacher in Brooklyn, has beaten the odds; a French Girl has fallen in love with him and he’s fallen even harder back. But their future is thrown into limbo when she interviews for an executive chef position in her hometown of Quebec City. To Gordon’s dismay her future boss also happens to be her former lover, a celebrity Chef with oceanic eyes and a hit TV show. Good luck Gordon....
Louis 19, King of the Airwaves
Character: Critique "Festin des loups"
Louis Jobin is an ordinary young man from Montreal who sells televisions at an electronics store. He wins a contest sponsored by the local cable company in which the first prize is that he'll be followed non-stop by a camera crew, with the footage broadcast live on Channel 19. Unfortunately, his ordinary life is so ordinary, despite the best efforts of his starstruck mother, that the producers attempt to spice things up behind his back....
Father and Guns 2
Character: Carole
A few years after they infiltrated a therapy program for fathers and sons, Marc Laroche is having some issues with his girlfriend Alice and Jacques is experiencing intense denial towards the fact that he is growing older. An incredible opportunity arises when Martin Germain, the lieutenant of the Mafia’s leader, and his girlfriend sign up for a bootcamp for couples. As Marc and Alice sign up for the therapy, Jacques invites himself in by pretending to be the psychologist's assistant....
LNI : 40 ans d'improvisation
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My Daughter, My Angel
Character: Fille - Accueil universitaire
Nathalie Dagenais is a 19 year old girl studying to be a lawyer. New to the city of Montreal, she will soon discover the world of porn. One day, her father (Michel Côté) comes across her picture on the Internet and wants to find her and before she makes what he thinks is a mistake. The story goes from past to present, when a police officer investigates the death of Max, a man who Nathalie knew....
Karmina
Character: Baronne
Karmina, a young vampire (only 140 years old) flees her Translylvanian castle where she must marry the horrible Vlad to please her father, the mean Baron, and her mother, the eccentric Baronness. Karmina finds refuge in Quebec at the home of her aunt Esméralda, an older vampire who lives among humans thanks to a potion that temporarily transforms a vampire into one of them. Under the effect of the potion, Karmina falls in love with Phillipe, a charming church organist. But Vlad, the Baron and th...
Pudding chômeur
Character: Dolly
Deliberately Felliniesque, this surreal and uneven Canadian satire from iconoclastic French Canadian director Gilles Carle offers an episodic look into an anarchistic, metaphorical world filled with a bizarre assortment of weirdos, wackos and misanthropes. The story roughly centers on the adventures of Yo-Yo, a young woman who is first seen acting as a high priestess for a ceremony involving the miraculous healing powers of the little boy Alphonse....
Last Call for Mom
Character: Serveuse au café
Despite her lover's feelings, a pro-choice journalist considers having an abortion....
You're Beautiful, Jeanne
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A paraplegic is determined to rebuild her life on her own....
Dans le ventre du dragon
Character: Voisine 4
The title of this French-Canadian film translates to In the Belly of the Dragon, but don't assume that it's just another kung fu epic. Rather, the film is a likeable mixture of science fiction and humor, centered around the money-making schemes of star David La Haye. Unable to make ends meet with his minimum-wage job, La Haye hires himself out as a guinea pig to genially loopy scientist Marie Tifo. It is the doctor's contention that a person's intelligence can be artificially increased. La Haye ...
The Long Winter
Character: Madame Neveux
In 1838, Francois-Xavier Bouchard (Francis Reddy) fights beside his Quebec countrymen and the English minority....
Free Money
Character: Doris
A deranged prison warden with a nasty habit of killing escapees forces the boyfriends of his teenage twin daughters into a shotgun wedding, after they claim to be pregnant. All hope seems lost, until the husbands hatch a madcap plan to rob a money train to freedom....
Honey, I'm in Love
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Jean-Paul, a successful plastic surgeon, separates from his wife and he sees his life turn upside down when everyone in his family blame him for all their troubles....