Céline Lomez born Céline Léger in Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

, is a Canadian actress and singer.

Lomez started her show business career singing French-Canadian pop

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 songs with her sister Liette, and the two gained popularity after their performance at the Festival du Disque in Quebec in 1968. Liette went on to join a trio called Toulouse. Lomez, however, was soon offered a role in the Denis Héroux

Denis Héroux

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 film L'Initiation [1969]. She was only 15 years old at the time.

She has been twice nominated for the Canadian Juno Award

Juno Award

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 of best actress. She has also released two albums. One of her main hit songs was L'amour dans les rangs de coton [1974] a Louisiana zydeco

Zydeco

Zydeco is a form of uniquely American roots or folk music. It evolved in southwest Louisiana in the early 19th century from forms of "la la" Creole music...

-style ballad.

One of the finalists in casting for the television series "Charlie's Angels

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", but lost the role to Tanya Roberts

Tanya Roberts

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 because network decided Lomez was too sexy for prime time. [1979]

In 2004, Céline published her autobiography, Pour quatorze dollars elles sont à vous? (ISBN 9782895620761).

Filmography

• L'Initiation (1969)
• Loving and Laughing (1971)
• Apres-Ski (1971)
• L'Apparition (1972)
• Réjeanne Padovani (1973)
• Pousse mais pousse égal (1974)
• Gina (1974)
• Stateline Motel (1975)
• The Far Shore (1976)
• Plague
  Plague (1978 film)
  Plague is a 1978 Canadian science fiction film about a genetic engineering accident, a fertilizing bacterium that escapes from a laboratory in Canada. The film is also known internationally as Induced Syndrome , M-3: The Gemini Strain or Mutation .-Plot:A deadly bacteria called M3 is released and...
  
   (1978)
• The Silent Partner
  The Silent Partner (1978 film)
  The Silent Partner is a 1978 Canadian crime film directed by Daryl Duke. It stars Elliott Gould, Christopher Plummer and Susannah York....
  
   (1978)
• The Spirit of Adventure: Night Flight (TV-1980)
• The Ivory Ape (TV-1980)
• Ça peut pas être l'hiver, on n'a même pas eu d'été (1980)
• The Kiss (1988)
• Charlotte et Léa (TV-1995)
• La vengeance de la femme en noir (1997)
• Se souvenir des belles choses
  Se souvenir des belles choses
  Se souvenir des belles choses Se souvenir des belles choses Se souvenir des belles choses (English: Beautiful Memories is a 2001 French film directed by Zabou Breitman. It won the César Awards for Best Debut, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor, and was nominated for Best Actor...
  
  (2001)

External links

• northernstars.ca
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6D4UdI8wos