Fortier is a French-language

Quebec French

Quebec French , or Québécois French, is the predominant variety of the French language in Canada, in its formal and informal registers. Quebec French is used in everyday communication, as well as in education, the media, and government....

 Canadian television series which debuted on February 8, 2001 on TVA

TVA (TV network)

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Anne Fortier (Sophie Lorain

Sophie Lorain

Sophie Lorain is a French Canadian actress and producer. She is known for having played "Anne Fortier" in the highly-rated television series Fortier that first aired in Quebec, Canada...

) is a criminal psychologist who works with the investigator

Detective

A detective is an investigator, either a member of a police agency or a private person. The latter may be known as private investigators or "private eyes"...

s of SAS (Anti-Sociopathic Service), a fictional police division specialising in crimes involving mental illnesses. Although their crimes include a shoe thief and a pyromaniac, most of the cases given a lot of time on the series are murders, often serial killings. While solving these cases Fortier and her colleagues must wrestle with her own murky past and psychological issues.

Recognition

• The series earned Michèle-Barbara Pelletier a Prix Gémeaux
  Gémeaux Award
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  for Best Supporting Actress - Series or Dramatic Program for her appearance in episode three. Four other Prix Gemeaux nominations were given in the category Best Supporting Actor - Series or Dramatic Program .