Geneviève Bujold

Geneviève Bujold was born on Jul 01, 1942 in Canada. Geneviève Bujold's big-screen debut came with French Cancan directed by Jean Renoir in 1955. Geneviève Bujold is known for Still Mine directed by Michael McGowan, James Cromwell stars as Craig Morrison and Chuck Shamata as Judge. Geneviève Bujold has got 13 awards and 12 nominations so far. The most recent award Geneviève Bujold achieved is Los Angeles Silver Lake Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Geneviève Bujold plays is Chorus which will be released on Dec 03, 2015.

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 cœur (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 des mille jours (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 Marie Stuart, reine d'Écosse (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 Les Troyennes (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 Tremblement de terre (1974), co-starring Charlton Heston, which was a box office hit. A host of other films of varying quality followed, most notably Obsession (1976), Morts suspectes (1978), Le dernier vol de l'arche de Noé (1980), and La corde raide (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 Faux-semblants (1988) and a lovely turn in the autumnal romance Les noces de papier (1990).