Personal Info
Birth date
1954-02-04 (71 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
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Also known as
-Sylvie Potvin
Biography
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Filmography
In Lieu of Flowers
NYR
Overview:
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.
Avec un grand A
NYR
Overview:
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
5
Overview:
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.
La Petite Vie
8.8
Overview:
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.
Les dieux de la danse
NYR
Overview:
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.
Les Beaux Malaises
8
Overview:
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.
The Florists
NYR
Overview:
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.
French Girl
6.368
Overview:
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.
Free Money
5.3
Overview:
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.
Surviving My Mother
5
Overview:
Clara's mother is on her death bed as she tells her daughter that she regrets they are not closer. This revelation causes Clara to pursue a closer relationship with her own daughter, Bianca.
Karmina 2
4.4
Overview:
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.
My Daughter, My Angel
5.9
Overview:
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
6.7
Overview:
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 the Baronness soon show up in pursuit of her and turn a poor customs officer, Ghislain Chabot, into a vampire to aid them in retrieving her. Esméralda must become the great vampire of yesteryear to fly to the aid of the lovers.
Louis the 19th, King of the Airwaves
5.6
Overview:
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.
Aurélie Laflamme's Diary
5.4
Overview:
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, successes and failures, love and friendships, and tries to find her place.
Honey, I'm in Love
5
Overview:
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.
Father and Guns 2
6.31
Overview:
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.
2 Seconds
4.6
Overview:
Laurie, a professional downhill racer gets fired because of her slight overindulgence in irresponsibility. She returns to Montreal where she is welcomed by her geeky but cute brother. She meets Lorenzo, a cranky, ex-racer who owns a bike shop. The two become friends. Laurie gets a job with a local bicycle courier company, but a member of the group is intent on shutting her out of their circles, making her life difficult and sad. After a bonding truth-revealing discussion between Laurie and Lorenzo, Laurie begins to see what she has to do to make things better for herself.
Ding et Dong : Le film
7
Overview:
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
Pudding chômeur
3
Overview:
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.
Dans le ventre du dragon
6.2
Overview:
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 proves her right...up to a point, that is. Extremely popular in Canada, Dans le Ventre du Dragon has yet to receive proper distribution in the States.Acting
2024French Girl as Aunt Claudette
2023The Boys - 25th Anniversary as Self
2022Le bonheur (2 Episodes) as Mamie #1
2021Sans rendez-vous (1 Episode) as Claire
2020À tour de rôles (1 Episode) as Self
2020The Florists (3 Episodes) as Sarah Schwartz
2017LNI : 40 ans d'improvisation as Unknown
2017Father and Guns 2 as Carole
2017Dix-neuf 95 as Mère de Mathilde
2016Conseils de famille (101 Episodes) as Diane
2015Les dieux de la danse (1 Episode) as Herself
2014Les Beaux Malaises (1 Episode) as Unknown
2013On passe à l'Histoire (2 Episodes) as Self
2012In Lieu of Flowers (1 Episode) as Self
2012Le Tricheur (10 Episodes) as Self
2010Aurélie Laflamme's Diary as Soeur Rose
2010Rock et Rolland (31 Episodes) as Nicole
2008Honey, I'm in Love as Unknown
2007Surviving My Mother as Unknown
2007Les Boys (73 Episodes) as Lisette
2007My Daughter, My Angel as Fille - Accueil universitaire
2006Des squelettes dans le placard (1 Episode) as Self
2005Last Call for Mom as Serveuse au café
2001Karmina 2 as La Baronne
1999The Long Winter as Madame Neveux
1999Cornemuse (1 Episode) as Coquette
1998Free Money as Doris
19982 Seconds as Unknown
1997Heritage Minutes: John Humphrey as Reporter
1996Karmina as Baronne
1996Pudding chômeur as Dolly
1994Louis the 19th, King of the Airwaves as Critique "Festin des loups"
1993La Petite Vie (2 Episodes) as Linda
1992Madame La Bolduc as Manda Parent
1990Ding et Dong : Le film as Serveuse
1990You're Beautiful, Jeanne as Unknown
1989Dans le ventre du dragon as Voisine 4
1987À l'automne de la vie as Unknown
1986Avec un grand A (1 Episode) as Unknown