Pascale Bussières

Pascale Bussières is a French Canadian actress born in Montreal. She began her screen career as a suicidal teenager in Sonatine, Micheline Lanctôt's 1984 film. She went on to star in the 1993 Radio-Canada series Blanche, directed by Charles Binamé, and took a lead in his Generation-X film Eldorado. In Patricia Rozema's When Night Is Falling (1995), she played a prim mythology teacher who discovers her desires, and she was an alienated fashion model hoping to conceive in Denis Villeneuve's debut, August 32nd on Earth (1998). Her portrayal of Quebec singer Alys Robi in Bittersweet Memories (2004) earned her best actress prizes at the Jutra and Genie awards in 2004. Later credits include Afterwards (2008), The Demons (2015), Bootlegger (2021), Death of a Ladies' Man (2020), and Frontiers (2023).