Geneviève Bujold (born on July 1, 1942, in Montréal, Québec) is a Canadian actress. She is best known for portraying Anne Boleyn in Anne of the Thousand Days (1969).
Issued from a French-Canadian working-class family, Bujold was the daughter of Firmin Bujold, a bus driver, and his wife Laurette Cavanaugh. Her parents were strict Roman Catholic and sent her to a convent school for her full 12 years of education. She disliked the school and its str...
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Geneviève Bujold (born on July 1, 1942, in Montréal, Québec) is a Canadian actress. She is best known for portraying Anne Boleyn in Anne of the Thousand Days (1969).
Issued from a French-Canadian working-class family, Bujold was the daughter of Firmin Bujold, a bus driver, and his wife Laurette Cavanaugh. Her parents were strict Roman Catholic and sent her to a convent school for her full 12 years of education. She disliked the school and its strict discipline, and eventually left it to pursue an acting career.
Dramatically trained at Montreal's Conservatory of Dramatic Art, she got her big break in 1965 while on tour with a theatrical company in Paris, when French director Alain Resnais selected her for a role opposite Yves Montand in La Guerre est finie. This led to her staying in France for a time where she made two other films; Philippe de Broca's Le Roi de Coeur, opposite Alan Bates and Louis Malle's Le voleur, opposite Jean-Paul Belmondo.
Upon her return to Canada, she met and...
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