
Birthday:
06-07-1968
(56 years)
Birthplace:
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Biography
Macha Grenon is a Montreal-based actress who has been working in film, television and the theatre for the past 20 years. She has received Gemeaux, Gemini and Genie nominations for her work in both French and English including Juliette Pommerleau, Familia, Mon meilleur ennemi, as well as for her role of Nathalie Belding in Ann Wheeler's critically acclaimed CBC production of the Sleep Room.
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Heritage Minutes: Underground Railroad
Act like Young Girl
event1991
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An African American escapes to Canada along the Underground Railroad.
Days of Darkness
Act like Béatrice de Savoie
event2007 star_border 6.4
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Jean-Marc is a man without qualities living in times that are out of joint. His wife and children ignore him; he's a mid-level government functionary in Montreal doing his job without care. He has an active imagination of sexual conquest, but his only real feelings come when he visits his aged mother, whose health is failing. When his wife leaves abruptly to work in Toronto, Jean-Marc sets out to reorder things with his daughters, his social life, and at work. In a world that at best is a farce, does he stand a chance?
Familia
event2005 star_border 6.1
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When gambling addict Michele moves in with her childhood friend Janine, their teenaged daughter’s burgeoning friendship produces both humorous and heartbreaking results.
Barney's Version
Act like Solange
event2010 star_border 7
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The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky.
The Windsor Protocol
Act like Catherine
event1998 star_border 3.7
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Based on the novels by Jack Higgins, Sean Dillon is a maverick British agent who uncovers a plot to take over the presidency of the United States.
Coeur de nylon
Act like Marianne
event1988
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A bum named Richard (Yves Desgagnés) is like many others, apart he always carries a red suitcase with him everywhere he goes, from which a curled wire is attached to his chest. This is very intriguing to young runaway Christian (Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge), who finds refuge at Christian's place.
Daniel and the Superdogs
Act like Julie
event2004 star_border 6.8
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A young boy still recovering from his mother's recent death teams with his two best friends to turn a regular pooch into a stunt-performing super-dog in this affectionate comedy for the whole family. Losing a parent is never easy, but for 11 year old Daniel it's been especially hard; when his father dives into work in an attempt to keep his grief at bay, Daniel starts causing mischief around the neighborhood with his best friends William and Colin. When the kids catch wind of a canine.
Dead Awake
Act like W.D.
event2001 star_border 4.2
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An insomniac who walks the streets at night witnesses a murder which triggers a strange chain of events.
Mistaken Person
Act like Maria
event1995 star_border 4
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Charles Renard, a police officer who has lost his hearing following an ear injury during an operation, is entrusted upon his return to work with the investigation of credit card thefts committed by a woman who uses newspaper classified ads to lure her prey.
Family Pack
Act like Odile
event2001 star_border 4.6
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A young woman tries to ease herself out of the closet without terrifying her parents in the process in this comedy-drama. The year is 1969, and Sacha (Marie Bunel) is a young Belgian woman living in Canada. Sacha's family sent her to Canada to attend medical school, but she hasn't had the heart to tell them that she's dropped out of college to devote herself to her new interest in photography. Sacha also hasn't told her parents that she's a lesbian -- and that she has a new girlfriend, Odile (Macha Grenon). Odile is tired of being kept a secret, and insists that Sacha tell her parents the truth before American astronauts land on the moon in a few months -- or else. Sacha flies home to Belgium for a visit, planning to come clean to her folks, but she discovers they've arranged a huge welcome home party for the entire neighborhood. With everyone so excited that the soon-to-be-doctor is paying them a visit, Sacha wonders when the time will be right to give her family the news.
The Haven
Act like Claire Ricard
event1997 star_border 4.5
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Police detective Jacques Laniel's life becomes a nightmare the day drive-by shootists gun down his partner Thomas Colin. His colleagues make matters worse by blaming him for the death, and after his wife leaves him, Laniel decides to quit the force and launch a private investigation into Colin's murder. Soon afterward, Laniel finds the bullet-riddled body of famed author and literature professor Zachary Osborne tied to his car hood. The professor's wife hires Laniel to solve the murder, but what the detective finds is ugly: Osborne was a part of a lucrative land-speculation deal that involved the sale of a crumbling old rectory that had been turned into a halfway house called the Haven of the Monsters. The name is apt, for all the residents are convicted killers who were given inordinately light sentences. When Lanier starts questioning the Haven's tenants and their crimes are revealed via flashback, it takes on the character of a David Lynch production.
The Myth of the Male Orgasm
Act like Paula
event1993 star_border 3
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The excesses of feminism and political correctness come in for some serious ribbing in this Canadian comedy, which might just give Rush Limbaugh a belly-laugh or two, along with anyone else who has ever thought that his pet term "feminazi" was humorous. In the story, Jimmy (Bruce Dinsmore) is having a mid-life crisis, and in order to get a handle on why he has so much trouble with women, decides to participate in a college-sponsored study on male sexuality. What he doesn't know is that the study is being run by some extremely radical, doctrinaire feminists, and that he's in for a nightmarish grilling. He shows up for his first sessions, is blindfolded, and is then put through his paces as a relentless female interrogator puts him constantly on the defensive for everything he has ever done with women throughout his entire life.
1st Love
Act like Marie
event2013 star_border 4.6
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Antoine, 13, spends the summer vacation with his parents in a rented cottage on an island in the middle of the Saint-Lawrence River. His neighbour, 17-year-old Anna, is an enigmatic and lively young woman. Antoine begins to experience the first stirrings of love-which soon yield a troubling brew of anxiety, desire and obsession. He eventually comes across a terrible secret that will forever change his life.
The Child Prodigy
Act like Mimi Mathieu
event2010 star_border 4.8
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On the keyboard, the young hands fly rapidly and the melody rises. For the child, nothing is easier; he hears the sounds in his head. These hands belong to 6 years old André Mathieu. He won his audiences and fired up concerts halls in London, New York, Paris and around the world. Adulated, hailed, praised, the child prodigy seemed to have everything to succeed. From the top of his vertiginous successes, to depths of torment, the life of the "Little Canadian Mozart" blends into his music. A romantic and passionate composer wishing for happiness, his story is nevertheless played on tragic notes.
The Sleep Room
event1998 star_border 6
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At the height of the cold war, the C.I.A. secretly funded Dr. Ewen Cameron, director of the Allan Memorial Institute, and his experimental research into brainwashing techniques. Twenty-five years later, the last nine survivors of those gruesome experiments fight to expose the truth...of The Sleep Room.
Power Games
Act like Kiddie
event1989 star_border 3.5
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A group of teenagers training for the national Power Commando championship games mistakenly find themselves on land owned by drug merchants. With only harmless paint bullets as their weapons, they must match their skills against live ammunition and the ruthless men behind it.
The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom
Act like Marion
event2011 star_border 6.7
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Elizabeth Alison Gray is just your average suburban 11-year old waiting for adolescence to arrive when she finds out her whole life has been a lie. With only her imagination to guide her, she runs away to find the truth.
Café Olé
Act like Karen Kaye
event2000 star_border 2
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Malcolm's (28) new love, Alicia (25), an illegal Chilean refugee, will be short-lived if he does not make the right choice.
Secrets of the Summer House
Act like Professor Jill Ambrose
event2008 star_border 4
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Hosting a new exhibit, artist Nikki Wickersham, (Lindsay Price) and her husband George Wickersham, (David Jones) are called out to Maine to sort through his father's belongings after he dies. Arriving there to find they've inherited an island with a large mansion on it, they quickly learn of an old story surrounding the house about it being haunted through the years, yet friends Margie Mancuso, (Sadie LeBlanc) and Peter Hughes, (Niall Matter) convince them to stay there anyway. While working on a special project, a series of strange events around the house has them convinced that the house has indeed a spirit roused by a secret from the past, and they work to rid it from their house before it strikes them as well.
April and the Extraordinary World
Act like Annette (voice)
event2015 star_border 7
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It’s 1941, but France is trapped in the 19th Century, governed by steam and Napoleon V. Avril, a teenage girl, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.
Boundaries
Act like Danielle Richard
event2016 star_border 5.8
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Emily Price tries to balance family life and leading crunch negotiations between a Canadian politician and the president of a country whose natural resources are being exploited.
The Little Match Girl
Act like Adriana (voice)
event1999
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Three-time Caldecott Honor artist Jerry Pinkney brings new relevance to the classic Hans Christian Andersen story The wintry streets of an American city are thronged with shoppers, in preparation for New Year's Eve. But no one is interested in buying the matches and artificial flowers offered by one little girl. Wishing to avoid the cold welcome awaiting her at home, she lights her matches for what little heat they can provide. The visions that she sees in their flickering glow warm her spirit, even as the brutal cold of night destroys her body.
Louis the 19th, King of the Airwaves
Act like Mannequin à la discothèque
event1994 star_border 5.6
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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.
The Barbarian Invasions
Act like Arielle
event2003 star_border 7.1
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In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. His ex-wife, Louise, asks their estranged son, Sebastian, a successful businessman living in London, to come home. Sebastian makes the impossible happen, using his contacts and disrupting the Canadian healthcare system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while reuniting some of Remy's old friends, including Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude, who return to see their friend before he passes on.
Liberace: Behind the Music
Act like Joanne
event1988 star_border 4.3
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A gifted classical pianist, fueled by poverty, Wladiziu Valentino Liberace was already playing with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the age of 17. Through a variety of his highs and lows, chaptered in TV-style format, Liberace's life from his early years through his death are chronicled.
The Pianist
event1991 star_border 6.5
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Jean and her sister, played by Macha Grenon, have a life long infatuation with the Japanese Pianist who once lived across the street from them during their high school years. The film is set during the family's reunion on Vancouver Island and flashes back and forth over the last 10 years. By coincidence, Yoshi who is now a world famous Pianist is giving a concert in Vancouver and Amy is anxious to see him again but her sister curiously is not at all interested. The girls explore old passions, stalking, sibling rivalry and wrong life choice based on the fantasies of their youth.
L'homme idéal
Act like Virginie
event1996 star_border 3.5
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Marie, incapable of choosing between three marriage proposals, decides to give up. Circumstances mean that the three men meet. Far from being hostile, Stéphane, Fabrice and Paul console each other....
Rated R for Nudity
Act like (voice)
event2011 star_border 5.2
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A playful stab at mass hypnosis. Celebrating the mesmerizing power of movies, mischievous glimpses into a subconscious world inhabited by Bergman, Spielberg... and Bo Derek.
The Secret
Act like Tara Corbett
event2007 star_border 5.9
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Husband, wife, and daughter have moved from Boston to Williamstown. At 16, Samantha treats her mother shabbily, but when the two of them are in a horrific car crash, the mother wills Sam to live, somehow losing her own life while her spirit enters Sam.
Coyote Run
Act like Seira
event1997 star_border 4
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A traumatized Vietnam veteran crosses paths with a mobster on the run with $15 million, and takes it as an opportunity to play the hero and heal in the process.
You Can Thank Me Later
Act like Linda
event1998 star_border 5.9
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In this Canadian comedy-drama, Shirley Cooperberg heads a Montreal Jewish family. During her husband's operation, her brood arrives at the hospital -- failed writer Eli, neurotic Susan, and successful theatrical producer Edward. An onslaught of one-liners find targets amid sibling rivalries and angst-ridden animosities.
Stardom
Act like Model Agency Owner
event2000 star_border 5.6
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A young girl is plucked from small-town obscurity and thrust into the spotlight of the glamorous world of super-models.
Les Légendes du Grand Nord
event1995
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A mixed group of adventurers searches for Esperanza, a legendary gold treasure, in the Yukon territory in this Jack London-based tale.
Il était une fois... les Contes pour tous
Act like Self
event2023 star_border 7
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A nostalgic deep dive into the world of Rock Demers’ popular children’s film series.
Cette année-là
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event2018
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A culture show set hosted by Marc Labrèche and his collaborators, Simon Boulerice, Émilie Perreault and Fred Savard. Each week, based on a significant year in history, they revisit a cultural event of a previous era and compare it with today’s yardstick. The hosts and their guests examine subjects that link the chosen year to what’s hot in cultural circles right now.
Le cœur a ses raisons
Act like Megan Barrington-Montgomery (39 ep.)
event2005 star_border 8.5
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In the fictional city of Saint Andrews, Brett Montgomery, a wealthy cosmetics businessman and doctor at the local hospital, and Brad, his evil twin brother, battle for control of the Montgomery family fortune. Brett’s fiancée, Cricket, is a journalist with the local television station and has a twin sister, Ashley, who is a nurse at the hospital.
Nouvelle adresse
Act like Nathalie A. Lapointe (34 ep.)
event2014 star_border 8
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Nathalie Lapointe is in her early forties, a single mother of three with a successful career as columnist at a major newspaper. Just as she’s starting to think she might be able to pay more attention to her own needs, she gets terrible news: the cancer from which she recovered two years previously is back. How can she break the news to her kids? How can the family plan for the future with this sword of Damocles hanging over them?
Despite the shock, life goes on. Nathalie must cope with evolving circumstances at the paper as well as at home. She wonders if she can allow herself to fall in love with her daughters’ school principal. As for her children, they must deal with their own teenage life challenges, all the while knowing that their mother may soon be gone. Nathalie’s best friend and neighbor is particularly hard-hit by the news: she’s already suffering from her husband’s infidelity and from the absence of her son, who is overseas. Nathalie’s misfortune also has a powerful effect on her three siblings. They must re-think their priorities at a time when all three are facing crucial choices in their emotional and professional lives. For Nathalie’s parents Janine and Gérard, her illness makes no sense. How do you face the very real possibility that your child will die before you?
Scoop
Act like Stéphanie Rousseau (52 ep.)
event1992 star_border 7
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Follow both the professional and personal lives of reporters working for The Express, a daily Montréal Newspaper.
Tout le monde en parle
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event2004 star_border 4.2
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Host Guy A. Lepage brings together six to eight personalities from different milieus—sports, politics, stage productions and more—that are the subject of everyone’s conversations and/or are important figures in recent events. Participants are invited to speak freely, voicing their opinions on headline news or on a subject that is near and dear to them.
Aubaines & cie
Act like Herself (1 ep.)
event2011 star_border 2.2
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A fun and friendly one-hour magazine program that offers viewers shopping tips and tricks. Whether the topic is health products, fashion or décor matters, travel or pet care, Josée Turmel and Benoît Gagnon seek out expert advice and helps viewers make the best decisions possible!
Web thérapie
Act like Maya Ganesh (2 ep.)
event2016
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Florence Champagne is a therapist who has very little patience for her patients. She’d had enough of listening to their problems for 50 interminable minutes at a stretch, so she invented a new kind of therapy: 3-minute online video sessions (where she usually ends up becoming the subject, by the way). If you choose her as your therapist, something’s definitely not right…
Le Tricheur
Act like Self (5 ep.)
event2012 star_border 5
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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.
Le chalet
Act like Annabelle (1 ep.)
event2015 star_border 7
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Sarah, Lily, Francis and Antoine are all hard-core skiers and snowboarders, and they’re sharing a winter cottage to be as close as possible to the mountain. When Sarah invites her friend Catherine to move in with them for the winter, everyone except Lily is happy to welcome a new addition to the gang. But this new arrival quickly upsets the group dynamics and destabilizes each individual member. Our six friends will soon realize how much the upcoming ski season will be just like their many downhill runs: emotional, eventful and sometimes unbelievable.
Les honorables
Act like Lucie Dessureaux (20 ep.)
event2019 star_border 5.5
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The tragic death of Gabrielle and the acquittal of her killer plunges the Dessureaux family into a living hell.
Bon Voyage
Act like Sarah (2 ep.)
event2006 star_border 6.3
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When Neil and Elizabeth take their children on a camping holiday to France, they find themselves continually bumping into over-friendly couple Simon and Linda. Elizabeth finds the couple weird, but when they begin to spot Simon and Linda's campervan in their rear view mirror, and a young boy goes missing from the campsite, they realise the couple are more than creepy....they're dangerous.
Deux hommes en or
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event2013
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Presented in the form of a large live set, the hosts enlightening interviews with personalities from all walks of life who have made their mark in the news.
Les bobos
Act like Macha Grenon (1 ep.)
event2012 star_border 9
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Two bourgeois-bohemians struggle to stay on the cutting edge of trends and fashion while never sacrificing a single ounce of comfort, style or social conscience.
Viens voir les comédiens
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event2002
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Viens voir les comédiens is a television show on the Canadian French-language arts and culture television network ARTV.
Club social
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event2008
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A magazine show about culture and trends and how they can shape society in unexpected ways.
Il va y avoir du sport
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event2004
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A program that tackles major subjects – human, political, cultural, economic and ethical issues – and presents them in a debate format that encourages lively discussion.
The Emperor
(9 ep.)
event2023 star_border 6.5
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A charismatic, benevolent young man grows into a tyrannical, ruthless aggressor as his victims come and go.
Transplant
Act like Muriel (6 ep.)
event2020 star_border 7.7
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Dr. Bashir Hamed, a Syrian doctor with battle-tested skills in emergency medicine, makes the difficult decision to flee his country and build a new life in Canada with his younger sister Amira. Bash works to navigate a new environment after earning a coveted residency in the Emergency Department of one of the best hospitals in Toronto, York Memorial.
So Long, Marianne
Act like Masha Cohen (1 ep.)
event2024 star_border 6.6
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The intimate tale of two young people, Canadian singer and poet Leonard Cohen and extraordinary Norwegian woman Marianne Ihlen, falling in love during a period of their life when they are trying to figure out who they are and their place in the world, while one is becoming one of the most famous singers of all time.
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