Johanne Fontaine

Johanne Fontaine

Acting
1955-04-04
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Known For & Full Filmography14 Titles

#1Avec un grand A

Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes as Marie-Claire

8.8 / 10
Drama

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.

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#2Les dieux de la danse

Drama Series - 2015, 16 episodes as Herself

8.8 / 10
Family

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.

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#3Hold-up

Movie - 1985, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.2 / 10
ComedyCrime

Dressed as a clown, the clever rascal Grimm holds up the most secure bank of Montreal and takes 30 hostages. While confusing and ridiculing the police with his strange behavior, he calmly manages to rid the bank of a fortune. But then an unsatisfied companion arouses trouble...

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#4Piment fort

Drama Series - 1993, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

10.0 / 10
Reality

Piment Fort was a popular Quebec humoristic game show hosted by the colorful Normand Brathwaite which aired on TVA from 1993 to 2001. Piment Fort means "hot pepper" in French.

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#5Vendus

Movie - 2004, 2h 15m as La Sardine

3.2 / 10
Comedy

An adulterous man married to a wealthy Realtor plans on killing his wife with the assistance of his young lover. Little does the cheating husband know that his young lover is planning to blackmail him.

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#6Aurore

Movie - 2005, 2h 15m as Madame Mailhot

7.5 / 10
Drama

After the sudden death of her mother, Aurore Gagnon is abused by her disturbed step-mother as her town remains in the silence followed by her death. Based on a true story.

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#7The Alley Cat

Movie - 1985, 2h 15m as Loretta Chouinard

5.1 / 10
Drama

Florent Boissonneault and his young wife Elise always had one dream: own a restaurant. When they meet a strange old man, Egon Ratablavasky, their dream become reality, but only to quick turn into a nightmare when they sadly discover they had been tricked by him, and lost everything. But their dream is not dead, and a strong desire of avenging soon bring them back in business, with the help of an homeless kid, a french cook and a friendly journalist. But the old man still had trick on for them his bag...

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#8Solo

Movie - 1992, 2h 15m as Véronique

8.8 / 10
RomanceDramaComedy

Un homme seul. Une femme seule. Lui, à l'aide de son ordinateur, voudrait désormais pouvoir gérer ses relations amoureuses; elle, de son côté, désire continuer à mener une vie autonome. Philippe et Hélène vivent donc dans une bulle, en solitaires, soignant les blessures d'une relation précédente, jusqu'au jour où ils se rencontrent. C'est le coup de foudre! Mais ils ont si peu en commun, sinon la peur de se faire mal, de décevoir et d'être déçus, de se tromper à nouveau... A single man. A single woman. Him, only wanting to interact with romantic relationships through his computer screen. Her, wanting to have an autonomous life. Phillipe and Hélène live their lives in a solitary bubble, healing their wounds from a previous relationship, until they meet. It's love at first sight! but they have so little in common, except the fear of being hurt, of dissapointing or be dissapointed, of being wrong again...

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#9The Late Blossom

Movie - 1977, 2h 15m as Fille au bar

8.0 / 10
Drama

30-year-old Quebec City native Gisèle lives a quiet life as a secretary without happiness with her parents and siblings. One day, tired of being teased by her office mates, she decides to consult a marriage agency to find her soul mate.

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#10Shooting Star

Movie - 2005, 2h 15m as Bélinda

6.6 / 10
Comedy

Four young women are participating on Idole Instantanée, a reality show produced by Omni Global, in which a complete stranger turns into a music star in just 24 hours.

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#11Roméo et Juliette

Movie - 2006, 2h 15m as Modèle

4.7 / 10
DramaRomance

Juliette, 15, is the only child of an eminent judge and has had the best of education in the best of schools. Her father is in the limelight because he’s been chosen to preside over one of the most important trials of the past 10 years: the case of Réal Lamontagne, a notorious criminal accused of killing a child. Roméo, 17, is the son of the accused. Even though they come from diametrically opposed universes, Juliette and Roméo fall for each other.

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#12It's Your Turn, Laura

Movie - 1998, 2h 15m as Dame en jeans

5.4 / 10
ComedyDrama

Large women with a zest for life gather weekly at a Montreal doctor's office to receive diet injections.

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#13Johanne Fontaine : toujours accro à la vie

Movie - 2016, 2h 15m as Herself

8.8 / 10
Documentary

In this new production, Johanne is now facing a fourth cancer diagnostic. Despite having to fight this battle again, the 60-year-old wants to help others with workshops where she shares her doubts and thoughts. When she is asked how many times can you fight cancer, the warrior answers: “As many times as you can survive!”

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#14Lamento pour un homme de lettres

Movie - 1988, 2h 15m as Florina

8.0 / 10
Drama

Lamento is an unfinished novel by writer Albert Laberge. Laberge, recognized today as Quebec's first naturalist author, published La scouine in 1918, a novel that earned him accusations of pornography from the Catholic Church. The fiction paints an impressionistic portrait of a man torn between his literary ambitions and his exhausting work as a sports journalist for the daily La Presse.

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