Another era
The 1970s: Young Gilbert joined the protestant theater company Le Grand Cirque Ordinaire. We also saw it in the cinema. He notably played the brother of Dominique Michel and Denise Filiatrault in Claude Fournier’s I am far from you cute, released in 1976.
Necessary
In 1981, 41 years ago, the 33-year-old Gilbert Sicotte was already doing a lot, notably in the films Cordélia by Jean Beaudin, Les Bons Débarras by Francis Mankiewicz and Fantastica by Gilles Carles. He also played the role of Fleurimont Lafrance in Le temps d’une paix opposite the widow Rose-Anna (Nicole Leblanc) on Radio Canada.
The Unforgettable
That dear Jean-Paul Belleau in Lise Payette’s soap opera Des dames de coeur. Don Juan and unrepentant liar, he dated Julie (Dorothée Berryman /photo) while married to Lucie (Louise Rémy). A huge hit on Radio-Canada in the 1980s. Gilbert Sicotte, despite everything admired by the audience, received several awards for this role.
movie theater
In the summer of 1992, while filming the psychological drama Cap Tourmente by Michel Langlois, a tale of passion and hate, the 44-year-old actor starred alongside Roy Dupuis. Also in the cast were Andrée Lachapelle and Élise Guilbeault, all of whom had won a Canadian Engineering Award the following year.
awards
Gilbert Sicotte received the Jutra for Best Actor ten years ago for his immense role in the film The Seller by Sébastien Pilote. He will receive several awards in his career, notably for JA Bombardier, Antoine Beauchemin in Bouscotte and more recently for his touching role as Charlie in It was raining birds.
- We see Gilbert Sicotte in the cinema in the new film by Mariloup Wolfe, Arlette. He plays the Prime Minister of Quebec, who has just appointed Arlette Saint-Amour (Maripier Morin), a fashion director, as Minister of Culture in order to rejuvenate the government’s image. An image and power war with David La Haye, Paul Ahmarani and Benoît Brière. The film will be presented at the Angoulême Film Festival in August.
- Gilbert Sicotte is from the third season of thriller police officer The mistake. Alongside Isabel Richer, Detective Sergeant Céline Trudeau and Alexandre Landry, he plays the role of Léopold Jolicoeur at the heart of an intrigue between three large families. This time the action takes place in Estrie, in the village where Celine’s best friend was murdered 30 years earlier. On Club illico this fall.
- The actor is the narrator of the short film The Lauzon Theoryrecently presented in Cannes, an essay on the identity of filmmaker Jean-Claude Lauzon, who tragically died in his plane crash.