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Canadian actress (born 1942)

Geneviève Bujold (ʒənvjɛv byʒo; born July 1, 1942) is a Canadian actress. For her portrayal of Anne Boleyn in the period drama film Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), Bujold received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her other film credits include The Trojan Women (1971), Earthquake (1974), Obsession (1976), Coma (1978), Murder by Decree (1979), Tightrope (1984), Choose Me (1984), Dead Ringers (1988), The House of Yes (1997), and Still Mine (2012).

She was born in Montreal, Quebec, the daughter of Laurette (née Cavanagh), a maid, and Joseph Firmin Bujold, a bus driver. She is of French Canadian descent, with distant Irish ancestry. Bujold received a strict convent education for twelve years, which she disliked. She was expelled from the convent for reportedly reading Fanny by Marcel Pagnol. She entered the Montreal Conservatory of Dramatic Art, where she was trained in the classics of French theatre.

Two months before she was to graduate she made her stage debut as Rosine in Le Barbier de Séville in 1961 with Theâtre de Gesù. She quit the school and was rarely out of work, being in demand for radio, stage, TV and film. Bujold starred in two 30 minute shorts, La fin des étés (1964) and Geneviève (1964). She toured Canada performing plays also worked steadily in radio and was voted actress of the year in Montreal.

In 1965, she toured Russia and France with the company of the Théâtre du Rideau Vert. While in Paris, Bujold was in a play A House and a Day when she was seen by renowned French director Alain Resnais. He selected her for a role in his film The War Is Over, opposite Yves Montand and Ingrid Thulin. She returned home briefly to appear in "Romeo and Jeannette" by Jean Anouilh alongside Michael Sarrazin, for a Canadian TV show Festival. Also for that show she did productions of The Murderer and A Doll's House. She contributed with vocals in The Devil's Toy, a documentary about skateboarding in Montreal, directed by Claude Jutra (1966). She stayed in France to make two more films: Philippe de Broca's King of Hearts (1966), with Alan Bates, and Louis Malle's The Thief of Paris (1967), with Jean Paul Belmondo. Bujold won the Prix Suzanne as the Discovery of the Year and Elle magazine called her The Girl of the Day. Despite having established herself in France, however, she returned to Canada. In Canada she starred in Isabel (1968), written and directed by Almond. It was one of the first Canadian films to be picked up for distribution by a major Hollywood studio.

International recognition came in 1969, when she starred as Anne Boleyn in Charles Jarrott's film Anne of the Thousand Days, with Richard Burton. Producer Hal B. Wallis cast her after seeing her in Isabel. For her performance, she received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. It was released by Universal who signed her to a three picture contract. In 1976, she appeared in Obsession (1976) directed by Brian De Palma co starring Cliff Robertson (1976). Bujold made Alex & the Gypsy (1976) with Jack Lemmon and Another Man, Another Chance (1977), co starring James Caan (1977) for Claude Lelouch. She was lead with Michael Douglas in the medical thriller Coma (1978), directed by Michael Crichton, which was a box office hit. Bujold returned to Canada to play a key role in the Sherlock Holmes film Murder by Decree (1979), which won her a Best Supporting Actress Award at the Canadian Film Awards. For Walt Disney she appeared in the fantasy film The Last Flight of Noah's Ark (1980) with Elliott Gould and Charles Jarrott, director of Anne of the Thousand Days. She was directed by Almond once more in the Canadian Final Assignment (1980). Bujold starred in a TV movie Mistress of Paradise (1981), then supported Christopher Reeve in Monsignor (1982), and Clint Eastwood in Tightrope (1984).

Bujold starred in Choose Me (1984), directed and written by Alan Rudolph. She promptly made two more films for Rudolph: Trouble in Mind (1985) and The Moderns (1988), the latter set in Paris in the 1920s. She was part of his informal company of actors that he repeatedly used in his films, including Keith Carradine. Bujold starred in David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers (1988) opposite Jeremy Irons, then made a TV movie Red Earth, White Earth (1989). She did False Identity (1990) with Stacy Keach.

After a long absence from Quebec, she returned to appear in two more films by Michel Brault: The Paper Wedding (1989), and My Friend Max (1994). In between she went to France to make Rue du Bac (1991), and did another film with Almond, The Dance Goes On (1991). She had support roles in Oh, What a Night (1993), and An Ambush of Ghosts (1993).

In 1967, Bujold married Canadian director Paul Almond. They had a son, Matthew, in 1968. After a separation of approximately two years, the couple divorced in 1974. In 1980, she had a second son, Emmanuel, with Dennis Hastings, a Reno born carpenter she met in 1977 when he was contracted to build her Malibu house. They separated quietly without publicity in 2017. Hastings died in 2020.

Year Title Role Notes1963Amanita PestilensSophie Martin1964Geneviève GenevièveShort subject1964La fleur de l'âge, ou Les audolescentesGenevieve 1964La terre à boireBarbara1964La fin des étésMarieShort subject1966 The War Is OverNadine Sallanches1966King of HeartsCoquelicot1967 The Thief of ParisCharlotte1967Between Salt and Sweet WaterGeneviève1968IsabelIsabel1969Anne of the Thousand DaysAnne Boleyn1970Marie ChristineShort subject1970 The Act of the Heart Martha Hayes1971 The Trojan WomenCassandra1972JourneySaguenay1973KamouraskaÉlisabeth1974EarthquakeDenise1975L'incorrigibleMarie Charlotte Pontalec1976SwashbucklerJane Barnet1976ObsessionElizabeth Courtland / Sandra Portinari1976Alex & the GypsyMaritza1977Another Man, Another ChanceJeanne Leroy née Perriere1978ComaDr. Susan Wheeler1979Murder by DecreeAnnie Crook1980 The Last Flight of Noah's ArkBernadette Lafleur1980Final AssignmentNicole Thomson1982MonsignorCarla1984TightropeBeryl Thibodeaux1984Choose MeNancy1985Trouble in MindWanda1988Rough Justice1988 The ModernsLibby Valentin1988Dead RingersClaire Niveau1990False IdentityRachel Roux1991Rue du BacMarie Aubriac1992 The Dance Goes OnRick's Mother1992Oh, What a NightEva1993An Ambush of GhostsIrene Betts1994My Friend MaxMarie Alexandrine Brabant1996 The Adventures of PinocchioLeona1997 The House of YesMrs. Pascal1997Dead InnocentSuzanne St. Laurent1998Last NightMrs. Carlton 1998You Can Thank Me LaterJoelle1999Eye of the Beholder Dr. Jeanne Brault 2001Alex in WonderNatalie2002Chaos and Desire Colette Lasalle2003Jericho MansionsLily Melnick2003Finding HomeKatie2004Downtown: A Street TaleAimee Levesque2005By the Pricking of My ThumbsRose Evangelista2006DisappearancesCordelia 2006Deliver MeIrène2009 The TrotskyDenise Archambault2011For the Love of GodSoeur Cécile 72 ans2012Still MineIrene Morrison2013 The Legend of SarilaSaya (English version, voice)2013Northern BordersAbiah Kittredge2015ChorusGabrielle2018Two GirlsJohanna as an Adult (voice)