Celine Lomez
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Céline Lomez (11 May 1953-), born Céline Léger in Montréal, is a Canadian actress and singer.
Lomez started her show business career singing French-Canadian pop songs with her sister Liette, and the two gained popularity after their porformance at the Festival du Disque in Québec in 1968. Liette went on to join a trio called Toulouse. Lomez, however, was soon offered a role in the Denis Héroux film L'initiation [1969]. She was only 15 years old at the time.
She has been twice nominated for the Canadian Juno Award of best actress. She has also released two albums. One of her main hit songs was L'amour dans les rangs de coton [1974] a Louisiana zydeco-style ballad.
One of the finalists in casting for the television series "Charlie's Angels", but lost the role to Tanya Roberts because network decided Lomez was too sexy for prime time. [1979]
In 2004, Céline published her autobiography, Pour quatorze dollars elles sont à vous?.
[edit] Filmography
- L'initiation (1969)
- Loving and Laughing (1971)
- Apres-Ski (1971)
- L'Apparition (1972)
- Réjeanne Padovani (1973)
- Pousse mais pousse égal (1974)
- Gina (1974)
- Stateline Motel (1975)
- The Far Shore (1976)
- Plague (1978)
- The Silent Partner (1978)
- The Spirit of Adventure: Night Flight (TV-1980)
- The Ivory Ape (TV-1980)
- Ça peut pas être l'hiver, on n'a même pas eu d'été (1980)
- The Kiss (1988)
- Charlotte et Léa (TV-1995)
- La vengeance de la femme en noir (1997)
- Se souvenir des belles choses (2002)
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