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Marie Eykel

Marie Eykel

Acting

Biography

Marie Eykel is a Quebec actress born on April 2, 1948. The daughter of a Dutch father and a Quebec mother, Marie's mother was Rose Léonard and her mother was Irish. Marie lived a good part of her youth in Saint-Lambert. A theatre festival from her youth, she exercised her talent in several experimental theatres, worked for Paul Buissonneau's Roulette, before playing the role of Passe-Partout in the tele-series of the same name broadcast at Télé-Québec (Radio-Québec at the time) from 1977 to 1998. This series was remarkable for a whole generation, at a point called the "Passe-Partout Generation". Later she remained associated with this character, which greatly harmed her to gain a significant role after the withdrawal of the waves from the series.

Known For

The Countess of Baton Rouge
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In a style evocative of Fellini at his most surreal, this bizarre French Canadian fantasy follows the romance between a young filmmaker and a bearded lady from a local circus during the 1960s. The story begins in a contemporary theater where a projectionist describes, to movie director Rex Prince, the ghostly spirit that seems to be haunting his film. The story then races backward to the 1960s when a half-mad, idealistic Rex was busily making his first film, a Marxist tract depicting poverty in Montreal. Edouard Dore, a well-connected editor works with him and it is he who takes Rex to a carnival late one night to meet the performers in a freakshow. The first person Rex meets is Le Grand Zenon, a hulking one-eyed fellow with the amazing ability to use his eye to project movie images on a screen with neither a projector nor film.

The Countess of Baton Rouge

1997Movie