Carole Laure
Carole Laure is an actress and singer from Quebec, Canada.
Career
Throughout most of her career, Carole Laure primarily collaborated with Anglophone singer, songwriter, producer, and director Lewis Furey, whom she met in 1977 and who later became her husband.Laure was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2013, "For her international career as an actress, singer, director and dancer."
Singing career
Laure debuted as a singer on the album Alibis in 1978.In 1989, she devoted an acoustic-oriented bilingual album, Western Shadows, to country and western standards. The album featured cover versions of Tammy Wynette's "Stand by Your Man", Phil Spector's "To Know Him Is to Love Him", Rosanne Cash's "Seven Year Ache", and Leonard Cohen's "Coming Back to You". The video for "Danse avant de tomber" featured dancer Louise Lecavalier of the internationally famous Québec contemporary dance troupe La La La Human Steps.
For her 1991 album She Says Move On, she recorded a cover version of Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze".
She switched from acoustic to electronic music on her 1997 French-language album Sentiments Naturels. The album featured club-oriented genres such as techno, house, and trip hop, and collaborators included Dimitri from Paris, Mirwais, Shazz, DJ Cam, and Todd Terry. Laure was also named in the songwriting credits.
Acting career
Laure is also a film actress, appearing in a number of Canadian-produced films, including the controversial 1974 release by Dušan Makavejev Sweet Movie, which was notable for both its sexual explicitness and scatology. Laure and Furey were frequent co-stars in the films of Gilles Carle, most notably, L'Ange et la femme and Fantastica. She also stars alongside Pelé, Sylvester Stallone and Michael Caine in the 1981 film Escape to Victory. She acted in several movies with Nick Mancuso, which included Maria Chapdelaine, Heartbreakers, and Night Magic.Discography
Albums
Alibis- Carole Laure/Lewis Furey Fantastica
- Carole Laure/Lewis Furey Enregistrement Public au Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin
- Carole Laure/Lewis Furey Night Magic Western Shadows She Says Move On Sentiments Naturels
- ''Collection Légende''
Singles
- "J'ai une chanson"
- "See you Monday"
- "Fantastica"
- "I should have known / Slowly, I married her"
- "Danse avant de tomber"
- "Anybody with the Blues"
- "She says move on"
- "Perds ton temps"
- "Mirage Geisho"
- "Passe de toi"
- "Sentiments naturels"
- "Dormir"
Filmography
- Mon enfance à Montréal
- The Apprentice as Suzanne
- IXE-13 as Shaïra
- Series 4
- La Porteuse de pain as Marie Harmant
- La Mort d'un bûcheron as Marie Chapdeleine
- The Heavenly Bodies as Rose-Marie
- Sweet Movie as Miss Monde 1984 / Miss Canada
- La Tête de Normande St-Onge as Normande St-Onge
- A Thousand Moons
- Né pour l'enfer as Amy
- Strange Shadows in an Empty Room as Louise Saitta
- A Pacemaker and a Sidecar as Amoureuse
- The Angel and the Woman as Girl
- La Menace as Julie Manet, a Canadian Girl
- Préparez vos mouchoirs as Solange
- La Jument vapeur as Armelle Bertrand
- Inside Out
- Au revoir à lundi as Lucie Leblanc
- Fantastica as Lorca
- Asphalte as Juliette Delors
- as Pauline Klein
- Escape to Victory as Renee - The French
- For your eyes only as Melina
- Croque la vie as Thérèse
- Maria Chapdelaine as Maria Chapdelaine
- À mort l'arbitre as Martine
- Stress as Nathalie
- Heartbreakers as Liliane
- The Surrogate as Anouk Van Derlin
- Night Magic as Judy
- Drôle de samedi as Véronique
- Sauve-toi, Lola as Lola
- Sweet Country as Eva
- La Nuit avec Hortense as Hortense
- La Vie en couleurs as Laura
- Palace as La cliente à la mouche / Sylvie, la femme du service des rêves
- Thank You Satan as France Monnier
- Beau fixe sur Cormeilles
- Les Aventuriers d'Eden River as Dr. Ann Stephens
- Elles ne pensent qu'à ça... as Jess
- Rats and Rabbits as Rita
- Les Fils de Marie as Marie
- Primitifs
- The Beautiful Beast as Louise
- La Capture
- Love Project — 2014, director