Biography

Geneviève Rioux (born 3 November 1961) is a Québécoise television host and actor in theatre, television and film. Geneviève Rioux graduated from the Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Montréal in 1983.In 1987 Rioux was nominated for a Genie Award for her second film role, Danielle in Le Déclin de l'empire américain.In 1989 she won the Gascon-Roux Prize for best theatre actress in Roméo et Juliette. That year she also won the Prix Gémeaux for Best Female Performance in a Supporting Role – Dramatic for L'Héritage television series. Rioux won the Prix Gémeaux again in 2004 for her dramatic role in the series Chartrand et Simonne.In the theatre, she interpreted the classical and contemporary repertoire. She has played in more than 30 pieces, including: Le prince des jouisseurs of Gabriel Sabourin, directed by Normand Chouinard; Rouge gueule of Étienne Lepage, directed by Claude Poissant; Un certain Stanislavski by Marcel Sabourin and Gabriel Sabourin, directed by Louis Choquette; Clash by Daniel Lemire, directed by Pierre Lebeau; Under construction by Charles L. Mee, directed by Luce Pelletier; Les grecques mounted by Luce Pelletier; Le jeu de l'amour et du hasard of Marivaux, edited by Danielle Fichaud; Le portier de la gare Windsor by Julie Vincent; Le Misanthrope by Molière, edited by Olivier Reichenbach; Shakespeare's Roméo et Juliette, edited by Guillermo de Andrea.Geneviève Rioux conceived and co-wrote the documentary Crée-moi, crée-moi pas (English version: Impulses), directed by Marie-Pascale Laurencelle, produced by Marie-France Bazzo and broadcast on Télé-Québec in January 2013. The documentary competed at the Festival international du film sur l'art (FIFA) and won the "Audience Award" at the Brooklyn Girl Film Festival 2013.Since 2001 Rioux has been a member of the women's committee of Union des Artistes, advocating for equal pay and against ageism.