Camille Bernard, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Camille Bernard

Date of Birth: 25-Feb-1898

Date of Death: 16-Jul-1983

Profession: film actor

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Camille Bernard

  • Camille Bernard (February 25, 1898 – July 16, 1984) was a Canadian opera singer, actress and music educator from Quebec.
  • She was most noted as the founder of the Institut Camille-Bernard, a prominent theatre and music school in Montreal.Trained under BĂ©atrice La Palme and Salvator Issaurel, she was a regular performer in Quebec until being invited in 1924 to study in Paris.
  • Completing her training under Pauline Donalda and Yvette Guilbert, and regularly performed in both France and Canada for a number of years thereafter. In 1929 she founded the Théâtre des petits, a children's school of diction, and later founded the École nouvelle, a school for children with language difficulties; the two institutions later merged into the Institut Camille-Bernard.
  • The Théâtre des petits also had a regular radio program on Montreal's CKAC.In 1973, she had her only major acting role, in Claude Jutra's film Kamouraska.
  • She won the Canadian Film Award for Best Supporting Actress.She was inducted into the Order of Canada in 1981.

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