Monique Mercure, the Canadian actress who earned a Palme d'Or in 1977 for her starring turn in J.A. Martin photographer, has died.
She was 89. Simon Brault, director and CEO of the Canada Council for the Arts, said on his Facebook page that Mercure died Saturday night at St.
Raphael's House in Montreal, where she had been in palliative care following a battle with cancer. "I just lost the one I've always been in contact with for 29 years.
We were bound by an active friendship that only death could stop," Brault wrote. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau paid tribute to Mercure, a veteran of more than 100 film, TV and stage appearances over a six-decade career. "We've lost a great Canadian actress.
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