Frédérique Collin
Frédérique Collin is a Canadian actress, screenwriter and film director. She is most noted for her performance in Marie in the City , for which she received a Genie Award nomination for Best Actress at the 9th Genie Awards.
Her other acting credits have included the films Réjeanne Padovani, Once Upon a Time in the East , Gina, Lucien Brouillard, To Be Sixteen , Lessons on Life and Au fil de l'eau, and the television series Témoignages and Fortier. Her stage roles included productions of Anne Legault's Conte d'hiver 70 and Michel Tremblay's High Mass for a Full Moon of Summer.
She was also co-director and co-writer with Paule Baillargeon of the 1980 film La cuisine rouge''.
She dropped out of acting after 2003, reemerging in the early 2010s as a mental health and art therapy advocate after going public about her battles with alcoholism, drug addiction and compulsive gambling.
