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person_profile-Line Renaud

Line Renaud Age: 97

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Line Renaud

Date of Birth:

Jul 02, 1928

Country of birth:

France

Biography of

Line Renaud

    Line Renaud (born 2 July 1928) is a popular French singer, actress and AIDS activist.

    Line Renaud was born Jacqueline Ente in Pont-de-Nieppe on 2 July 1928. Her mother Simone was a shorthand typist; her father was a truck driver during the week, but he played the trumpet on weekends, in a local brass band. Line showed the first signs of her talent in primary school, when at the age of seven she won an amateur competition.

    During the Second World War, Jacqueline's father was mobilised, spending five years away from the family. During this time, Jacqueline was brought up by her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. Her grandmother had a café in Armentières, where she used to sing for passing soldiers.

    She auditioned at Conservatoire de Lille, singing songs written by Loulou Gasté "Sainte-Madeleine" and "Mon âme au diable". Louis Gasté was at that time a well-known French composer. At the end of the audition, she was approached by the director of Radio Lille who was looking for a singer. She took the pseudonym of Jacqueline Ray and joined the station singing a repertoire based on the songs by Loulou Gasté. In 1945, she moved to Paris and got her first gig in Folies Belleville, where she was introduced to Gasté. She was 16, and Gasté was 37. He became her mentor, changing her image and her name.

    Line Renaud made her national debut on Radio Luxembourg, singing on a Sunday morning program. After signing a contract with Pathe Marconi, she recorded "Ma Cabane au Canada", written by Loulou Gasté, which won le Grand Prix du Disque. She also sang with Yves Montand in the Théâtre de l'Etoile. She toured Europe and Africa extensively, came back to Paris to star at the ABC, and recorded numerous adaptations of American songs such as "Ma petite folie", "Étoile des neiges" and "Le Chien dans la vitrine".

    In 1954, while performing at Moulin Rouge, she met Bob Hope and subsequently appeared in five episodes of The Bob Hope Show in the US. During this trip, she also sang in the Waldorf Astoria (New York) and the Cocoanut Grove (Los Angeles), appeared on Johnny Carson, Dinah Shore and Ed Sullivan shows and recorded with Dean Martin the songs "Relax-Ay-Voo" and "Two Sleepy People".

    In 1959, she started a four-year run of Plaisir de Paris for Henri Varna and then went on to perform in a Las Vegas show at Dunes from 1963 to 1965. In 1966 she returned to Paris and the Casino de Paris starring in a new show, Desir de Paris. In 1968, she returned to Las Vegas for a number of performances. In France, in 1973 she created an American show which she toured for two years around the country. She then helped Casino de Paris, threatened by closing, by putting on a show called ‘Paris – Line’ with Loulou Gasté, which ran for four years.

    In the 1980s, she starred in a TV show Telle est Line for Antenne 2 and recorded songs in English and French. At Casino de Paris, she put on a one-off show which retraced her forty-year career. Also, in 1981, she served as an unofficial on-air "guide" for Merv Griffin when he taped "The Merv Griffin Show" in Paris, and in 1982 she was a guest on Perry Como's Christmas special in Paris. In 1989, she toured around Japan as part of a festival which marked the bicentennial of the French Revolution. ...

    Source: Article "Line Renaud" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Line Renaud

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Filmography of

Line Renaud

Found 54 Movies in total

The Next trip

Jacqueline ( Actor )

... 2023

Sheila, toutes ces vies-là

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2022

In France with Madonna

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2022

Driving Madeleine

Madeleine ( Actor )

... 2022

... 2022

Knock, Knock, It's Mom!

Mamoune ( Actor )

... 2021

I Love You Coiffure

Mme Vinard (segment "Le Salon de coiffure") ( Actor )

... 2020

Huguette

Huguette ( Actor )

... 2019

Let's Dance

Nicole ( Actor )

... 2019

Mon Chirac

Self ( Actor )

... 2019

... 2018

... 2018

Family Is Family

Suzanne Duquesne, Valentin's mother ( Actor )

... 2018

La Douce Empoisonneuse

Clémence ( Actor )

... 2014

La voyante

Vera ( Actor )

... 2014

Belinda and Me

Jacqueline ( Actor )

... 2014

Simple question de temps

Laurence Delcourt ( Actor )

... 2012

La Croisière

Simone ( Actor )

... 2011

Santa's Apprentice

Solange Folichon (voice) ( Actor )

... 2010

In case of Bad Luck

Viviane Guérand ( Actor )

... 2009

Fallen from the Sky

Louise ( Actor )

... 2008

Welcome to the Sticks

Mrs. Bailleul ( Actor )

... 2008

A House of Your Dreams

Tata Suzanne Bailleul ( Actor )

... 2006

A Cursed Monarchy

Marie de Hongrie ( Actor )

... 2005

The Courage to Love

Line ( Actor )

... 2005

Our Dream Lives

Pussycat ( Actor )

... 2004

... 2003

Live for Love United

Self ( Actor )

... 2002

Chaos

Mamie ( Actor )

... 2001

Doggy Bag

La mère ( Actor )

... 1999

Belle Maman

Nicou ( Actor )

... 1999

À nous deux la vie

Fanny ( Actor )

... 1998

... 1997

Blood Sisters

Garance ( Actor )

... 1997

... 1997

Sixième classique

Madame Cotelle ( Actor )

... 1996

Ma femme me quitte

Margot Piquet ( Actor )

... 1996

Rendez-moi ma fille

Lou ( Actor )

... 1994

I Can't Sleep

Ninon ( Actor )

... 1994

Polly West est de retour

Polly West ( Actor )

... 1993

The Sands of Time

Mme. Angelis ( Actor )

... 1992

Pleins feux

Adeline Margaux ( Actor )

... 1992

My New Partner II

Simone ( Actor )

... 1990

... 1989

... 1959

Mademoiselle and Her Gang

Agnès Bourdieux ( Actor )

... 1957

La Madelon

Madeleine Thuilier dite La Madelon ( Actor )

... 1955

Boom on Paris

Self ( Actor )

... 1954

Double or Quits

The singer ( Actor )

... 1952

Ils sont dans les vignes...

Rose Filhol ( Actor )

... 1952

Paris Still Sings!

Self ( Actor )

... 1951

Over the waves

Self ( Actor )

... 1951

... 1947

Devil and the Angel

Cabaret singer ( Actor )

... 1946