Isabelle Gélinas

Acting

Isabelle Gélinas

Born

1963-10-13 (63)

Place of birth

Montreal, Canada

Known for

Acting

Credits

66 titles

Isabelle Gélinas (born October 13, 1963) is a French-Canadian actress. Isabelle Gélinas was born in Montreal, Quebec. She began her training course at the Cours Florent before joining the CNSAD where she took classes with teachers such as Pierre Vial, Daniel Mesguich and especially Michel Bouquet. Her beginnings in the occupation were not without difficulties, and she was often qualified as "too young", "too mature" and even "not modern enough". She had a hard time finding her place in the acting field. She began her career (1982–86) in the theater, playing in several dramas of Molière with Jean Davy as the director. In 1986, her participation in the short film Triple sec with Suzanne Flon…

Known for

Quotidien poster
4.9

Quotidien (nicknamed "The French Show with the Good Lighting" abroad) is a French daily infotainment television program broadcast in the early evening on TMC since September 12, 2016. The show is hosted by Yann Barthès and produced by Bangumi. It consists of segments and reports produced by the team of commentators and journalists surrounding Yann Barthès and features daily guests including newsmakers, intellectuals, politicians, and French and international celebrities.

Quotidien

2016

Murders in... poster
7.3

Murders in... is a collection of French-Belgian police TV movies taking place each time in a different French city and region.

Murders in...

2013

Télématin poster
5.8

Télématin is a French breakfast television news show, broadcast on France 2 since January 7, 1985. It is broadcast in Metropolitan France weekdays from 6:30 to 9:00 am CET. TV5 broadcast the show in Canada in its entirety until September 2011: it now shows a 90 minute version between 6:30 and 8:00 am Eastern Time, when the French original version is now 2h30 long. Télématin is hosted by William Leymergie. The show is daily seen by around 40% of the French morning audience, a very high percentage for French TV. In Metropolitan France, the newscasts are presented at 7:00, 7:30 and 8:00, with newsflashes at 6:30 and 8:50, and two press reviews at 7:20 and 8:30. The 6:30, 7:30 and 8:50 newscasts are usually presented by a female reader and the hourly newscasts by a male. The usual readers are Nathanaël de Rinquesen, Sophie Le Saint, Julien Benedetto, Sophie Gastrain, Patrice Romedenne and Frédéric Vion.

Télématin

1985

Fais pas ci, fais pas ça poster
7.4

The daily life of two neighboring families, the Bouley and the Lepic, with literally opposite educational methods. Despite their social and cultural differences, they are friends and do not hesitate to face worries...

Fais pas ci, fais pas ça

2007

Crimes parfaits poster
4.7

Murderers think they have committed the perfect crime. But the investigators will do everything to find the flaw in the Machiavellian plan devised by each killer.

Crimes parfaits

2017

The Round Up poster
7.5

A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.

The Round Up

2010

Film credits

2020s · 11 titles

La Traque poster
6.2

The Belgian and French police investigate the activities of Michel Fourniret, a serial killer who was active on both sides of the border.

La Traque

2021

Two Of A Kind poster
5.7

Grégoire Beaulieu learns that he has a twin brother: Anthony Girard. Gregoire is bourgeois, ambitious and promised to a great career, Anthony has no prospect and lives of shenanigans. The two brothers couldn’t be more opposite. Especially when one is white and the other is black !

Two Of A Kind

2022

Les oubliés du Delta poster
7.4

No synopsis available yet.

Les oubliés du Delta

2024

Fais pas ci, fais pas ça : Y aura-t-il Noël à Noël ? poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Fais pas ci, fais pas ça : Y aura-t-il Noël à Noël ?

2020

Une heure de tranquillité poster
6.6

No synopsis available yet.

Une heure de tranquillité

2020

Meurtres à Mont-de-Marsan poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Meurtres à Mont-de-Marsan

2025

À mon tour poster
5.7

Chateauneuf-sur-Valone, Mayor Félix de Ponte is preparing for his re-election, hoping to beat the far-right candidate Jean-Luc Molment Martinez. But when a video revealing his extra-marital affair is broadcast on the networks, Félix's life will be turned upside down. Devastated, betrayed and humiliated, his wife, Rose, decides to react and runs against him in the elections.

À mon tour

2022

Le Tartuffe poster
NR

A staging of Molière's play "Tartuffe" by Peter Stein.

Le Tartuffe

2021

Fais pas ci, fais pas ça - On va marcher sur la Lune poster
5.4

No synopsis available yet.

Fais pas ci, fais pas ça - On va marcher sur la Lune

2024

Un amour de jeunesse poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Un amour de jeunesse

2020

Amis d'enfance poster
4.2

Pierre and Aline, in their fifties, decide to take advantage of their guest house one last time by inviting friends. It's the turn of Max, Pierre's childhood friend, and his wife Charlotte to be invited. The week promises to be beautiful, between the Avignon Festival and good food and drink. But how can we keep these childhood friendships alive, when the life paths of each of them have diverged over time.

Amis d'enfance

2022

2010s · 14 titles

The Round Up poster
7.5

A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.

The Round Up

2010

Among Friends poster
5.2

Three longtime friends set off on a boat trip with their romantic partners, but inclement weather, jealousy and confessions, will put to test their friendships.

Among Friends

2015

Deux hommes tout nus poster
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

Deux hommes tout nus

2014

Au nom des fils poster
7.1

Two mothers each try to come to terms with the pain of losing a child after four young scouts and a young man who tried to save them drown, with the inquiry revealing negligence on the part of the supervisors.

Au nom des fils

2014

Stavisky, l'escroc du siècle poster
6.2

The story of the rise of Alexander Stravisky, a brilliant and seductive crook, in Paris of the roaring twenties. But unchecked greed and corruption does not go unpunished. The political decadence he feeds off will also cause his downfall.

Stavisky, l'escroc du siècle

2016

The Very Private Life of Mister Sim poster
6.0

Mister Sim is of no concern whatsoever. At least, this is what he thinks about himself. His wife has left him, his job has left him, and when goes to see his father in a remote part of Italy, not even Dad has the time to have lunch with him. He then receives an unexpected offer: to travel through France selling toothbrushes that will "revolutionize oral-dental hygiene." He takes advantage of the job to catch up with people from his childhood, to meet the first big love of his life, along with his daughter, and to make amazing discoveries and, in so doing, rediscover himself.

The Very Private Life of Mister Sim

2015

L'Innocent poster
6.7

The film is based on real events be tween the years 1978-1980. Theo Grangier, a man without education, with no parents nor family, is involved in the robbery along with two recidivists. But the policeman is killed during a robbery. But Theo is the only one who is arrested and charged with murdering an officer of laws, even though the other two perpetrators are not found and Theo is not conclusively proved to be a murderer. He is later sentenced to death. The trial galvanizes the French society - Jean-Paul Sartre comes out publicly in favor of Theo Grunge...

L'Innocent

2012

Mémoire de sang poster
6.2

Louise, a doctor and mother, is suddenly caught up by her past after the discovery of her step-father's body, 18 years after he went missing.

Mémoire de sang

2018

Un petit jeu sans conséquence poster
6.0

Claire and Bruno have been an established couple, an "institution" for twelve years. During a day in the countryside gathering all their loved ones, they will, by play, pretend that they separate. Resumed in 2015 with Bruno Solo, Isabelle Gélinas, Bruno Salomone, Constance Dollé and Lionel Abelanski who takes over the role of Patrick already held in 2004 in the film. Live broadcast on April 27, 2015 live from the Paris theater on France 2.

Un petit jeu sans conséquence

2015

Silent Night, Bloody Night poster
5.8

Pierre and Patricia have some friends around for Christmas Eve. But the evening is not going to unfold exactly as intended. A stranger bursts in and threatens each guest until they confess their little secrets and lies...

Silent Night, Bloody Night

2014

Deadly Hitch poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Deadly Hitch

2011

L'Illusion conjugale poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

L'Illusion conjugale

2011

The Father poster
NR

A staging of Florian Zeller's play "The Father" by Ladislas Chollat.

The Father

2014

Bitter Heaven poster
5.2

Hugo reluctantly follows his parents following their transfer to Mayotte. With slums, heat and being white and rich when the majority is black and poor, he struggles to adapt. But he does, thanks to a local girl with whom he falls in love.

Bitter Heaven

2014

2000s · 10 titles

Cherche fiancé tous frais payés poster
5.6

Alexandra, trente ans, s'apprête à passer les vacances d'été en famille. Au moment de prendre la route, elle apprend que sa mère a aussi invité son ex, accompagné d'une "fiancée" jeune et ravissante. Dans un café, elle croise un acteur au chômage et l'engage sur le champ pour tenir le rôle de son fiancé. Comme ça, elle pourra affronter son ex, en toute sérénité.

Cherche fiancé tous frais payés

2007

People in Swimsuits Aren't (Necessarily) Shallow poster
4.7

A week on St-Martin with vacationing Parisians. Camille surprises her lover Philippe, who's with his wife and children. Lonely Laurette, a secretary, hopes to meet a man. Aziz brings his enthusiastic brother Rafik because his boss had two tickets he couldn't use. Lovers Pauline and the pregnant, cranky Anita find their vacation complicated by an ex-lover of Pauline's. The playboy Jimmy is the hotel M.C., and Carla, free-spirited and sensual, coaches Laurette in the ways of seduction. She is hot and cold to these wiles, alternately attracting and putting off Aziz, hoping Jimmy will try to seduce her, and afraid he might. By week's end, with the help of Camille's diary, we'll know the outcomes.

People in Swimsuits Aren't (Necessarily) Shallow

2001

Ça se soigne ? poster
5.0

Tom has everything going for him! He is a renowned and celebrated conductor, sought after all over the world, and his talent is a source of national pride. He is rich, intelligent, and cultured. He has a dream wife with a promising future in aerospace. He has just moved into a magnificent apartment. In short, he is thriving, and everything is going perfectly for him. But a simple traffic light triggers his downfall! He spirals into depression, consults the top specialists, raises countless questions, experiences periods of recovery and bursts of excitement, only to plunge back into a bottomless pit, pushing away everyone trying to bring him back to reason. When "Tom the genius" collapses under the weight of his illness, it marks the beginning of a nightmare for all his friends. Worse—it’s a tsunami!

Ça se soigne ?

2008

No artwork available
7.0

In order to win back his wife, a writer in need of inspiration disguises himself and lands a job at the magazine where she works.

Confessions d'un menteur

2005

No artwork available
1.0

A former police officer, Marc Lorca, sees his wife die from a terrible car accident, which occurred while he was driving. Previously alcoholic, Lorca seems to collapse under the weight of guilt. But a former colleague, Marianne Duriez, recently become a police captain, shows him that the accident is not accounted by any negligence on his part. The survey of experts has indeed revealed that the steering axis of the vehicle was sabotaged. Gradually, the suspect list is expanding. Lorca realizes he knows nothing of the past of his deceased wife, who was obviously part of a small extreme left group.

Passés troubles

2006

Ne quittez pas ! poster
7.3

Félix Mandel, an internationally renowned astrophysicist, is married with a four-year-old son and often has his head in the clouds.

Ne quittez pas !

2004

Courrier du cœur poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Courrier du cœur

2004

Anibal poster
7.0

Ten-year-old Edgar, the son of a wealthy family, finds his world turned upside down when his parents decide to adopt Anibal, a Peruvian boy, whom Edgar considers an intruder.

Anibal

2000

Qu'elle est belle la quarantaine poster
7.0

A 40-year-old widower and a 38-year-old divorcee, both single parents who both work in the same company but he as an executive and she as a waitress have nothing in common except for solitude and two friends somehow come together.

Qu'elle est belle la quarantaine

2003

Frappes interdites poster
9.0

A boxer is unfairly suspected by his new neighbors of beating his children.

Frappes interdites

2005

1990s · 10 titles

Didier poster
6.1

Jean-Pierre Costa is a football manager upon whom fate appears not to be smiling. First, a friend, Annabelle, dumps a pet Labrador named Didier on him whilst she goes off to make a report in Los Angeles. Next, one of his star players is injured, leaving him one player short for a crucial match. As if things could not get any worse, Costa wakes up one morning to find that that Didier has been transformed into a man...

Didier

1997

Tout baigne ! poster
6.6

Les aventures tragi-comiques de quelques individus ou comment reagir quand votre maison se retrouve ensevelie sous les eaux, envahie par de droles de personnages et qu'on va accoucher dans les heures qui viennent?

Tout baigne !

1999

Paparazzi poster
5.0

Franck shows up in a gossip magazine photo behind a brawling TV star at a football match.

Paparazzi

1998

Mountain of Diamonds poster
6.2

France, 1915. Young and radiantly beautiful Centaine de Thiry is the happiest woman in the world: in a few more hours she will be married to pilot Michael Courteney, the love of her life. But fate has it otherwise: Michael is shot down in a reconnaissance plane shortly before his wedding. Life has lost its meaning for Centaine. When the young woman realizes soon afterwards that she is expecting a baby, her zest for live is revived. She decides to give birth to the child in South Africa, the home country of her deceased fiancé.

Mountain of Diamonds

1991

Mado, poste restante poster
5.8

In this gentle comedy, Mado (Marianne Groves) is the letter-carrier for her small town, and she is constantly on the lookout for a good Catholic man who shares her enthusiasm for sunrises. She even puts up posters on trees and walls advertising her interest. The townspeople make fun of her, but she isn't discouraged. Her best friend is Germaine (Isabelle Gelinas), a pretty girl whose moral standards are not as strict as Mado's. When a film director (Oleg Yankovsky) arrives in town, everyone is agog, but Mado is particularly keen to find out about him. However, it seems that he has his eye on Germaine, and he isn't really in her league anyhow.

Mado, poste restante

1990

Louis, the Child King poster
5.7

January 1649: Since the death of his father, the young Louis XIV must undergo the hard apprenticeship of royal power. He must face the intrigues of the great ones of the kingdom who lead La Fronde, the agreements and the betrayals of those close to him. He is helped in this by his mother Anne of Austria and by the Cardinal Mazarin.

Louis, the Child King

1993

Trapped by a Dream poster
6.0

Elle (Isabelle Gélinas) wants to make a film about African wildlife. Adrien (Eric Métayer) is obsessed with the idea of making love to Elle in a very peculiar and theatrical imaginary bedroom. Perhaps following a principle of sympathetic magic, he arranges for a crew of eccentric friends to help create the bedroom of his dreams. If one part of his dream comes true, perhaps the other one will.

Trapped by a Dream

1993

Drôles d'oiseaux poster
9.0

The fire at the supermarket is a boon for a scrap dealer who has just killed his wife. According to Commissioner Voitot, the victim could be one of the unidentified bodies. But here is a landscaper claims that his wife has also disappeared.

Drôles d'oiseaux

1993

Les Parents modèles poster
7.0

The divorce of a couple seen through the terribly lucid eyes of their two young children.

Les Parents modèles

1997

Technical chaos poster
7.0

A physics teacher reunites with his former classmate who he lost touch with for 20 years.

Technical chaos

1998

1980s · 4 titles

Series credits

Quotidien poster
4.9

Quotidien (nicknamed "The French Show with the Good Lighting" abroad) is a French daily infotainment television program broadcast in the early evening on TMC since September 12, 2016. The show is hosted by Yann Barthès and produced by Bangumi. It consists of segments and reports produced by the team of commentators and journalists surrounding Yann Barthès and features daily guests including newsmakers, intellectuals, politicians, and French and international celebrities.

Quotidien

2016

Murders in... poster
7.3

Murders in... is a collection of French-Belgian police TV movies taking place each time in a different French city and region.

Murders in...

2013

Télématin poster
5.8

Télématin is a French breakfast television news show, broadcast on France 2 since January 7, 1985. It is broadcast in Metropolitan France weekdays from 6:30 to 9:00 am CET. TV5 broadcast the show in Canada in its entirety until September 2011: it now shows a 90 minute version between 6:30 and 8:00 am Eastern Time, when the French original version is now 2h30 long. Télématin is hosted by William Leymergie. The show is daily seen by around 40% of the French morning audience, a very high percentage for French TV. In Metropolitan France, the newscasts are presented at 7:00, 7:30 and 8:00, with newsflashes at 6:30 and 8:50, and two press reviews at 7:20 and 8:30. The 6:30, 7:30 and 8:50 newscasts are usually presented by a female reader and the hourly newscasts by a male. The usual readers are Nathanaël de Rinquesen, Sophie Le Saint, Julien Benedetto, Sophie Gastrain, Patrice Romedenne and Frédéric Vion.

Télématin

1985

Fais pas ci, fais pas ça poster
7.4

The daily life of two neighboring families, the Bouley and the Lepic, with literally opposite educational methods. Despite their social and cultural differences, they are friends and do not hesitate to face worries...

Fais pas ci, fais pas ça

2007

Crimes parfaits poster
4.7

Murderers think they have committed the perfect crime. But the investigators will do everything to find the flaw in the Machiavellian plan devised by each killer.

Crimes parfaits

2017

Crimes parfaits poster
4.7

Murderers think they have committed the perfect crime. But the investigators will do everything to find the flaw in the Machiavellian plan devised by each killer.

Crimes parfaits

2017

Crimes parfaits poster
4.7

Murderers think they have committed the perfect crime. But the investigators will do everything to find the flaw in the Machiavellian plan devised by each killer.

Crimes parfaits

2017

Accusé poster
7.5

Six stories about six people facing accusations in court.

Accusé

2015

Les Bracelets rouges poster
8.2

No synopsis available yet.

Les Bracelets rouges

2018

Les Chamois poster
7.8

No synopsis available yet.

Les Chamois

2017

No artwork available
1.0

TV Show Details

Les Jupons de la révolution

1989

The Burning Shore poster
NR

France, 1915. Young and radiantly beautiful Centaine de Thiry is the happiest woman in the world: in a few more hours she will be married to pilot Michael Courteney, the love of her life. But fate has it otherwise: Michael is shot down in a reconnaissance plane shortly before his wedding. Life has lost its meaning for Centaine. When the young woman realizes soon afterwards that she is expecting a baby, her zest for live is revived. She decides to give birth to the child in South Africa, the home country of her deceased fiancé.

The Burning Shore

1991

Le Diplôme poster
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

Le Diplôme

2026

Mountain of Diamonds poster
NR

France, 1915. Young and radiantly beautiful Centaine de Thiry is the happiest woman in the world: in a few more hours she will be married to pilot Michael Courteney, the love of her life. But fate has it otherwise: Michael is shot down in a reconnaissance plane shortly before his wedding. Life has lost its meaning for Centaine. When the young woman realizes soon afterwards that she is expecting a baby, her zest for live is revived. She decides to give birth to the child in South Africa, the home country of her deceased fiancé.

Mountain of Diamonds

1991

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Les Inséparables

2005

A livre ouvert poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

A livre ouvert

2014

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

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