Carole Laure

About Carole Laure

Who is it?: Actress, Director, Writer
Birth Day: August 05, 1948
Birth Place:  Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada
Birth Sign: Virgo
Other names: Carol Laure, Carole Lord
Spouse(s): Lewis Furey

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Carole Laure was born on August 05, 1948 in  Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada, is Actress, Director, Writer. Before she became an actress Carole Laure was a teacher. She was born on August 5, 1950 in Montreal (Québec) Canada. The profession she has chosen did not give her any satisfaction. She met some young Canadian film makers, that resulted in her first appearance as an actress, age twenty, in Mon enfance à Montréal (1971), directed by Jean Chabot. Three years later, she met director Gilles Carle, who helped her career. Her exotic beauty (her mother has Indian blood), her charm and spontaneity, her dark eyes with light melancholy look, made her a star in French-Canadian cinema. She is not only acting but also sings. Carole has recorded several LPs in French and English, collaborating with Lewis Furey. She also sings in the filmmusical Fantastica (1980) directed by her old friend, Gilles.
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Biography/Timeline

1974

Laure is also a film Actress, appearing in a number of Canadian-produced films, including the controversial 1974 release by Dušan Makavejev Sweet Movie, which was notable for both its sexual explicitness and scatology. Laure and Furey were frequent co-stars in the films of Gilles Carle, most notably, L'Ange et la femme (1977) and Fantastica (1980).

1977

Throughout most of her career, Carole Laure primarily collaborated with Anglophone singer, Songwriter, Producer, and Director Lewis Furey, whom she met in 1977 and who later became her husband.

1978

Laure debuted as a singer on the album Alibis in 1978.

1989

In 1989, she devoted an acoustic-oriented bilingual album, Western Shadows, to country and western standards. The album featured cover versions of Tammy Wynette's "Stand By Your Man", Phil Spector's "To Know Him is to Love Him", Rosanne Cash's "Seven Year Ache", and Leonard Cohen's "Coming Back to You". The video for "Danse avant de tomber" (a cover of Boris Bergman's French adaptation of Doc Pomus' "Save the Last Dance For Me") featured Dancer Louise Lecavalier of the internationally famous Québéc contemporary dance troupe La La La Human Steps.

1991

For her 1991 album She Says Move On, she recorded a cover version of Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze".

1997

She switched from acoustic to electronic music on her 1997 French-language album Sentiments Naturels. The album featured club-oriented genres such as techno, house, and trip hop, and collaborators included Dimitri from Paris, Mirwais, Shazz, DJ Cam, and Todd Terry. Laure was also named in the songwriting credits.

2013

Laure was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2013, "For her international career as an Actress, singer, Director and Dancer."