Gabrielle Marion-Rivard

Canadian actress and singer

Gabrielle Marion-Rivard
Marion-Rivard in 2013.
Nationality	Canadian
Occupation(s)	film actor, singer
Known for	Gabrielle

Gabrielle Marion-Rivard is a Canadian actress and singer, who won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Actress in 2014 for her performance in Gabrielle.^[1]

Marion-Rivard, who has Williams syndrome,^[2] plays a young woman with Williams syndrome who is part of a choir of developmentally disabled people.^[3] She participates in a similar choir, based in Montreal, Quebec, in real life.^[4]

References

^ "'Orphan Black,' 'Gabrielle' big winners at Canadian Screen Awards". CTV News, March 9, 2014.
^ "Gabrielle director achieves perfect pitch". The Georgia Straight, January 24, 2014.
^ "Gabrielle: coming-of-age search for love and freedom". CBC News. January 10, 2014. Archived from the original on 11 January 2014.
^ "More than ordinary". Toronto Sun, January 9, 2014.

External links

Gabrielle Marion-Rivard at IMDb

Canadian Screen Award for Best Lead Performance in a Film

Actor (1968–2021)

Gerard Parkes (1968)
No award (1969)
Doug McGrath and Paul Bradley (1970)
Jean Duceppe (1971)
Gordon Pinsent (1972)
Jacques Godin (1973)
No award (1974)
Stuart Gillard (1975)
André Melançon (1976)
Len Cariou (1977)
Richard Gabourie (1978)
Christopher Plummer (1980)
Thomas Peacocke (1981)
Nick Mancuso (1982)
Donald Sutherland (1983)
Eric Fryer (1984)
Gabriel Arcand (1985)
John Wildman (1986)
Gordon Pinsent (1987)
Roger Lebel (1988)
Jeremy Irons (1989)
Lothaire Bluteau (1990)
Rémy Girard (1991)
Tony Nardi (1992)
Tom McCamus (1993)
Maury Chaykin (1994)
David La Haye (1995)
William Hutt (1996)
Ian Holm (1997)
Roshan Seth (1998)
Bob Hoskins (1999)
Tony Nardi (2000)
Brendan Fletcher (2001)
Luc Picard (2002)
Rémy Girard (2003)
Roy Dupuis (2004)
Michel Côté (2005)
Roy Dupuis (2006)
Gordon Pinsent (2007)
Natar Ungalaaq (2008)
Joshua Jackson (2009)
Paul Giamatti (2010)
Mohamed Fellag (2011)
James Cromwell (2012)
Gabriel Arcand (2013)
Antoine Olivier Pilon (2014)
Jacob Tremblay (2015)
Stephan James (2016)
Nabil Rajo (2017)
Théodore Pellerin (2018)
Mark O'Brien (2019)
Michael Greyeyes (2020)
Liam Diaz (2021)

Actress (1968–2021)

Geneviève Bujold (1968)
No award (1969)
Geneviève Bujold (1970)
Ann Knox (1971)
Micheline Lanctôt (1972)
Geneviève Bujold (1973)
No award (1974)
Margot Kidder (1975)
Marilyn Lightstone (1976)
Monique Mercure (1977)
Helen Shaver (1978)
Kate Lynch (1980)
Marie Tifo (1981)
Margot Kidder (1982)
Rae Dawn Chong (1983)
Martha Henry (1984)
Louise Marleau (1985)
Margaret Langrick (1986)
Martha Henry (1987)
Sheila McCarthy (1988)
Jackie Burroughs (1989)
Rebecca Jenkins (1990)
Pascale Montpetit (1991)
Janet Wright (1992)
Sheila McCarthy (1993)
Sandra Oh (1994)
Helena Bonham Carter (1995)
Martha Henry (1996)
Molly Parker (1997)
Sandra Oh (1998)
Sylvie Moreau (1999)
Marie-Josée Croze (2000)
Élise Guilbault (2001)
Arsinée Khanjian (2002)
Sarah Polley (2003)
Pascale Bussières (2004)
Seema Biswas (2005)
Julie Le Breton (2006)
Julie Christie (2007)
Ellen Burstyn (2008)
Karine Vanasse (2009)
Lubna Azabal (2010)
Vanessa Paradis (2011)
Rachel Mwanza (2012)
Gabrielle Marion-Rivard (2013)
Anne Dorval (2014)
Brie Larson (2015)
Tatiana Maslany (2016)
Sally Hawkins (2017)
Émilie Bierre (2018)
Nahéma Ricci (2019)
Michelle Pfeiffer (2020)
Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers (2021)

Lead Performance in a Film
(2022–present)

Lamar Johnson (2022)

Canadian Film Awards 1968–1978, Genie Awards 1980-2011, Canadian Screen Awards 2012–present.
Separate awards were presented by gender prior to 2022; a single unified category for best performance regardless of gender has been presented since.