Suzanne Lebeau

Suzanne Lebeau (born April 28, 1948) is a Canadian (Québécois) actor and writer.

The daughter of Blanche Payette and Paul Lebeau, Lebeau was born in Montreal. Drawn to the theatre, she studied with Jacques Crête and Gilles Maheu and the Gascon-Thomas Award from the National Theatre School of Canada. In June 2016, Lebeau received a Governor General's Performing Arts Award, Canada's highest honor in the performing arts, for her lifetime contribution to Canadian theatre.

Selected works

Une lune entre deux maisons (1979) Les Petits Pouvoirs (1981) Les petits pouvoirs (1983), received the Chalmers Children's Play Award Contes d'enfants réels (1990) Conte du jour et de la nuit (1991), Grand Prix in the category theatre from the Journal de Montréal Salvador (1996), received the Prix Francophonie Jeunesse from Radio France Internationale and the Prix littéraire from the citizens of the Maine-et-Loire department L'ogrelet (1997), received a Masque Award for original script from the Académie québécoise du théâtre Contes à rebours (1997) Petit Pierre (2001) Souliers de sable (2005) Le Bruit des os qui craquent (2006), received a Governor General's Award for French-language drama