Background
Bujold, Genevieve was born on July 1, 1942 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Daughter of Firmin and Laurette (Cavanaugh) Bujold.
Bujold, Genevieve was born on July 1, 1942 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Daughter of Firmin and Laurette (Cavanaugh) Bujold.
She grew up in French Canada and studied at the Montreal Conservatory of Acting.
Legend has it that she played a small part in French Can Can (55, Jean Renoir). Working for Resnais in France, she appeared in Le Voleur (66, Louis Malle) and played the porcelain waif in King of Hearts (66, Philippe de Broca).
Back in Canada, she was very active in TV and the theatre: Isabel (67, Almond); Entre la Mcrct l'Eau Douce (67, Brault); an unhappy venture into big pictures, as Anne of the Thousand Days (69, Charles Jarrott); Act of the Heaii (70, Almond); a short, Marie-Christine (70, Claude Jutra); The Trojan Women (71, Michael Cacoyannis); Journey (72, Almond); Kamourasaka (73. Jutra); another Hollywood dud. Earthquake (74, Mark Robson);
Alex and the Gypsy (76, John Kortv); Swashbuckler (76, James Goldstone); Obsession (76, Brian De Palma), which with a more humane director would seem an outstanding performance in which woman and child merge in the way of Geraldine Chaplin and Ana Torrent in Cr/7/; Another Man, Another Chance (77, Claude Lelouch); and Coma.
She was in Murder by Decree (79, Bob Clark); The Last Flight of Noah’s Ark (79, Jarrott); Final Assignment (SO, Almond); on TV fighting voodoo in Mistress of Paradise (81, Peter Medak); Monsignor (82, Frank Perry); in Choose Me (84, Alan Rudolph); with Clint Eastwood in Tightrope (84, Richard Tuggle); Trouble in Mind (85, Rudolph); wonderful in a very tough role in Dead Ringers (88, David Cronenberg); funny as the art dealer in The Moderns (88, Rudolph); Red Earth, White Earth (89, David Greene); and A Paper Wedding (90, Brault).
In Canada frequently, and for TV often, she worked on.
Coma (78, Michael Crichton) is only a thriller with an unusually real setting and a crazy plot. It is made decently, without ulterior ambition. But Geneviève Bujold is so remarkable in it that she makes one conscious of how a steady career has neglected her real virtues.
She is past that hard sexual radiance so arresting in La Guerre est Finie (66, Alain Resnais). But her face is as sharp and watchful as ever, more drawn than ripe now. She ignored the silliness of Coma and went about her job like a young mother with too much to do. A gritty actuality lies within her dramatic vulnerability, and in Coma it amounts to heroic courage and persistence.
She met and married the director Paul Almond.