Sharon Bruneau

Background

Bruneau, a French-Canadian Métis, was born in the mining city of Timmins, Ontario.

Career

She began her career as a fashion model, at which she was successful until contracting a bad case of pneumonia, which caused her to lose a lot of weight. Soon after her recovery, she began training with weights to regain the weight she needed to get back to modeling. She then decided to give up modeling and dedicate herself to bodybuilding.

Bruneau was on the cover of Muscle & Fitness and Flex.

Sharon retired from bodybuilding competition after the 1994 Mississippi Olympia contest, switching to fitness competition.

After placing 11th in the 1995 Fitness Olympia, she retired from competition completely. She has had minor roles in the movies: Tornado Run (1995), Nemesis 2: Nebula (1995), Nemesis III: Prey Harder (1996), and R.S.V.P. (2002).

In 2007, she did minor stuntwork for the movie Smokin" Aces.

1991 IFBB North American Championships - 1st (HW) 1992 Mississippi International - 4th 1992 IFBB Mississippi Olympia - 11th 1993 Mississippi

International - 7th 1993 IFBB Mississippi

Olympia - 10th 1994 Mississippi International - 6th 1994 IFBB Mississippi

Olympia - 16th 1995 Fitness Olympia - 11th.

Achievements

• After achieving a somewhat toned build, she was rejected at model agencies for being oversized. 1991 IFBB North American Championships - Overall Winner.