Evil Words

Waterfront Dreams

La naissance d'une messe

Lessons on Life

Marie in the City

Sonia

Caffè Italia, Montréal

L'absence

Gina

L'amour blessé

Once Upon a Time in the East

Les allées de la terre

The Conquest

Réjeanne Padovani

The Time of the Hunt

Françoise Durocher, Waitress

A Matter of Life

The Red Kitchen

Frédérique Collin (born 1944 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian actress, screenwriter and film director. She is most noted for her performance in Marie in the City (Marie s'en va-t'en ville), for which she received a Genie Award nomination for Best Actress at the 9th Genie Awards.
Her other acting credits have included the films Françoise Durocher, Waitress, Réjeanne Padovani, Once Upon a Time in the East (Il était une fois dans l'est), Gina, The Absence (L'Absence), Lucien Brouillard, To Be Sixteen (Avoir 16 ans), Lessons on Life (Trois pommes à côté du sommeil) and Au fil de l'eau, and the television series Témoignages and Fortier. Her stage roles included productions of Anne Legault's Conte d'hiver 70 and Michel Tremblay's High Mass for a Full Moon of Summer (Messe solonnelle pour une pleine lune d'été).
She was also co-director and co-writer with Paule Baillargeon of the 1980 film La cuisine rouge.
She dropped out of acting after 2003, reemerging in the early 2010s as a mental health and art therapy advocate after going public about her battles with alcoholism, drug addiction and compulsive gambling.

