Janine Sutto

Janine Sutto, CC CQ (20 April 1921 – 28 March 2017) was a Quebec actress and comedian.

Career

Born in Paris to Léopold Sutto and Renée Mamert, she emigrated to Canada in the 1930s with her family settling in Montreal. "An icon of Quebec television, she has appeared in some 70 series and dramas, notably Les Belles Histoires des pays d'en haut, Joie de vivre, Septième nord, Symphorien, and Poivre et sel.

Selected film roles include Astataïon ou Le Festin des morts (1965), Kamouraska (1973), Congorama (2005), La Capture (2006), and Route 132 (2010)."

Her biography, titled Vivre avec le destin (Living with Destiny), written by her son-in-law Jean-François Lépine, was published in 2010.

Sutto died in Montreal in March 2017 at age 95, as reported by Lépine.

Honours

In 1986 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 1991. In 1998, she was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec. In May 2014, Sutto received a Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement for her contribution to Canadian theatre.