Chantal Renaud

Born on August 26, 1946, Chantal Renaud is a French-Canadian scriptwriter, actress, and singer from Quebec who rose to fame with a series of hit singles in the late 1960s. After gaining notoriety as TV host on the CBC/Radio-Canada show Jeunesse Oblige between 1966 and 1967, she made her debut as a yé-yé singer with a version of Serge Gainsbourg's "Ne Dis Rien" that also featured Donald Lautrec. However, it was 1968's "Comme un Garçon," originally popularized by Sylvie Vartan, that cemented her popularity in French-speaking Canada. She followed this success with other light-hearted singles such as "Operation Vacances" (1969) and "Irresistiblement" (1969) before abandoning her music career altogether in the early 1970s to focus on other projects. In the following years, she appeared in the films L'Initiation (1970) and Finalement... (1971) and later relocated to France, where she gained prestige as a scriptwriter. Her resume includes the screenplay of the shows L'Homme à Tout Faire (1988), Une Maman Dans la Ville (1992), Leïla Née en France (1995), Un Cadeau, la Vie! (1998), and Fatou la Malienne (2001), for which she won a FIPA d'or and a Sept d'or. In 2004, she married the then-Parti Québécois leader and former Premier of Quebec Bernard Landry.