Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia
Reinhardt, Adèle
Quebec-based actor, Adèle Reinhardt graduated in 1981 from Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Montreal.
She first drew attention for her masterful improvisation on a team in the Ligue Nationale d’Improvisation in 1980. A few years later she was singled out for her performance in the Théâtre de Quat'Sous revival of Aurore, l'enfant martyre, a Quebecois tragedy written in 1921 by Henri Rollin et Léon Petitjean (dir. René Richard Cyr).
Since then, she has in the Compagnie Jean-Duceppe production of Les Belles-soeurs (directed by Denise Filiatrault); the Espace Go's Les Bonnes/The Maids (directed by René Richard Cyr); and the Just For Laughs production of Dîner des cons (also directed by Filiatrault). She has also been seen in the works of Claude Poissant and Réjean Ducharme.
In April, 1999, she performed in English as Madame Brouillette in the Canadian Stage production of Les Belles-soeurs, directed by Filiatrault (for which she was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award); in the premiere of Serge Boucher's 24 poses at Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui, directed by René Richard Cyr (November, 1999); and in the Compagnie Jean-Duceppe production of La chatte sur un toit brûlant/Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (April, 2000). More recently, she acted in Le bizarre incident du chien pendant la nuit in 2018; and in Chansons pour filles et garçons perdus!, a collage of poetry and songs evoking memories of childhood, by Loui Mauffette (Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui, dir. Bernard Landry, 2019).
Adèle Reinhardt is also active on Quebec's summer theatre circuit, on television, and in film.
Profile by Gaetan Charlebois. Updated by Anne Nothof.
Last updated 2021-08-31
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