François Barbeau

Personal Info

Known For Costume & Make-Up

Gender Male

Birthday 1935-07-27

Deathday 2016-01-28 (80 years old)

Place of Birth Montréal, Québec, Canada

François Barbeau

Biography

François Barbeau CM (July 27, 1935 – January 28, 2016) was an award-winning Canadian costume designer. He was a professor at the National Theatre School of Canada and the Université du Québec à Montréal who worked on over 700 productions in Quebec and around the world. After taking sewing in high school, he began his career in the 1950s at the theatre The Caravan of Paul Buissonneau. He afterwards worked as a designer at the Théâtre du Rideau Vert. Among the films he worked on are Léolo (1992), for which he won the Genie Award for Best Costume Design, and Laurence Anyways (2012), sharing the Genie with Xavier Dolan. In film, Barbeau mentored fellow-costume designer and Genie winner Louise Jobin. In 1996, he received the Governor General's Award, and in 2000 he joined the Order of Canada. He died on January 28, 2016. Dolan's 2016 film It's Only the End of the World is dedicated to him. Source: Article "François Barbeau" de Wikipédia en français, soumis à la licence CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For

Costume & Make-Up

2016
It's Only the End of the World

as Costume Consultant

2014
Mommy

as Costume Design

2012
Laurence Anyways

as Costume Design

2004
Battle of the Brave

as Costume Design

2001
Cirque du Soleil: Dralion

as Costume Design

1998
The Second Arrival

as Costume Design

1997
Twists of Terror

as Costume Design

1997
Afterglow

as Costume Design

1992
Léolo

as Costume Design

1984
Le Tartuffe

as Costume Design

1980
Atlantic City

as Costume Design

1975
Lies My Father Told Me

as Costume Design

Art

1975
Lies My Father Told Me

as Art Direction

1973
Kamouraska

as Art Direction

Crew

2016

Actor

1975
Eliza's Horoscope

as Winter Tramp