François Barbeau

Personal Info

Know For

Costume & Make-Up

Gender

Male

Birthday

1935-07-27 (81 years old)

Deathday

2016-01-28

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...

Acting

1975

Eliza's Horoscope

as Winter Tramp

Production

1998

The Second Arrival

as Costume Design

2004

Battle of the Brave

as Costume Design

1992

Léolo

as Costume Design

1975

Lies My Father Told Me

as Art Direction

1975

Lies My Father Told Me

as Costume Design

1984

Le Tartuffe

as Costume Design

2001

Cirque du Soleil: Dralion

as Costume Design

1997

Twists of Terror

as Costume Design

1980

Atlantic City

as Costume Design

1997

Afterglow

as Costume Design

2016

It's Only the End of the World

as Costume Consultant

2012

Laurence Anyways

as Costume Design

1973

Kamouraska

as Art Direction

2014

Mommy

as Costume Design

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