the Bourget by-election as a Parti Québécois candidate with 40% of the vote. With the election of the Parti Québécois on September 4, 2012, Kotto became Minister of Culture and Communications. Kotto was re-elected in the 2014 Quebec election with a smaller margin, but the Parti Québécois government of Pauline Marois was defeated and Kotto became a member of the Official Opposition caucus. He was defeated in the 2018 election. Personal life Kotto is the husband of former Longueuil mayor and Bloc Québécois caucus colleague Caroline St-Hilaire, and is the father of four children. Selected filmography How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired (Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer) - 1989 Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea - 1995 Beaumarchais - 1996 Lumumba - 2000 On Your Head (Le Ciel sur la tête) - 2001 A Silent Love - 2004 Looking for Alexander (Mémoires affectives) - 2004 On the Verge of a Fever (Le Goût des jeunes filles) - 2004 How to Conquer America in One Night (Comment conquérir l'Amérique en une nuit) - 2004 Zim and Co. - 2005 A Sunday in Kigali (Un dimanche à Kigali) - 2006 Electoral record |- |- |- |No designation |Yannick Duguay |align="right"|121 |align="right"|0.45 |align="right"|– |} Books Kotto, Maka. Femme : libre exaltation poétique. Outremont, Québec: Lanctôt, 2002. 93 p.; 21 cm. (Series: J'aime la poésie 12e) References External links House of Commons of Canada: Maka Kotto 1961 births Black Canadian male actors Black Canadian politicians Bloc Québécois MPs Canadian poets in French Cameroonian emigrants to Canada Francophone Quebec people Living people Male actors from Montreal Members of the Executive Council of Quebec Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec Naturalized citizens of Canada Parti Québécois MNAs Politicians from Montreal Canadian actor-politicians People from Douala People from Saint-Quentin, Aisne 21st-century Canadian poets Writers from Montreal Black Canadian writers Canadian male poets 21st-century Canadian politicians Canadian male film actors Canadian male television actors 21st-century Canadian male writers Quebecor people