 Born in the Tétraultville district of Montreal, she began her career as a radio and stage actress in the 1930s.Her most prominent early roles were in the radio adaptation of Claude-Henri Grignon's "Un homme et son péché" and in Gratien Gélinas's comedy revue "Fridolinades".With the rise of television in the early 1950s, she appeared in the original television version of "The Plouffe Family" and in "14, rue de Galais", as well as in films such as "Amanita Pestilens", "The Luck of Ginger Coffey" and "Je suis loin de toi mignonne".