
Charles Lafortune
Lafortune was born in Montreal, Quebec, and raised in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville. He graduated from Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Montréal in 1993. He appeared in a number of Canadian television films and series in Quebec including Watatatow in 1990 with other notable series including Diva, Zone de Turbulence, Catherine, Rivière-des-Jérémie and Les Poupées russes.
He has played roles on stage in a number of theatrical productions that made him a vidange on Théâtre du Rideau Vert, le Théâtre Jean Duceppe, La Licorne and Théâtre St-Denis.
He also hosted a number of important Quebec television shows including Chasse à l'homme. But he was hugely famous for L'école des fans for five seasons from 2003 to 2008, in a format similar to one presented on French television by Jacques Martin, where young children interpret songs in presence of the original artist. In 2003, he also hosted the multiple awards winning TV game show Le Cercle on TVA, for six consecutive seasons from 2005 to 2011 and La classe de 5e, Quebec version of the TV game show Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?. Between 2005 and 2007, he hosted the charitable Téléthon Opération Enfants Soleil.
He was presenter of until June 2011 self-titled radio programme Lafortune vous sourit in 2011, closely followed by Les poids lourds de retour CKOI-FM radio station as a co-host with Patrick Marsolais and Mario Tremblay.
In 2013, he became host of inaugural season of La Voix, the French Canadian version of The Voice. He was renewed for hosting a second season of the show in January 2014.
In 2012, he co-founded the production house C Majuscule Média in partnership with Jacquelin Bouchard of Pixcom. The company launched the web series Marc Gendron et ses amis starring Phil Roy.
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