France Castel, née Bégin (born August 31, 1944) in Sherbrooke, Quebec) is a Canadian singer, actress and broadcaster.
[1] Castel began in the music business by recording an album, Toi et moi amoureux, as a duo with Jean Beaulne of Les Baronets.
For the next number of years, Castel recorded and performed mainly songs written by Christine Charbonneau, including "Du fil des aiguilles et du coton", "Château de sable", "Sur le pont", "Je le vois dans ma soupe", "Dominique", "Au fond de nous" and "L'amitié".
[4] In 1986, she played Marlene Dietrich in a production of Normand Mongeon and Roch Harvey's Le Phenonène M.[5] Her subsequent musical theatre roles included Betty Bird in Michel Tremblay's Demain matin, Montréal m'attend[6] and Janine in Marc Drouin and François Dompierre's I.
[12] In the 2000s, she became a radio and television host, beginning as cohost with France Beaudoin of the daytime talk show Deux filles le matin for TVA.