Guest in the show “A Sunday in the Country” on January 5, 2025, Michel Fugain is the grandfather of two boys, Elliot and Sam, fruits of the love of his eldest daughter Marie and her ex-husband Richard. A man who had huge success in an iconic musical known around the world.
Divorced from singer Richard Charest, Marie Fugain had two children with him: Elliot born in March 2003 and Sam born in 2006. The daughter of singer Michel Fugain and Stéphanie lived with him in Quebec before finally leaving him in 2017 and returning In France. In France, the singer also had a good career since he played the poet Gringoire in the revival of the musical Notre-Dame of Paris and even sang the legendary title The time of the cathedrals. During his career, Richard Charest also played the role of Paul Verlaine on stage and played in the show Rabbi Jacobdirected by Patrick Timsit in 2008. The following year, he created his very first theatrical creation Seventeen times Maximilian.
Richard Charest now plays in Montreal
Currently, Richard Charest is playing in the musical comedy Dashing Cowboys as he indicated on his Instagram account. He plays the character of Jonathan Doyer, an insurance broker who “has an ex-wife who is angry with him and the children every other week“. “We think it only happens to other people… But when it happens to us, we congratulate ourselves for having trusted Jonathan Doyer, an insurance broker…“, writes Marie Fugain’s ex-husband in the caption of a photo from the musical.
Interviewed by 7 Days TVMarie Fugain had confided that her divorce was for her a way of “start from scratch“. The one who campaigns for donations of blood, platelets, plasma or bone marrow for leukemia patients (she lost her sister Laurette in 2002 to leukemia) also returned to the stage upon her return to France.
She played in the plays Bouquet final by Vincent Azé and Raphaël Pottier, The Blue Camel by Pierre Sauvil, but also A friendly advice by Didier Caron in 2022 and 2023. Alexis’ sister also appeared in the series Commissioner Magellan, H24, Alice Nevers or even Josephine guardian angel.
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