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Véronique Béliveau

Canadian actor and singer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ3375546 ↗
Source-derived summary

Véronique Béliveau (born January 24, 1955), originally Nicole Monique, is a Canadian actress and pop/rock singer who was nominated for a 1987 Juno Award for Female Vocalist of the Year. Her first full-length album was Prends-moi comme je suis in 1977. Her first English language album was Borderline in 1987, which was released under the single name Veronique. In 1985, she was one of a group of Canadian singers to make "Tears Are Not Enough" to raise funds to fight famine in Ethiopia. One of her high-profile performances was in the opening Gala for Expo 86.

Though mainly known as a singer, she was also an actress, appearing in the 1976 film Let's Talk About Love (Parlez-nous d'amour). Béliveau also appeared in a number of TV commercials for Simpsons.

Editorial summary

“Véronique Béliveau” enters the record as canadian actor and singer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Véronique, Béliveau and Canadian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1955, 1987, 1977, 1985—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1955-01-24. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Véronique, Béliveau and Canadian.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Véronique Béliveau” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Véronique, Béliveau and Canadian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 26, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3375546. VIAF identifies the subject as 60744206. The Library of Congress control number is n92091475. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1955, 1987, 1977 and 1985.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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This entry incorporates text from “Véronique Béliveau” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.