Marina Orsini
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Marina Orsini (born January 4, 1967 in Ville-Emard, Quebec) is a Quebec actress.
[edit] Background
Orsini had an extensive acting career starting in 1986 after a brief career in modeling in which she participating in a pageant contest in 1982. She already played her first major role in the popular TV series Lance et compte as Suzie Lambert, the sister of Pierre Lambert (played by Carl Marotte) a super-star hockey player from the fictional hockey club Le National de Quebec in the NHL. Orsini still played the same in the more recent editions of the TV series from 2001 to 2006 including La nouvelle generation, La reconquete and La revanche in which she became the wife of the club's head coach Marc Gagnon (played by Marc Messier).
Orsini also played in the popular Tele-Quebec series called Les Filles de Caleb in 1990. She also played in its follow-up called Blanche in 1993. She later met her current husband Serge Postigo during the filming of the TV series Urgence in 1996. Overall, in her 20-year acting career, she played in over 25 movies or TV series and she won Gemini awards in 1990 and 1991 for her roles in Les Filles de Caleb and L'or et le papier.
Orsini also started to play in theatrical plays with her first role in 1995 in the play Les Annees.
Orsini gave birth to a son in 2002 with husband Serge Postigo.
Since 1991, Orsini is the spokesperson for the Tel-Jeunes kids talk-help program. She is from italian background.
