Is environmental activist Cyril Dion related to Céline Dion?

Martin, Durand, Dubois, Petit… Certain surnames are very widespread in France, and on the other side of the Atlantic, more precisely in Quebec (Canada)it seems that it is the same with “Dion“. A surname that bears Canadian diva Celine Dion, but also other well-known personalities from the small and big screen.

As proof, in addition to the Quebec dancer Olivier Dion (

Dance with the stars
), the director and ecological activist Cyril Dion has the same last name as the interpreter of For you to love me again. However, the 45-year-old man from the Paris region (Poissy) is absolutely not from the same family as the latter.

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Cyril Dion, a figure of French ecology

The French discovered it in 2015 in the film Tomorrow. A documentary that Cyril Dion co-directed with the multi-awarded actress Mélanie Laurent… Visibility which the filmmaker immediately took advantage of to highlight the environmental movement which he previously co-founded with Pierre Rahbi: Colibris.

And for good reason, in addition to being a man of cinema, the former theater teacher has become one of the figures of the environmental movement. As proof, the day after the announcement made by the government on the subject of ecological planning during the last school year, Cyril Dion was quick to speak.

“If we had heard these measures 15 years ago, it would have been great. It would have been a way to begin to gradually decarbonize society. Now, we are no longer there, we have reached a stage where we are surpassing all the seasonal averages, one after the other, where potentially, we are in the process of exceeding 1.5°C, which we should not exceed between 2030 and 2035. So, we are in an absolute emergency situationhe warned on the set of 12/13 info.

L.Z.

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