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Jocelyne LaGarde (1924 – 1979) was a Native Tahitian actress who became famous for her first and only acting role in the 1966 motion picture, Hawaii, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She was the first Polynesian and first Indigenous person ever nominated for an Academy Award. LaGarde remains to date the only actor ever nominated for an Academy Award for her only film appearance. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association voted her the winner of their Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Jocelyne Saab (1948 – 2019) was a Lebanese journalist and film director. She is recognized as one of the pioneers of Lebanese cinema. A reporter, photographer, scriptwriter, producer, director, artist and founder of the Cultural Resistance International Film Festival of Lebanon, Saab focused on the deprived and disadvantaged – from displaced peoples to exiled fighters, cities at war and a Fourth World without a voice. Her work is grounded in historic violence, and in an awareness of the actions and images required to document, reflect on and counteract it.
Jocelyne Dakhlia is a French historian and anthropologist. A director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, her work is concerned principally with the political and cultural history of Islam in the Maghreb countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea.
Jocelyne Loewen is a Canadian voice actress. She is notable for voicing Penny Ling in Littlest Pet Shop and Penelope in the English dub of Hamtaro.
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The name Jocelyne was given to 70 baby girls born in the US in 2012.
I noticed this name yesterday on the credits for a broadcast on the France24 television channel. I think it's lovely and would work as a spelling in English, though people would have to be educated to say "leen" not "line".

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