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Monia Chokri

Born · June 27, 1975 (49 years old)

Known For: Acting

Place of Birth: Québec City, Québec, Canada

Bio

Monia Chokri (born 27 June 1982; Québec) is a Canadian actress and film director. Born in Quebec City in 1982, she began her acting career after she completed her studies at Montreal's Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in 2005. Her mother is of Scottish origin through Scandinavian ancestors, while her father is descended from Tunisian Berber roots. In addition to having played in several theatre productions in Montreal, she has received notable roles in films presented at the Cannes Film Festival directed by Québécois filmmakers who are better known outside of Canada, namely Denys Arcand and Xavier Dolan. In Heartbeats, she played Marie, a young woman who falls in love with the same man as her gay male best friend Francis, played by Dolan, who also directed. The quality of her acting has been noted by critics, notably in Les Inrockuptibles and Le Monde. At the end of 2010, the readers of Les Inrockuptibles named her #4 on their list of the top actresses of the year for her performance in Heartbeats. Her debut as a director, the short film An Extraordinary Person (Quelqu'un d'extraordinaire), was released in 2013 and won the Prix Jutra for Best Short Film at the 16th Jutra Awards. Her feature debut, A Brother's Love (La femme de mon frère), premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. Babysitter, in which she was both the director and an actor, was released in 2022. She received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Lead Performance in a Film at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023.

Known for

Heartbeats

Heartbeats

Laurence Anyways

Laurence Anyways

Ravenous

Ravenous

Heal the Living

Heal the Living

Les enfants vont bien

Nicole

2025

Love Me Tender

Sarah

2025

Love Letters

Nadia Hamadi

2025

Mercato

Lina

2025

Serge à Paris

(1 episode)

2024

Room 999

Self

2023

The Nature of Love

Françoise

2023

Falcon Lake

Violette

2022

Babysitter

Nadine

2022

Résonance

2021

La semaine des 4 Julie

Self · (1 episode)

2020

Fragile

Camille Bachand · (10 episodes)

2019

Jarvik

Louise

2019

Poor Georges

Emma Maurin

2019

Bonsoir bonsoir!

Self · (2 episodes)

2019

We Are Gold

Marianne

2019

Sing Me Back Home

2019

Before We Explode

Psy

2019

Emma Peeters

Emma

2018

Cette année-là

Self · (1 episode)

2018

L'appartement

2018

Rousseau's Show

Self · (1 episode)

2018

My Intelligent Comedy

Josie

2018

Ravenous

Tania

2017

Dans les médias

Self · (1 episode)

2017

Y'a du monde à messe

Self · (1 episode)

2017

Sur-Vie

Véronique Dufaux · (6 episodes)

2017

A Taste of Ink

Julia

2017

Heal the Living

Jeanne

2016

Slurpee

2016

Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible

Self

2016

Les échangistes

Self · (1 episode)

2016

The Saver

Adoree

2015

Endorphine

Simone's Mother

2015

Silence, on joue!

Self · (5 episodes)

2015

Yesterday, Today, Yesterday

2015

Le Pédophile

Johanne

2015

All Yours

Audrey

2014

Nouvelle adresse

Magalie Lapointe · (2 episodes)

2014

À couteaux tirés

Self - Guest Judge · (1 episode)

2014

Entre chien et loup

2014

La trilogie du canard (Élise, Gédéon, Sofia)

2014

Mensonges

Fanny Caron · (1 episode)

2014

Deux hommes en or

Self · (1 episode)

2013

Gare du Nord

Joan

2013

Clemenceau

Charlotte Beauséjour

2012

Laurence Anyways

Stéfanie Bellair

2012

Le Tricheur

Self · (5 episodes)

2012

Nothing Else

2011

Heartbeats

Marie

2010

Les Rescapés

Tanya · (3 episodes)

2010

Mirador

Patricia Infirmière · (6 episodes)

2010

N.T.N.E

2009

Days of Darkness

Jeune femme arabe

2007

Frédérique au centre

Frédérique

2007

Où vont les âmes?

Si tu penses bien

Le Cercle

Self · (1 episode)

2005

Tout le monde en parle

Self · (3 episodes)

2004

Sucré salé

Self · (2 episodes)

2002