Monia Chokri
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
Credits
- 2024 · Mercato as
- 2023 · Room 999 as Self
- 2023 · The Nature of Love as Françoise
- 2022 · Falcon Lake as Violette
- 2022 · Babysitter as Nadine
- 2021 · Résonance as
- 2020 · La semaine des 4 Julie as Self
- 2019 · Fragile as Camille Bachand
- 2019 · Jarvik as Louise
- 2019 · Poor Georges as Emma Maurin
- 2019 · Bonsoir bonsoir! as Self
- 2019 · We Are Gold as Marianne
- 2019 · Sing Me Back Home as
- 2019 · Before We Explode as Psy
- 2018 · Emma Peeters as Emma
- 2018 · Cette année-là as Self
- 2018 · L'appartement as
- 2018 · Rousseau's Show as Self
- 2018 · My Intelligent Comedy as Josie
- 2017 · Ravenous as Tania
- 2017 · Dans les médias as Self
- 2017 · Y'a du monde à messe as Self
- 2017 · Sur-Vie as Véronique Dufaux
- 2017 · A Taste of Ink as Julia
- 2016 · Heal the Living as Jeanne
- 2016 · Slurpee as
- 2016 · Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible as Self
- 2016 · Les échangistes as Self
- 2015 · The Saver as Adoree
- 2015 · Endorphine as Simone's Mother
- 2015 · Silence, on joue! as Self
- 2015 · Yesterday, Today, Yesterday as
- 2015 · Le Pédophile as Johanne
- 2014 · All Yours as Audrey
- 2014 · Nouvelle adresse as Magalie Lapointe
- 2014 · À couteaux tirés as Self - Guest Judge
- 2014 · Entre chien et loup as
- 2014 · La trilogie du canard (Élise, Gédéon, Sofia) as
- 2014 · The Killer Inside as Fanny Caron
- 2013 · Deux hommes en or as Self
- 2013 · Gare du Nord as Joan
- 2012 · Clemenceau as Charlotte Beauséjour
- 2012 · Laurence Anyways as Stéfanie Bellair
- 2012 · Le Tricheur as Self
- 2011 · Nothing Else as
- 2010 · Heartbeats as Marie
- 2010 · Les Rescapés as Tanya
- 2010 · Mirador as Patricia Infirmière
- 2009 · En direct de l'univers as Self
- 2009 · N.T.N.E as
- 2007 · Days of Darkness as Jeune femme arabe
- 2007 · Frédérique au centre as Frédérique
- 2004 · Tout le monde en parle as Self
- 2002 · Sucré salé as Self
- 2024 · Des preuves d'amour as
- 2024 · Où vont les âmes? as
- 2024 · Love Me Tender as