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Monia Chokri

1975-06-27

The Biography

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.

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The Nature of Love

7.3 average rating
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Laurence Anyways

7.649 average rating
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Ravenous

5.928 average rating
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Heal the Living

6.5 average rating
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Heartbeats

7.122 average rating
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Falcon Lake

6.9 average rating
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Babysitter

5.9 average rating
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Days of Darkness

6.4 average rating
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Poor Georges

5.8 average rating
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Room 999

6 average rating
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Mercato

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The Saver

6 average rating
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All Yours

5.4 average rating
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Emma Peeters

6 average rating
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A Taste of Ink

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Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible

6 average rating
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Des preuves d'amour

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Endorphine

5.6 average rating
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Gare du Nord

5 average rating
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Les enfants vont bien

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