Known For
Acting
Born
Jun 27, 1982
Place of Birth
Québec City, Québec, Canada
Credits
67 titles
Monia Chokri
Biography
Monia Chokri (born June 27, 1982) 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
Filmography
Think Good
Gil
Momo 3000
Thanks
Love Me Tender
Sarah
Out of Love
Nicole
Love Letters
Nadia
Where Souls Go
Ève
Mercato
Lina
Serge à Paris
Room 999
Self
The Nature of Love
Françoise
Falcon Lake
Violette
Babysitter
Nadine
Résonance
La semaine des 4 Julie
Self
Fragile
Camille Bachand
Jarvik
Louise
Poor Georges
Emma Maurin
A Brother’s Love
Editor
Bonsoir bonsoir!
Self
We Are Gold
Marianne
Sing Me Back Home
Jewell Stone
Before We Explode
Psy
Emma Peeters
Emma
Cette année-là
Self
L'appartement
Rousseau's Show
Self
My Intelligent Comedy
Josie
Ravenous
Tania
Dans les médias
Self
Y'a du monde à messe
Self
Sur-Vie
Véronique Dufaux
A Taste of Ink
Julia
Heal the Living
Jeanne
Slurpee
Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
Self
Quotidien
Self - Guest
Les échangistes
Self
The Saver
Adoree
Endorphine
Simone's Mother
Silence, on joue!
Self
Yesterday, Today, Yesterday
Puisqu'il le faut
Writer
Le Pédophile
Johanne
All Yours
Audrey
Nouvelle adresse
Magalie Lapointe
À couteaux tirés
Self - Guest Judge
Entre chien et loup
La trilogie du canard (Élise, Gédéon, Sofia)
Mensonges
Fanny Caron
Deux hommes en or
Self