Monia Chokri

Known for ActingBorn 1982-06-27 (age 43)Québec City, Québec, Canada

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Sucré salé

We Are Gold

Nouvelle adresse

Love Letters

Laurence Anyways

Y'a du monde à messe

Clemenceau

Fragile

The Nature of Love

Falcon Lake

Heartbeats

Out of Love

My Intelligent Comedy

Before We Explode

An Extraordinary Person

Love Me Tender

A Brother’s Love

Heal the Living

Days of Darkness

Ravenous

A Taste of Ink

Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible

The Saver

Mercato

Les Rescapés

Babysitter

Poor Georges

Emma Peeters

Room 999

Endorphine

All Yours

Gare du Nord

Le Tricheur

Sing Me Back Home

Mirador

Tout le monde en parle

Mensonges

Bonsoir bonsoir!

Silence, on joue!

Where Souls Go

La semaine des 4 Julie

Sur-Vie

Think Good

Momo 3000

Serge à Paris

Résonance

Jarvik

L'appartement