Monia Chokri
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.
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Movies (44)
Think Good
2026 · Gil
Momo 3000
2026 · Thanks
Love Me Tender
2025 · Sarah
Out of Love
2025 · Nicole
Love Letters
2025 · Nadia
Where Souls Go
2025 · Ève
Mercato
2025 · Lina
Room 999
2023 · Self
The Nature of Love
2023 · Françoise, Director, Screenplay
Falcon Lake
2022 · Violette
Babysitter
2022 · Nadine, Director
Résonance
2021
Jarvik
2019 · Louise
Poor Georges
2019 · Emma Maurin
A Brother’s Love
2019 · Editor, Executive Producer, Set Designer, Director, Screenplay
We Are Gold
2019 · Marianne
Sing Me Back Home
2019 · Jewell Stone
Before We Explode
2019 · Psy
Emma Peeters
2018 · Emma
L'appartement
2018
My Intelligent Comedy
2018 · Josie
Ravenous
2017 · Tania
A Taste of Ink
2017 · Julia
Heal the Living
2016 · Jeanne
Slurpee
2016
Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
2016 · Self
The Saver
2015 · Adoree
Endorphine
2015 · Simone's Mother
Yesterday, Today, Yesterday
2015
Puisqu'il le faut
2015 · Writer
Le Pédophile
2015 · Johanne
All Yours
2014 · Audrey
Entre chien et loup
2014
La trilogie du canard (Élise, Gédéon, Sofia)
2014
Gare du Nord
2013 · Joan
An Extraordinary Person
2013 · Director, Writer
Clemenceau
2012 · Charlotte Beauséjour
Laurence Anyways
2012 · Stéfanie Bellair
Nothing Else
2011
Heartbeats
2010 · Marie, Still Photographer
N.T.N.E
2009
Days of Darkness
2007 · Jeune femme arabe
Frédérique au centre
2007 · Frédérique
Untitled Monia Chokri Movie
· Director, Writer
TV shows (23)
Serge à Paris
2024
La semaine des 4 Julie
2020 · Self
Fragile
2019 · Camille Bachand
Bonsoir bonsoir!
2019 · Self
Cette année-là
2018 · Self
Rousseau's Show
2018 · Self
Dans les médias
2017 · Self
Y'a du monde à messe
2017 · Self
Sur-Vie
2017 · Véronique Dufaux
Quotidien
2016 · Self - Guest
Les échangistes
2016 · Self
Silence, on joue!
2015 · Self
Nouvelle adresse
2014 · Magalie Lapointe
À couteaux tirés
2014 · Self - Guest Judge
Mensonges
2014 · Fanny Caron
Deux hommes en or
2013 · Self
Le Tricheur
2012 · Self
Les Rescapés
2010 · Tanya
Mirador
2010 · Patricia Infirmière
Le Cercle
2005 · Self
Tout le monde en parle
2004 · Self
Sucré salé
2002 · Self
Télématin
1985 · Self - Guest