Florence Blain Mbaye

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Florence Blain Mbaye, sometimes credited as Florence Blain, is a Canadian actress, singer and dancer. [1] She is most noted for her role in the 2013 film Another House (L'autre maison), [2] for which she garnered a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards. [3]

Her other film roles have included Waiting for April (En attendant avril), There Are No False Undertakings (Il n'y a pas de faux métier), Bungalow , This House (Cette maison), Invincible , Ireland Blue Book (Irlande cahier bleu) and Making Babies (Faire un enfant). She has also had roles in television and theatre, [4] and is an oboist and singer who has performed with the UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra, the Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España, Les Violons du Roy, the Metropolitan Orchestra of Montreal, Philippe B and Avec pas d'casque, among others.

She was one of the narrators of the 2021 animated documentary film Archipelago (Archipel). [5]

She received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Performance in a Live Action Short Drama at the 12th Canadian Screen Awards in 2024, for Making Babies. [6]

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