Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay (born July 27, 1990, in La Malbaie, Quebec), formerly credited as Gabrielle Tremblay, is a Canadian actress and writer, who received a Canadian Screen Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards for her performance as Klas Batalo in the 2016 film Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves (Ceux qui font les révolutions à moitié n'ont fait que se creuser un tombeau). [1]
She came out as transgender in 2012. She was the first transgender woman ever nominated for an acting award at the Canadian Screen Awards or their predecessor Genie Awards. [2] Those Who Make Revolution was her first feature film role, although she previously appeared in short films and documentaries.
Her poetry collection Le ventre des volcans was published by Les Éditions de l'étoile de mer in 2015. [3]
In 2021 she published the autobiographical novel La fille d'elle-même. [4] Dandelion Daughter, an English translation of the novel by Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch, was published by Esplanade Books in 2023, [5] and was a finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT literature in 2024.
Laurence Charlotte Leboeuf is a Canadian actress.
Gabrielle is a 2013 Canadian drama film directed by Louise Archambault and starring Gabrielle Marion-Rivard as Gabrielle, a young woman with Williams syndrome who participates in a choir of developmentally disabled adults, and begins a romantic relationship with her choirmate Martin. It features a cast from a real choir for people with disabilities, with Marion-Rivard being an actress who actually has Williams syndrome.
Our Loved Ones is a 2015 Canadian drama film, directed by Anne Émond and starring Maxim Gaudette and Karelle Tremblay. The story centres on a family whose patriarch committed suicide in 1978, and explores the continuing emotional impact of his death on his now-adult son David (Gaudette) and David's daughter Laurence (Tremblay).
Karelle Tremblay is a Canadian film and television actress from Quebec. Tremblay received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Actress at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards in 2016 for Our Loved Ones .
Christine Beaulieu is a Canadian actress and playwright from Quebec.
Mylène Mackay is a Canadian actress. She received a Canadian Screen Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards for her performance in Endorphine. In 2016, she appeared as Nelly Arcan in Anne Émond's film Nelly, and as Marguerite in André Forcier's film Kiss Me Like a Lover .
Nelly is a 2016 Canadian biographical-drama film directed by Anne Émond and starring Mylène Mackay as Nelly Arcan, an award-winning Canadian author and former sex worker who committed suicide in 2009. The film is based on some of Arcan's own writings, including her book Putain.
Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves is a 2016 Canadian drama film directed by Mathieu Denis and Simon Lavoie. It stars Charlotte Aubin, Laurent Bélanger, Emmanuelle Lussier-Martinez and Gabrielle Tremblay as four young people, veterans of the 2012 Quebec student protests, who have been disillusioned by the failure of their past activism to effect meaningful social change and now engage in small-scale public vandalism.
Simon Lavoie is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec. He is best known as codirector with Mathieu Denis of Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves , which won the award for Best Canadian Film at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival and garnered several Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017, including for Best Picture and Best Director.
The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches is a 2017 Canadian drama film directed by Simon Lavoie and starring Marine Johnson, Antoine L'Écuyer and Jean-François Casabonne. Lavoie also wrote the screenplay. An adaptation of Gaétan Soucy's novel of the same name, the film centres on Alice Soissons, a girl raised to believe she is a boy, who lives in with her father and brother in oppressive and secluded conditions. When her father dies, she ventures into the village, where outsiders tell her she is female, and she fears the family home is now under threat.
It's the Heart That Dies Last is a Canadian drama film, directed by Alexis Durand-Brault and released in 2017.
Marine Johnson is a Canadian actress from Quebec. She is most noted for her performance in the 2017 film The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches , for which she received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Actress at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards, and a Prix Iris nomination for Revelation of the Year at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards.
Québec Cinéma presents an annual award for Best Actress to recognize the best in the Cinema of Quebec.
Émilie Bierre is a French-Canadian actress from Quebec. She is most noted for her performance in the film A Colony , for which she won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Actress at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019.
Québec Cinéma presents an annual award for Best Supporting Actress to recognize the best in the Cinema of Quebec.
Tadoussac is a Canadian drama film, directed by Martin Laroche and released in 2017. The film stars Camille Mongeau as Chloé, an unhappy young woman from Montreal who abandons her urban life and travels to the small town of Tadoussac, where she befriends Myriam, a local tour guide who is battling emotional demons of her own. The cast also includes Isabelle Boivin, Serge Boulianne and Juliette Gosselin.
Sylvie Drapeau is a Canadian actress and writer from Baie-Comeau, Quebec.
Frédérique Paré is a Canadian actress from Saint-Denis-de-Brompton, Quebec. She is most noted for her role as Manu in the 2012 film Catimini, for which she received a Jutra Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 16th Jutra Awards in 2014.
Maxime Le Flaguais is the stage name of Maxime Côté, a Canadian actor known for his leading television role as Alexis Labranche in the 2016-21 drama series Les Pays d'en haut and his performance in the 2022 film Rodeo (Rodéo).
Making Babies is a Canadian short comedy-drama film, directed by Éric K. Boulianne and released in 2023. The film stars Boulianne and Florence Blain Mbaye as a couple who aspire to have their first child together but are facing fertility difficulties.