
Monia Chokri
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1975-06-27 (49 years old)
Place of Birth
Québec City, Québec, Canada
Monia Chokri
Biography
Monia Chokri (born 27 June 1982; Québec) 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.
Acting
Les enfants vont bien
as Nicole
(2025)
Mercato
as Lina
(2025)
Love Me Tender
as Sarah
(2025)
Love Letters
as Nadia
(2023)
The Nature of Love
as Françoise
(2023)
Room 999
as Self
(2022)
Falcon Lake
as Violette
(2022)
Babysitter
as Nadine
(2021)
(2019)
Poor Georges
as Emma Maurin
(2019)
We Are Gold
as Marianne
(2019)
(2019)
Before We Explode
as Psy
(2019)
Jarvik
as Louise
(2018)
Emma Peeters
as Emma
(2018)
My Intelligent Comedy
as Josie
(2018)
(2017)
Ravenous
as Tania
(2017)
A Taste of Ink
as Julia
(2016)
Heal the Living
as Jeanne
(2016)
(2016)
(2015)
Endorphine
as Simone's Mother
(2015)
Le Pédophile
as Johanne
(2015)
The Saver
as Adoree
(2015)
(2014)
All Yours
as Audrey
(2014)
(2014)
(2013)
Gare du Nord
as Joan
(2012)
Laurence Anyways
as Stéfanie Bellair
(2012)
Clemenceau
as Charlotte Beauséjour
(2011)
(2010)
Heartbeats
as Marie
(2009)
(2007)
Days of Darkness
as Jeune femme arabe
(2007)
Frédérique au centre
as Frédérique
Crew
(2023)
The Nature of Love
Director, Writer
(2022)
Babysitter
Director
(2019)
A Brother’s Love
Editor, Executive Producer, Set Designer, Writer, Director
(2015)
Puisqu'il le faut
Writer
(2013)
An Extraordinary Person
Director, Writer
(2010)
Heartbeats
Still Photographer