- Born
- Height5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
- Award-winning Canadian actress Karine Vanasse is internationally recognized for her dazzling performances in both English and French.
Vanasse stars as Detective Lise Delorme in the critically acclaimed CTV series Cardinal for which she received a 2019 Canadian Screen Award for Best Lead Actress. Other notable television credits include the ABC series Revenge and Pan Am. She recently garnered two prix Gemeaux nominations and one prix Artis nomination for her role as Justine Laurier in Blue Moon. Vanasse has also appeared in the Quebecois television shows 30 Vies and 2 frères, as well as the mini-series Killer Wave, October 1970 and the TV movie Marie-Antoinette.
On the big screen, Vanasse widely known for her role as Valerie in Denis Villeneuve's, Polytechnique. She also served as producer and played a key role in the project's development. The film premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and went on to win nine Genie Awards including Best Picture, and to Vanasse for Best Female Performance.
Over the course of her career Vanasse has appeared over twenty feature films including lead roles in dramas All the Wrong Reasons, En Solitaire, Switch, the comedy French Immersion, the romantic-dramedy I'm Yours, as well as the short film Tomorrow's Shadows. Other credits include Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, the Quebec thriller Angle mort, Rhonda's Party, Andre Mathieu, Ma Fille Mon Ange, Sans Elle, Head in the Clouds, Un Homme et Son Peche, Du Pic Au Coeur and Lea Pool's Emporte-Moi. Vanasse's breakthrough performance in Emporte-Moi earned her a Chlotrudis Award, the Gala des Jutra Award, the Festival du film Francophone de Namur Award and the Filmcan Festival Award for Best Actress.
In 2017, Vanasse reunited with Pool for Et au pire, on se mariera and starred in De père en flic 2 which was Quebec's highest grossing film of the year. Most recently, she appeared in the Canadian feature film Trench 11 and French feature Malek.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Unknown
- ParentsRenee GamacheConrad Vanasse
- Was described as the perfect girl by the singer Corneille.
- (April 1, 2018) She has a son Clarence Harvey with her ex-boyfriend Hugues Harvey.
- Won a Jutra award, the Trudis award of the Chlotrudis Awards in Boston, the Bayard d'or for best actress at the Festival du Film Francophone de Namur, the best actress award at the FilmCan Festival and a jury mention at the Toronto International film festival for her role in Emporte-moi (1999)
- She began the preproduction of a movie on the 1989 events of the Polytechnique of Montreal with director Denis Villeneuve.
- Won a Jutra award and got a Genie nomination for her role of Donalda in Séraphin: un homme et son péché (2003).
- You can get a little bit distracted in Los Angeles because it's all about the industry all the time. You have to read about other things. You have to meet other people because it gets harder and harder to ignore it when it's all around you.
- I've been working with an artistic coach since 'Polytechnique', and she reminds me about why I started in this business. She asks me what I want to share with people, because it's good to be impressed with a performance, but in the end it's what you leave them with it really matters. It's not just about getting good reviews.
- I was always sure that I wouldn't be able to work in the States. I knew I had to work on my accent. That was one thing. And I was sure I didn't have the right look to get roles. But 'PanAm' really surprised me because it made me realize if you give the audience a great character, it's not about the look. It's about relating to someone every week.
- With every young actor from Montreal, it seems we're always looking for a new Roy Dupuis. Because he has that swagger and sexiness, while being manly but vulnerable and quiet. He doesn't do much, but what he does is very precise. The model for male actors in Quebec is Roy Dupuis.
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