Brigitte Poupart is a Canadian actress and filmmaker. She is most noted for her performance in the film '' Ravenous'' (''Les Affamés'') and for directing the 2012 film '' Over My Dead Body.''
Early life
Poupart was accepted both to law school and the
Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Montréal The Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Montréal is a Canadian government-funded dramatic school founded in 1954. The first director was Jan Doat. He was succeeded by Jean Valcourt in 1955 on the condition that a branch also be opened in Quebec Cit ...
. Following her mother's advice, she attended the Conservatoire until 1990.
Career
She has also appeared in the television series ''Les Masques'', ''
Catherine
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'', ''François en série'', ''Musée Eden'' and ''Mémoires vives'', and the films ''
Congorama
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Plot
Michel is a Belgian inventor. He cares for his father, a paralysed writer, is married to a Congolese woman and is the father of an interraci ...
'', ''
Monsieur Lazhar
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'', ''
Tuktuq
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'', ''
Fake Tattoos
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Before We Explode
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1st Canadian Screen Awards
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Cirque du Soleil
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. She was the first Canadian woman to direct a Cirque du Soleil show.
Poupart appeared in the film '' Ravenous'' (''Les Affamés''), for which she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the
6th Canadian Screen Awards
The 6th annual Canadian Screen Awards were held on March 11, 2018, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television, and digital media production in 2017.
in 2018. She was also awarded meilleure interprétation féminine dans un rôle de soutien (best supporting actress) at the 2018 Gala Québec Cinéma,
In 2018, she appeared in the movie ''Les salopes ou le sucre naturel de la peau.'' She was nominated but ultimately lost the
Canadian Screen Award
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for actress in a leading role for her work on the film. The same year, she was honoured by Association Femmes Monde à Paris and the
Académie des lettres du Québec The Académie des lettres du Québec is a national academy for Quebec writers.
It was founded as the Académie canadienne-française in 1944 by Victor Barbeau and a group of writers. In 1992 it changed its name to the Académie des lettres du Qué ...
for her career.
In 2022, she directed ''Jusqu’à ce qu’on meure'' for her company Transthéâtre in Montreal.