Hélène Florent is a

Canadian Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...

film and television actress. Her roles have included the television series ''

Les Invincibles ''Les Invincibles'' is a comedy/drama television series from Radio-Canada produced by Casablanca Productions and Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm. The story is about four men in their early thirties signing a pact ordaining the simultaneous break-up o ...

'', ''Toute la vérité'', ''La galère'', and the 2000s revival of ''

Lance et compte ''He Shoots, He Scores'' (french: Lance et compte) is a Canadian ''téléroman'', or television drama series, revolving around a fictional ice hockey team based in Quebec City. The series aired from 1986 to 1989 on the Radio-Canada network, and re ...

'', as well as the films ''

Yellowknife Yellowknife (; Dogrib: ) is the capital, largest community, and only city in the Northwest Territories, Canada. It is on the northern shore of Great Slave Lake, about south of the Arctic Circle, on the west side of Yellowknife Bay near the ...

'', '' Familia'', '' Life with My Father (La Vie avec mon père)'' and ''

Café de Flore The Café de Flore () is one of the oldest coffeehouses in Paris, celebrated for its famous clientele, which in the past included high-profile writers and philosophers. It is located at the corner of Boulevard Saint-Germain and Rue Saint-Benoî ...

''. She garnered a

Genie Award The Genie Awards were given out annually by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to recognize the best of Canadian cinema from 1980–2012. They succeeded the Canadian Film Awards (1949–1978; also known as the "Etrog Awards," for scu ...

nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the

32nd Genie Awards The 32nd Genie Awards ceremony was held on March 8, 2012 to honour films released in 2011.

for her performance in ''Café de Flore''. That film also got her nominated for a Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2012. At the

24th Quebec Cinema Awards The 24th Quebec Cinema Awards were held on June 5, 2022, to honour achievements in the Cinema of Quebec in 2021. The ceremony was hosted by actress Geneviève Schmidt. Actress Hélène Florent won both Best Actress for ''Drunken Birds (Les Oisea ...

in 2022 she won both

Best Actress Best Actress is the name of an award which is presented by various film, television and theatre organisations, festivals, and people's awards to leading actresses in a film, television series, television film or play. The first Best Actress awar ...

for ''

Drunken Birds ''Drunken Birds'' (french: Les Oiseaux ivres) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Ivan Grbovic and released in 2021. The film stars Jorge Antonio Guerrero as Willy, a Mexican drug runner in a crime cartel who travels to Canada in search of his ...

(Les Oiseaux ivres)'' and Best Supporting Actress for ''

Maria Chapdelaine ''Maria Chapdelaine'' is a romance novel written in 1913 by the Breton writer Louis Hémon, who was then residing in Quebec.Guy Laflèche. Polémiques'. Editions du Singulier; 1992. . p. 126 – 128. Aimed at young French and Quebecois people ...

'', becoming the first actress in the history of the awards to win both categories in the same year.François Lévesque
"Hélène Florent aux oiseaux au Gala Québec Cinéma"
''

Le Devoir ''Le Devoir'' (, "Duty") is a French-language newspaper published in Montreal and distributed in Quebec and throughout Canada. It was founded by journalist and politician Henri Bourassa in 1910. ''Le Devoir'' is one of few independent large-c ...

'', June 5, 2022.

Selected filmography

*'' Blind Spot (Lucidité passagère)'' - 2009 *''

Sarah Prefers to Run ''Sarah Prefers to Run'' (french: Sarah préfère la course) is a 2013 Canadian drama film written and directed by Chloé Robichaud. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. It won the Women in Film & Te ...

(Sarah préfère la course)'' - 2013 *''

'' - 2021 *''

(Les Oiseaux ivres)'' - 2021

References

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* Canadian film actresses Canadian television actresses Actresses from Quebec Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Canadian actresses Best Actress Jutra and Iris Award winners Best Supporting Actress Jutra and Iris Award winners {{Canada-actor-stub