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

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. Following her mother's advice, she attended the Conservatoire until 1990.

Career

She has also appeared in the television series ''Les Masques'', ''

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'', ''François en série'', ''Musée Eden'' and ''Mémoires vives'', and the films '' Congorama'', '' Monsieur Lazhar'', '' Tuktuq'', '' Fake Tattoos'', '' Les Salopes, or the Naturally Wanton Pleasure of Skin'', '' Before We Explode (Avant qu'on explose)'', '' Bootlegger'' and ''

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(Les Tortues)''. She directed the 2012 documentary film '' Over My Dead Body'', which was shortlisted for the Canadian Screen Award for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards in 2012. In 2016 she directed the show Luzia by

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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

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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

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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

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for her career. In 2022, she directed ''Jusqu’à ce qu’on meure'' for her company Transthéâtre in Montreal.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Poupart, Brigitte Canadian television actresses Canadian film actresses Canadian stage actresses Actresses from Quebec Living people Canadian documentary film directors Canadian women film directors Year of birth missing (living people) Best Supporting Actress Jutra and Iris Award winners Canadian women documentary filmmakers