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Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
Canadian actress, film director and screenwriter / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette (born 1979) is a Canadian novelist, film director, and screenwriter from Quebec. Her films are known for their "organic, participatory feel."[1] Barbeau-Lavalette is the daughter of filmmaker Manon Barbeau and cinematographer Philippe Lavalette, and the granddaughter of artist Marcel Barbeau.
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Born | 1979 (age 44–45) Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
Occupation(s) | Novelist, film director, screenwriter |
Parent(s) | Manon Barbeau Philippe Lavalette |
Relatives | Marcel Barbeau (paternal grandfather) |
Originally prominent as a child actor, her credits included the series Le Club des 100 Watts and À nous deux!. She later began making documentary films, including Les Petits princes des bidonvilles (2000), Buenos Aires, no llores (2001)[2] and Si j'avais un chapeau (2005),[3] before releasing her first feature film, The Ring, in 2007.[3] In 2010, she also published Je voudrais qu'on m'efface (translated as Neighbourhood Watch), a novel which revolves around some of the same characters as The Ring.[2] In 2015, her second novel, La femme qui fuit (translated as Suzanne), inspired by the life of her grandmother, artist Suzanne Meloche, was short-listed for the 2016 Governor General's Award for French-language fiction, in addition to winning a number of other prizes and being a best-seller.
Barbeau-Lavalette is best known to international audiences for her award-winning 2012 film Inch'Allah.