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My Take
Anne Dorval is an actress I would sit upright to watch. Appearing in five of Xavier Dolan's films alone earns my full attention, and her mother in Mommy, where ferocious love and exhaustion collide in the same breath, is the kind of performance you never shake off. If anyone deserves the word muse, it is her. Five Gémeaux Awards confirm she gives the same intensity to stage, screen and television without holding back. From a small northern Quebec town she became a defining face of the province's culture. The performers who lay their whole emotional self bare are the ones I find most frightening, and most beloved.
Overview
Anne Dorval (French pronunciation: [an dɔʁval]; born November 8, 1960) is a French Canadian television, stage, and film actress. She is known for her work with Xavier Dolan that includes appearing in five of his films, I Killed My Mother (2009), Heartbeats (2010), Laurence Anyways (2012), Mommy (2014) and Matthias & Maxime (2019). She has won five Gémeaux Awards for her work on television.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Anne Dorval
- Name (Japanese)
- アンヌ・ドルヴァル
- Reading
- あんぬ・どるゔぁる
- Born
- November 8, 1960 (age 65)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Scorpio / Rat
- Origin
- Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Canada
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / film actor / stage actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.