Biography
Monia Chokri (born 27 June 1982; Québec) is a Canadian actress and film director. Born in Quebec City in 1982, she began her acting career after she completed her studies at Montreal's Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in 2005. Her mother is of Scottish origin through Scandinavian ancestors, while her father is descended from Tunisian Berber roots. In addition to having played in several theatre productions in Montreal, she has received notable roles in films presented at the Cannes Film Festival d...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Out of Love
2025
as Nicole
After many years, Suzanne and her two children unexpectedly show up at the home of her sister Jeanne. It initially looks like Suzanne is tentatively a...

Love Letters
2025
as Nadia Hamadi
Céline is expecting her firstborn. But she’s not the one who’s pregnant. In three months, her wife Nadia will give birth to their daughter. Under the ...

Love Me Tender
2025
as Sarah
At the end of summer, Clémence tells her ex-husband that she’s had relationships with women. Her life is turned upside down when he files to strip her...

Mercato
2025
as Lina
Mercato takes us behind the scenes of today's soccer, a global industry with interests running into billions. Driss, a player agent, has seven days to...

Room 999
2023
as Self
In 1982, Wim Wenders asked 16 of his fellow directors to speak on the future of cinema, resulting in the film Room 666. Now, 40 years later, in Cannes...

The Nature of Love
2023
as Françoise
Sophia is a philosophy professor in Montreal and has lived as a couple with Xavier for 10 years. Sylvain is a carpenter in the Laurentians and must re...

The Nature of Love
2023
Writer, Director
Sophia is a philosophy professor in Montreal and has lived as a couple with Xavier for 10 years. Sylvain is a carpenter in the Laurentians and must re...

Falcon Lake
2022
as Violette
A shy teenager on a summer vacation experiences the joy and pain of young adulthood when he forges an unlikely bond with an older girl.

Babysitter
2022
as Nadine
After a sexist joke goes viral, Cédric loses his job and embarks on a therapeutic journey to free himself from sexism and misogyny. He and his girlfri...

Babysitter
2022
Director
After a sexist joke goes viral, Cédric loses his job and embarks on a therapeutic journey to free himself from sexism and misogyny. He and his girlfri...

Résonance
2021
An intimate portrait of a young woman, Sophie, diagnosed with a chronic and incurable disease that turns her world upside down.

Jarvik
2019
as Louise
A teenager who longs to just be a teenager must instead spend the last days of summer helping her family cope with a recent loss as well as her younge...

Poor Georges
2019
as Emma Maurin
Georges (Grégory Gadebois), teaches school in Montreal – he and wife Emma, (Monia Chokri) have just moved to the countryside. One day, he surprises a ...

A Brother’s Love
2019
Executive Producer, Editor, Set Designer
Sophia, a brilliant doctoral student, has always maintained a symbiotic relationship with her brother Karim. The arrival of a new lover in Karim’s lif...

We Are Gold
2019
as Marianne
Ten years after the tragic death of her parents in a mining disaster, Marianne returns to her hometown. She returns to GOLD, the rock band formed by h...

Sing Me Back Home
2019
After scuttling her career as a singer, Jewell Stone lives in Paris a job as a waitress. Marie, her grandmother and only family, who lives in Vermont,...

Before We Explode
2019
as Psy
The Third World War is on the horizon. Despite attempts at nuclear deterrence, the threat of atomic bombings between North Korea and the United States...

Emma Peeters
2018
as Emma
After 10 years of struggle in Paris, Emma Peeters has to face the facts: she will never be an actress. She decides to commit suicide on her 35th birth...

L'appartement
2018
Between tension and tenderness, a mother welcomes her two children in her new and modest apartment for a weekend.

My Intelligent Comedy
2018
as Josie
Damien Nadeau-Daneau, a young filmaker, is unable to finish a movie he started with french actor Denis Lavant. Indebted, he’s working at a post-produc...

Ravenous
2017
as Tania
In an isolated rural community of Quebec, Canada, some inhabitants attack other people, hungry for human flesh. A few survivors gather and go deep int...

A Taste of Ink
2017
as Julia
Vincent, still of tender age, has already tattooed most of his body and hoarsened his voice with his post-hardcore band – his way of venting his frust...

Heal the Living
2016
as Jeanne
The intersecting lives of teens on a surfing trip, a woman with a weak heart and two teams of doctors and medical experts.

Slurpee
2016
A boy struggling with a newly discovered fetish meets a hooker reminiscing her past as an aspiring judoka.

Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
2016
as Self
Actors Anne Dorval, Suzanne Clément, Monia Chokri, Gaspard Ulliel, Vincent Cassel, Niels Schneider and Melvil Poupaud discuss working with the young C...

The Saver
2015
as Adoree
When teenaged Fern is orphaned in the middle of a harsh Montreal winter, she is determined to avoid her mother’s tragic fate, and take care of herself...

Endorphine
2015
as Simone's Mother
Twelve-year-old Simone feels painfully disconnected from the world after witnessing the brutal death of her mother. Simone, a solitary multimedia arti...
Yesterday, Today, Yesterday
2015
Shot overs 3 years, with a small crew of 5 people, "Hier, Aujourd'hui, Hier" ("Yesterday, Today, Yesterday") is the first feature film from Xavier Bea...
Puisqu'il le faut
2015
Writer
There is only the rain to recall my anguish. And sometimes I cry your name.

Le Pédophile
2015
as Johanne
Nina has lived a traumatizing past since she's a little girl. She attempts to break this vicious circle and take reality back into her own hands. Tell...

All Yours
2014
as Audrey
A penniless Argentine male escort meets a solitary, lonely Belgian baker who wants to help him leave the world of prostitution, explores intimate gay ...
Entre chien et loup
2014
Sophie and Dave, old college friends, run into each other downtown. Over a drunken night at Sophie's apartment, these two old friends get to know each...
La trilogie du canard (Élise, Gédéon, Sofia)
2014

Gare du Nord
2013
as Joan
Paris, North Station, anything comes by, even trains. One would like to stay, but they have to hurry up... Like other thousands lives crossing, Ismael...

An Extraordinary Person
2013
Director, Writer
A 30 year-old scholar, intelligent and beautiful yet socially crippled, is forced to attend a bachelorette party where her quest for authenticity lead...

Clemenceau
2012
as Charlotte Beauséjour
1917, German troups are moving forward to Paris, the French government calls a providential man : Clémenceau.

Laurence Anyways
2012
as Stéfanie Bellair
The story of an impossible love between a woman named Fred and a transgender woman named Laurence who reveals her inner desire to become her true self...

Nothing Else
2011

Heartbeats
2010
as Marie
Francis is a young gay man, Marie is a young straight woman and the two of them are best friends -- until the day the gorgeous Nicolas walks into a Mo...

Heartbeats
2010
Still Photographer
Francis is a young gay man, Marie is a young straight woman and the two of them are best friends -- until the day the gorgeous Nicolas walks into a Mo...
N.T.N.E
2009
A game of Scrabble between two men quickly gets out of hand.

Days of Darkness
2007
as Jeune femme arabe
Jean-Marc is a man without qualities living in times that are out of joint. His wife and children ignore him; he's a mid-level government functionary ...

Frédérique au centre
2007
as Frédérique
Où vont les âmes?
N/A
Before resorting to assisted death, an 18-year-old girl summons her two sisters, who are still traumatized by the actions of their father, convicted o...
Si tu penses bien
N/A
Untitled Monia Chokri Movie
N/A
Director, Writer