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Bélizaire, Néfertari

Néfertari Bélizaire
Néfertari Bélizaire. Photo by Jocelyn Malette.

Quebec actor, born August 9, 1962 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; died February 19, 2017 at the age of 54 of pneumonia in Quebec city. She studied at l’École de théâtre de Saint-Hyacinthe.

Néfertari Bélizaire essayed a broad range of roles in over twenty productions, including in the Compagnie Jean-Duceppe's production of Arthur Miller's Les sorcières de Salem/The Crucible; Variations sur six objets expérimentaux at the Nouveau Théâtre Expérimental; and in Shakespeare's Le marchand de Venise/Merchant of Venice at Théâtre du Nouveau Monde, directed by Daniel Roussel.

She also performed in film from 1987 to 2015, and on television, notably in Watatatow, a series broadcast from 1991 to 2005 which was very popular among young people.

In 2014, she published a memoir entitled Cru that reveals the sexual abuse she suffered from her uncle as a young girl. She was socially proactive, raising awareness of violence against children and women, and of teenage suicide in Quebec.

Profile by Gaetan Charlebois and Anne Nothof.

Last updated 2020-04-06