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Roy, Lise

Lise Roy
Lise Roy. Photo by Adréanne Gauthier, 2015.

Quebec-based actor, born in 1954, in Quebec City, who works comfortably in French and English. Lise Roy graduated from Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Montréal in 1975.

She has worked at the Théâtre du Rideau Vert (Feydeau's Le Dindon directed by Denise Filiatrault); Théâtre du Nouveau Monde (Pirandello's Six personnages en quête d'auteur/Six Characters in Search of an Author, dir. André Brassard); Theatre 1774 (see Infinitheatre (Marianne Ackerman's L'Affaire Tartuffe, dir. Guy Sprung); and Centaur Theatre (Schmitt's The Visitor, dir. Daniel Roussel, 2013).

In 2010, she played la mère Agathe in Tom à la ferme by Michel Marc Bouchard (dir. Claude Poissant, Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui). For the same role in the subsequent film, she was awarded the prize for best Supporting Actress in a Canadian Film by the Vancouver Film Critics Circle in 2014.

Lise Roy has also performed often on television and in film.

Since 2016, she is a theatre professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

Profile by Gaetan Charlebois and Anne Nothof.

Last updated 2021-09-21