Caroline Dhavernas(/kærəlindəˈvɜːrnə/CARA-leen də-VURR-na;born May 15, 1978) is a Canadian actress. In the United States, her best known work has been her collaborations withBryan Fuller.She played Jaye Tyler in theFoxcomedy-drama seriesWonderfalls,and Alana Bloom in theNBCpsychological horror drama seriesHannibal.
Caroline Dhavernas | |
|---|---|
 Dhavernas at the 2014San Diego Comic Con | |
| Born | May 15, 1978 |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1990–present |
| Partner(s) | Maxime Le Flaguais (2016–present) |
| Children | 1 |
She also starred as Lily Brenner in theABCmedical dramaOff the Map.From 2017 to 2019, she portrayed the titular character in the Canada-produced and Canadian- and American-distributed medical drama-black comedyMary Kills People.
Early life
editDhavernas was born inMontreal,Quebec,the daughter of theQuébécoisactorsSébastien DhavernasandMichèle Deslauriers.Her sister Gabrielle Dhavernas is also an actress and specializes indubbing.The voicetimbreof both actresses is very similar, enabling Gabrielle to dub the voice of Caroline. She learnedEnglishat a very young age, as her parents sent her to anEnglish-speaking elementary school called The Priory School.[citation needed]
Career
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She began her career at the age of 8,dubbingvoices fortelevisionproductions such asBabar.At the age of 12 she began her acting career in the filmComme un Voleur(1990). Also in 1990, she played bubbly magic wizard fairy Lucy in the children's musical film via home video,The Magic Dragon Tales.In 1992, she appeared as the dark brunette haired girl who played with the horse in the bedtime story hitBlack Beauty.In 1996, she played her main role as magical blonde mermaid princess Summer Rose in the girly romance dramaSummer's Colors.
Dhavernas portrayed swimmerMarilyn Bellin the television filmHeart: The Marilyn Bell Story(1999). She trained for two months with thePointe-ClaireSwim Club to convincingly portray Bell, who was the first to cross 32-mileLake Ontarioin 1954. Other notable films have included a leading role inEdge of Madness(2002), and supporting roles inOut Cold(2001) andLost and Delirious(2001). She also had a notable role onLaw & Orderas a closeted, gay teenager who killed her girlfriend in the episode "Girl Most Likely" (season 12, episode 17).
Dhavernas portrayed Jaye Tyler, the central character inWonderfalls,which debuted on US television in March 2004. Jaye is an over-educated underachiever from a wealthy family who lives in a trailer park and works at the Wonderfalls Gift Emporium, aNiagara Fallsgift shop. The show's premise is that Jaye is spoken to by inanimate objects, which encourage her to help others. Dhavernas has described the show as being like "Touched by an Angelonacid".The show received widespread critical praise, butFoxcancelled the show after only four episodes aired. Millions of fans signed an online petition with the hope that Fox would continue the show, and as a result20th Century Foxreleased the DVD with all 13 completed episodes. She did her own voice-overs for theFrenchtranslation ofWonderfalls.She appeared as Cerise in the 2003 horror flickA Tale of Two Sisters,inspired the South Korea hit from 2001, whom she and Katharine Isabelle starred together.
Since the cancellation ofWonderfalls,Dhavernas has continued to appear in Canadian-made features in 2004, such asNiagara MotelandThese Girls.In early 2006, she played Isabella Marie, who lived in love, tragedy, and ugliness with suggesting her family, winding up being pregnant, and haunting her dark vengeance with luciferin of fallen agony, inThe Beautiful Beastand the follow-upThe Diary Of Isabella.She also appeared inBlack Sheep (2006 New Zealand film),produced by Jonathan King and directed byEli Roth,as Nikki,Hollywoodland(2006) as Barbara about the death of actorGeorge Reeves,and Juliana O'Neill, the wife ofEric O'Neill,onBreach(2007).
Dhavernas also took the lead role inSurviving My Mother(which went under the working title ofThe Yellow Woman), a film directed byÉmile Gaudreaultwhich premiered at theFestival des films du mondeof Montreal on August 28, 2007. In 2008, Dhavernas starred inPasschendaele,a film written and directed byPaul Grossabout theBattle of Passchendaele.Passchendaeleaccounted for half of 2008's box office revenue from made-in-Canada anglophone films and as of 2009 is the most expensive film in Canadian history.
It's a beautiful film and I'm really, really happy to be part of it. It's about battle of Passchendaele, which was a very important battle for Canadians and it's a big part of our history. It was just so amazing to be privileged to live a little part of that history. A piece of our history.[1]
Other projects includeThe Cry of the Owl,a film adaptation ofPatricia Highsmith'snovel of the same name,and the popular Quebec comedyFather and Guns(De père en flic).In 2009, she played Bethany in the romance action dramaIn Heat.She also appeared in the first and last episodes ofHBO's miniseriesThe Pacific,produced bySteven SpielbergandTom Hanks,and a guest role onLaw & Order: Criminal Intent,where she played Maya in the episode "Love Sick" in May 2010. In 2011, she played Emily in the rare appearance in the HS reading hitThe Awakening.
In 2012, audiences saw her inMartin Villeneuve'sMars et Avril,ascience fictionfilm based on the graphic novels of the same name.[2][3]
In 2013, she was cast as Alana Bloom, the female lead inHannibal,reuniting her withWonderfallscreatorBryan Fuller.
Dhavernas starred in theCanadianblack comedy-dramamedicalthrillerMary Kills People,which premiered onGlobalon January 25, 2017. The series premiered in the U.S. on April 23 on theLifetimeU.S. basic cable network. Season 2 debuted on Global on January 3, 2018, and also on Lifetime on March 13. Each season consisted of six episodes on both Global and Lifetime.[4]Lifetime did not air the third and final season when the network announced in December 2018.[5]The series concluded in 2019.[6]
She also voiced the narrator in the video game fromUbisofttitledChild of Light.[7]
In November 2021, CDPQ Infra announced that Dhavernas was selected to become the official voice announcer of theRéseau express métropolitain,following in the footsteps of her mother, Michèle Deslauriers, who has been the voice of theMontreal Metrosince 2003.[8]
Personal life
editDhavernas has been in a relationship with actorMaxime Le Flaguaissince 2016.[9]In September 2018 she gave birth to their daughter, named Françoise.[10][11]
Filmography
editThis section needs to beupdated.The reason given is:no idea if this actress is active/retired/alive sinceMary Kills Peopleended in 2019.(October 2024) |
Film
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Cap Tourmente | Valerie Huot | |
| 1996 | L'oreille de Joé | Short film | |
| 1999 | Sable Island(L'Île de Sable) | Manou | |
| 1999 | Running Home | Jessica | |
| 2001 | Lost and Delirious | Kara | |
| 2001 | Heart: The Marilyn Bell Story | Marilyn Bell | |
| 2001 | Out Cold | Anna | |
| 2002 | Les moutons de Jacob | Caroline | |
| 2002 | Edge of Madness | Annie Herron | |
| 2002 | The Baroness and the Pig | Emily | |
| 2003 | The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story | Passion Hockmeister | |
| 2003 | The Tulse Looper Suitcases: Antwerp | Passion Hockmeister | |
| 2003 | Red Nose(Nez rouge) | Nathalie Lachance | |
| 2005 | These Girls | Keira St. George | |
| 2005 | Niagara Motel | Loretta | Nominated—Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role |
| 2006 | Mr. Average | Claire | |
| 2006 | Hollywoodland | Kit Holliday | |
| 2006 | The Beautiful Beast(La Belle bête) | Isabelle-Marie | Nominated—Genie Award for Best Achievement in Music - Original Song |
| 2007 | Breach | Juliana O'Neill | |
| 2007 | Surviving My Mother | Bianca | |
| 2008 | Passchendaele | Sarah Mann | |
| 2009 | The Cry of the Owl | Nickie Grace | |
| 2009 | Father and Guns | Geneviève | |
| 2010 | One Last Dance | Young Norma | Short film |
| 2010 | The Switch | Pauline | |
| 2010 | Devil | Elsa Nahai | |
| 2010 | Wrecked | Woman | |
| 2012 | Mars et Avril | Avril | |
| 2013 | Goodbye World | Becky | |
| 2014 | Le vrai du faux | Isabelle Lauzon | |
| 2015 | The Forbidden Room | Gong | |
| 2016 | Wild Run: The Legend(Chasse-Galerie: La Légende) | Liza Gilbert | |
| 2016 | Blind Vaysha | English and French-language narration | animated short film |
| 2017 | Easy Living | Sherry Graham | |
| 2017 | Father and Guns 2 | Geneviève | |
| 2017 | Hochelaga, Land of Souls | Chef d'antenne |
Television
edit| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Les filles de Caleb | Rose Pronovost age 8–11 | Episode: "17" |
| 1991 | Marilyn | Abeille | unknown episodes |
| 1993 | Zap | Isabelle Daigneault | Main cast |
| 1996 | Urgence | Josianne Villeneuve | 2 episodes |
| 1997–2000 | Freaky Stories | Narrator | French version |
| 1998 | Réseaux | Christine | unknown episodes |
| 1999 | Le polock | Camille Langlois | TV movie |
| 2000 | Tag | Stéphanie | 4 episodes |
| 2000 | The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne | Angelique Dore | Episode: "The Golem" |
| 2002 | Law & Order | Alicia Milford | Episode: "Girl Most Likely" |
| 2004 | Wonderfalls | Jaye Tyler | Main cast |
| 2010 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Maya Sills | Episode: "Love Sick" |
| 2010 | The Pacific | Vera Keller | Miniseries,2 episodes |
| 2011 | Over/Under | Vicky Harmon-Castle | TV movie |
| 2011 | Off the Map | Lily Brenner | Main cast |
| 2013–15 | Hannibal | Alana Bloom | Main cast Nominated —Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television(2015) Nominated —Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Actress on Television Nominated —Golden Maple Awardfor Best Actress in a TV series broadcast in the U.S.(2015) |
| 2016 | Blue Moon | Chloé Vincent | Main cast |
| 2017–19 | Mary Kills People | Mary Harris | Title role |
| 2022 | Aller Simple | Julie Sicotte | Main cast |
Video game
edit| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Child of Light | Narrator (voice) |
References
edit- ^Brodsky, Katherine."Interview with Caroline Dhavernas" Bianca "in SURVIVING MY MOTHER".First Weekend Club.Archived fromthe originalon December 21, 2007.RetrievedAugust 9,2014.
- ^An unforgettable ride through a futuristic Montreal,review fromThe Gazette,October 12, 2012
- ^Mars and April//Mars & Avril,review fromVariety,July 16, 2012
- ^Alexander, Chris (January 23, 2017)."Mary's an elegant mercy killer, ready to thrill people".Metro International.Archived fromthe originalon October 16, 2017.RetrievedApril 17,2017.
- ^"'You' To Move To Netflix For Season 2 As Lifetime Shifts Focus To Original Movies ".Deadline.December 3, 2018.
- ^"Caroline Dhavernas talks about the end of Mary Kills People".Toronto Star.May 12, 2019.
- ^"Child of Light's creators discuss the birth of Aurora and her fairytale journey".Polygon.com.April 24, 2014.
- ^"Caroline Dhavernas sera la voix du REM"[Caroline Dhavernas becomes the REM's voice].La Presse(in French). November 25, 2021.RetrievedNovember 25,2021.
- ^"Maxime Le Flaguais au coeur d'un malaise important aux Échangistes"[Maxime Le Flaguais in the midst of significant discomfort in Swingers].Showbizz.net(in French). August 31, 2016.
- ^"Caroline Dhavernas a accouché!"[Caroline Dhavernas gives birth!].enVedette(in French). September 13, 2018.
- ^Dhavernas, Caroline (June 16, 2019)."Interview: Mary Kills People's Caroline Dhavernas"(Interview). Interviewed by Brief Take (published May 12, 2019).
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