Film directors from Quebec

The list Film directors from Quebec includes Xavier Dolan, Jean-Marc Vallée, Denis Villeneuve, Dean DeBlois and Mack Sennett. The list consists of 277 members and 2 sublists.

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Films by Quebec directors
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Film directors from Montreal
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Xavier Dolan

Canadian filmmaker

Overview: Xavier Dolan-Tadros CQ CM (born 20 March 1989) is a Canadian filmmaker, actor and costume designer. He began his career as a child actor in commercials before directing several arthouse feature films ...

Date of birth: 20 March 1989

Age: 36

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)

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Juno Award for Video of the Year winners 31T

Canadian screenwriters in French 112T

Best First Feature Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners 19T
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Kaniehtiio Horn

Canadian actress (b. 1986)

Overview: Kaniehtiio Alexandra Jessie Horn (née Batt; born November 8, 1986), sometimes credited to as Tiio Horn, is a Canadian actress. She was nominated for a Gemini Award for her role in the television film ...

Date of birth: 8 November 1986

Age: 38

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)

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Mohawks of Kahnawá:ke 12T

Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Canadian Screen Award winners 6T

21st-century First Nations people 229T
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Jean-Marc Vallée

Canadian filmmaker (1963–2021)

Overview: Jean-Marc Vallée OC OQ (March 9, 1963 – December 26, 2021) was a Canadian filmmaker, film editor, and screenwriter. After studying film at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Vallée went on to make ...

Date of birth: 9 March 1963

Date of death: 26 December 2021

Age: 58 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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2021 deaths 9,645T

Best Screenplay Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners 71T

Best Director Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners 42T
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Denis Villeneuve

Canadian film director

Overview: Denis Villeneuve OC CQ (born October 3, 1967) is a French Canadian film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is a four-time recipient of the Canadian Screen Award (formerly Genie Award) for Best D ...

Date of birth: 3 October 1967

Age: 57

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Director

Gender: Male

Partner: Tanya Lapointe (Married)

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Canadian screenwriters in French 112T

Best Screenplay Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners 59T

Best Director Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners 40T
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Mack Sennett

Canadian-American silent film producer (1880–1960)

Overview: Mack Sennett (born Michael Sinnott; January 17, 1880 – November 5, 1960) was a Canadian-American film actor, director, and producer, and studio head, known as the 'King of Comedy'.

Date of birth: 17 January 1880

Date of death: 5 November 1960

Age: 80 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Film/TV Producer

Gender: Male

Height: 6' 2" (188 cm)

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Male actors of Irish descent 682T

Film producers from Massachusetts 66T

Producers of Live Action Short Film Academy Award winners 18T
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Elisapie Isaac

Canadian musician

Overview: Elisapie Isaac (also known simply as Elisapie; syllabics: ᐃᓕᓴᐱ) is a Canadian Inuk singer-songwriter, broadcaster, documentary filmmaker, and activist. She spent her childhood in Salluit, Nunavik, Quebec ...

Date of birth: 1977

Age: 48

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Female

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21st-century Canadian women singers 622T

Canadian Folk Music Award winners 121T

Inuit from Quebec 37T
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Monia Chokri

Actress

Overview: Monia Chokri (born 27 June 1982) is a Canadian actress and film director.

Date of birth: 1983

Age: 42

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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Actresses from Quebec City 14T

Canadian stage actresses 347T

21st-century Canadian actresses 706T
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Dean DeBlois

Canadian filmmaker (born 1970)

Overview: Dean DeBlois ( də-BLWAH; born 7 June 1970) is a Canadian film director, film producer, screenwriter, and animator. He is best known for writing and directing the Oscar-nominated animated films Lilo & Stitch ...

Date of birth: 7 June 1970

Age: 55

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Director

Gender: Male

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Canadian animated film directors 99T

Canadian storyboard artists 30T

Film directors from Ontario 76T
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Denise Filiatrault

Canadian actor

Overview: Denise Filiatrault, OC OQ (born May 16, 1931) is a Canadian actress and director.

Date of birth: 16 May 1931

Age: 94

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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Best Supporting Actress Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners 40T

Best Supporting Actress Genie Award winners 26T

Actresses from Montreal 227T
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Léa Pool

Canadian and Swiss filmmaker and screenwriter (born 1950)

Overview: Léa Pool C.M. (born 8 September 1950) is a Swiss-Canadian filmmaker who taught film at the Université du Québec à Montréal. She has directed several documentaries and feature films, many of which have ...

Date of birth: 8 September 1950

Age: 74

Nationality: Swiss

Occupation: Director

Gender: Female

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LGBT film directors 561T

Canadian women film editors 18T

Prix Albert-Tessier winners 35T
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Anik Jean

Musical artist

Overview: Anik Jean (born April 11, 1977) is a Canadian pop and rock singer, actress, director, and screenwriter. She is most noted for her 2005 album Le Trashy Saloon, which was a shortlisted Juno Award finalist ...

Date of birth: 11 April 1977

Age: 48

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Singer

Gender: Female

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21st-century Canadian women singers 588T

21st-century Canadian screenwriters 283T

21st-century women singers 8,567T
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Catherine Martin

Australian designer and producer (born 1965)

Overview: Catherine Martin (born 26 January 1965) is an Australian costume designer, production designer and set designer. She won two Academy Awards for Moulin Rouge! in 2002 and another two for The Great Gatsby ...

Date of birth: 26 January 1965

Age: 60

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Costume Designer

Gender: Female

Height: 5' (152 cm)

Partner: Baz Luhrmann (Married)

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Writers from Gatineau 19T

Best Costume Design BAFTA Award winners 43T

Best Production Design BAFTA Award winners 63T
13.

Yan England

Overview: Yan England-Girard (born 2 February 1979) is a Canadian actor, television and radio presenter, screenwriter, film producer and director of short films. From the age of eight, he was known for his role ...

Date of birth: 2 February 1979

Age: 46

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)

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Male actors from Quebec 147T

People from Montérégie 253T

1979 births 16,924T
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Paul Almond

Writer

Overview: Paul Almond OC (April 26, 1931 – April 9, 2015) was a Canadian television and motion picture screenwriter, director, producer, and novelist. He is most known for being the director of the first film in ...

Date of birth: 26 April 1931

Date of death: 9 April 2015

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Director

Gender: Male

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Bishop's College School alumni 91T

20th-century Canadian male writers 1,044T

21st-century Canadian male writers 821T
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Claude Meunier

Actor

Overview: Claude Meunier (born September 4, 1951) is a Canadian actor, dramaturge, comedian and film director.

Date of birth: 4 September 1951

Age: 73

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

Partner: Virginie Coossa (Married)

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Comedians from Montreal 48T

20th-century Canadian male writers 1,044T

21st-century Canadian male writers 821T
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Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette

Canadian actress, film director and screenwriter

Overview: Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette (born 1979) is a Canadian novelist, film director, and screenwriter from Quebec. Her films are known for their "organic, participatory feel." Barbeau-Lavalette is the daughter of ...

Date of birth: 8 February 1979

Age: 46

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Partner: Émile Proulx-Cloutier (Long-Term)

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Activists from Montreal 61T

Women human rights activists 619T

Women documentary filmmakers 528T
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Alanis Obomsawin

Canadian Aboriginal filmmaker

Overview: Alanis Obomsawin, CC GOQ (born August 31, 1932) is an American Canadian Abenaki filmmaker, singer, artist and activist primarily known for her documentary films. Born in New Hampshire, United States and ...

Date of birth: 31 August 1932

Age: 92

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Female

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Prix Albert-Tessier winners 35T

20th-century First Nations writers 72T

21st-century First Nations writers 88T
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André Mélançon

Canadian actor, screenwriter and film director

Overview: André Melançon (February 18, 1942 - August 23, 2016) was a Canadian actor, screenwriter and film director, best known for directing and writing several installments in the Tales for All series of children's ...

Date of birth: 15 March 1944

Date of death: 23 August 2016

Age: 72 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

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Prix Albert-Tessier winners 35T

Canadian screenwriters in French 112T

2016 deaths 9,448T
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Norman McLaren

Canadian animator and film director

Overview: Norman McLaren, CC CQ (11 April 1914 – 27 January 1987) was a Scottish Canadian animator, director and producer known for his work for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). He was a pioneer in a number ...

Date of birth: 11 April 1914

Date of death: 27 January 1987

Age: 72 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Director

Gender: Male

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Prix Albert-Tessier winners 35T

Canadian Screen Award winning people 220T

Drawn-on-film animators 10T
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Arthur Lipsett

Canadian collage filmmaker

Overview: Arthur Lipsett (May 13, 1936 – May 1, 1986) was a Canadian avant-garde director of short collage films.

Date of birth: 13 May 1936

Date of death: 1 May 1986

Age: 49 (age at death)

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Director

Gender: Male

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1986 suicides 32T

Canadian animated film directors 99T

École des beaux-arts de Montréal alumni 63T