Citizenship Canadian Role Actress Occupation actress Height 1.6 m | Years active 2011–present Siblings Isabelle Nelisse Name Sophie Nelisse | |
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Full Name Marie-Sophie Nelisse Relatives Isabelle Nelisse (sister) Awards Satellite Special Achievement Award for Breakthrough Performance Award Movies The Book Thief, Monsieur Lazhar, The Great Gilly Hopkins, Pawn Sacrifice, Wait Till Helen Comes Similar People Nico Liersch, Brian Percival, Emily Watson, Geoffrey Rush, Ben Schnetzer Profiles | ||
Katie chats tiff birks sophie n lisse actress honouree
Sophie Nélisse (born March 27, 2000) is a Canadian teen actress. She is known for her Genie Award–winning performance in Monsieur Lazhar, and as Liesel Meminger in the film adaptation of the best-selling novel The Book Thief written by Markus Zusak.
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- Katie chats tiff birks sophie n lisse actress honouree
- Is the book thief s sophie n lisse this year s quvenzhan wallis
- Life and career
- Filmography
- References
Is the book thief s sophie n lisse this year s quvenzhan wallis
Life and career
Nélisse was born in Windsor, Ontario, on March 27, 2000. She is of French-Canadian descent. Her mother, Pauline Belhumeur, left her job as a schoolteacher in 2013 to act as a talent manager for both Sophie and her younger sister, actress Isabelle Nélisse, best known for her role in Mama. Nélisse is fluent in both French and English.
Her family moved to Montréal, Québec when she was four.
She spent her early years training in gymnastics, aiming for the 2016 Olympics, and signed to a talent agency to make money to pay for the training, but after getting the part in The Book Thief (and subsequent accolades) she shifted her focus to acting. Besides her Genie Award for Monsieur Lazhar, she won a Jutra Award for her performance and a Young Artist Award nomination as Best Leading Young Actress in an International Feature Film. She held a recurring role the Québec sitcom Les Parent and she also starred in the title role of the 2015 film The Great Gilly Hopkins. In May 2016, Nélisse was present on the red carpet at Cannes Film Festival for the first time to present Canadian thriller movie Mean Dreams.
In 2016 Nélisse was one of four actors selected by the Toronto International Film Festival, alongside Grace Glowicky, Jared Abrahamson and Mylène Mackay for its "Rising Stars" programme, described as an "intensive professional development programme [that] immerses participants in a series of public events and industry meetings during the Festival."
