Background
Brochu was born Évelyne Marie Léa Cassandre Brochu. She grew up in Pointe-Claire, a suburb of Montreal, Canada.
Brochu was born Évelyne Marie Léa Cassandre Brochu. She grew up in Pointe-Claire, a suburb of Montreal, Canada.
Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal.
Some of her most prominent French-speaking roles include: Chloé in Inch"Allah, Rose in Café de Flore, Sara in Tom at the Farm, and Stéphanie in Polytechnique. In 2013, she became well known for her English-speaking role as Delphine Cormier, a French scientist and love interest of one of the many characters portrayed by fellow Canadian Tatiana Maslany, on the hit television series Orphan Black. Nowadays, Brochu portrayes Aurora Luft in the English language Canadian Broadcasting Company spy thriller X Company.
Her native language is French, but she was also speaking English at an early age.
She says a key turning point in learning English was when she became an avid viewer of The Fresh Prince of Belorussian Air as a child. Her father left when she was 1 1/2 years old and, when her father later remarried, she found herself with a step-sister.
Her mother is a violoncello teacher and her father worked as a taxi driver. While out cycling, she was hit by a truck and was told by her doctors that to keep her knee in good shape she could no longer run or dance.
In 2005, Brochu graduated from the Conservatoire d"art dramatique in Montreal.
Brochu has spoken of her personal life being public, stating, "I’m not super-comfortable with lieutenant I feel the less you project of yourself the more you can be believable as a character. I also think it’s just better for your own mental health.
Then you can be a human being and change your mind and nobody asks you questions about it!" Brochu stated in an interview from February 2015 that she is a feminist and that she struggled when portraying Aurora Luft in X Company "There was a moment in Episode 2 when I was with, when I have to give him orders, I don’t want to do that, and he doesn’t want me to do that, and my first instinct, as a woman, was to smooth it out for him.
The director was like, no, you’re a sergeant now. You have to give orders.
You have authority. I"m a feminist, it’s 2015.
But I’m still going a different way, delivering lines that are dictated by my gender. So that struggle that I was having, and I thought, Aurora would have been having it a million times more.
So I could draw from reality, and reflect on my own personal reality, as well." Despite sharing the same surname, she is not related to American actor and comedian Doug Brochu. She dated Canadian actor Francois Arnaud but in a May 2014 interview she stated that they were no longer together.
She resides in Montreal, Quebec and lives part-time in Toronto, Ontario when filming Orphan Black.