Karine Vanasse is a French Canadian actress, who had roles in the films Polytechnique, Séraphin: Heart of Stone, Switch and Emporte-moi.
Background
Vanasse was born in Drummondville, Quebec, the daughter of Conrad, a council worker, and Renée (née Gamache), who was her manager at the beginning of her career. lieutenant was then, with the help of her mother, that Vanasse began to audition for, and take part in, television commercials and to play minor and supporting roles in various French Canadian television movies.
Career
Internationally she is best known for her roles as Colette Valois in Pan Am and Margaux LeMarchal in Revenge, both United States. television series. At the age of nine, Vanasse expressed her desire to sing or to act and she fulfilled that wish when she appeared in the teen show Club des 100 watts after winning a "lip sync" competition. In 1998, the production company now known as Motion International asked Vanasse to co-host a Québec-based children"s science show, Les Débrouillards.
Producer Lorraine Richard and director Léa Pool spotted her there, and offered Vanasse her first big break in the role of Hanna in Emporte-moi (1999), a story of a teenager trying to find her identity in a tormented family environment.
The film was presented at forty festivals, and shown in twenty countries. Her performance was highly acclaimed both nationally and internationally and earned her the 2000 Best Actress Jutra Award.
Vanasse then played Lucie (the teenage love interest of Benoit Langlais"s main character, Zac) in the controversial Québec television series Deux Frères (1999). In 2001, she applied for the ITHAKA program and took a six-month break in Greece to devote herself to travel and academics, after which she played Donalda in Charles Binamé"s epic, Séraphin: Heart of Stone (2002).
She was cast as an FLQ terrorist in the 2006 miniseries October 1970 on Canadian Broadcasting Company"s English network.
Vanasse appeared in such Canadian productions as Sans Elle, Ma fille, mon ange, and the Canadian/American/British mini-series Killer Wave. In 2011, Vanasse was cast as the French stewardess, Colette Valois in the American-produced television series Pan Am, which was later cancelled after one season. From January to April 2013, Vanasse was cast on the Quebec television series 30 Vies.
In July 2013, Deadline.com announced that Vanasse has joined the cast of American Broadcasting Company"s Revenge as French businesswoman Margaux LeMarchal in the third season of the popular drama.
She"s now with rapper Samian.
Membership
In 2009, Vanasse was a producer and a cast member of the film Polytechnique, which portrays the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre in Montréal.