Sophie Lorain
- Actress
- Producer
- Director
Sophie Lorain is a big name in Quebec in the movie business and on the
television screen. Strong and fragile, sexy and mischievous,
intelligent and accessible, she brings to her interpretations a range
of subtly nuanced emotions and expressions. Sophie studied at the
prestigious Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts in England, moving
on to the Theatre Francais de Toronto. Since then she starred in some
of Quebec television's most memorable series, playing in Scoop (1992),
Omertà, la loi du silence (1996) - for which she won Meatrostar's prize for best actress and a
Gemini for best support - and, finally, Fortier (2001), portraying a troubled
criminal psychologist with a dark past. Perfectly bilingual, she acted
in the 1998 thriller In Her Defense (1999) by old-school Hollywood director Sidney J. Furie,
then two years later as an English madame - complete with perfectly
accented London English - in the Sherlock Holmes period piece, Le signe des 4 (2001)
by Rodney Gibbons. In 2001, Sophie was offered her first starring role
in a feature film when she played in Denise Filiatrault's Alice's
L'odyssée d'Alice Tremblay (2002), a sweet and touching comedy that plunged the viewer into the
enchanted world of fairytales and fairies. Sophie shows another side of
her talents in her next film Mambo Italiano (2003); she plays Italian seductress
setting her sights on a cop with a few ghosts in his
closet.
