Caroline Dhavernas

Caroline Dhavernas

Dhavernas at the 2014 San Diego Comic Con.
Born (1978-05-15) May 15, 1978
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Nationality Canadian
Occupation Actress
Years active 1990–present

Caroline Dhavernas (/ˈkærəln dəˈvɜːrnə/; born May 15, 1978) is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her work with Bryan Fuller on his projects, such as Jaye Tyler in the Fox comedy-drama series Wonderfalls, and Dr. Alana Bloom in the NBC psychological horror drama series Hannibal. She also starred as Dr. Lily Brenner in the ABC medical drama Off the Map.

Early life

Dhavernas was born in Montreal, Quebec, the daughter of the Québécois actors Sébastien Dhavernas and Michèle Deslauriers. Her sister Gabrielle Dhavernas is also an actress and specialises in dubbing. The voice timbre of both actresses is very similar, so similar that Gabrielle can dub the voice of Caroline. She learned English at a very young age, as her parents sent her to an English-speaking elementary school called The Priory School.

Career

She began her career at the age of 8, dubbing voices for television productions such as Babar. At the age of 12 she began her acting career in the film Comme un Voleur (1990).

Dhavernas portrayed swimmer Marilyn Bell in the television film Heart: The Marilyn Bell Story (1999). She trained for two months with the Pointe-Claire Swim Club to convincingly portray Bell, who was the first to cross 32-mile Lake Ontario in 1954. Other notable films have included a leading role in Edge of Madness (2002), and supporting roles in Out Cold (2001) and Lost and Delirious (2001). She also had a notable role on Law & Order as a closeted, gay teenager who killed her girlfriend in the episode "Girl Most Likely" (12x17).

Her highest-profile work to date is the portrayal of Jaye Tyler, the central character in Wonderfalls. Jaye is an over-educated underachiever from a wealthy family, who lives in a trailer park and works at the Wonderfalls Gift Emporium, a Niagara Falls gift shop. The show's premise is that Jaye is spoken to by inanimate objects, which encourage her to help others. Dhavernas has described the show as being like "Touched by an Angel on acid". The show received widespread critical praise, but Fox cancelled the show after only four episodes aired. Millions of fans signed an online petition with the hope that Fox would continue the show, and as a result 20th Century Fox released the DVD with all 13 completed episodes. She did her own voice-overs for the French translation of Wonderfalls.

Since the cancellation of Wonderfalls, Dhavernas has continued to appear in Canadian-made features, such as Niagara Motel and These Girls. She also appears in Hollywoodland (2006) about the death of actor George Reeves, as well as Breach (2007).

Dhavernas also took the lead role in Surviving My Mother (which went under the working title of The Yellow Woman), a film directed by Émile Gaudreault which premiered at the Festival des films du monde of Montreal on 28 August 2007. The wider theatrical release was 2 November 2007. In 2008, Dhavernas starred in Passchendaele, a film written and directed by Paul Gross about the Battle of Passchendaele. Passchendaele accounted for half of 2008's box office revenue from made-in-Canada anglophone films and as of 2009 is the most expensive film in Canadian history.

It's a beautiful film and I'm really, really happy to be part of it. It's about battle of Passchendaele, which was a very important battle for Canadians and it's a big part of our history. It was just so amazing to be privileged to live a little part of that history. A piece of our history.[1]

Other projects include The Cry of the Owl, a film adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel of the same name, and the popular Quebec comedy De père en flic. She also appeared in the first and last episodes of HBO's miniseries The Pacific, produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, and a guest role on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, where she played Maya in the episode "Love Sick" in May 2010.

In 2012, audiences saw her in Martin Villeneuve's Mars et Avril, a science fiction film based on the graphic novels of the same name.[2][3]

In 2013, she was cast as the female lead, Dr. Alana Bloom, in Hannibal, reuniting her with Wonderfalls creator Bryan Fuller.

She also voices the narrator in the video game from Ubisoft titled Child of Light.[4]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
1993 Cap Tourmente Valerie Huot
1996 L'oreille de Joé Short film
1999 L'île de sable Manou
1999 Running Home Jessica
2001 Lost and Delirious Kara
2001 Heart: The Marilyn Bell Story Marilyn Bell
2001 Out Cold Anna
2002 Les moutons de Jacob Caroline
2002 Edge of Madness Annie Herron
2002 Baroness and the Pig, TheThe Baroness and the Pig Emily
2003 Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story, TheThe Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story Passion Hockmeister
2003 Tulse Looper Suitcases: Antwerp, TheThe Tulse Looper Suitcases: Antwerp Passion Hockmeister
2003 Red Nose Nathalie Lachance
2005 These Girls Keira St. George
2006 Niagara Motel Loretta Nominated—Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
2006 Mr. Average Claire
2006 Hollywoodland Kit Holliday
2006 Beautiful Beast, TheThe Beautiful Beast Isabelle-Marie Nominated—Genie Award for Best Achievement in Music - Original Song
2007 Breach Juliana O'Neill
2007 Surviving My Mother Bianca
2008 Passchendaele Sarah Mann
2009 Cry of the Owl, TheThe Cry of the Owl Nickie Grace
2009 Father and Guns Geneviève
2010 One Last Dance Young Norma Short film
2010 Switch, TheThe Switch Pauline
2010 Devil Elsa Nahai
2010 Wrecked Woman
2012 Mars et Avril Avril
2013 Goodbye World Becky
2014 Le vrai du faux Isabelle Lauzon
2015 The Forbidden Room Gong
2015 Chasse-Galerie Liza Gilbert Post-production

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1990 Les filles de Caleb Rose Pronovost age 8–11 Episode: "17"
1991 Marilyn Abeille TV series
1993 Zap Isabelle Daigneault TV series
1996 Urgence Josianne Villeneuve TV series
1997 Lobby Roxanne Roy 8 episodes
1998 Réseaux Christine TV series
1999 Le polock Camille Langlois TV series
2000 Tag Stéphanie TV series
2000 Secret Adventures of Jules Verne, TheThe Secret Adventures of Jules Verne Angelique Dore Episode: "The Golem"
2002 Law & Order Alicia Milford Episode: "Girl Most Likely"
2004 Wonderfalls Jaye Tyler 14 episodes
2010 Law & Order: Criminal Intent Maya Sills Episode: "Love Sick"
2010 Pacific, TheThe Pacific Vera Keller 2 episodes
2011 Over/Under Vicky Harmon-Castle Pilot
2011 Off the Map Dr. Lily Brenner 13 episodes
2013–2015 Hannibal Dr. Alana Bloom 29 episodes
Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television (2015)
Nominated — Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Actress on Television
Nominated — Golden Maple Award for Best Actress in a TV series broadcasted in the U.S. (2015)
2016 Blue Moon Chloé Vincent Filming
2016 Mary Kills People Dr. Mary Harris Filming

Video game

Year Title Role
2014 Child of Light Narrator (voice)

References

  1. Brodsky, Katherine. "Interview with Caroline Dhavernas "Bianca" in SURVIVING MY MOTHER". First Weekend Club. Archived from the original on December 21, 2007. Retrieved 2014-08-09.
  2. An unforgettable ride through a futuristic Montreal, review from The Gazette, October 12, 2012
  3. Mars and April // Mars & Avril, review from Variety, July 16, 2012
  4. Child Of Light – Giving the Story a Voice

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