
Acting
Louise Latraverse
Born 1940-06-24 · Arvida - Quebec - Canada
A versatile actress and creator, Louise Latraverse has been a defining presence in Quebec’s cultural landscape for more than six decades. She began her career in radio before turning to theatre, where she performed over thirty roles and served as director of the Théâtre de Quat’Sous from 1984 to 1986. On television, she became a familiar face through popular series such as Côte de sable, Moi et l’autre, Symphorien, Grand-Papa, Les Héritiers Duval, Le Retour, Mauvais Karma, and 30 vies. In film, she is notably recognized for her work in Michel Brault’s Les Ordres, Entre la mer et l’eau douce, Deux actrices, À l’origine d’un cri, and Mon cirque à moi. An artist with a free‑spirited and unconventional path, she is also a columnist, author, painter, and theatre translator. In 2020, she was named a Knight of the Ordre national du Québec, honoring a career marked by boldness, sensitivity, and an unmistakable artistic presence.
Acting credits
NRRendezvous in Montreal is a 3D computer-animated film starring virtual actors Marilyn Monroe and Humphrey Bogart.
Rendezvous in Montreal
1987
7.3A fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec.
Orders
1974
8.0This short film for kids offers a lesson in proportions in which simple actions achieve surprising results. A man wants a door in a wall. He draws a rectangle and, presto! There is an opening. In the same way, he conjures up furniture. If too high or too low, the raising or lowering of a finger puts everything right.
Dimensions
1966
5.6A girl who comes from a long line of circus performers tries to fulfill her dream of going to private school.
My Very Own Circus
2020
6.0A young singer-songwriter abandons his life in his hometown and moves to the city to make it big. He achieves fame, but it comes at a price.
Between Sweet and Salt Water
1967
4.6A young man feels compelled to travel with his grand-father. The young man wants to find his father who ran away with the corpse of his ex-wife.
Crying Out
2010
2.7Love Project despicts the lives of young adults developing within the artistic community around a production by director Touga. These Millennials are living in an era where everything seems transient, torn between their dreams of absolute freedom and anxieties about their uncertain future. They live in the fast lane and have difficult choices to make.
Love Project
2014
7.0A middle class leftist man of the Seventies decade, starting to show signs of aging and a loss of identity, runs away from his commitments.
L'Homme fragile
1981
A 23-year-old Canadian wanders aimlessly throughout his wasted life.
A Great Big Thing
1968
NRA disconnected family find themselves at a hospital. The father is in urgent need of a kidney transplant and all of the family members are compatible donners. This situation brings back old conflicts between them, all to settle with an odd reconciliation.
First Snow
2012
6.0Robert decides to drop everything and go back to his homeland, accompanied by his daughter and a couple of friends.
La piastre
1976
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Un autre homme
1989
Adult sisters meet for the first time, not having previously known of each other's existence.
Two Can Play
1993
NRThis documentary invites you on a historical-poetic journey through this legendary little square which, for over a century, was a meeting place for bohemians and outsiders, artists from elsewhere and the most fervent independence supporters.
Carré Saint-Louis: une histoire populaire
2019