Louise Latraverse

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

Rendezvous in Montreal poster
NR

Rendezvous in Montreal is a 3D computer-animated film starring virtual actors Marilyn Monroe and Humphrey Bogart.

Rendezvous in Montreal

1987

Orders poster
7.3

A 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

Dimensions poster
8.0

This 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

My Very Own Circus poster
5.6

A 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

Between Sweet and Salt Water poster
6.0

A 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

Crying Out poster
4.6

A 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

Love Project poster
2.7

Love 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

L'Homme fragile poster
7.0

A 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

No artwork available
8.0

A 23-year-old Canadian wanders aimlessly throughout his wasted life.

A Great Big Thing

1968

First Snow poster
NR

A 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

La piastre poster
6.0

Robert decides to drop everything and go back to his homeland, accompanied by his daughter and a couple of friends.

La piastre

1976

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Un autre homme

1989

No artwork available
7.0

Adult sisters meet for the first time, not having previously known of each other's existence.

Two Can Play

1993

Carré Saint-Louis: une histoire populaire poster
NR

This 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