Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin

Biography

Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin is a French Canadian actress born in July 1981. She began her acting career at six with an advertising campaign for Magic Crunch and later landed roles in the series Jamais deux sans toi (1989–1993) and Una faim de loup (1990). Her breakthrough role came as Jeanne Marwan in Denis Villeneuve's Incendies (2010), followed by notable appearances in Roxanne Gauthier in "Omertà" (2012) and La Promesse.