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name: "Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/melissa-desormeaux-poulin"
fi1m_id: "melissa-desormeaux-poulin"
imdb_id: "nm0246386"
tmdb_id: 84573
wikidata_id: "Q2384494"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "3 July 1981"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:15:40.713665+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin

## Identity

Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/melissa-desormeaux-poulin
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** melissa-desormeaux-poulin
- **IMDb ID:** nm0246386
- **TMDB ID:** 84573
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2384494
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9lissa_D%C3%A9sormeaux-Poulin, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2384494, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0246386/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/84573

Actor. Born 3 July 1981 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 3 July 1981, Montréal, Québec, Canada
- **Also known as:** Mélissa Désormeau-Poulin
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9lissa_D%C3%A9sormeaux-Poulin, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2384494, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0246386/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/84573

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Incendies*](https://film.one/film/incendies.md) (82)

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## Fi1m on Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin

> Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin is persuasive when a part asks her to listen and keep searching. *Incendies* makes a strong case for her quiet dramatic work, though its writing sometimes gives her more questions to ask than character to play.

In *Incendies* (2010), Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin makes Jeanne Marwan’s need for answers feel pressing. She has the difficult job of sustaining the children’s investigation beside the more forceful material given to Lubna Azabal. She and Maxim Gaudette give that search enough personal weight to keep it from becoming a procession of clues. We were moved by Jeanne’s persistence because Désormeaux-Poulin makes knowing the truth matter to this particular person. It is quiet work in a film where each discovery is meant to hurt.

Before Jeanne, her work included television and the teen films *À vos marques... party* (2007) and its 2009 follow-up. *Incendies* became the dramatic breakthrough, opening the way to more serious film and television parts. *Beyond the Walls* (2012), in which she played Anka, was the first major film role to follow it. There is no reason to treat the lighter work as something she needed to apologise for; the turn matters because it brought different demands and opportunities.

Denis Villeneuve makes good use of her willingness to listen, but the writing does not always repay it. At times, she and Gaudette are confined to asking whatever will move the investigation along. We rate *Incendies* highly, with reservations about its contrived plotting; Désormeaux-Poulin makes the need to investigate believable even when the next step seems too convenient. Rémy Girard’s calm Notary Lebel helps give some relief from the solemnity, and these quieter performances allow us to stay interested in the people doing the searching.

In *Gabrielle* (2013), her supporting performance as Sophie again draws its strength from family bonds and personal struggle. That is a useful continuation of the work in *Incendies*, though it is Jeanne who gives us the clearest reason to recommend her. We would like to see that capacity for listening matched by scripts that let her do more than receive information. Start with *Incendies*, and allow for a screenplay that occasionally underserves its actors.

## Biography

Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin is a Canadian actress. She began acting as a child, appearing in an advertising campaign at the age of six and in television series from 1989, including *Jamais deux sans toi* and *Les Héritiers Duval*. She studied at an arts school in Lanaudière.

She is known for her role as Jeanne Marwan in Denis Villeneuve's *Incendies* (2010). Other film credits include *Taking the Plunge* (2007) and its sequel (2009), *Beyond the Walls* (2012) as Anka, *Gabrielle* (2013) as Sophie, and *Threesome* (2017) as Estelle Legrand. She has also appeared in numerous television series. Désormeaux-Poulin received Jutra Award nominations for *Incendies* and won for Best Supporting Actress for *Gabrielle*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, fr.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Incendies* (2010), Fi1m 82, as Jeanne Marwan — [page](https://film.one/film/incendies.md)

## Complete filmography (25)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Mea Culpa* (2025), series, as Bérénice Bachand
- *Classified* (2022), series, as Rachel Miller
- *Lac-Noir* (2022), series, as Valérie Roberge
- *Jowanne, la psy des stars* (2021), series, as Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin
- *Survivre à ses enfants* (2021), series, as Nadine Thibault
- *Outbreak* (2020), series, as Chloé Roy-Bélanger
- *The Far Shore* (2019), as Catherine
- *Les invisibles* (2019), series, as Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin
- *Bébéatrice* (2018), series, as Mamanie (voice)
- *Threesome* (2017), as Estelle Legrand
- *Ruptures* (2016), series, as Ariane Beaumont
- *Maternel* (2014), Actor
- *Mensonges* (2014), series, as Carla Moreli
- *A Sudden Text* (2014), series, as Isabelle Milani
- *Gabrielle* (2013), as Sophie
- *Beyond the Walls* (2012), as Anka
- *Omertà* (2012), as Roxanne Gauthier
- *30 Vies* (2011), series, as Lou Gauthier
- *11 règles* (2010), series, as Justine
- *Incendies* (2010), as Jeanne Marwan — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/incendies.md)
- *En audition avec Simon* (2010), series, as Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin
- *Mirador* (2010), series, as Catherine
- *Taking the Plunge 2* (2009), as Gaby Roberge
- *Through the Mist* (2009), as Sophie
- *Taking the Plunge* (2007), as Gaby Roberge

## Gallery

- ![Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin photographed in Montréal , Québec, Canada during a radio show of the CBC's La soirée est encore jeune inside the bar Chez Roger. (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/103098/gallery-aeadc1e797ce.png) Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin photographed in Montréal , Québec, Canada during a radio show of the CBC's La soirée est encore jeune inside the bar Chez Roger. (2017) — Bull-Doser, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/M%C3%A9lissa_D%C3%A9sormeaux-Poulin_au_Chez_Roger.png/1280px-M%C3%A9lissa_D%C3%A9sormeaux-Poulin_au_Chez_Roger.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin](https://film.one/media/person/103098/gallery-113606f8739d.jpg) Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin — Image via TMDB
- ![Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin](https://film.one/media/person/103098/gallery-b5f44a509541.jpg) Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin — Image via TMDB

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