Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay
Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay (born July 27, 1990, in La Malbaie, Quebec), formerly credited as Gabrielle Tremblay, is a Canadian actress and writer, who received a Canadian Screen Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards for her performance as Klas Batalo in the 2016 film Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves (Ceux qui font les révolutions à moitié n'ont fait que se creuser un tombeau).[1]
She came out as transgender in 2012. She was the first transgender woman ever nominated for an acting award at the Canadian Screen Awards or their predecessor Genie Awards.[2] Those Who Make Revolution was her first feature film role, although she previously appeared in short films and documentaries.
Her poetry collection Le ventre des volcans was published by Les Éditions de l'étoile de mer in 2015.[3]
In 2021 she published the autobiographical novel La fille d'elle-même.[4] Dandelion Daughter, an English translation of the novel by Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch, was published by Esplanade Books in 2023,[5] and was a finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT literature in 2024.
References
[edit]- ^ "The Canadian Screen Awards nominations are out!". Now, January 17, 2017.
- ^ Guy, Chantal (20 January 2017). "Gabrielle Tremblay: la revanche sur le passé". La Presse. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
- ^ "Le destin singulier de Gabrielle Boulianne Tremblay de Saint-Siméon". Mon Charlevoix, May 19, 2022.
- ^ Silvia Galipeau, "Une fille pour et par elle-même". La Presse, February 21, 2021.
- ^ "Dandelion Daughter by Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay". CBC Books, February 6, 2023.
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