Caroline Dhavernas

 

Birthday: 15 May 1978, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Height: 5' 1" (1.55 m)

Biography

Caroline Dhavernas commands the attention of filmgoers and television viewers with her beauty, talent and poise. Beginning her career at age 11, the Montreal native is already an acclaimed young actress who has also made her mark in Hollywood. She is the recipient of two Gemeaux Awards, one for "Best Interpretation in a Youth Series" for "Zap" (1993) and the second for "Best Supporting Role" in "Tag" (2000). She was also nominated for a Genie Award for "Best Supporting Actress" in Niagara Motel (2005).

Dhavernas made her American television debut in 2004 in the critically acclaimed FOX series "Wonderfalls" (2004) and starred in the ABC television series "Off the Map" (2011). She appeared in the supernatural thriller Devil (2010) produced by M. Night Shyamalan, The Switch (2010/I) with Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman and can be seen in the film Wrecked (2009/I) starring Adrien Brody. She also starred as "Vera Keller" in "The Pacific" (2010), a mini-series about World War II that debuted on HBO in March 2010. Dhavernas appeared in the widely acclaimed Canadian feature Passchendaele (2008), which won the 2009 Genie Award for Best Motion Picture. Dhavernas also starred in the film Breach (2007), with Chris Cooper and 'Ryan Phillippe'x . In 2006 she starred in the Focus Features film Hollywoodland (2006) opposite Adrien Brody. Her first feature film, Thick as Thieves (1999), was followed by L'île de sable (1999). She also co-starred in English director Peter Greenaway's The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story (2003), which was presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 2003. Dhavernas divides her time between Montreal and New York City 

Dhavernas was born in Montreal, Quebec, the daughter of the Québécois actors Sébastien Dhavernas and Michèle Deslauriers. Her first name is pronounced kah-ro-LYN because of her French-Canadian heritage. Her last name is roughly pronounced dah-vair-NAH. Her sister Gabrielle Dhavernas is also an actress and specialises in dubbing. The voice timbre of both actresses is very similar, so similar that Gabrielle can dub the voice of Caroline. She learned English at a very young age, as her parents sent her to an English-speaking elementary school called The Priory School.
She began her career at the age of 8, dubbing voices for television productions such as Babar. At the age of 12 she began her acting career in the film Comme un Voleur (1990).
Dhavernas portrayed swimmer Marilyn Bell in the made-for-television movie Heart: The Marilyn Bell Story (1999). She trained for 2 months with the Pointe-Claire Swim Club to convincingly portray Marilyn Bell who was the first to cross 32-mile Lake Ontario in 1954. Other notable films have included a leading role in Edge of Madness (2002), and supporting roles in Out Cold (2001) and Lost and Delirious (2001). She also had a notable role on Law & Order as a closeted, gay teenager who killed her girlfriend in the episode "Girl Most Likely" (12x17).

Her most high-profile work to date is as the central character in Wonderfalls. Dhavernas plays Jaye, an underachiever university graduate from a wealthy family, who lives in a trailer and works at the Wonderfalls Gift Emporium, a Niagara Falls gift shop. One of the quirks of the show is Jaye's ability to hear inanimate objects speaking to her, and encouraging her to help other people. Dhavernas has described the show as being like "Touched by an Angel on acid". The show received widespread critical praise, but Fox canceled the show after four airings. Millions of fans signed a petition to try to get the show to stay but only partly succeeded with 20th Century Fox only releasing the DVD with the 13 completed episodes. She did her own voice-overs for the French translation of Wonderfalls.
Since the cancellation of Wonderfalls, Dhavernas has continued to appear in Canadian-made features, including Niagara Motel and These Girls. She also appears in the 2006 film Hollywoodland about the death of actor George Reeves, as well as in the 2007 film Breach.

She also has the lead role in Surviving My Mother (which went under the working title of The Yellow Woman), a movie directed by Émile Gaudreault which premiered at the Festival des films du monde of Montreal on August 28, 2007. The wider theatrical release was November 2, 2007. In 2008 Dhavernas starred in Passchendaele, a film written and directed by Paul Gross about the Battle of Passchendaele. Passchendaele accounted for half of 2008's box office revenue from made-in-Canada anglophone films and as of 2009 is the most expensive film in Canadian history.

It's a beautiful film and I'm really, really happy to be part of it. It's about Battle of Passchendaele, which was a very important battle for Canadians and it's a big part of our history. It was just so amazing to be privileged to live a little part of that history.^[1]

Recent projects include The Cry of the Owl, a movie adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel of the same name, and the popular Quebec comedy De père en flic. She also appeared in the first and last episodes of HBO's miniseries The Pacific, produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, and she guest starred on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, playing Maya in the episode "Love Sick" in May 2010.
In 2012, audiences have seen her in Martin Villeneuve's Mars et Avril, a science fiction film based on the graphic novels of the same name.^[2][3]
She has been cast as the female lead, Dr. Alana 'Al' Bloom in Hannibal, reuniting her with Wonderfalls creator Bryan Fuller.

 

Awards and nominations

• Nominated for a Genie at the Genie Awards for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for Niagara Motel (2006)
• Nominated for a Genie at the Genie Awards for Best Achievement in Music - Original Song for La belle bête (2006) shared with Patrick Watson for the song Trace-Moi

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993	Cap Tourmente	Valerie Huot
1996	L'oreille de Joé		Short film
1999	L'île de sable	Manou
1999	Running Home	Jessica
2001	Lost and Delirious	Kara
2001	Heart: The Marilyn Bell Story	Marilyn Bell
2001	Out Cold	Anna
2002	Les moutons de Jacob	Caroline
2002	Edge of Madness	Annie Herron
2002	The Baroness and the Pig	Emily
2003	The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story	Passion Hockmeister
2003	The Tulse Looper Suitcases: Antwerp	Passion Hockmeister
2003	Red Nose	Nathalie Lachance
2005	These Girls	Keira St. George
2006	Niagara Motel	Loretta
2006	Mr. Average	Claire
2006	Hollywoodland	Kit Holliday
2006	The Beautiful Beast	Isabelle-Marie
2007	Breach	Juliana O'Neill
2007	Surviving My Mother	Bianca
2008	Passchendaele	Sarah Mann
2009	The Cry of the Owl	Nickie Grace
2009	Father and Guns	Geneviève
2010	One Last Dance	Young Norma	Short film
2010	The Switch	Pauline
2010	Devil	Elsa Nahai
2010	Wrecked	Woman
2012	Mars et Avril	Avril
2013	Goodbye World	Becky	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990	Les filles de Caleb	Rose Pronovost age 8-11	Episode: "17"
1991	Marilyn	Abeille	TV series
1993	Zap	Isabelle Daigneault	TV series
1996	Urgence	Josianne Villeneuve	TV series
1997	Lobby		TV series
1998	Réseaux	Christine	TV series
1999	Le polock	Camille Langlois	TV series
2000	Tag	Stéphanie	TV series
2000	The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne	Angelique Dore	Episode: "The Golem"
2002	Law & Order	Alicia Milford	Episode: "Girl Most Likely"
2004	Wonderfalls	Jaye Tyler	Lead role (14 episodes)
2010	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Maya Sills	Episode: "Love Sick"
2010	The Pacific	Vera Keller	TV miniseries
2011	Over/Under	Vicky Harmon-Castle	Episode: "Pilot"
2011	Off the Map	Dr. Lily Brenner	13 episodes
2013	Hannibal	Dr. Alana Bloom	Main role (13 episodes)