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
Television
| 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) |
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