Actor

Emilie Leclerc

is a bilingual actor and emcee/host living on the unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations, also known as Vancouver. She is dedicated to living a creative life and is constantly inspired by the beauty of Nature and the vibrancy of others.

Highlight of Emilie’s acting career is portraying Izadora on 3 seasons of Freeform’s Motherland : Fort Salem.

A Jessie Award recipient and multiple-time nominee, Emilie has been an active member of the Vancouver theatre community for the past fifteen years, working closely with Théâtre la Seizième.

Recently, Emilie played Queen Isabelle & Chorus in Lois Anderson’s Henry V at Bard on the Beach. Other highlights include playing Pierrette in Les Belles-soeurs (Ruby Slippers Theatre/Gateway Theatre), Lucy in A Charlie Brown Holiday Double Bill (Carousel Theatre), for which she was was nominated for an Ovation! and a Jessie Award, Représentante in Unité Modèle (Théâtre la Seizième), Bam-Bam in Redpatch (Hardline Productions) and Monique in Michel Tremblay’s Bonjour, là, Bonjour (Théâtre la Seizième). She also had the pleasure of working with companies such as ZeeZee Theatre, Presentation House Theatre, Babelle Theatre, Chemainus Theatre Festival and Twenty-Something Theatre amongst others.

As a member of the pan-Canadian collective Les Petites Cellules Chaudes, Emilie co-created iShow, an award-winning performance which toured all over Eastern Canada and France. Emilie also co-created Patrice Balbina’s Chance Encounter with the End of the World. The play, which is an immigration story story through the eyes of an 11 year old, has been performed twice in Australia, in Canada and in South Africa.

Emilie is a graduate of Studio 58’s acting program and holds a B.A. from McGill University. She has been awarded three times by La Foundation for the advancement of francophone theatre in Canada.