Monia Chokri

65th Annual Cannes Film Festival - "Laurence Anyways" Photocall

Chokri in 2012, photo by Prphotos

Place of Birth: Québec City, Québec, Canada

Date of Birth: c. June 1980

Ethnicity:
*father – Tunisian Berber
*mother – Scottish, Scandinavian

Monia Chokri is a Canadian actress and film director. She has directed the films A Brother’s Love, Babysitter (2022), which she also starred in; and The Nature of Love. She wrote her first and third films.

Her father is named Ahmed Chokri. Monia has said:

My mother is of Scottish origin and is a French-speaker, I also have Scandinavian ancestors, my Tunisian father is not Arab but Berber, the identity means many things and nothing at the same time.

Source: http://www.nightlife.ca

1 Response

  1. madman says:

    “My mother is of Scottish origin and is a French-speaker, I also have Scandinavian ancestors, my Tunisian father is not Arab but Berber, the identity means many things and nothing at the same time.”

    https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/le-reveil-culturel/hafzia-herzi-monia-chokri-de-lautre-cote-de-la-camera

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