Florence Blain Mbaye

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Florence Blain Mbaye, sometimes credited as Florence Blain, is a Canadian actress, singer and dancer.[1] She is most noted for her role in the 2013 film Another House (L'autre maison),[2] for which she garnered a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards.[3]

Her other film roles have included Waiting for April (En attendant avril), There Are No False Undertakings (Il n'y a pas de faux métier), Bungalow, This House (Cette maison), Invincible and Making Babies (Faire un enfant). She has also had roles in television and theatre,[4] and is an oboist and singer who has performed with the UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra, the Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España, Les Violons du Roy, the Metropolitan Orchestra of Montreal, Philippe B and Avec pas d'casque, among others.

She was one of the narrators of the 2021 animated documentary film Archipelago (Archipel).[5]

She received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Performance in a Live Action Short Drama at the 12th Canadian Screen Awards in 2024, for Making Babies.[6]

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  1. ^ "Florence Blain Mbaye". Agence RBL. Retrieved 2021-08-04.
  2. ^ "Film Review: ‘Another House’". Variety, September 29, 2013.
  3. ^ "Canadian Screen Awards: Orphan Black, Less Than Kind, Enemy nominated". CBC News, January 13, 2014.
  4. ^ [1] Archived 2011-05-19 at the Wayback Machine, agency profile at Agence artistique Karine Lapierre.
  5. ^ Wendy Ide, "‘Archipelago’: Rotterdam Review". Screen Daily, February 5, 2021.
  6. ^ "BlackBerry Leads CSA Nominations"[permanent dead link]. Northern Stars, March 6, 2024.

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