Person in history
Sophie Nélisse
Sophie Nélisse, Canadian actress
Life at a glance
- Born
- 2000 · March 27
- Age this year
- 26No death recorded in our data
- Known as
- film actor, actor, and dancer. Citizenship: Canada
- Born
- 26th anniversary of their birth this year
Their story
Who they were
Marie-Sophie Nélisse is a Canadian actress. She made her film debut in the French-language drama Monsieur Lazhar (2011), for which she won a Genie Award for Best Supporting Actress. She played Liesel Meminger in the 2013 war drama The Book Thief, young Joan Fischer in the biographical film Pawn Sacrifice (2014), Casey Caraway in the coming-of-age drama Mean Dreams (2016), Aster in The Rest of Us (2019), and Irena Gut in Irena's Vow (2023). Since 2021,
Early life
Early life Marie-Sophie Nélisse was born in Windsor, Ontario , on March 27, 2000. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She is French Canadian . [ 4 ] Her family moved to Montreal when she was four. [ 1 ] [ 5 ] Her mother left her job as a schoolteacher in 2013 to act as a talent manager for both Sophie and her younger sister Isabelle , who is also an actress. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Nélisse is fluent in French and English. [ 1 ] ^ a b c "Sophie Nélisse" .
Path and career
Career Nélisse spent her early years training in gymnastics and signed to a talent agency to make money to pay for the training, but after getting the part of Liesel Meminger in The Book Thief (and subsequent accolades) she shifted her focus to acting. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Besides her Genie Award for Monsieur Lazhar , she won a Jutra Award for her performance and a Young Artist Award nomination as Best Leading Young Actress in an International Feature Film . [ 3 ]
Why this date
Sophie Nélisse appears on our March 27 calendar for 2000 as a birth entry.
The world when they were born
Other entries we record for 2000.
- October 6Fernando de la Rúa
- January 31Alaska Airlines Flight 261
- October 7Israeli–Palestinian conflict
- May 4Ken Livingstone
- September 14Microsoft
Born the same day
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Sources
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Questions about Sophie Nélisse
When was Sophie Nélisse born?
March 27 2000.
How old would Sophie Nélisse be today?
26 this year, based on the birth year we hold. We have no death record for them in our data, which is not proof either way.
Who else was born on March 27?
Marc Muniesa, London on da Track, Daria Snigur and others — the list is on this page and on the date page.
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