Nathalie Doummar
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Nathalie Doummar (born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada[1]) is a Canadian actress and playwright.[2] She is most noted for her performance in the 2016 film Boundaries (Pays), for which she received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Actress at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards.[3]
Doummar was born in Montreal and is second-generation Canadian. Her parents are of Egyptian descent and fled Egypt during Nasser's regime. They settled in Montreal. She has a brother named Daniel. She was raised in Saint Laurent, a large, multicultural borough in Montreal. Lebanese, Egyptian, and Syrian cultures influenced her childhood. Doummar attended private school in Montreal and later university, where she graduated with a degree in primary education. She worked in primary education for two years and was certified as a teacher. However, due to an interest in theatre, she quit teaching and decided to study drama instead. She was admitted to the Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Montréal in her early 20s. During her time at the Conservatory, she was rarely considered for roles traditionally intended to be played by white actors.[1]
Career
She has also appeared in the films Dans l'ombre des Shafia, No Trace (Nulle trace) and The Furies (Les Furies), the television series Au secours de Béatrice, Boomerang and Good Morning Chuck (Bon matin Chuck, ou l'art de réduire les méfaits), and the web series Teodore pas de H. Doummar is a main cast member of TV series Aller Simple (2022).
She is a graduate of the Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Montréal. Her first theatrical play, Coco, premiered in 2016.[2] In 2019, her play Delphine de Ville St-Laurent was adapted by Chloé Robichaud as the short film Delphine.[4]