Kimberly Laferriere

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Kimberly Laferriere
Kimberly Laferriere at the 2017 CFC Annual Gala & Auction (32308768830).jpg
Born 1984
Occupation actor

Kimberly Laferriere is a Canadian actor from Quebec, who has performed in both french and english.[1]

She performed in her first feature film, an English language film, Winter Lily, in 2000, when she was 14 years old.[1] She splits her time between Toronto, Montreal and Los Angeles.[2][3][4]

In 2013 a touring company was performing in a play based on J.M. Coetzee’s novel Waiting for the Barbarians.[5] One of the actors, Chiedza Mhende, from Zimbabwe, was not able to get a visa for Canada, and Laferriere stepped in to take her role.

In 2017 Laferriere played a francophone visitor to Toronto in the experimental film White Night.[6]

Laferriere played Natasha, in Fugueuse, a more experienced sex-trade worker, who shows a teen-age runaway the ropes.[3] In a 2018 interview she predicted that viewers of season two would come to see that her character was also a victim.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Constance Cazzaniga. Kimberly Laferrière: « C'est un des personnages les plus complexes que j'ai eu à jouer dans ma vie », Hollywood PQ, 2018-02-05. Retrieved on 2019-12-03. (in French)
  2. Daniel Daignault. Kimberly Laferrière: Briser les tabous, TVA Nouvelles, 2018-02-10. Retrieved on 2019-12-03. (in French) “Kimberly habite à Toronto, elle a un pied-à-terre à Montréal et elle envisage
d’aller passer quelques mois à Los Angeles pour participer à des auditions pour des émissions pilotes qui auront lieu prochainement.
Bien sûr, elle espère de tout cœur que son personnage
de Natacha donnera l’idée à d’autres réalisateurs de faire appel à ses services. Car, elle l’avoue d’emblée, elle rêvait depuis longtemps de travailler au Québec. «Ce rôle dans «Fugueuse» est mon premier contrat pour la télévision québécoise. J’en suis heureuse, car mon but est de me faire connaître ici, chez moi. J’espère donc que ce rôle ouvrira la porte à d’autres beaux projets!»”
  3. 3.0 3.1 Karine Paradis. Kimberly Laferrière dans Fugueuse: «On va commencer à voir que Natasha est une victime!», En Vedette, 2018-02-12. Retrieved on 2019-12-19. (in French)
  4. Kelly-Ann Neeley. Kimberly Laferrière de Fugueuse partage ses endroits préférés à Montréal, Silo 57, 2020-02-19. Retrieved on 2020-04-25. (in French) “L’attachante Kimberly que l’on connaît bien pour son rôle de Natacha dans Fugueuse et Fugueuse la suite partage son temps entre Toronto et Montréal.”
  5. Roa Abdel-Gawad. Who exactly is the barbarian?, The Concordian, 2013-02-05. Retrieved on 2019-12-19. “A mention should be given to Montreal’s Kimberly-Anne Laferriere, who gave an exuberant performance as the prostitute Zoe, replacing Zimbabwe-born Chiedza Mhende who was not permitted to enter the country by Canadian Immigration.”
  6. Normal Wilner. White Night is a fun experiment in multi-character storytelling, Now magazine, 2017-09-27. Retrieved on 2019-12-19. “Melanie (Kimberly Laferriere) just got into town from rural Quebec, speaks very little English and is looking for her mother’s installation at the festival. Emily (Parveen Kaur) is an artist herself, though no one seems to understand what she’s doing with her piece, which looks like a stack of large cardboard boxes.”

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