Isabelle Sophie Emilie Blais (born June 21, 1975) is a Canadian film and television actress and singer. Born in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Blais is a graduate of the Montreal campus of the Conservatoire de musique et d’art dramatique du Québec. She first attracted critical attention for her stage performance as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, and in 2001 for her role in Soft Shell Man directed by André Turpin. In 2002, she appeared in George Clooney’s Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. The following year she won a Jutra Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Québec-Montréal directed by Ricardo Trogi, and also appeared in Denys Arcand’s The Barbarian Invasions. In 2004, she took a leading role in Les Aimants directed by Yves Pelletier, earning nominations for a Jutra Award for Best Actress and a Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role. In 2007, she appeared in a supporting role in Sur la trace d’Igor Rizzi directed by Noël Mitrani. Blais is also a singer with the Québécois rock group Caïman Fu. In 2010, she returned to the screen in Yves Pelletier’s Le Baiser du barbu and in Deborah Chow’s The Price (Le Prix à payer).

Filmography

• 2025Juste Xavier
• 2024Invincible — Josée
• 2024Sisters and Neighbors! — Lucille
• 2022How to Get Your Parents to Divorce — Julie
• Les Bracelets rouges — Anne Trépanier
• STAT — Mylène Lapierre (voice)
• Snowball Effect — Caroline Dubreuil
• Bête noire — Mélanie Rivard
• 2018Le nid — Isabelle
• 2018Ta mort en short(s) — Narrator (voice)
• Crime Stories — Constance Forest
• 2017It's the Heart That Dies Last — Martine
• 2017Tadoussac — Myriam
• Blue Moon — Évelyne Laurier
• 2016Mamie — Narrator (voice)
• 2015Blue Thunder
• Le berceau des anges — Alice McCoy
• 2015P=ωρ The Dark Energy — Jézabelle
• 2014Antoine et Marie — Sonia Girard
• Saving Bea — Adrienne Bannon
• En thérapie — Camille
• Tu m'aimes-tu? — Judith Lagueux
• 2011The High Cost of Living — Nathalie
• En audition avec Simon — Isabelle Blais
• 2010Face Time — Vicky
• Prozac — Sophie
• 2008Borderline — Kiki
• 2007Bluff — Josée
• 2007Happiness Bound
• 2007La belle empoisonneuse
• 2006Answered by Fire — Julie Fortin
• Answered by Fire — Julie Fortin
• 2006On the Trail of Igor Rizzi — Mélanie
• The Board — Sarah Lamontagne
• Human Trafficking — Helena
• 2005Saint Martyrs of the Damned — Tite-Fille
• 2004Love and Magnets — Julie
• 2004Machine Gun Molly — Sylvana
• 2003Corps étrangers
• 2003Shot down over the Soviet Union
• 2003The Barbarian Invasions — Sylvaine
• 2002Confessions of a Dangerous Mind — Chuck's Date #2
• 2002Looking for Leonard — Manon
• 2002Quebec-Montreal — Katherine
• 2002Savage Messiah — Lise
• 2001Soft Shell Man — Marie
• 2000The Three Madeleines
• Willie — Gabrielle

Appearances as themselves (9)

• Comment tu t'appelles ? — Self - Guest
• La semaine des 4 Julie — Self - Guest
• Bonsoir bonsoir! — Self
• Cette année-là — Self
• Format familial — Self
• Les Enfants de la télé — Self
• Le match des étoiles — Self
• Tout le monde en parle — Self
• Viens voir les comédiens — Self