Genevieve Schmidt

Birth Name:

Genevieve Schmidt

Birth Place:

Québec, Canada

Profession

Actress

Best known for performing the character of prisoner Jessica Poirier in the Quebec soap opera “Unit 9” from 2013 to 2019
In 2004, she was helping a friend with her audition at the National Theatre School of Canada, but the teachers were so impressed by her performance that they offered her a place and she graduated in 2008
She grew up in a theatrical environment and helped her parents manage the Théâtre des Cascades at Pointe-des-Cascades when she was only 10 years old
She has performed the character of mentally unstable Nancy Riopelle in the television series drama “District 31” since 2019

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