Mara Joly
Biography
Mara Joly is a French Canadian actress, writer, director and producer. Her mother is African American and her white is father. She studied Arts, Literature and communication – option Theatre at Collège Lionel-Groulx and graduated in 2010. She and Miryam Charles are the co-founders of a Montreal-based production company, Zama Productions Inc.
Known For & Full Filmography7 Titles
Drama Series - 2013, 16 episodes • as Girl in the Metro
Two grocery store clerks find themselves in the midst of a mysterious invasion of yellow crawling brains that contaminate the population and turn them into zombies.
Movie - 2017, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A fortuitous life-changing encounter between a young boy and a Muslim woman in a Montreal park.
Drama Series - 2017, 16 episodes • as Sophie
Chief inspector Constance Forest and her team match wits with petty criminals of all kinds in the fog-shrouded North Shore of Montreal.
Drama Series - 2017, 16 episodes • as Woman (Adopt Lucie)
The story of a child abandoned at birth who is shunted around from foster family to foster family. Despite numerous pitfalls along the way, Olivier courageously and tenaciously learns to be confident about life, to accept the inevitable transitions and to hope for the better. His firm objective is to turn 18, be independent at last and have some control over his life without being beholden to anyone.
Movie - 2016, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Beth is 31 and, since yesterday, single. She lives alone with an old cat found in her alleyway and barely makes a living working at her sister's café. Beth is also a robot. Beth is in a strange place, really.
Movie - 2018, 2h 15m • as La femme
A fantasy anthology of 15 segments each dealing with a specific neighbourhood of Montreal and its signature idiosyncrasies. This terrifying tour-of-the-town captures neighbourhoods, buildings and iconic locations from North America's Amsterdam, shedding the straightforward storyline for a narrative melting-pot filled with demons, shadowy humanoids and disgusting otherworldly beings.
Movie - 2014, 2h 15m • as Fille dans le métro
An epidemic of yellow crawling brains threatens the lives of inhabitants in a reclusive Northern Quebec town.