Sophie Nélisse

Sophie Nélisse is a Canadian actress who was born in Windsor, Ontario, and moved to Montreal at age four. Her first film was the French-language drama Monsieur Lazhar (2011), and that supporting part earned her a Genie Award. The same performance also brought a Jutra Award and a Young Artist Award nomination. She went on to play Liesel Meminger in The Book Thief (2013), young Joan Fischer in Pawn Sacrifice (2015), Casey Caraway in Mean Dreams (2016), Aster in The Rest of Us (2020), Irena Gut in Irena's Vow (2023), and the title role in The Great Gilly Hopkins (2015). On television, she has played Shauna Shipman in the Showtime psychological thriller Yellowjackets since 2021. She also appears as Rose Landry in Heated Rivalry, a Canadian sports romance series. In 2016, the Toronto International Film Festival chose her for its Rising Stars program, and she had a recurring part on the Québec sitcom The Parent Family.