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Mireille Métellus

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Mireille Métellus is a Haitian Canadian actress based in Montreal, Quebec, who was inducted into the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec in 2025. Born in Port-au-Prince, she moved to Canada in the late 1960s with her family, becoming a close friend of Michaëlle Jean and Sonya Biddle in the 1970s. She trained as a special education teacher concurrently with launching her acting career, first in Haitian community theatre projects with Montreal's Maison d’Haïti before branching out into the city's mainstream theatre community.

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