# Élise Guilbault

Élise Guilbault (born April 8, 1961) is a Canadian film and television actress. She is most noted for her performances in the film The Woman Who Drinks (La Femme qui boit), for which she won both the Genie Award for Best Actress at the 22nd Genie Awards and the Jutra Award for Best Actress at the 4th Jutra Awards, and the film The Novena (La Neuvaine), for which she won the Jutra for Best Actress at the 8th Jutra Awards.
She was previously a Genie nominee at the 14th Genie Awards in 1993 for Cap Tourmente, and a Jutra/Iris nominee at the 12th Jutra Awards for The Legacy (La Donation) and the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards for A Place to Live (Pour vivre ici).

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role |
| 1988 | Sortie 234 | |
| 1991 | Nuits d'Afrique | |
| 1991 | Rispondetemi | Mother |
| 1991 | Phantom Life (La vie fantôme) | Ghislaine |
| 1993 | Cap Tourmente | Alfa O'Neill |
| 1994 | Desire in Motion (Mouvements du désir) | Blind woman |
| 1994 | Chili's Blues (C'était le 12 du 12 et Chili avait les blues) | Woman in heels |
| 1996 | Cosmos | Real estate agent |
| 2001 | The Woman Who Drinks (La Femme qui boit) | Paulette |
| 2002 | Suburban Bliss (Secret de banlieue) | Maryse |
| 2005 | The Novena (La Neuvaine) | Jeanne Dion |
| 2009 | L'amarre | |
| 2009 | The Legacy (La Donation) | Jeanne Dion |
| 2012 | Lilly | Lilly Rochon |
| 2012 | The Bossé Empire (L'Empire Bo$$e) | Angelina Bossé |
| 2015 | On My Mother's Side (L'Origine des espèces) | Agathe |
| 2016 | The Notion of Mistake (La Notion d'erreur) | Madeleine |
| 2018 | A Place to Live (Pour vivre ici) | Monique Langevin |
| 2021 | Mourir en vie | Esther |
| 2023 | One Summer (Le temps d'un été) | Sister Monique |
| 2023 | Victoire (La Cordonnière) | Victoire du Sault, age 60 |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1992 | Montréal P.Q. | Thérèse Bissonnette | |
| 1992-1995 | Avec un grand A | Patricia Marleau/Suzie/Manon Beaupré | Three episodes |
| 1993 | Blanche | Dr. Gauthier | One episode |
| 1994 | René Lévesque | | |
| 1993 | Les grands procès | Mme Beaudry | One episode |
| 1995 | Alys Robi | Albertine Robitaille | |
| 1996 | Innocence | | Three episodes |
| 1997 | Les Bâtisseurs d'eau | | |
| 1998 | Réseaux | Évelyne Marotte | |
| 1998 | La Part des anges | Patricia Paradis | |
| 1999-2001 | 2 frères | Josiane Leblanc | 24 episodes |
| 2000 | Albertine in Five Times (Albertine, en cinq temps) | Albertine at 40 | |
| 2001 | Emma | Emma Dauphin | |
| 2001-2023 | Un gars, une fille | Élise | |
| 2002 | Annie et ses hommes | Myriam | |
| 2003-2005 | Grande ourse | Blanche von Trieck | 20 episodes |
| 2005 | Détect Inc. | Janet | |
| 2005-2007 | Le Cœur a ses raisons | Britany Jenkins | Nine episodes |
| 2006-2009 | Les Hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin | Estelle Poliquin | 43 episodes |
| 2009-2013 | Yamaska | Réjeanne Gagné | 50 episodes |
| 2011 | Penthouse 5-0 | Estelle Poliquin | 13 episodes |
| 2013 | En thérapie | Françoise | |
| 2015-2016 | Mensonges | Corinne Caron | 12 episodes |
| 2016 | Legacy: A Kate McDougal Investigation | Marquise Létourneau | Six episodes |
| 2016 | La Fouille | The Multimillionaire | |
| 2016 | Ça décolle | Mother | |
| 2016-2019 | Unité 9 | Kim | 41 episodes |
| 2017 | Cheval serpent | Dominique Lévesque | Five episodes |
| 2019 | The Wall (La Faille) | Diane Tremblay-Ricard | Seven episodes |
| 2020 | Mon fils | Marielle Bilodeau | Six episodes |
| 2021 | District 31 | Élyse Darveau | One episode |
| 2021 | Nous | Anne Denicourt | |
| 2024 | Anna Comes Home (Le retour d'Anna Brodeur) | Monique | |