Canadian actress, playwright and theatre director
Michèle Magny (born 1944) is a Canadian actress, playwright and theatre director from Montreal, Quebec. She was a Governor General's Award nominee for French-language drama at the 1995 Governor General's Awards, for her play "Marina, le dernier rose aux joues".
A 1968 graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, she began her career with roles in films such as "Don't Let the Angels Fall" and "The House of Light (La Chambre blanche)". Her other credits have included the films "O or the Invisible Infant (Ô ou l'invisible enfant)", "Taureau", "La Piastre", "The Disappearance", "The Machine Age (L'Âge de la machine)", "To Be Sixteen (Avoir 16 ans)" and "Wild Flowers (Les Fleurs sauvages)", and the television series "Mont-Joye", "Maigrichon et Gras-Double" and "La Bonne Aventure".
More prominent as a stage actress, her performances have included productions of the collective play "La Nef des sorcières", Michel Tremblay's "Bonjour, là, bonjour", Anne Legault's "O'Neill", Denise Boucher's "Les Fées ont soif", and a French translation of Tom Stoppard's "The Real Thing". She has directed productions of Jacques Rampal's "Célimène et le cardinal", Jovette Marchessault's "Anaïs dans la queue de la comète", Sam Shepard's "Fool for Love", Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", and Elliott Hayes's "Homeward Bound".
Her second stage play, "Un carré de ciel" (2004), portrayed the life of writer Jacques Ferron. She has also written two radio plays for Ici Radio-Canada Première, "La plume et le scalpel" and "Histoire de gare et d'amour".
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