Mireille Metellus

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. Her first major film role was as Aunt Elide in Raoul Peck's 1993 film The Man by the Shore (L'Homme sur les quais). Her later film roles included On the Verge of a Fever (Le goût des jeunes filles), A Sunday in Kigali (Un dimanche à Kigali), and This House (Cette maison). In 2019 she played Lena in Héritage, a French translation by Mishka Lavigne of A Raisin in the Sun, for Montreal's Théàtre Jean-Duceppe, opposite Frédéric Pierre as Walter, Myriam de Verger as Ruth, and Patrick Emmanuel Abéllard as George.