Marie-Sophie N�lisse is a Canadian teen actress. She is known for her Genie Award?winning performance in Monsieur Lazhar, and as Liesel Meminger in the film adaptation of the best-selling novel The Book Thief. N�lisse was born in Windsor, Ontario, but moved to Montreal, Quebec with her family when she was four. She is of French Canadian descent. She spent her early years training in gymnastics, aiming for the 2016 Olympics, and signed to a talent agency to make money to pay for the training, but after getting the part in The Book Thief she shifted her focus to acting. Besides her Genie Award for Monsieur Lazhar, she won a Jutra Award for her performance and a Young Artist Award nomination as Best Leading Young Actress in an International Feature Film. She also had roles in the film �sim�sac and in a Quebec sitcom called Les Parent. She will play the title role in the upcoming film The Great Gilly Hopkins, which finished filming on June 15, 2014. Her younger sister is actress Isabelle N�lisse, best known for her role in Mama. 

March 27th, 2000 in Windsor (Age 24)