Name	Karine Vanasse
Height
Naionality	French-Canadian
Date of Birth	24-November-1983
Place of Birth	Drummondville, Quebec, Canada
Famous for	Acting

Karine Vanasse is a French Canadian actress. She recently played the role of Colette Valois in the ABC TV series Pan Am. Vanasse is the daughter of council worker Conrad Vanasse and Renée Gamache, who was her manager at the beginning of her career.

At the age of nine, Vanasse expressed her desire to sing or to act. Vanasse fulfilled that wish when she appeared in Quebec's teen show Club des 100 watts after winning a "lip sync" competition. It was then, with the help of her mother, that she began to audition for, and take part in, TV commercials, and to play minor and supporting roles in French Canadian TV movies.

In 1998, what is now known as the Motion International production company asked Vanasse to co-host the once-popular Quebec-based children's science show, Les Debrouillards, in an attempt to re-brand its "comeback" with a new, friendlier image. Producer Lorraine Richard and director Lea Pool spotted her there, and offered Vanasse her first big break in the role of Hanna in Emporte-moi (1999), a story of a teenager trying to find her identity in a tormented family environment. The film was presented at forty festivals, and shown in twenty countries. Her performance was highly acclaimed both nationally and internationally and earned her the title of best actress at the Jutra Award Gala, in Quebec.

Vanasse played Lucie in the controversial Québec TV series Deux Freres (1999). Her character, Lucie, became much more prominent and realistic in 2000–2001, and the debate stirred by the violent realism led her to become, together with Langlais, a spokesperson for the government-funded TV program Parler, c'est grandir, a broadcast aimed at youngsters from unstable backgrounds.