Now that her English-language career has exploded - with a lead role on CBC’s World War II spy drama X Company, a three-season stint on cult sci-fi series Orphan Black, and a supporting film role opposite Tobey Maguire in last year’s Pawn Sacrifice - she finds that some people in Quebec fear she’s hit the unemployment line. She was viewed, she says, as a “blank slate.” When the Montreal native first began acting in English four years ago, few people in anglophone Canada - and even fewer in the United States - knew about her impressive French-language career in Quebec, which includes not only extensive TV credits, but film work with top-tier directors Denis Villenueve ( Polytechnique), Jean-Marc Vallee ( Café de Flore), and Xavier Dolan ( Tom à la ferme). Sometimes Evelyne Brochu’s career gets lost, quite literally, in translation. Spoiler alert: This article contains spoilers for ‘X Company.’
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