Katherine Levac

Katherine Levac, born on 11 July 1989 in La Nation (Saint-Bernardin), is a Canadian French-speaking comedian and actress from Ontario. She graduated from the Ecole nationale de l'humour in 2013. In 2014, she won the final of En route vers mon premier gala Juste pour rire, then presented a number at the gala Les rejets, hosted by Francois Bellefeuille. At the Gala Les Olivier 2015, she won the trophy Decouverte de l'annee. In 2018, she presented her first solo show, Velours, on tour in Quebec and the Canadian francophonie; in October of the same year, the ADISQ gave her a "platine" certification marking the sale of more than 100,000 tickets.

Katherine Levac was part of the troupe of house comedians of the Quebec adaptation of Saturday Night Live: SNL Quebec, presented on Tele-Quebec from February 2014 to March 2015. It was thanks to SNL Quebec that Paidge Beaulieu, a Franco-Ontarian character imagined by Katherine Levac, became known to the general public. Since 2016, she has played in Like-moi!, a sketch comedy presented on Tele-Quebec. In 2024, she unveiled her second show L'homme de ma vie, which addresses, among other subjects, homosexuality and being a mother as a homosexual woman.

She grew up in Saint-Bernardin, in the sector of La Nation, in eastern Ontario. She attended the Universite d'Ottawa, where she obtained a bachelor's degree in French literature. At the beginning of 2020, she appeared on the cover of the magazine Elle Quebec with her partner, Karelle Tremblay. On 9 July 2021, she announced that her couple with director Chloe Robichaud was expecting twin boys; she gave birth to Ben and Mathias in November 2021, after which she created her new show Grosse. In November 2024, she announced she was separated from Chloe Robichaud but remained on good terms.