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Mouna Traoré (born May 4, 1995) is a Canadian actress and filmmaker.
Mouna Traoré is a Canadian actress and filmmaker.

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Mouna Traoré

Birth place

Toronto, Canada

Position

Recurring Cast member

TV and Films

Hemlock Grove (2013), Shadowhunters (2016),In Contempt (2018), Condor (2018), Acquainted (2018), American Gods (2019), Private Eyes (2019), Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker (2020)

Mouna Traoréwas born and raised in downtown Toronto. Her passion for acting began at a young age when she began classes at Young People's Theatre. As her love for performance grew, she went on to spend her summers at Interlochen Arts Camp in Michigan before attending the prestigious Etobicoke School of the Arts, where she wrote and starred in several theatrical productions.

Mouna attended the University of Toronto and majored in Caribbean Studies and minored in African Studies and Buddhism Psychology. After graduating, she lived in Berlin for several months modelling. Her first gig, school-free, would be doing e-commerce for Zalando, an online store in Germany. When she came back from Berlin, she got the role of Ali on Hemlock Grove, her second audition since returni

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Mouna Traoré facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Mouna Traoré
Traoré in 2016
Born	(1995-05-04) May 4, 1995 (age 29) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupation	Actress, filmmaker
Years active	2009–present

Mouna Traoré (born May 4, 1995) is a Canadian actress and filmmaker. She is known for her performances in a variety of television series, such as Global TV's Rookie Blue (2012), CBC's Murdoch Mysteries (2015–2018), and Netflix's The Umbrella Academy (2020). Her film work includes the 2017 films The Drop In, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, and Brown Girl Begins, directed by Sharon Lewis.

Early life

Traore was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. Her mother is from Haiti and her father is from Mali.

Career

Traoré began acting at a young age. She attended classes at the Young People's Theatre. She later graduated from the Etobicoke School of the Arts, and completed a Bachelor of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto.

In 2017, Traoré starred in the short film The Drop In, which premiered at the Toronto Internat

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In Conversation: Aurora Perrineau & Mouna Traoré

Aurora Perrineau and Mouna Traoré first met at The Retaility’s Mother’s Day event in 2023. They quickly bonded. But not over motherhood.

“As someone who is childless and, perhaps, will be for the duration of my time on this planet, I wasn’t thinking about mom things,” Traoré says, with a laugh, while seated in the backyard of Perrineau’s Los Angeles home. “I’m a mother of food babies, but that’s about it.”

“I’m a dog mom,” says Perrineau, who has two little cuties named Moose and Ollie. She also often fosters pups with her longtime boyfriend Michael Vlamis. Case in point: She’s looking after one from the L.A. non-profit rescue organization Dogs Without Borders as she and Traoré speak. “Did you assume I was a dog mom?”

“I didn’t assume anything,” Traoré says.

“I didn’t assume what you did either.”

But Perrineau and Traoré soon discovered they were both actors with similar interests.

Perrineau was born in New York, but often traveled with her dad, Harold Perrineau, an actor whose extensive resume incl