Debbie Lynch-White
Debbie Lynch-White graduated from the Cégep de Saint-Hyacinthe theatre program in 2010. Soon after graduating, she was hired by choreographer Dave St-Pierre as an understudy in La pornographie des âmes. In 2011, she performed in Le cycle de la boucherie, created by St-Pierre’s company and presented at the Théâtre La Chapelle.
That same year, she co-founded the Théâtre du Grand Cheval (TGC) and produced Chlore, an original creation of which the young company could be justifiably proud. Premiered at La Petite Licorne in October 2012, the show was such a public and critical success that it was remounted by the Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui in January 2014. Debbie’s work with the TGC continued with a second creation, Sylvie aime Maurice, which premiered at La Grande Licorne in March 2017.
Debbie went on to star in a number of other plays, including Le vertige (Théâtre de l’Opsis), Sunderland (Compagnie Jean-Duceppe), J’accuse (Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui), and Roméo et Juliette (Théâtre du Nouveau Monde), as well as several summer theatre productions across Quebec.
Recent stage appearances include Tremblements at Espace GO, Les glaces at Théâtre La Licorne, L’art de vivre at the Quat’Sous, and Platonov, amour, haine et angles morts at Théâtre Prospero.
Debbie’s career took off in 2012 when she landed the role of Nancy Prévost in Radio-Canada’s hugely popular soap opera Unité 9. Since then she has been a regular on Quebec television, appearing in Une autre histoire, aired on ICI Radio-Canada from 2018 to 2021, as well as in Le jeu, Caméra café, and La faille on TVA, and in the three seasons of the Télé-Québec series Le pacte.
At a turning point in her career, Debbie was cast as Mary Travers, the lead role in the film La Bolduc, released in early 2018. She performed the film’s entire soundtrack, a performance that earned her the Iris Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role. In 2017, she also appeared in her first English-language feature film, Happy Face.
In 2019, Debbie went on tour with her show of cover songs, Elle était une fois, in which she performed great songs by female songwriters while sharing her passions, her sorrows, her joys and her concerns.
In 2021, she created and hosted the moving documentary series Histoires de coming-out. More recently, she was part of the quartet of female actors in Les Bombes, a Sériest series that she also created.
In 2024, she played Des-Neiges Verrette in the film adaptation of the Michel Tremblay classic Les belles-sœurs, directed by René Richard Cyr.