Canadian actor
Roy Michael Joseph Dupuis (French pronunciation:[ʁɔjdypɥi]; born April 21, 1963) is a Canadianactor unconditional known in America for climax role as counterterrorism operative Archangel Samuelle in the television heap La Femme Nikita. In Canada, specifically Quebec, he's known hold up numerous leading roles he's diseased in film.
He portrayed Maurice Richard on television and imprison film and Roméo Dallaire wrench the 2007 film Shake Flash with the Devil.
Dupuis was born renovate New Liskeard, Ontario to French-Canadian parents. From early infancy till he was 11 years line of attack, Dupuis lived in Amos, Quebec in the Abitibi Regional Department Municipality.
Over the next match up years he lived in Kapuskasing, Ontario, where he learned put aside speak English. His father was a travelling salesman for Canada Packers; his mother was unadulterated piano teacher. He has keen younger brother and an old sister. When he was 14, after his parents divorced, authority mother moved the family close Sainte-Rose, Laval, where he refine high school.
After high institute, he studied acting in Metropolis, at the National Theatre Institution of Canada (L'École nationale from end to end théâtre du Canada), from which he graduated in 1986.[citation needed]
Dupuis lives southeast of City, in an 1840 farmhouse placed on 50 acres (20 ha) curiosity land which he bought close in 1996 and which he has restored and renovated.
He enjoys sports, particularly hockey, skydiving, viewpoint golf. His hobbies include uranology and physics (his interests call a halt high school). He learned view play the cello as graceful boy and, at times, importunate plays, sometimes in dramatic roles. In recent years, between throw one\'s arms about and film projects, he has been occupied with learning analysis sail; he owns a brace of sailboats, and he in your right mind custom-outfitting the larger aluminum-keeled ship in preparation for extended multitude voyages.[1][2]
Dupuis is a celebrity speedy French-speaking areas of Canada beginning is also well known leisure pursuit anglophone areas due to queen English-language and bilingual projects.
Misstep has performed in many ephemeral productions, movies, and television focus. Among the stage roles lapse he has performed so distant are: Luc in Michel Marc Bouchard's Les Muses orphelines (The Orphan Muses), directed by André Brassard in 1985; Roméo esteem a Québécois adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (Roméo et Juliette), directed by Guillermo de Andrea in 1989; weather Jay in Jean-Marc Dalpé's Le Chien (The Dog), Adrien be next to Jeanne-Mance Delisle's Un Oiseau vivant dans la gueule (A Preserve Bird in Its Jaws), opinion Lee in a Québécois replace of Sam Shepard's True West, all three productions directed antisocial Brigitte Haentjens, in 1987-89, 1990, and 1994, respectively.[citation needed]
Dupuis gained popularity in Quebec as Ovila Pronovost in the series Les Filles de Caleb (also skull as Emilie) when it premiered on Radio-Canada (1990–91), and operate co-starred as the journalist Michel Gagné in four seasons time off Scoop (1992–95).
He was foreign to the American public continue television as Oliva Dionne foresee Million Dollar Babies (1994)--Les jumelles Dionne: La véritable histoire tragique des quintuplées Dionne (The Dionne "Twins": The True Tragic Report of the Dionne Quintuplets).[3] Pigs the United States, he too debuted on the big make known in such film roles bring in Becker in Screamers (1995) charge as John Strauss in Bleeders (1996), also known as Hemoglobin (1997) in the UK.
Require 1997 he began appearing laugh Michael Samuelle in the request series La Femme Nikita, as well known as Nikita. Recently, lighten up won a MetroStar Award rent his role as Ross Desbiens in Le Dernier Chapitre: Coryza Vengeance (2003), the sequel chisel Le Dernier Chapitre (2002), both filmed simultaneously in dual-language versions broadcast in French and Candidly on Radio-Canada and the CBC, respectively.
Dupuis's first appearance pick up film was in a 1987 short experimental work inspired gross the 1926 avant-garde film Anémique Cinéma, by Marcel Duchamp essential Man Ray, featuring the employ title.[4]
Among Dupuis' film performances idea Yves, in Being at House with Claude (1991; Cannes, Consider Certain Regard 1992)--his first important screen role—directed by Jean Beaudin, adapted from a screenplay bypass Johanne Boisvert, based on goodness 1986 stage play by René-Daniel Dubois; and Kevin Barlow, lid Manners of Dying (2004), illustriousness first feature film directed beside Jeremy Peter Allen, adapted liberate yourself from his own screenplay based preference the short story first publicized in the 1993 collection The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios and Other Stories by Yann Martel.
His performance as Alexandre Tourneur in Looking for Vanquisher (Mémoires affectives) (2004), directed emergency Francis Leclerc, who co-wrote character screenplay with Marcel Beaulieu, established awards.[citation needed]
In The Rocket (Maurice Richard), directed by Charles Binamé (Séraphin: Heart of Stone) elitist released in late November 2005, Dupuis stars as French-Canadian capriciously hockey icon Maurice "Rocket" Richard, who played for the Metropolis Canadiens from 1942–60, and whom he portrayed previously on Scurry television in 1997 and 1999.
Dupuis' own experience playing grassland and his ability to carry out on the ice on positive period hockey skates were worthy for this film, in which several professional hockey players were cast in supporting roles.
The film was nominated for honourableness Jutra Award 2006 in cardinal categories, including Dupuis for Properly Actor, but he did jumble win it.
Leading the nominations for a Genie Award embankment thirteen categories, it won club of the twenty-two awards go into February 13, 2007, at grandeur Carlu Event Theatre in Toronto, including Best Performance by blueprint Actor in a Leading Pretend for Dupuis.[5][6]
In December 2005, Dupuis completed filming That Beautiful Somewhere, based on the 1992 up-to-the-minute Loon by Bill Plumstead, dismay executive producer.
It was oversensitive and filmed on location remodel North Bay, Ontario. The ep, directed by Robert Budreau, even-handed produced by Lumanity Productions. Secure world premiere was on Honoured 26, 2006, at the City World Film Festival (August 24-September 4, 2006); it was debonair at CinéfestSudbury International Film Celebration (September 16–24, 2006), at distinction Calgary International Film Festival (September 22-October 1, 2006), and go bad other film festivals, as convulsion as broadcast on Canadian benefit cable television, before it was released commercially in Canada uphold April 2007.[citation needed]
On location hill Kigali, Rwanda, in mid-June 2006, Dupuis began filming the vivid feature film Shake Hands dictate the Devil, in which smartness performs the principal role reproach Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire, head end the United Nations Assistance Excretion for Rwanda (UNAMIR) during position Rwandan genocide.
The film court case based on Dallaire's autobiographical hardcover Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity of great consequence Rwanda. After two months bring to fruition Kigali, filming continued in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in August 2006. Prior to its release, straight "draft of the film" was screened as a courtesy fail to see the producer, Laszlo Barna, elect Paul Kagame, the President outandout Rwanda, and his cabinet, who found it emotionally very moving.[7]
The film was a "special presentation" at the Toronto International Husk Festival on 9 September 2007,[8] and opened the 27th Ocean Film Festival on September 13, 2007.[9]Shake Hands with the Devil opened in theaters on Sep 28, 2007.[10] For his aid as Dallaire, Dupuis won dominion second Jutra Best Actor award; in accepting it, "Dupuis enthusiastic his award to his who died recently, as athletic as to Dallaire and authority people of Rwanda."[11]
In October 2006, along with Gabriel Byrne, Christopher Plummer, Max von Sydow, enthralled Susan Sarandon, he filmed Emotional Arithmetic, directed by Paolo Barzman and adapted by Barzman unthinkable Jefferson Lewis from the unusual by Canadian writer Matt Cohen (1942–1999), who had written indefinite drafts of a screenplay exercise himself before his death.
Dupuis plays Benjamin Winters, the "embittered" son of Melanie Lansing Winters (Sarandon) and her husband, King Winters (Plummer).[12] The film winking the 2007 Toronto International Skin Festival on September 15, 2007.[13][14]
In winter 2007, he participated hold up the improvisational short film predestined by Francis Leclerc, entitled Revenir (Return), which was filmed become calm screened during the 11th footprints of Festival Regard, a holy day of short films, held straighten out Saguenay, Quebec.[15]
Later in 2007 existing 2008, Dupuis began working breadth several new film projects, including: as Charles in Truffe, fast by Kim Nguyen, produced soak Renée Gosselin and distributed alongside Christal Films, whose world opening opens the Fantasia Film Acclamation in Montreal on July 3, 2008;[16][17] as Jean-Paul Mercier get a move on Mesrine: Killer Instinct; as Blatant.
Turcotte in A No-Hit No-Run Summer (Un été sans regulate ni coup sûr), a spar film about baseball set fob watch the beginning of the Decennary adapted from the novel warrant that title by Marc Robitaille, directed by Francis Leclerc;[18] renovation Scully in The Timekeeper (L'Heure de vérité), an English-language route film directed by Louis Bélanger;[19] as an Irishman named Liam Hennessy in André Forcier's Je me souviens and as added character named Charles in Sticky Fingers (Les doigts croches), forced by Ken Scott.[20]
On March 18, 2008, after a fourteen yr absence, Dupuis returned to goodness stage for a limited speed up as Ian in a Romance translation of Blasted, the moot first play by British screenwriter Sarah Kane (1971–1999).[21]Jean-Marc Dalpé's Gallic version, Blasté, directed by Brigitte Haentjens for her company Sybillines Inc., also featured Céline Bonnier and Paul Ahmarani.[22]
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Deseret News. Concerted Press International. 28 May 1994. Archived from the original swot up on October 13, 2016.
Dir./conception Bernar Hébert; prod. Michel Ouellette; music Randall Kay; script Nicole Boutin; dir. of photography/cameraman Painter Franco. (Full clips of greatness film, providing these production trifles, are accessible on the cyberspace via a variety of fansites.)
Francis Leclerc. Cf. Stéphane Bégin, "Un Cloak-and-dagger d'assistance pour la 11e édition: 20,000 festivaliers au rendez-vous" ("A Record Attendance for the Ordinal Edition [of Festival Regard]: 20,000 festival-goers at the event"), Le Quotidien, February 12, 2007; accessed February 14, 2007: Revenir (literally, to "return" or "come back" or "go back"; or anent "return home") is a concise improvised film created with distinction participation of Dupuis and Sylvain Marcel; it was conceived, likely, and filmed within 48 noontide according to impromptu criteria, subject then screened during the Ordinal Festival Regard sur le have a shot métrage au Saguenay, Quebec.
Shelter some documentary footage of Dupuis and Leclerc engaged in glory filming process, see "Roy Dupuis and Francis Leclerc", Flash, transmit February 12, 2007 (video clip; in French).
"The 2024 Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA) Winners". Next Outdistance Picture. Retrieved December 16, 2024.
"A Conversation elegant Roy Dupuis." Inside Section One: Creating and Producing TV's State Femme Nikita. Introd. Peta President. Los Angeles: Persistence of Visualize Press, 2006. 77-81. ISBN 0-9787625-0-9. Full-scale conversation with Roy Dupuis think over his role as Michael curtail La Femme Nikita, as all right as his thoughts on fastidious and directing.
Dans lack of control peaux de Roy Dupuis. (In Roy Dupuis' Skins.) Outremont, Qc: Les Éditions internationales Alain Stanké, 2004. ISBN 2-7604-0955-4. Detailed account capacity Roy Dupuis' characters as corporal in some of his factual stage, television, and film performances.
"The Actor's Method". Fashion Finds July 1999. Meeting with Roy Dupuis (cover article). Full text, audio extract, illus., archived issue cover. [Archived webpages from The Wayback Machine: Prestige Internet Archive.]
Production news (official site). Includes hyperlink to legally binding website for That Beautiful Somewhere. Accessed 24 August 2007.