Roy Dupuis
Roy Dupuis was born in Temiskaming Shores, Ontario, Canada on April 21st, 1963 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 61, Roy Dupuis biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Roy Michael Joseph Dupuis (born April 21, 1963) is a Canadian actor best known for his role as counter-terrorism agent Michael Samuelle in La Femme Nikita's television series.
In the 2007 film Shake Hands with the Devil, he portrayed Maurice Richard on television and in film, as well as Roméo Dallaire.
Early life and education
Dupuis was born in New Liskeard, Ontario, to French-Canadian parents. Dupuis lived in Amos, Quebec, in the Abitibi Regional County Municipality, from the infancy to the age of 11. He lived in Kapuskasing, Ontario, where he learned to speak English over the next three years. His father, who was a traveling salesman for the Canada Packers, was a piano teacher; his mother was a travel tutor. He has a younger brother and an older sister. His mother moved the family to Sainte-Rose, Laval, where he finished high school, when he was 14 years old. He studied acting at the National Theatre School of Canada (L'École nationale de théâtre du Canada), from which he graduated in 1986.
Personal life
Dupuis lives in a 1840 farmhouse on 50 acres (20 ha) of land that he bought in 1996 and has restored and renovated. He loves sports, especially hockey, skydiving, and golf. Astronomy and physics are two of his hobbies (his passions in high school). He learned to play the cello as a child and, at times, appears in dramatic roles. He has been involved with learning to sail; he owns a few sailboats; and he's been customizing the larger aluminum-keeled vessel for longer ocean voyages in recent years; he has been working between television and film projects.
Career
Dupuis is a celebrity in French-speaking regions of Canada and is also well-known in anglophone countries due to his English-language and bilingual programs. He has appeared in numerous theater productions, films, and television series. Luc in Michel Bouchard's Les Muses orphelines (The Orphanage), directed by André Brassard in 1985; and Le Chien in a Québécois version of Sam Shepard's True West, all three performances directed by Brigitte Haentjens (1989, 1990, and 1994 respectively; Luc in Michel Marc Bouchard's Les Muses orphelines (The Orphanage) directed by Pierre Lamarche
When it premiered on Radio-Canada (1990–92), Dupuis became well-known as Ovila Pronovost (also known as Emilie), and he co-starred as journalist Michel Gagné in four seasons of Scoop (1991–95). Oliva Dionne, a million dollar baby (1994) - (The Dionne "Wins") — Oliva Dionne, Dionne's True Tragic Story of the Dionne Quintuplets) was revealed on television to the American people. He appeared on big screen in films such as Becker's (1995) and as John Strauss in Bleeders (1996), also known as Hemoglobin (1997) in the United Kingdom. Michael Samuelle, also known as Nikita, first appeared in the television series La Femme Nikita in 1997. On Radio-Canada and the CBC, respectively, he has been named in a MetroStar Award for his role as Ross Desbiens in Le Dernier Chapitre (2004), the sequel to Le Dernier Chapitre (2002).
In a 1987 short experimental film influenced by Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray's 1926 avant-garde film Anémique Cinéma, Dupuis' first appearance on film was the same name.
Among Dupuis' film performances are Yves (1991), Being at Home with Claude (1991), his first major screen role based on a narrator's script in Manners of Dying (2004), the first feature film directed by Jeremy Peter Allen, based on his own short story based on René-Daniel Dubois' 1993 film Being at Home with Claude (1991; Cannes, Uncertain Regard 1992) based on a Alexandre Tourneur of Taking Alexander (Mémoires affectives) (2004), directed by Francis Leclerc, who co-wrote the screenplay with Marcel Beaulieu, received accolades for his work.
Maurice "Rocket" Richard, a French-Canadiens ice hockey legend who competed for the Montreal Canadiens from 1942-1999, whose film appeared on Canadian television in 1997 and 1999, appears in The Rocket (Maurice Richard), directed by Charles Binamé (Séraphin: Heart of Stone), released in late November 2005. Dupuis' own participation in hockey and his ability to skate on authentic period hockey skates were important for this film, in which several professional hockey players were cast in supporting roles.
In fourteen categories, including Best Actor and Best Actor, the film was nominated for the Jutra Award 2006, but it did not win it. It earned nine of the twenty-two awards at the Carlu Event Theatre in Toronto, including Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for Dupuis, leading the nominations for a Genie Award in thirteen categories.
Dupuis finished filming That Beautiful Somewhere, based on Bill Plumstead's 1992 novel Loon, the company's executive producer, who was also based on the 1992 novel Loon. It was created and shot on location in North Bay, Ontario. Lumanity Productions produced the film, directed by Robert Budreau. Its world premiere was held on August 26, 2006, at the Montreal World Film Festival (September 22-September 24, 2006), as well as on Canadian pay cable television television, before it was broadcast in Canada in April 2007.
Dupuis started filming Shake Hands with the Devil in mid-June 2006, where he plays Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire, the head of the UN Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) during the Rwandan genocide. The film is based on Dallaire's autobiographical book Shake Hands with the Devil: The Defect of Humanity in Rwanda. After two months in Kigali, filming in Halifax, Nova Scotia, continued in August 2006. A "draft of the film" was screened prior to its release by the filmmaker, Laszlo Barna, to Paul Kagame, the President of Rwanda, and his cabinet, who found it emotionally moving.
On September 9, 2007, the film opened the Toronto International Film Festival for the 27th time in 2007. On September 28, 2007, Shake Hands with the Devil debuted in theaters. Dupuis received his second Jutra Best Actor award for his work as Dallaire, as well as to Dallaire and the people of Rwanda.
He filmed Emotional Arithmetic, directed by Gabriel Byrne, Christopher Plummer, Max von Sydow, and Susan Sarandon from the book by Canadian writer Matt Cohen (1942–1999), who had written several drafts of a screenplay adaptation himself before his death. Benjamin Winters, Melanie Lansing Winters' "embittered" son of Melanie Lansing Winters (Sarandon) and her partner, David Winters, are portrayed (Plummer). On September 15, 2007, the film closed the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival.
He appeared in Revenant (Return), Francis Leclerc's improvisational short film festival, which was filmed and broadcast during the 11th edition of Festival Regard, a festival of short films, held in Saenay, Quebec, in winter 2007.
Dupuis began filming in Mesrine, 2007 and 2008, as Dr. John Turcotte, directed by Kim Nguyen; as Scully in The Timekeeper (L'Hertie du retense), an English-language feature film directed by Louis Bélanger; as a character in Je me souvenir and as Charles in Ousted Fingers, directed by Ken Scott; as Jean-Paul Mercier in Mestre de fift; and as Jean-Paul Mercier
In a French translation of Blasted, Dupuis' controversial first play by British playwright Sarah Kane (1971-1989), the actor returned to the stage for a limited run as Ian after a fourteen-year absence. Blasté, Jean-Marc Dalpé's French version, directed by Brigitte Haentjens of her company Sybillines Inc., also included Céline Bonnier and Paul Ahmarani.
Selected awards
- MetroStar: 1991: Comédien - Téléroman ou mini-série: Les Filles de Caleb
- Gémeaux: 1991: Meilleure interprétation dans un premier rôle masculin: série dramatique: Les Filles de Caleb
- Fipa d'Or: 1991: Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels (Cannes): Best Actor: Les Filles de Caleb
- MetroStar: 1992: Comédien de téléroman ou mini-série québécoise: Emilie [English-dubbed version of Les Filles de Caleb]
- MetroStar: 2003: Rôle masculin/Télésérie québécoise: Le Dernier Chapitre: La Vengeance
- Genie: 2004: Meilleure interprétation dans un premier rôle masculin (Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role): Mémoires affectives
- Jutra: 2005: Meilleur acteur (Best Actor): Mémoires affectives
- Tokyo International Film Festival: 2006: Best Actor: The Rocket
- Genie: 2007: Meilleure interprétation dans un premier rôle masculin (Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role): The Rocket
- Jutra: 2008: Meilleur acteur (Best Actor): Shake Hands with the Devil
- Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival- Louisiana: 2020: Meilleur acteur (Best Actor in a Feature Film): Les Fleurs oubliées