Roy Dupuis
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Roy Dupuis (born April 21, 1963) is a Canadian actor
best known for his role as counterterrorism operative Michael Samuelle in the television series La Femme Nikita. He portrayed Maurice Richard
on television and in film and Roméo Dallaire
in the 2007 film Shake Hands with the Devil.
, Abitibi
, Quebec
. The next three years he lived in Kapuskasing, Ontario
, where he learned to speak English. His father was a traveling salesman for Canada Packers
; his mother was a piano teacher. He has a younger brother and an older sister. When he was fourteen, after his parents divorced, his mother moved the family to Sainte-Rose, Laval, Quebec
, where he finished high school. After high school, he studied acting in Montreal
, at the National Theatre School of Canada
(L'École nationale de théâtre du Canada), from which he graduated in 1986.
He lives southeast of Montreal
, in an 1840 farmhouse located on 50 acres (200,000 m²) of land which he bought in 1996 and which he has restored and renovated. Subsequent biographical information comes from this source. He enjoys sports, particularly hockey, sky-diving, and golf. His hobbies include astronomy
and physics
(his interests in high school). He learned to play the cello
as a boy and, at times, still plays, sometimes in dramatic roles. For the past few years, between television and film projects, he has been occupied with learning to sail; he owns a couple of sailboats, and he is custom-outfitting the larger aluminum-keeled vessel in preparation for extended ocean voyages.
While becoming an accomplished actor in Quebec and well-known in some of the rest of Canada, Dupuis performed in many theater productions, movies, and television series.
Among the stage roles that he has performed so far are: Luc in Michel-Marc Bouchard's Les Muses orphelines (The Orphan Muses), directed by André Brassard
in 1985; Roméo in a Québécois adaptation of William Shakespeare
's Romeo and Juliet (Roméo et Juliette), directed by Guillermo de Andrea in 1989; and Jay in Jean-Marc Dalpé
's Le Chien (The Dog), Adrien in Jeanne-Mance Delisle's Un Oiseau vivant dans la gueule (A Live Bird in Its Jaws), and Lee in a Québécois version of Sam Shepard
's True West, all three productions directed by Brigitte Haentjens
, in 1987-89, 1990, and 1994, respectively.
Roy Dupuis gained national celebrity virtually overnight as Ovila Pronovost in the "télésérie Québécoise" Les Filles de Caleb
(also known as Emilie) when it premiered on Radio-Canada
(1990–92), and he co-starred as the journalist Michel Gagné in four seasons of Scoop (1991–95). He was introduced to the American public on television as Oliva Dionne in Million Dollar Babies
(1994)--Les jumelles Dionne: La véritable histoire tragique des quintuplées Dionne (The Dionne "Twins": The True Tragic Story of the Dionne Quintuplets
). In the United States, he also debuted on the big screen in such film roles as Becker in Screamers (1995) and as John Strauss in Bleeders
(1996), also known as Hemoglobin (1997) in the UK. In 1997 he began appearing as Michael Samuelle in the television series La Femme Nikita, also known as Nikita. Recently, he won a MetroStar Award
for his role as Ross Desbiens in Le Dernier Chapitre: La Vengeance (2003), the sequel to Le Dernier Chapitre (2002), both filmed simultaneously in dual-language versions broadcast in French and English on Radio-Canada and the CBC
, respectively.
Roy Dupuis's first appearance on film was in a 1987 short experimental work inspired by the 1926 avant-garde film Anémique Cinéma, by Marcel Duchamp
and Man Ray
, featuring the same title.
Among Roy Dupuis' "tour-de-force" film performances are: Yves, in Being at Home with Claude
(1991; Cannes, Un Certain Regard
1992)--his first major screen role—directed by Jean Beaudin
, adapted from a screenplay by Johanne Boisvert based on the 1986 stage play by René-Daniel Dubois
; and Kevin Barlow, in Manners of Dying
(2004), the first feature film directed by Jeremy Peter Allen
, adapted from his own screenplay based on the short story first published in the 1993 collection The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios
and Other Stories by Yann Martel
. His performance as Alexandre Tourneur in Mémoires affectives
(2004), directed by Francis Leclerc
, who co-wrote the screenplay with Marcel Beaulieu, has recently received awards.
In Maurice Richard
(The Rocket), directed by Charles Binamé
(Séraphin: un homme et son péché
) and released in late November 2005, Roy Dupuis stars as French-Canadian ice hockey
icon Maurice "Rocket" Richard
, who played for the Montreal Canadiens
from 1942 to 1960 and whom he portrayed previously on Canadian television in 1997 and 1999. Dupuis' own experience playing hockey and his ability to perform on the ice on authentic period hockey skates were useful for this film, in which several professional hockey players were cast in supporting roles. The film was nominated for the Jutra Award
2006 in fourteen categories, including Dupuis for Best Actor, but he did not win it. Leading the nominations for a Genie Award
in thirteen categories, it won nine of the twenty-two awards on the night of Tuesday, 13 February 2007, at the Carlu Event Theatre in Toronto
, including Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for Roy Dupuis.
In December 2005, Roy Dupuis completed filming That Beautiful Somewhere
, based on the 1992 novel Loon, by Bill Plumstead its executive producer, and both set and filmed on location in North Bay, Ontario
. The film, directed by Robert Budreau, is produced by Lumanity Productions. Its world première was on August 26, 2006, at the Montreal World Film Festival (24 August to September 4, 2006); it was presented at Cinéfest
Sudbury: International Film Festival (16–24 September 2006), at the Calgary International Film Festival
(September 22-October 1, 2006), and at other film festivals, as well as broadcast on Canadian pay cable television, before it was released commercially in Canada in April 2007.
On location in Kigali
, Rwanda
, in mid-June 2006, Roy Dupuis began filming the dramatic feature film Shake Hands with the Devil, in which he performs the principal role of Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire
, head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) during the Rwandan Genocide
. The film is based on Dallaire's autobiographical book Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
. After two months in Kigali, filming continued in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in August 2006. Prior to its release, a "draft of the film" was screened as a courtesy by the producer, Laszlo Barna
, to Paul Kagame
, the President of Rwanda, and his cabinet, who found it emotionally very moving. The film was a "special presentation" at the Toronto Film Festival on 9 September 2007, and opened the 27th Atlantic Film Festival
on 13 September 2007. Shake Hands with the Devil opened in theaters on 28 September 2007. For his performance as Dallaire, Dupuis won his second Jutra Best Actor award; in accepting it, "Dupuis dedicated his award to his mother, who died recently, as well as to Dallaire and the people of Rwanda."
In October 2006, along with Gabriel Byrne
, Christopher Plummer
, Max von Sydow
, and Susan Sarandon
, he filmed Emotional Arithmetic
, directed by Paolo Barzman and adapted by Barzman and Jefferson Lewis from the novel by Canadian writer Matt Cohen (1942–1999), who had written several drafts of a screenplay adaptation himself before his death. Dupuis plays Benjamin Winters, the "embittered" son of Melanie Lansing Winters (Sarandon) and her husband, David Winters (Plummer). The film closed the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival
on 15 September 2007.
In winter 2007, he participated in the improvisational short film directed by Francis Leclerc
, entitled Revenir ("Return"), conceived, filmed, and screened during the 11th edition of Festival Regard, a festival of short films, held in Saguenay, Quebec
.
Later in 2007 and 2008, Dupuis began working on several new film projects, including: as Charles in Truffe ("Truffle"), directed by Kim Nguyen, produced by Renée Gosselin and distributed by Christal Films, whose world première opens the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal
on July 3, 2008; as Jean-Paul Mercier in "L'Instinct de Mort" ("Mesrine: Killer Instinct"), part 1 of Public Enemy Number One
, a two-part feature film
about notorious French gangster Jacques Mesrine
, played by Vincent Cassel
, directed by Jean-François Richet
; as Mr. Turcotte in "Un été sans point ni coup sûr" ("A No-Hit No-Run Summer"), a baseball feature film
set at the beginning of the 1960s adapted from the novel of that title by Marc Robitaille, directed by Francis Leclerc
; as Scully in "The Timekeeper", an English-language feature film
directed by Louis Bélanger;, as Irishman Liam Hennessy in André Forcier
's Je me souviens
and as another character named Charles in "Les doigts croches" (2008), directed by Ken Scott.
On March 18, 2008, after fourteen years, Dupuis returned to the stage for a limited run as Ian in a French translation of Blasted
, the controversial first play by British playwright Sarah Kane
(1971–1999). Jean-Marc Dalpé
's French version, Blasté, directed by Brigitte Haentjens
for her company Sybillines Inc., also featured Céline Bonnier
and Paul Ahmarani
.
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
best known for his role as counterterrorism operative Michael Samuelle in the television series La Femme Nikita. He portrayed Maurice Richard
Maurice Richard
Joseph Henri Maurice "the Rocket" Richard, Sr., was a French-Canadian professional ice hockey player who played for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League from 1942 to 1960. The "Rocket" was the most prolific goal-scorer of his era, the first to achieve the feat of 50 goals in 50...
on television and in film and Roméo Dallaire
Roméo Dallaire
Lieutenant-General Roméo Antonius Dallaire, is a Canadian senator, humanitarian, author and retired general...
in the 2007 film Shake Hands with the Devil.
Biography
Dupuis was born Roy Michel Joseph Dupuis in New Liskeard, Ontario to French-Canadian parents . From early infancy until he was eleven years old, Dupuis lived in AmosAmos, Quebec
Amos is a ville in northwestern Quebec, Canada, on the Harricana River. It is the seat of Abitibi Regional County Municipality.Amos is the main city on the Harricana River, and the smallest of the three primary cities — after Rouyn-Noranda and Val-d'Or — in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec...
, Abitibi
Abitibi Regional County Municipality, Quebec
Abitibi Regional County Municipality is located in Northwestern Quebec. The Regional County Municipality seat is Amos.-Municipalities:*Barraute*Berry*Champneuf*La Corne*La Morandière*La Motte*Preissac*Rochebaucourt*Saint-Dominique-du-Rosaire...
, Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
. The next three years he lived in Kapuskasing, Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
, where he learned to speak English. His father was a traveling salesman for Canada Packers
Canada Packers
Canada Packers was the largest meat packing and meat processing company in Canada, located in Ontario. It is now part of Maple Leaf Foods through a merger with Maple Leaf Mills....
; his mother was a piano teacher. He has a younger brother and an older sister. When he was fourteen, after his parents divorced, his mother moved the family to Sainte-Rose, Laval, Quebec
Laval, Quebec
Laval is a Canadian city and a region in southwestern Quebec. It is the largest suburb of Montreal, the third largest municipality in the province of Quebec, and the 14th largest city in Canada with a population of 368,709 in 2006...
, where he finished high school. After high school, he studied acting in Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
, at the National Theatre School of Canada
National Theatre School of Canada
The National Theatre School of Canada is a private college located in Montreal, Quebec.Established in Montreal in 1960, the National Theatre School of Canada offers professional training in English and French in a setting that unites all the theatre arts: acting, playwriting, directing, set and...
(L'École nationale de théâtre du Canada), from which he graduated in 1986.
He lives southeast of Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
, in an 1840 farmhouse located on 50 acres (200,000 m²) of land which he bought in 1996 and which he has restored and renovated. Subsequent biographical information comes from this source. He enjoys sports, particularly hockey, sky-diving, and golf. His hobbies include astronomy
Astronomy
Astronomy is a natural science that deals with the study of celestial objects and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere of Earth...
and physics
Physics
Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
(his interests in high school). He learned to play the cello
Cello
The cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
as a boy and, at times, still plays, sometimes in dramatic roles. For the past few years, between television and film projects, he has been occupied with learning to sail; he owns a couple of sailboats, and he is custom-outfitting the larger aluminum-keeled vessel in preparation for extended ocean voyages.
Career
Among the stage roles that he has performed so far are: Luc in Michel-Marc Bouchard's Les Muses orphelines (The Orphan Muses), directed by André Brassard
André Brassard
André Brassard is a Canadian stage director and actor, best known for creating the vast majority of Michel Tremblay's plays....
in 1985; Roméo in a Québécois adaptation of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
's Romeo and Juliet (Roméo et Juliette), directed by Guillermo de Andrea in 1989; and Jay in Jean-Marc Dalpé
Jean-Marc Dalpé
Jean Marc Dalpé is a Canadian playwright and poet. He is one of the most important figures in Franco-Ontarian literature....
's Le Chien (The Dog), Adrien in Jeanne-Mance Delisle's Un Oiseau vivant dans la gueule (A Live Bird in Its Jaws), and Lee in a Québécois version of Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard is an American playwright, actor, and television and film director. He is the author of several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child...
's True West, all three productions directed by Brigitte Haentjens
Brigitte Haentjens
Brigitte Haentjens is a Canadian theatre director and president of her own company, Sybillines, which she founded in 1997.-Biography:Born in France, she studied theatre in Paris before moving to Ontario in Canada at the age of 25.-Career:...
, in 1987-89, 1990, and 1994, respectively.
Roy Dupuis gained national celebrity virtually overnight as Ovila Pronovost in the "télésérie Québécoise" Les Filles de Caleb
Les Filles de Caleb
Les Filles de Caleb is a Quebec TV series of 20 one-hour episodes, created by Jean Beaudin, based on the eponymous novel of Arlette Cousture, broadcast in 1990 on Radio-Canada and repeated in 2006 on Prise 2.-Plot:...
(also known as Emilie) when it premiered on Radio-Canada
Télévision de Radio-Canada
Télévision de Radio-Canada is a Canadian French language television network. It is owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, known in French as Société Radio-Canada. Headquarters are at Maison Radio-Canada in Montreal, which is also home to the network's flagship station, CBFT-DT...
(1990–92), and he co-starred as the journalist Michel Gagné in four seasons of Scoop (1991–95). He was introduced to the American public on television as Oliva Dionne in Million Dollar Babies
Million Dollar Babies
Million Dollar Babies is a 1994 television movie based on the fact based novel Time of Their Lives—The Dionne Tragedy by John Nihmey and Stuart Foxman and was an American/Canadian co-production by CBS, Cinar , and The CBC...
(1994)--Les jumelles Dionne: La véritable histoire tragique des quintuplées Dionne (The Dionne "Twins": The True Tragic Story of the Dionne Quintuplets
Dionne quintuplets
The Dionne quintuplets are the first quintuplets known to survive their infancy. The sisters were born just outside Callander, Ontario, Canada near the village of Corbeil.The Dionne girls were born two months premature...
). In the United States, he also debuted on the big screen in such film roles as Becker in Screamers (1995) and as John Strauss in Bleeders
Bleeders (film)
Bleeders is a horror movie released in 1997, based on H. P. Lovecraft's story "The Lurking Fear".-Plot:John and Kathleen Strauss are a couple attempting to uncover the secret to John's rare blood disease. Along the way, they encounter Dr. Marlowe , who is intrigued by the case...
(1996), also known as Hemoglobin (1997) in the UK. In 1997 he began appearing as Michael Samuelle in the television series La Femme Nikita, also known as Nikita. Recently, he won a MetroStar Award
MetroStar Award
The MetroStar Award was presented for achievements in French-Canadian television and was based on popular vote. Many notable Québécois performing artists have been honored with this award; for example, Céline Dion in 1988 and Roy Dupuis in 1991, 1992, and 2003.The sponsorship of this award and...
for his role as Ross Desbiens in Le Dernier Chapitre: La Vengeance (2003), the sequel to Le Dernier Chapitre (2002), both filmed simultaneously in dual-language versions broadcast in French and English on Radio-Canada and the CBC
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known as CBC and officially as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster...
, respectively.
Roy Dupuis's first appearance on film was in a 1987 short experimental work inspired by the 1926 avant-garde film Anémique Cinéma, by Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Considered by some to be one of the most important artists of the 20th century, Duchamp's output influenced the development of post-World War I Western art...
and Man Ray
Man Ray
Man Ray , born Emmanuel Radnitzky, was an American artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. Perhaps best described simply as a modernist, he was a significant contributor to both the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal...
, featuring the same title.
Among Roy Dupuis' "tour-de-force" film performances are: Yves, in Being at Home with Claude
Being at Home with Claude
Being at Home with Claude is a 1992 Canadian drama film directed by Jean Beaudin and based on the play by René-Daniel Dubois.The film stars Roy Dupuis as Yves, a gay man who has just murdered his lover Claude , and is attempting to explain his reasons to the police investigator .At the 13th Genie...
(1991; Cannes, Un Certain Regard
Un Certain Regard
Un Certain Regard is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's Official Selection. It is run at the Salle Debussy, parallel to the competition for the Palme d'Or.This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob...
1992)--his first major screen role—directed by Jean Beaudin
Jean Beaudin
Jean Beaudin is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 20 films since 1969. His film J.A. Martin Photographer, was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival, where Monique Mercure won the award for Best Actress. The film also won best Film, he won best Director, and Mercure...
, adapted from a screenplay by Johanne Boisvert based on the 1986 stage play by René-Daniel Dubois
René-Daniel Dubois
René-Daniel Dubois is a Québécois playwright and actor.-Movie career:He is best known for his 1985 play Being at Home with Claude, which was adapted into an award-winning film in 1992 and the 2009 Thriller drama 5150 Elm's Way...
; and Kevin Barlow, in Manners of Dying
Manners of Dying
Manners of Dying is a 2004 Canadian drama film based on the short story of the same name by Yann Martel, winner of the Man Booker Prize for his book, The Life of Pi.- Plot :...
(2004), the first feature film directed by Jeremy Peter Allen
Jeremy Peter Allen
Jeremy Peter Allen is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He grew up in Quebec City, in the Province of Quebec...
, adapted from his own screenplay based on the short story first published in the 1993 collection The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios
The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios
The Facts behind the Helsinki Roccamatios and Other Stories is a book of short stories by Canadian author Yann Martel. First published as a paperback by Knopf Canada in the spring of 1993, it garnered little attention outside Canada until 2004, after Martel's award-winning Life of Pi gained...
and Other Stories by Yann Martel
Yann Martel
Yann Martel is a Canadian author best known for the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi.-Early life:Martel was born in Salamanca, Spain where his father was posted as a diplomat for the Canadian government. He was raised in Costa Rica, France, Mexico, and Canada...
. His performance as Alexandre Tourneur in Mémoires affectives
Mémoires affectives
Mémoires affectives is a French language Canadian drama film. It was directed and written by Francis Leclerc. Marcel Beaulieu also wrote the script...
(2004), directed by Francis Leclerc
Francis Leclerc
Francis Leclerc is a Canadian film and television director, screenwriter and film editor.- Recognition :* 2005 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Direction - Looking for Alexander - Won...
, who co-wrote the screenplay with Marcel Beaulieu, has recently received awards.
In Maurice Richard
Maurice Richard (film)
Maurice Richard is a French language Canadian biopic about the ice hockey player Maurice "The Rocket" Richard. It was released in English Canada as The Rocket: The Maurice Richard Story. It was released in the United States as The Rocket: The Legend of Rocket Richard and was distributed by...
(The Rocket), directed by Charles Binamé
Charles Binamé
Charles Binamé is a Quebec director. He was born in Belgium and came to Montreal with his family at a young age. In 1971, he began work as an assistant director with the National Film Board of Canada. During the 1980s, he directed commercials in England...
(Séraphin: un homme et son péché
Séraphin: un homme et son péché
Séraphin: un homme et son péché is a Quebec film released in 2002. The script is based on a novel by Claude-Henri Grignon...
) and released in late November 2005, Roy Dupuis stars as French-Canadian ice hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
icon Maurice "Rocket" Richard
Maurice Richard
Joseph Henri Maurice "the Rocket" Richard, Sr., was a French-Canadian professional ice hockey player who played for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League from 1942 to 1960. The "Rocket" was the most prolific goal-scorer of his era, the first to achieve the feat of 50 goals in 50...
, who played for the Montreal Canadiens
Montreal Canadiens
The Montreal Canadiens are a professional ice hockey team based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The club is officially known as ...
from 1942 to 1960 and whom he portrayed previously on Canadian television in 1997 and 1999. Dupuis' own experience playing hockey and his ability to perform on the ice on authentic period hockey skates were useful for this film, in which several professional hockey players were cast in supporting roles. The film was nominated for the Jutra Award
Jutra Award
The Jutra Award is a Canadian annual cinema award that recognizes talent and achievement in the mainly francophone feature film industry in the province of Quebec...
2006 in fourteen categories, including Dupuis for Best Actor, but he did not win it. Leading the nominations for a Genie Award
Genie Award
Genie Awards are given out to recognize the best of Canadian cinema by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. From 1949-1979, the awards were named the Canadian Film Awards...
in thirteen categories, it won nine of the twenty-two awards on the night of Tuesday, 13 February 2007, at the Carlu Event Theatre in Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
, including Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for Roy Dupuis.
In December 2005, Roy Dupuis completed filming That Beautiful Somewhere
That Beautiful Somewhere
That Beautiful Somewhere is a Canadian feature film written, directed and produced by Robert Budreau, produced by Ian Murray and executive produced by Bill Plumstead for Loon Film Inc. and Lumanity Productions. The film stars Roy Dupuis and Jane McGregor. The screenplay was based on the novel Loon,...
, based on the 1992 novel Loon, by Bill Plumstead its executive producer, and both set and filmed on location in North Bay, Ontario
North Bay, Ontario
North Bay is a city in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It is the seat of Nipissing District, and takes its name from its position on the shore of Lake Nipissing.-History:...
. The film, directed by Robert Budreau, is produced by Lumanity Productions. Its world première was on August 26, 2006, at the Montreal World Film Festival (24 August to September 4, 2006); it was presented at Cinéfest
Cinéfest
Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival, also known as Cinéfest is an annual film festival in Sudbury, Ontario. It is the fourth largest film festival in Canada....
Sudbury: International Film Festival (16–24 September 2006), at the Calgary International Film Festival
Calgary International Film Festival
The Calgary International Film Festival is a film festival held annually in Calgary, Alberta, Canada for ten days in late September and early October...
(September 22-October 1, 2006), and at other film festivals, as well as broadcast on Canadian pay cable television, before it was released commercially in Canada in April 2007.
On location in Kigali
Kigali
Kigali, population 965,398 , is the capital and largest city of Rwanda. It is situated near the geographic centre of the nation, and has been the economic, cultural, and transport hub of Rwanda since it became capital at independence in 1962. The main residence and offices of the President of...
, Rwanda
Rwanda
Rwanda or , officially the Republic of Rwanda , is a country in central and eastern Africa with a population of approximately 11.4 million . Rwanda is located a few degrees south of the Equator, and is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
, in mid-June 2006, Roy Dupuis began filming the dramatic feature film Shake Hands with the Devil, in which he performs the principal role of Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire
Roméo Dallaire
Lieutenant-General Roméo Antonius Dallaire, is a Canadian senator, humanitarian, author and retired general...
, head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) during the Rwandan Genocide
Rwandan Genocide
The Rwandan Genocide was the 1994 mass murder of an estimated 800,000 people in the small East African nation of Rwanda. Over the course of approximately 100 days through mid-July, over 500,000 people were killed, according to a Human Rights Watch estimate...
. The film is based on Dallaire's autobiographical book Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
Shake Hands with the Devil (book)
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda is a book by Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire of the Canadian Forces, with help from Major Brent Beardsley...
. After two months in Kigali, filming continued in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in August 2006. Prior to its release, a "draft of the film" was screened as a courtesy by the producer, Laszlo Barna
Laszlo Barna
Lazslo Barna is a Gemini Award-winning executive producer of television programs and films. Born in Hungary but living and working in Canada, Barna produced prominent television shows such as Da Vinci's Inquest and Blue Murder.-Biography:...
, to Paul Kagame
Paul Kagame
Paul Kagame is the sixth and current President of the Republic of Rwanda. He rose to prominence as the leader of the Rwandan Patriotic Front , whose victory over the incumbent government in July 1994 effectively ended the Rwandan genocide...
, the President of Rwanda, and his cabinet, who found it emotionally very moving. The film was a "special presentation" at the Toronto Film Festival on 9 September 2007, and opened the 27th Atlantic Film Festival
Atlantic Film Festival
The Atlantic Film Festival is an international film festival held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.Held annually, the ten-day celebration of film and video from Atlantic Canada and around the world is committed to screening an inspiring and engaging collection of films and videos from Canada and the...
on 13 September 2007. Shake Hands with the Devil opened in theaters on 28 September 2007. For his performance as Dallaire, Dupuis won his second Jutra Best Actor award; in accepting it, "Dupuis dedicated his award to his mother, who died recently, as well as to Dallaire and the people of Rwanda."
In October 2006, along with Gabriel Byrne
Gabriel Byrne
Gabriel James Byrne is an Irish actor, film director, film producer, writer, cultural ambassador and audiobook narrator. His acting career began in the Focus Theatre before he joined Londo's Royal Court Theatre in 1979. Byrne's screen debut came in the Irish soap opera The Riordans and the...
, Christopher Plummer
Christopher Plummer
Arthur Christopher Orne Plummer, CC is a Canadian theatre, film and television actor. He made his film debut in 1957's Stage Struck, and notable early film performances include Night of the Generals, The Return of the Pink Panther and The Man Who Would Be King.In a career that spans over five...
, Max von Sydow
Max von Sydow
Max von Sydow is a Swedish actor. He has also held French citizenship since 2002. He has starred in many films and had supporting roles in dozens more...
, and Susan Sarandon
Susan Sarandon
Susan Sarandon is an American actress. She has worked in films and television since 1969, and won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the 1995 film Dead Man Walking. She had also been nominated for the award for four films before that and has received other recognition for her...
, he filmed Emotional Arithmetic
Emotional Arithmetic (film)
Emotional Arithmetic is a Canadian drama directed by Paolo Barzman, based on the novel by Matt Cohen, about the emotional consequences for three Holocaust survivors when they are reunited decades later. The film stars Gabriel Byrne, Roy Dupuis, Christopher Plummer, Susan Sarandon, and Max von Sydow...
, directed by Paolo Barzman and adapted by Barzman and Jefferson Lewis from the novel by Canadian writer Matt Cohen (1942–1999), who had written several drafts of a screenplay adaptation himself before his death. Dupuis plays Benjamin Winters, the "embittered" son of Melanie Lansing Winters (Sarandon) and her husband, David Winters (Plummer). The film closed the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival
Toronto International Film Festival
The Toronto International Film Festival is a publicly-attended film festival held each September in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2010, 339 films from 59 countries were screened at 32 screens in downtown Toronto venues...
on 15 September 2007.
In winter 2007, he participated in the improvisational short film directed by Francis Leclerc
Francis Leclerc
Francis Leclerc is a Canadian film and television director, screenwriter and film editor.- Recognition :* 2005 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Direction - Looking for Alexander - Won...
, entitled Revenir ("Return"), conceived, filmed, and screened during the 11th edition of Festival Regard, a festival of short films, held in Saguenay, Quebec
Saguenay, Quebec
Saguenay is a city in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada, on the Saguenay River, about north of Quebec City....
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Later in 2007 and 2008, Dupuis began working on several new film projects, including: as Charles in Truffe ("Truffle"), directed by Kim Nguyen, produced by Renée Gosselin and distributed by Christal Films, whose world première opens the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
on July 3, 2008; as Jean-Paul Mercier in "L'Instinct de Mort" ("Mesrine: Killer Instinct"), part 1 of Public Enemy Number One
Public Enemy Number One
Mesrine is a two-part 2008 French film directed by Jean-François Richet and written by Abdel Raouf Dafri and Richet...
, a two-part feature film
Feature film
In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...
about notorious French gangster Jacques Mesrine
Jacques Mesrine
Jacques Mesrine was the most famous criminal in modern French history. He was responsible for numerous bank robberies, burglaries, and kidnappings in France and Canada. Mesrine repeatedly escaped from prison and made international headlines during a final period as a fugitive when his exploits...
, played by Vincent Cassel
Vincent Cassel
Vincent Cassel is a Cesar award winning French actor probably best known to English-speaking audiences through his performances in the Ocean's Trilogy of films and Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan.-Personal life:...
, directed by Jean-François Richet
Jean-François Richet
Jean-Francois Richet is a French screenwriter, director, and producer, born on July 2, 1966 in Paris. He grew up in Meaux, a suburb east of Paris.-Selected filmography:* État des lieux - named at the César Awards 1996 in the Best Debut category....
; as Mr. Turcotte in "Un été sans point ni coup sûr" ("A No-Hit No-Run Summer"), a baseball feature film
Feature film
In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...
set at the beginning of the 1960s adapted from the novel of that title by Marc Robitaille, directed by Francis Leclerc
Francis Leclerc
Francis Leclerc is a Canadian film and television director, screenwriter and film editor.- Recognition :* 2005 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Direction - Looking for Alexander - Won...
; as Scully in "The Timekeeper", an English-language feature film
Feature film
In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...
directed by Louis Bélanger;, as Irishman Liam Hennessy in André Forcier
André Forcier
André Forcier is a Quebec film director and screenwriter. His work has been linked to Latin American magic realism by its use of fantasy but is firmly rooted in Quebec's reality....
's Je me souviens
Je me souviens
Je me souviens is the official motto of Quebec, a province of Canada. The motto means "I remember".- Origins :In 1883, Eugène-Étienne Taché, Assistant Commissioner for Crown lands in Quebec and architect of the provincial Parliament building had the motto carved in stone below the coat of arms of...
and as another character named Charles in "Les doigts croches" (2008), directed by Ken Scott.
On March 18, 2008, after fourteen years, Dupuis returned to the stage for a limited run as Ian in a French translation of Blasted
Blasted
Blasted is the first play by British author Sarah Kane. It was first performed in 1995 at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in London. This performance was highly controversial and the play was fiercely attacked by most newspaper critics, many of whom regarded it as a rather immature attempt to...
, the controversial first play by British playwright Sarah Kane
Sarah Kane
Sarah Kane was an English playwright. Her plays deal with themes of redemptive love, sexual desire, pain, torture — both physical and psychological — and death. They are characterised by a poetic intensity, pared-down language, exploration of theatrical form and, in her earlier work, the use of...
(1971–1999). Jean-Marc Dalpé
Jean-Marc Dalpé
Jean Marc Dalpé is a Canadian playwright and poet. He is one of the most important figures in Franco-Ontarian literature....
's French version, Blasté, directed by Brigitte Haentjens
Brigitte Haentjens
Brigitte Haentjens is a Canadian theatre director and president of her own company, Sybillines, which she founded in 1997.-Biography:Born in France, she studied theatre in Paris before moving to Ontario in Canada at the age of 25.-Career:...
for her company Sybillines Inc., also featured Céline Bonnier
Céline Bonnier
Céline Bonnier is a French Canadian actress from Quebec. She has been nominated for four awards including Genie Awards and Gemini Awards.-Biography:Céline Bonnier was the youngest of eight children, six boys and two girls...
and Paul Ahmarani
Paul Ahmarani
Paul Ahmarani is a Quebec actor. He was born from the union of two teachers, one from Cacouna, Bas-Saint-Laurent, Quebec and another from the Mediterranean coast...
.
Civic and philanthropic activities
- Roy Dupuis is co-founder and president of the Rivers FoundationRivers Foundation (Canada)The Rivers Foundation is a Québécois environmental organization created on 26 November 2002 "to preserve the rivers threatened by electric dam projects, pollution, privatisation and various economic interests. The Foundation's mission is to protect this collective resource...
(Fondation Rivières), an ecological organisation that protects the rivers of Quebec and their natural and cultural habitats from small hydroelectric dam projects and other environmental and economic threats, and to encourage, through education, the development of alternative energy sources.
Selected awards
- MetroStarMetroStar AwardThe MetroStar Award was presented for achievements in French-Canadian television and was based on popular vote. Many notable Québécois performing artists have been honored with this award; for example, Céline Dion in 1988 and Roy Dupuis in 1991, 1992, and 2003.The sponsorship of this award and...
: 1991: Comédien - Téléroman ou mini-série: Les Filles de Caleb - GémeauxGémeaux AwardThe Prix Gémeaux or Gémeaux Awards honour French Canadian achievements in Canadian television. It has been sponsored by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television since 1985. In 2005 the Prix Gémeaux celebrated its 20th anniversary. Its English-language counterpart is the Gemini Awards.-External...
: 1991: Meilleure interprétation dans un premier rôle masculin: série dramatique: Les Filles de Caleb - Fipa d'Or: 1991: Festival International de Programmes AudiovisuelsFestival International de Programmes AudiovisuelsThe International Festival of Audiovisual Programmes , founded in 1987 by Michel Mitrani , was first held in Cannes in October 1987....
(CannesCannesCannes is one of the best-known cities of the French Riviera, a busy tourist destination and host of the annual Cannes Film Festival. It is a Commune of France in the Alpes-Maritimes department....
): Best Actor: Les Filles de Caleb - MetroStarMetroStar AwardThe MetroStar Award was presented for achievements in French-Canadian television and was based on popular vote. Many notable Québécois performing artists have been honored with this award; for example, Céline Dion in 1988 and Roy Dupuis in 1991, 1992, and 2003.The sponsorship of this award and...
: 1992: Comédien de téléroman ou mini-série québécoise: Emilie [English-dubbed version of Les Filles de Caleb] - MetroStarMetroStar AwardThe MetroStar Award was presented for achievements in French-Canadian television and was based on popular vote. Many notable Québécois performing artists have been honored with this award; for example, Céline Dion in 1988 and Roy Dupuis in 1991, 1992, and 2003.The sponsorship of this award and...
: 2003: Rôle masculin/Télésérie québécoise: Le Dernier Chapitre: La Vengeance - GenieGenie AwardGenie Awards are given out to recognize the best of Canadian cinema by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. From 1949-1979, the awards were named the Canadian Film Awards...
: 2004: Meilleure interprétation dans un premier rôle masculin (Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role): Mémoires affectives - JutraJutra AwardThe Jutra Award is a Canadian annual cinema award that recognizes talent and achievement in the mainly francophone feature film industry in the province of Quebec...
: 2005: Meilleur acteur (Best Actor): Mémoires affectives - Tokyo International Film FestivalTokyo International Film FestivalTokyo International Film Festival is a film festival established in 1985. The event was held biannually from 1985 to 1991 and annually thereafter...
: 2006: Best Actor: The Rocket - GenieGenie AwardGenie Awards are given out to recognize the best of Canadian cinema by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. From 1949-1979, the awards were named the Canadian Film Awards...
: 2007: Meilleure interprétation dans un premier rôle masculin (Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading RoleGenie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading RoleThe Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role is awarded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best Canadian actor.-1st Genie Awards:* Christopher Plummer, Murder by Decree...
): The Rocket - JutraJutra AwardThe Jutra Award is a Canadian annual cinema award that recognizes talent and achievement in the mainly francophone feature film industry in the province of Quebec...
: 2008: Meilleur acteur (Best Actor): Shake Hands with the Devil
Selected stage performances
- Les Deux Gentilshommes de Vérone (The Two Gentlemen of VeronaThe Two Gentlemen of VeronaThe Two Gentlemen of Verona is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1590 or 1591. It is considered by some to be Shakespeare's first play, and is often seen as his first tentative steps in laying out some of the themes and tropes with which he would later deal in more...
), by William ShakespeareWilliam ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
(1985) - La Passion selon Pier Paolo Pasolini (The Passion According to Pier Paolo PasoliniPier Paolo PasoliniPier Paolo Pasolini was an Italian film director, poet, writer, and intellectual. Pasolini distinguished himself as a poet, journalist, philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and magazine columnist, actor, painter and political figure...
), a play by René Kalinsky based on TeoremaTheorem (film)Teorema is an Italian language movie directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini and starring Laura Betti, Silvana Mangano, Massimo Girotti, Terence Stamp, and Anne Wiazemsky. It was the first time Pasolini worked primarily with professional actors. In this film, an upper-class Milanese family is introduced...
(1985) - Harold et Maude (Harold and MaudeHarold and MaudeHarold and Maude is a 1971 American dark comedy film directed by Hal Ashby and released by Paramount Pictures. It incorporates elements of dark humor and existentialist drama, with a plot that revolves around the exploits of a young man intrigued with death, Harold...
), trans. and adapt. by Jean-Claude CarrièreJean-Claude CarrièreJean-Claude Carrière is a screenwriter and actor. Alumnus of the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud, he was a frequent collaborator with Luis Buñuel...
of the play by Colin HigginsColin HigginsColin Higgins was an Australian-American screenwriter, actor, director, and producer. He was best known for writing the screenplay for the 1971 film Harold and Maude. and for directing the films Foul Play and Nine to Five .-Biography:Higgins was born in Nouméa, New Caledonia to an Australian...
(1986) - Toupie Wildwood, by Pascale Rafie (1987)
- Au pied de la lettre (At the End of the Letter), by André Simard (1987)
- Fool for LoveFool for Love (play)Fool for Love is a play written by American playwright/actor Sam Shepard.-Plot:The "fools" in the play are battling lovers at a Mojave Desert motel. May is hiding out at said motel when an old childhood friend and old flame, Eddie. Eddie tries to convince May to come back home with him and live in...
, by Sam ShepardSam ShepardSam Shepard is an American playwright, actor, and television and film director. He is the author of several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child...
, trans. Michèle Magny (1987) - Le Chien (The Dog), by Jean-Marc DalpéJean-Marc DalpéJean Marc Dalpé is a Canadian playwright and poet. He is one of the most important figures in Franco-Ontarian literature....
(1987–1989) - Les Muses orphelines (The Orphan Muses), by Michel Marc BouchardMichel Marc BouchardMichel Marc Bouchard is a gay Canadian playwright.Born in Saint-Cœur-de-Marie, Quebec, he studied theatre at the University of Ottawa. Bouchard made his professional playwriting debut in 1983 and since then has written some 25 plays...
(1988) - Roméo et Juliette (Romeo and JulietRomeo and JulietRomeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers.Romeo and Juliet belongs to a...
), by William ShakespeareWilliam ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
, trans. Jean-Louis Roux (1989) - Un Oiseau vivant dans la gueule (A Live Bird in Its Jaws), by Jeanne-Mance Delisle (1990)
- True WestTrue West (play)True West is a play by American playwright Sam Shepard. Like most of his works it is inspired by myths of American life and popular culture. The play is a more traditional narrative than most of the plays that Shepard has written.-Plot:...
, by Sam ShepardSam ShepardSam Shepard is an American playwright, actor, and television and film director. He is the author of several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child...
, trans. Pierre Legris (1994) - BlastedBlastedBlasted is the first play by British author Sarah Kane. It was first performed in 1995 at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs in London. This performance was highly controversial and the play was fiercely attacked by most newspaper critics, many of whom regarded it as a rather immature attempt to...
, by Sarah KaneSarah KaneSarah Kane was an English playwright. Her plays deal with themes of redemptive love, sexual desire, pain, torture — both physical and psychological — and death. They are characterised by a poetic intensity, pared-down language, exploration of theatrical form and, in her earlier work, the use of...
, trans. as Blasté by Jean-Marc DalpéJean-Marc DalpéJean Marc Dalpé is a Canadian playwright and poet. He is one of the most important figures in Franco-Ontarian literature....
(2008)
Selected television work (TV-ography)
- Le Parc des Braves (The Park of the Brave) (1984–88; episode in 1987)
- Les enfants de la rue: Danny (Children of the Street: Danny) (1987)
- L'Héritage (The Inheritance) (1987–90; episode in 1987)
- L'amour avec un grand A [Also known as: Avec un grand A) (Love with a Capital L)] (1985–95): Hélène et Alexis (1988)
- Lance et CompteLance et compteLance et Compte is a series of Quebec téléromans revolving around a Quebec City ice hockey team. The series aired from 1986 to 1989 on the Radio-Canada network, and revival series on TQS in 2001 and on TVA from 2004 to the present....
(He Shoots, He Scores) (1986–89): Tous Pour Un (All for One [1990]--"téléfilm" based on the tv series) - Le Grand Jour (The Big Day) (1988)
- La Maison Deschênes (The House of Deschênes) (1987-89: episode in 1989)
- Les Filles de CalebLes Filles de CalebLes Filles de Caleb is a Quebec TV series of 20 one-hour episodes, created by Jean Beaudin, based on the eponymous novel of Arlette Cousture, broadcast in 1990 on Radio-Canada and repeated in 2006 on Prise 2.-Plot:...
(Caleb's Daughters) (1990–91) [Also known as: Emilie] - Scoop (1991–95)
- EmilieEmilieEmilie is a Danish, German, Norwegian, and Swedish form of the female name Emily and Emilia. Similar variants includes: Emelie in German, and Swedish, Émilie in French, and Emílie in Czech, Emilie may refer to:-People:* Emilie Autumn, American singer...
(1992) [English-dubbed version of Les Filles de CalebLes Filles de CalebLes Filles de Caleb is a Quebec TV series of 20 one-hour episodes, created by Jean Beaudin, based on the eponymous novel of Arlette Cousture, broadcast in 1990 on Radio-Canada and repeated in 2006 on Prise 2.-Plot:...
] - Blanche (1993) [Sequel to Les Filles de CalebLes Filles de CalebLes Filles de Caleb is a Quebec TV series of 20 one-hour episodes, created by Jean Beaudin, based on the eponymous novel of Arlette Cousture, broadcast in 1990 on Radio-Canada and repeated in 2006 on Prise 2.-Plot:...
] - Dark Eyes (Pilot) (1994)
- Million Dollar BabiesMillion Dollar BabiesMillion Dollar Babies is a 1994 television movie based on the fact based novel Time of Their Lives—The Dionne Tragedy by John Nihmey and Stuart Foxman and was an American/Canadian co-production by CBS, Cinar , and The CBC...
(1994) [Also known as: Les jumelles Dionne: La véritable histoire tragique des quintuplées Dionne (The Dionne "Twins": The True Tragic Story of the Dionne QuintupletsDionne quintupletsThe Dionne quintuplets are the first quintuplets known to survive their infancy. The sisters were born just outside Callander, Ontario, Canada near the village of Corbeil.The Dionne girls were born two months premature...
)] (1994) - Urgence (Emergency Call: Hospital Code 66) (1995)
- Heritage Minutes (Minutes du patrimoine) [Also known as: Historica Minutes or History by the Minute]: Louis RielLouis RielLouis David Riel was a Canadian politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and a political and spiritual leader of the Métis people of the Canadian prairies. He led two resistance movements against the Canadian government and its first post-Confederation Prime Minister, Sir John A....
and Maurice "Rocket" RichardMaurice RichardJoseph Henri Maurice "the Rocket" Richard, Sr., was a French-Canadian professional ice hockey player who played for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League from 1942 to 1960. The "Rocket" was the most prolific goal-scorer of his era, the first to achieve the feat of 50 goals in 50...
(1997) - Les Beaux Dimanches (Beautiful Sundays): Maurice RichardMaurice RichardJoseph Henri Maurice "the Rocket" Richard, Sr., was a French-Canadian professional ice hockey player who played for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League from 1942 to 1960. The "Rocket" was the most prolific goal-scorer of his era, the first to achieve the feat of 50 goals in 50...
: Histoire d'un Canadien. [Also known as: Maurice Rocket Richard Story (CanadaCanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
: English title)] (1999) - La Femme Nikita [Also known as: Nikita] (1997–2001); dir. episode 506: "The Evil That Men Do" (2001)
- Le Dernier Chapitre (The Last ChapterThe Last ChapterThe Last Chapter is the compilation album of reggaeton duo R.K.M & Ken-Y, includes 2 previously unreleased tracks including the hit "Te Amé En Mis Sueños" and "Por Amor a Ti". This album marks the 5 year career of R.K.M & Ken-Y. It was released on March 30, 2010...
) (2002) - Le Dernier Chapitre: La Vengeance (The Last Chapter: II: The War Continues) (2003)
- Les Règles du jeu: Roy Dupuis (The Name of the Game: Roy Dupuis) (2005)
- Un monde sans pauvretéUn monde sans pauvretéUn Monde sans Pauvreté is the Québécois branch of the Canadian Section of Make Poverty History, a national coalition of organizations comprising an international campaign coalition called the Global Call to Action Against Poverty...
: Agissons! (A World without Poverty: Take Action!) (2005) Public-service voiceover (in collaboration with Pascale MontpetitPascale MontpetitPascale Montpetit is a French Canadian actress, born in 1961. In 1990 she won a Best Actress Genie Award for Darrell Wasyk's H and in 2002 for Mario Azzopardi's Savage Messiah, 2 Gémeaux Awards, a Jutra Award and a Mons International Festival of Love Films award. She is also a well-known stage...
) sponsored by the QuébécoisFrench-speaking QuebecerFrench-speaking Quebecers are francophone residents of the Canadian province of Quebec....
section of Make Poverty HistoryMake Poverty HistoryMake Poverty History is the name of a campaign that exists in a number of countries, including Australia, Canada, Denmark , Finland, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Romania, the United Arab Emirates, Great Britain and Ireland...
(Abolissons La Pauvreté) on behalf of Global Call to Action Against PovertyGlobal Call to Action Against PovertyThe Global Call to Action Against Poverty is a growing worldwide alliance consisting of national coalitions of campaigns to end poverty.... - Les RescapésLes RescapésLes Rescapés is a Canadian television drama series, which debuted on Télévision de Radio-Canada in the 2010-11 television season.The series stars Roy Dupuis and Guylaine Tremblay as Gérald and Monique Boivin, the patriarch and matriarch of a family from 1960s-era Montreal who find themselves...
(2010)
Selected filmography
- Anémique cinéma (Anemic Cinema) (1987)
- Sortie 234 (Exit 234) (1988)
- Gaspard et fils (Gaspard and Son) (1988) [Also known as: Gaspard et fil$]
- Jésus de MontréalJesus of Montreal-Plot and allegory:The film centers on a group of actors in Montreal, Canada who are gathered by Daniel, an actor hired by a Roman Catholic site of pilgrimage to present a Passion play in its gardens....
(Jesus of Montreal) (1989) - Dans la ventre du dragon (In the Belly of the Dragon) (1989)
- Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer (How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting TiredHow To Make Love To A Negro Without Getting TiredHow to Make Love to A Negro Without Getting Tired is a French language film directed by Jacques W. Benoit, starring Isaach De Bankolé and written by Haitian author Dany Laferrière based on his novel of the same name.-Overview:In Montreal two African men, Man and Bouba, share an apartment...
) (1989) - Le Marché du couple (The Singles Game) (1990)
- Being at Home with ClaudeBeing at Home with ClaudeBeing at Home with Claude is a 1992 Canadian drama film directed by Jean Beaudin and based on the play by René-Daniel Dubois.The film stars Roy Dupuis as Yves, a gay man who has just murdered his lover Claude , and is attempting to explain his reasons to the police investigator .At the 13th Genie...
(1991) - Entangled (1992)
- C'était le 12 du 12 et Chili avait les blues (1993) [Also known as: Chili's Blues]
- Cap Tourmente (1993)
- Screamers (1995)
- J'en suis! (Heads or Tales) (I'm One of You [Heads or Tails]) (1996)
- Waiting for Michelangelo (1996)
- BleedersBleeders (film)Bleeders is a horror movie released in 1997, based on H. P. Lovecraft's story "The Lurking Fear".-Plot:John and Kathleen Strauss are a couple attempting to uncover the secret to John's rare blood disease. Along the way, they encounter Dr. Marlowe , who is intrigued by the case...
(1996 [US & Can.]) [Also known as: The Descendant (TV), Dark Harbour, and Hemoglobin] (1997 [UK]) - L'Homme idéal (The Ideal Man) (1996)
- Aire Libre (1995/1996) [Also known as: Out in the Open; Open Air; and Passage des hommes libres] (1997 [VHS])
- Free MoneyFree Money (film)Free Money is a 1998 black comedy film directed by Yves Simoneau, produced by Nicolas Clermont and written by Anthony Peck and Joseph Brutsman.- Plot :...
(1997) - Hemoglobin (1997 [UK]) [Also known as: BleedersBleeders (film)Bleeders is a horror movie released in 1997, based on H. P. Lovecraft's story "The Lurking Fear".-Plot:John and Kathleen Strauss are a couple attempting to uncover the secret to John's rare blood disease. Along the way, they encounter Dr. Marlowe , who is intrigued by the case...
(1996 [US & Can.]), The Descendant (TV), and Dark Harbour (Can.) ] - Séraphin: un homme et son péchéSéraphin: un homme et son péchéSéraphin: un homme et son péché is a Quebec film released in 2002. The script is based on a novel by Claude-Henri Grignon...
(Séraphin: Heart of Stone) (2002) - L'Invitation aux images (Invitation to the Images) (2003)
- Les Invasions barbaresLes Invasions barbaresThe Barbarian Invasions is a 2003 French Canadian comedy-drama film directed by Denys Arcand. It is the sequel to Arcand's earlier film The Decline of the American Empire and is followed by Days of Darkness. The film was produced by companies from both Canada and France, including Telefilm Canada,...
(The Barbarian Invasions) (2003) - Mémoires affectivesMémoires affectivesMémoires affectives is a French language Canadian drama film. It was directed and written by Francis Leclerc. Marcel Beaulieu also wrote the script...
(Looking for Alexander) (2004) - Manners of DyingManners of DyingManners of Dying is a 2004 Canadian drama film based on the short story of the same name by Yann Martel, winner of the Man Booker Prize for his book, The Life of Pi.- Plot :...
(L'Exécution) (2004) - Monica la Mitraille (Machine-Gun-Molly) (2004)
- Jack Paradise (Les Nuits de Montréal) (Jack Paradise [Montreal Nights]) (2004)
- C'est pas moi c'est l'autre!(2004). [Released in the USA in French with English subtitles as The Cop, the Criminal and the Clown (2007).]
- Maurice Richard: The RocketMaurice Richard (film)Maurice Richard is a French language Canadian biopic about the ice hockey player Maurice "The Rocket" Richard. It was released in English Canada as The Rocket: The Maurice Richard Story. It was released in the United States as The Rocket: The Legend of Rocket Richard and was distributed by...
(The Rocket: The Maurice Richard Story) (2005) - Les États-Unis d'Albert (Albert's America) (2005)
- That Beautiful SomewhereThat Beautiful SomewhereThat Beautiful Somewhere is a Canadian feature film written, directed and produced by Robert Budreau, produced by Ian Murray and executive produced by Bill Plumstead for Loon Film Inc. and Lumanity Productions. The film stars Roy Dupuis and Jane McGregor. The screenplay was based on the novel Loon,...
(2006) - Revenir (Return) (2007)
- Emotional ArithmeticEmotional Arithmetic (film)Emotional Arithmetic is a Canadian drama directed by Paolo Barzman, based on the novel by Matt Cohen, about the emotional consequences for three Holocaust survivors when they are reunited decades later. The film stars Gabriel Byrne, Roy Dupuis, Christopher Plummer, Susan Sarandon, and Max von Sydow...
(2007) - Shake Hands with the Devil (2007)
- Un été sans point ni coup sûr (A No-Hit No-Run Summer) (2008)
- Public Enemy Number OnePublic Enemy Number OneMesrine is a two-part 2008 French film directed by Jean-François Richet and written by Abdel Raouf Dafri and Richet...
(International: English title "Mesrine: Killer Instinct") (2008) - Truffe (2008)
- Sticky FingersSticky Fingers (2009 film)Sticky Fingers is a 2009 Canadian film written and directed by Ken Scott.-Plot:Set in 1964, Donald Quintal meets Father Padre Carmet at a missionary but is told by Carmet that he cannot be given the money...
(2009) - Je me souviensJe me souviensJe me souviens is the official motto of Quebec, a province of Canada. The motto means "I remember".- Origins :In 1883, Eugène-Étienne Taché, Assistant Commissioner for Crown lands in Quebec and architect of the provincial Parliament building had the motto carved in stone below the coat of arms of...
(2009) - The Timekeeper (2009)
Books and articles (print publications)
- Hampson, Sarah. "A Home Boy, Happy That Way." Globe and Mail 31 August 2002: R3 (Metro ed.). Biographical account based on interview with Roy Dupuis.
- Heyn, Christopher. "A Conversation with Roy Dupuis." Inside Section One: Creating and Producing TV's La Femme Nikita. Introd. Peta Wilson. Los Angeles: Persistence of Vision Press, 2006. 77-81. ISBN 0-9787625-0-9. In-depth conversation with Roy Dupuis about his role as Michael on La Femme Nikita, as well as his thoughts on acting and directing.
- St-Denis, Danièle. Dans les peaux de Roy Dupuis. (In Roy Dupuis' Skins.) Outremont, Qc: Les Éditions internationales Alain Stanké, 2004. ISBN 2-7604-0955-4. Detailed account of Roy Dupuis' characters as embodied in some of his documented stage, television, and film performances.
Interviews and other articles (online publications)
- Cooper, Gina Pia. "The Actor's Method". Fashion Finds July 1999. Interview with Roy Dupuis (cover article). Full text, audio extract, illus., archived issue cover. [Archived webpages from The Wayback Machine: The Internet ArchiveInternet ArchiveThe Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It offers permanent storage and access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, music, moving images, and nearly 3 million public domain books. The Internet Archive...
.] - Katz, Leslie. "Entertainment: Review: 'The Cop, the Criminal and the Clown'". San Francisco Examiner 6 April 2007.
- "What's New." Lumanity Productions: "That Beautiful Somewhere (Feature)" 29 January 2006. Production news (official site). Includes hyperlink to official website for That Beautiful Somewhere. Accessed 24 August 2007.
Audio-visual sources
- Les Règles du jeu: Roy Dupuis. (The Name of the Game: Roy Dupuis. In French with English subtitles.) 23 mins. Documentary film about Roy Dupuis completed in 2005 and first broadcast on Super ÉcranSuper ÉcranSuper Écran is a Canadian French language Category A premium television service that broadcasts nationally via satellite or cable subscribers. The network is owned by Astral Media...
on 26 January 2006.
External links
- Notre Cinéma à Radio-Canada: Les Vedettes: Roy Dupuis ("Our Cinema at Radio-Canada: The Stars: Roy Dupuis.") Selected filmography and related links in French.
- Roy Dupuis at Agence Premier RôleAgence Premier RôleAgence Premier Rôle is a talent agency located in Montreal, Canada, created by agent Hélène Mailloux. Her agency's clients include:* Roy Dupuis* Gregory Hlady...
. English version of official webpage. - Roy Dupuis The Official Roy Dupuis Fan Club