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|birth_place = [[Cairo]], [[Egypt]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tremblay |first=Patrick |date=4 June 2021 |title=Biomutant – Entrevue avec Manuel Tadros, le narrateur |url=https://www.lebetatesteur.ca/biomutant-entrevue-avec-manuel-tadros-le-narrateur/ |website=Le Bêta-Testeur |language=fr |access-date=3 March 2024 |archive-date=3 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240303194613/https://www.lebetatesteur.ca/biomutant-entrevue-avec-manuel-tadros-le-narrateur/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Manuel Tadros |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/manuel_tadros |access-date=3 March 2024 |website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |archive-date=3 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240303194612/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/manuel_tadros |url-status=live }}</ref>
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'''Hany Manuel Tadros''' ({{lang-ar|مانويل تادرس}}; born September 30, 1956) is an [[Egyptian-Canadian]] singer, songwriter, actor, comedian and voice actor. He currently works and lives in [[Quebec]].
'''Hany Manuel Tadros''' ({{lang-ar|مانويل تادرس}}; born 30 September 1956) is an [[Egyptian-Canadian]] singer, songwriter, actor, comedian and voice actor. He currently works and lives in [[Quebec]].


==Early life==
==Early life==
Tadros was born in [[Cairo]], [[Egypt]] to a [[Christianity|Christian]] family. His father, Emmanuel Saadi Tadros, was a [[Copts in Egypt|Copt]], and his mother, Suzette Sawaya, was of [[Syro-Lebanese in Egypt|Levantine]] descent. Tadros's parents immigrated to Quebec when he was ten years old. His father bought him a guitar when he was 12 and he started composing and singing, eventually performing at the ''Vieux Damas'' venue in [[Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Quebec|Saint Vincent]].
Tadros was born in [[Cairo]], [[Egypt]] to a [[Christianity|Christian]] family. His father, Emmanuel Saadi Tadros, was a [[Copts in Egypt|Copt]], and his mother, Suzette Sawaya, was of [[Syro-Lebanese in Egypt|Lebanese]] descent. Tadros's parents immigrated to Quebec when he was ten years old.<ref name="Brulotte">{{Cite web |last=Brulotte |first=Rodger |author-link=Rodger Brulotte |date=11 December 2022 |title=Ma famille a fui l’Égypte en douce |trans-title=My family quietly fled Egypt |url=https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2022/12/11/ma-famille-a-fui-legypte-en-douce |website=[[Le Journal de Montréal]] |language=fr |access-date=3 March 2024 |archive-date=3 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240303194611/https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2022/12/11/ma-famille-a-fui-legypte-en-douce |url-status=live }}</ref> His father bought him a guitar when he was 12 and he started composing and singing, eventually performing at the ''Vieux Damas'' venue in [[Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Quebec|Saint Vincent]].


== Career ==
== Career ==
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At the beginning of the 1990s, Tadros diversified, doing voice-overs for movies and TV series. He acted on stage including in the 2001 play ''[[Roméo et Juliette, de la Haine à l'Amour]]''. He also hosted the educational magazine ''Code d’accès'' between 1998 and 2000.
At the beginning of the 1990s, Tadros diversified, doing voice-overs for movies and TV series. He acted on stage including in the 2001 play ''[[Roméo et Juliette, de la Haine à l'Amour]]''. He also hosted the educational magazine ''Code d’accès'' between 1998 and 2000.


Tadros wrote the French versions of the music in ''[[Chicago (2002 film)|Chicago]]'' in 2003 (including the French-language [[Chicago (musical)|musical comedy]] adaptation of the film) and ''Nostalgia'' in 2004. He is the voice of [[Rodrigo Borgia]] in the Ubisoft game ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' and its follow-up ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]'' in addition to the [[short film]] ''[[Assassin's Creed: Lineage]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2009/11/13/manuel-tadros-dans-la-peau-dun-pape |title=Manuel Tadros dans la peau d'un pape |first=Michelle |last=Coudé-Lord |date=13 November 2009 |access-date=1 February 2020 |newspaper=[[Journal de Montreal]] |language=fr}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V1-QBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA12 |title=Internet Drama and Mystery Television Series, 1996-2014 |first=Vincent |last=Terrace |publisher=[[McFarland Publishing]] |date=11 November 2014 |page=12 |isbn=9780786495818}}</ref> He has dubbed close to 750 films and series.
Tadros wrote the French versions of the music in ''[[Chicago (2002 film)|Chicago]]'' in 2003 (including the French-language [[Chicago (musical)|musical comedy]] adaptation of the film) and ''Nostalgia'' in 2004. He is the voice of [[Rodrigo Borgia]] in the Ubisoft game ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' and its follow-up ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]'' in addition to the [[short film]] ''[[Assassin's Creed: Lineage]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2009/11/13/manuel-tadros-dans-la-peau-dun-pape |title=Manuel Tadros dans la peau d'un pape |first=Michelle |last=Coudé-Lord |date=13 November 2009 |access-date=1 February 2020 |newspaper=[[Journal de Montreal]] |language=fr |archive-date=1 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200201222228/https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2009/11/13/manuel-tadros-dans-la-peau-dun-pape |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V1-QBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA12 |title=Internet Drama and Mystery Television Series, 1996-2014 |first=Vincent |last=Terrace |publisher=[[McFarland Publishing]] |date=11 November 2014 |page=12 |isbn=9780786495818 |access-date=13 September 2020 |archive-date=7 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231107154306/https://books.google.com/books?id=V1-QBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA12#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> He has dubbed close to 750 films and series.{{citation needed|date=March 2024}}


== Personal life ==
== Personal life ==
Tadros is a founding member and administrator of ArtistI, an organization that oversees the payment of royalties to artists. Diabetic from a very young age, he is known for his involvement as a spokesman for ''Fondation de la recherche sur le diabète juvénile'' (FRDJ) for many years.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://fr.canoe.ca/divertissement/celebrites/nouvelles/2011/04/03/17860916-qmi.html |work=Canoe.ca |title=Symposium de recherche sur la diabète - Le témoignage de Manuel Tadros |language=fr |first=Marie-France |last=Pellerin |date=3 April 2011 |access-date=1 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303165251/http://fr.canoe.ca/divertissement/celebrites/nouvelles/2011/04/03/17860916-qmi.html |archive-date=3 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Tadros is a founding member and administrator of ArtistI, an organization that oversees the payment of royalties to artists.<ref>{{cite web |title=Des artistes interprètes honorés par Artisti |url=https://www.artisti.ca/des-artistes-intepretes-honores-par-artisti/ |website=Artisti |date=26 November 2009 |language=fr |access-date=7 March 2024 |archive-date=29 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231129021735/https://www.artisti.ca/des-artistes-intepretes-honores-par-artisti/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Diabetic from a very young age, he is known for his involvement as a spokesman for ''Fondation de la recherche sur le diabète juvénile'' (FRDJ) for many years.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://fr.canoe.ca/divertissement/celebrites/nouvelles/2011/04/03/17860916-qmi.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120709075820/http://fr.canoe.ca/divertissement/celebrites/nouvelles/2011/04/03/17860916-qmi.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 9, 2012 |work=[[Canoe.com|Canoe.ca]] |title=Symposium de recherche sur la diabète - Le témoignage de Manuel Tadros |language=fr |first=Marie-France |last=Pellerin |date=3 April 2011 |access-date=1 February 2020 }}</ref>

Tadros was married to Geneviève Dolan, a Québécois public college administrator,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bilefsky |first=Dan |date=2018-04-27 |title=He Wanted to Escape His Childhood. Now, It Fuels His Art. |language=en-US |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/27/world/canada/xavier-dolan.html |access-date=2023-11-21 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=4 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231204132616/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/27/world/canada/xavier-dolan.html |url-status=live}}</ref> with whom he had a son, film director and actor [[Xavier Dolan]].<ref name="ctvnews">{{Cite web |last=Kane |first=Laura |date=2014-12-16 |title=Quebec filmmaking phenom Xavier Dolan always had a 'vision,' says his father |url=https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-filmmaking-phenom-xavier-dolan-always-had-a-vision-says-his-father-1.2149656 |access-date=2023-11-21 |website=[[CTV News (Montreal)|CTV News]] |language=en |archive-date=21 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231121223549/https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-filmmaking-phenom-xavier-dolan-always-had-a-vision-says-his-father-1.2149656 |url-status=live }}</ref> Tadros and Dolan divorced in 1991, when their son was 2 years old.<ref name="ctvnews"/><ref>{{Cite web |date=12 January 2015 |title=Xavier Dolan |url=https://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/xavier-dolan-1 |website=[[Interview (magazine)|Interview Magazine]] |archive-date=21 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231121223549/https://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/xavier-dolan-1 |url-status=live }}</ref> Tadros also has another son from a previous relationship with a woman named Diane.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bradshaw |first=Peter |date=22 February 2017 |title=Xavier Dolan: 'If I didn't make movies, I would be a very angry man' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/feb/22/xavier-dolan-if-i-didnt-make-movies-i-would-be-a-very-angry-man |website=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=3 March 2024 |archive-date=8 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230608064744/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/feb/22/xavier-dolan-if-i-didnt-make-movies-i-would-be-a-very-angry-man |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Brulotte"/>


On 28 August 2021, Tadros married Québécois writer Émilie Ndejuru,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Emilie Ndejuru |url=https://www.salondulivredemontreal.com/auteurs/emilie-ndejuru |access-date=3 March 2024 |website=Salon du livre de Montréal |archive-date=3 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240303194612/https://www.salondulivredemontreal.com/auteurs/emilie-ndejuru |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2 December 2021 |title=Manuel Tadros gets Married with a Suit by Nathon Kong |url=https://www.nathonkong.com/blogs/news/manuel-tadros-xavier-dolan-wedding-suit |website=Nathon Kong |access-date=3 March 2024 |archive-date=3 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240303194612/https://www.nathonkong.com/blogs/news/manuel-tadros-xavier-dolan-wedding-suit |url-status=live }}</ref> with whom he had been in a relationship since 2016.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hamel |first=François |date=1 November 2021 |title=Manuel Tadros raconte sa belle et grande histoire avec Émilie, qu’il vient d’épouser |trans-title=Manuel Tadros tells his beautiful and great story with Émilie, whom he has just married |url=https://www.7jours.ca/2021/11/01/manuel-tadros-raconte-sa-belle-et-grande-histoire-avec-emilie-quil-vient-depouser |website=7Jours |language=fr |access-date=3 March 2024 |archive-date=3 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240303194612/https://www.7jours.ca/2021/11/01/manuel-tadros-raconte-sa-belle-et-grande-histoire-avec-emilie-quil-vient-depouser |url-status=live }}</ref>
Manuel Tadros is the father of Quebec film director and actor [[Xavier Dolan]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-filmmaker-xavier-dolan-always-had-a-vision-father-says-1.2875277 |title=Quebec movie director Xavier Dolan always had a 'vision,' father says |work=[[CBC News]] |access-date=8 September 2017 |first=Laura |last=Kane |date=16 December 2014 |publisher=[[CBC/Radio-Canada]]}}</ref>


==Filmography==
==Filmography==
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*2016: ''[[X-Men: Apocalypse]]'' as Clan Akkaba Leader
*2016: ''[[X-Men: Apocalypse]]'' as Clan Akkaba Leader
*2020: ''[[The Sticky Side of Baklava]] (La Face cachée du baklava)''
*2020: ''[[The Sticky Side of Baklava]] (La Face cachée du baklava)''
*2022: ''[[Montreal Girls]]'' - Hani
*2022: ''[[Dounia and the Princess of Aleppo]] (Dounia et la princesse d'Alep)''


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==External links==
==External links==
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Latest revision as of 06:10, 7 March 2024

Hany Manuel Tadros
Born (1956-09-30) 30 September 1956 (age 67)[1]
Occupations
  • Singer
  • songwriter
  • actor
  • comedian
Spouses
Geneviève Dolan
(div. 1991)
Émilie Ndejuru
(m. 2021)
Children2, including Xavier Dolan

Hany Manuel Tadros (Arabic: مانويل تادرس; born 30 September 1956) is an Egyptian-Canadian singer, songwriter, actor, comedian and voice actor. He currently works and lives in Quebec.

Early life[edit]

Tadros was born in Cairo, Egypt to a Christian family. His father, Emmanuel Saadi Tadros, was a Copt, and his mother, Suzette Sawaya, was of Lebanese descent. Tadros's parents immigrated to Quebec when he was ten years old.[4] His father bought him a guitar when he was 12 and he started composing and singing, eventually performing at the Vieux Damas venue in Saint Vincent.

Career[edit]

His fame began to grow after he took part in Première chance, a TV program hosted by Fernand Gignac for new talents, in which he sang "Je t'aime, tu sais". Soon after this, he released his first album Manuel Tadros which featured the song "Un trésor de velours" that topped the Quebec charts. He was also known for his song "Isabelle". Tadros also hosted the variety shows Jeunesse and Pop Express between 1982 and 1984 on Télé Métropole.

Toward the end of the 1970s and throughout the 1980s Tadros turned to writing songs for other artists, including the hit tune "C'est zéro" for Julie Masse. He also wrote for Véronic Dicaire, Roch Voisine, Nicole Martin, Patrick Norman and Natasha St-Pier and for shows including Cirque du Soleil's Alegria

At the beginning of the 1990s, Tadros diversified, doing voice-overs for movies and TV series. He acted on stage including in the 2001 play Roméo et Juliette, de la Haine à l'Amour. He also hosted the educational magazine Code d’accès between 1998 and 2000.

Tadros wrote the French versions of the music in Chicago in 2003 (including the French-language musical comedy adaptation of the film) and Nostalgia in 2004. He is the voice of Rodrigo Borgia in the Ubisoft game Assassin's Creed II and its follow-up Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood in addition to the short film Assassin's Creed: Lineage.[5][6] He has dubbed close to 750 films and series.[citation needed]

Personal life[edit]

Tadros is a founding member and administrator of ArtistI, an organization that oversees the payment of royalties to artists.[7]

Diabetic from a very young age, he is known for his involvement as a spokesman for Fondation de la recherche sur le diabète juvénile (FRDJ) for many years.[8]

Tadros was married to Geneviève Dolan, a Québécois public college administrator,[9] with whom he had a son, film director and actor Xavier Dolan.[10] Tadros and Dolan divorced in 1991, when their son was 2 years old.[10][11] Tadros also has another son from a previous relationship with a woman named Diane.[12][4]

On 28 August 2021, Tadros married Québécois writer Émilie Ndejuru,[13][14] with whom he had been in a relationship since 2016.[15]

Filmography[edit]

  • 1996: Omerta, la loi du silence as Frank Vastelli(TV series)
  • 1997: Omerta 2, la loi du silence as Frank Vastelli (TV series)
  • 1997: Twist of Fate as Dr. Hassan
  • 1998: Pendant ce temps... as a Mafioso
  • 1998: Meurtrière par amour (The Girl Next Door) as Carlo (TV)
  • 1999: Omertà 3, Le dernier des hommes d'honneur as Frank Vastelli (TV series)
  • 1999: Bonanno: A Godfather's Story as Mimi Sebella (TV)
  • 2000: La Promesse
  • 2001: The Warden as Diaz (TV)
  • 2002: Le Dernier Chapitre as Carlos Vasquez (TV series)
  • 2002: Aime ton père (English title A Loving Father) as M. Azouz (film)
  • 2002-2005: Watatatow as Luigi Del Vecchio (TV series)
  • 2003: Comment ma mère accoucha de moi durant sa ménopause as a Biologist
  • 2003: Au-delà des frontières (Beyond Borders) as a Chechen mobster
  • 2005: La Vie avec mon père as a doctor
  • 2005: Human Trafficking (Trafic d'innocence) as Miguel, a Mexican smuggler (TV series)
  • 2008: Le piège américain as Joseph Valachi
  • 2008: Casino as Kia (TV)
  • 2009: Assassin's Creed: Lineage as Rodrigo Borgia (short film)
  • 2009: I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère) as a concierge
  • 2010: L'Appât as MC
  • 2013: Tom at the Farm (Tom à la ferme) as the bartender
  • 2016: X-Men: Apocalypse as Clan Akkaba Leader
  • 2020: The Sticky Side of Baklava (La Face cachée du baklava)
  • 2022: Montreal Girls - Hani
  • 2022: Dounia and the Princess of Aleppo (Dounia et la princesse d'Alep)
Video games

Theater and musical comedies[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Beaudry, Michel (30 September 2023). "Le 30 en manchettes". Le Journal de Montréal (in French). Archived from the original on 3 March 2024. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
  2. ^ Tremblay, Patrick (4 June 2021). "Biomutant – Entrevue avec Manuel Tadros, le narrateur". Le Bêta-Testeur (in French). Archived from the original on 3 March 2024. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
  3. ^ "Manuel Tadros". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on 3 March 2024. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
  4. ^ a b Brulotte, Rodger (11 December 2022). "Ma famille a fui l'Égypte en douce" [My family quietly fled Egypt]. Le Journal de Montréal (in French). Archived from the original on 3 March 2024. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
  5. ^ Coudé-Lord, Michelle (13 November 2009). "Manuel Tadros dans la peau d'un pape". Journal de Montreal (in French). Archived from the original on 1 February 2020. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  6. ^ Terrace, Vincent (11 November 2014). Internet Drama and Mystery Television Series, 1996-2014. McFarland Publishing. p. 12. ISBN 9780786495818. Archived from the original on 7 November 2023. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  7. ^ "Des artistes interprètes honorés par Artisti". Artisti (in French). 26 November 2009. Archived from the original on 29 November 2023. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
  8. ^ Pellerin, Marie-France (3 April 2011). "Symposium de recherche sur la diabète - Le témoignage de Manuel Tadros". Canoe.ca (in French). Archived from the original on 9 July 2012. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  9. ^ Bilefsky, Dan (27 April 2018). "He Wanted to Escape His Childhood. Now, It Fuels His Art". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 4 December 2023. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
  10. ^ a b Kane, Laura (16 December 2014). "Quebec filmmaking phenom Xavier Dolan always had a 'vision,' says his father". CTV News. Archived from the original on 21 November 2023. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
  11. ^ "Xavier Dolan". Interview Magazine. 12 January 2015. Archived from the original on 21 November 2023.
  12. ^ Bradshaw, Peter (22 February 2017). "Xavier Dolan: 'If I didn't make movies, I would be a very angry man'". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 8 June 2023. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
  13. ^ "Emilie Ndejuru". Salon du livre de Montréal. Archived from the original on 3 March 2024. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
  14. ^ "Manuel Tadros gets Married with a Suit by Nathon Kong". Nathon Kong. 2 December 2021. Archived from the original on 3 March 2024. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
  15. ^ Hamel, François (1 November 2021). "Manuel Tadros raconte sa belle et grande histoire avec Émilie, qu'il vient d'épouser" [Manuel Tadros tells his beautiful and great story with Émilie, whom he has just married]. 7Jours (in French). Archived from the original on 3 March 2024. Retrieved 3 March 2024.

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