Roy Dupuis
Roy Dupuis [ dyˈpɥi ] (born April 21, 1963 in New Liskeard , Ontario ; actually Roy Michael Joseph Dupuis ) is a Canadian actor .
Life
Roy Dupuis was born in New Liskeard , which today is called Temiskaming Shores through a union of different localities . After the first three months of life, he grew up in Amos near the Harricana River . This city is located in the French-speaking part of Canada, in the Abitbi region , about 500 kilometers north of Montréal , in the northwest of the province of Québec . Dupuis has an older sister Roxanne and a younger brother Rodrick. His mother Ryna (1937-2008) was a piano teacher. The father, named Roy, was a traveling salesman and died in 2000 at the age of 70.
In kindergarten, Dupuis' first stage role was the fox in The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry . When he was eleven, the family moved to Kapuskasing, Ontario , where he learned to speak English. As a child he also learned to play the cello . His parents divorced when he was fourteen and the family moved to Sainte-Rose, Laval , near Montréal , without his father . After graduating from school ( Cégep ) in Laval, Dupuis began to study physics, chemistry and psychology until he saw the film Molière by Ariane Mnouchkine in the cinema. The next day he left the course and attended a French theater course. When more random audition at the National Theater School of Canada , he wore a scene from The Imaginary Invalid by Molière before. Michèle Rossignol, the school principal and actress from Québec, picked him up despite showing up with a friend's registration form. Dupuis graduated from Montréal in 1986. Since then he has been very busy.
In 1995 years of psychotherapy helped him to give up hashish, alcohol and his wild party life, but not smoking. He describes himself as an introvert .
Dupuis lives south of Montréal in an old farmhouse from 1840 , which he bought and renovated in 1996. He has a deeply rooted relationship with his native Québec and will always return there. His hobby is sailing, his dream is to go on a long sailing tour in several countries. In March 2011, Roy and Céline Bonnier separated after around 15 years of partnership.
Dupuis is committed to various charities . In 2005, he promoted Make Poverty History in a Canadian television commercial to fight poverty in the world. Until June 2006 he supported the Mira Foundation . He also promotes the conservation of Canada's rivers in the Rivières Foundation , which he co-founded.
Career
Roy Dupuis first played in various theaters in Montreal, then on television and in movies. He got a small role as a policeman in the Oscar- nominated drama Jesus von Montreal (1989) by director Denys Arcand with Lothaire Bluteau and Rémy Girard . He became famous overnight in the male lead in the television series Emilie ( Les Filles de Caleb ) (1990). 4.6 million viewers with 6 million inhabitants in the province of Québec followed the dramatic fate of the characters. The series was re-released on DVD in French by Imavision in 2006 in Canada, as was the follow-up series Blanche with Pascale Bussières , in which Dupuis can only be seen in a few scenes. From 1991 to 1995 he appeared in the television series Scoop - Die Aufreißer with Macha Grenon and Rémy Girard as a journalist. The starring role of the homosexual Yves in the dramatic film Being at Home with Claude (1992) earned him good reviews . The film was shown in Cannes (sub-section Un Certain Regard ). In the drama Labyrinth - Love Without a Way Out ( Entangled ) (1993) with Judd Nelson and Pierce Brosnan , he played the main character's friend, a photographer who enjoys sex adventures. He and Celine Bonnier portrayed the parents of the Dionne quintuplets in the 1994 miniseries Torn From Mother ( Million Dollar Babies ) with Beau Bridges . He worked repeatedly with this Canadian actress, as well as with actor Rémy Girard. This was also followed by a supporting role in the science fiction horror film Screamers - Tödliche Schreie (1995) with Peter Weller and Jennifer Rubin , the lead role in the horror film Hemoglobin (1997) with Rutger Hauer and Kristin Lehman and a smaller role in Free Money (1998) with Marlon Brando , Donald Sutherland , Charlie Sheen , Mira Sorvino , Martin Sheen .
In the German-speaking world, Roy Dupuis is best known for the dramatic agent series Nikita (US title: La Femme Nikita ), in which he played the mysterious Michael Samuelle from 1997 to 2001 . Michael's code name on the series is the French name Jacques . In this television series, he starred alongside Peta Wilson , Don Francks , Alberta Watson , Eugene Robert Glazer and Matthew Ferguson . Later, those responsible for the subsequent action series 24 tried in vain for years to engage Dupuis for a role, but he prefers to shoot in his home country.
He proved his comedic talent in the romantic film J'en suis! (1997) with Patrick Huard and Charlotte Laurier , in the turbulent comedy C'est pas moi… c'est l'autre! (2004) with Anémone and Michel Muller and in Les États-Unis d'Albert (2005), in which he portrayed a golfer . The dramatic love story Séraphin: un homme et son péché (2002) by director Charles Binamé with Karine Vanasse and Pierre Lebeau was very successful at the box office in his home country. In 2003 Dupuis starred in several scenes of the Oscar-winning tragic comedy The Invasion of the Barbarians with Rémy Girard, Pierre Curzi and Marie-Josée Croze directed by Denys Arcand. In 2004 Mémoires affectives and Manners of Dying with Serge Houde and Gregory Hlady with Dupuis in the dramatic lead roles were released.
Dupuis likes to do sports. He learned ice hockey from the age of three and later played in the Midget AAA , one of the best youth leagues in Canada. He proved his athletic skills in the film Maurice Richard (2005), in which he completed the numerous scenes on the ice without a stunt double. Starring Julie LeBreton and Stephen McHattie , the film received nine Genie Awards in 2007 . In the English-language mystery drama That Beautiful Somewhere , Dupuis investigated a death together with Jane McGregor in the male lead .
In February 2007, director Francis Leclerc shot the eleven and a half minute improvised short film Revenir with Dupuis in the lead role at the Regard short film festival in Saguenay . The French film in black and white was shown there on February 10th on a snow screen.
Shake Hands with the Devil began shooting in Kigali in mid-June 2006 . After the production crew was in Rwanda for 36 days, some of them at the original locations, the final shots were shot in Halifax in August . Roger Spottiswoode , the director of the Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies , directed. Dupuis played Roméo Dallaire , who was a Canadian general on a United Nations mission in Rwanda in 1994 . The film is based on Dallaire's 2003 biography of the same name, was supported by him in an advisory capacity and is intended to be as accurate as possible historically, although it is not a documentary. Dallaire gave Dupuis his military insignia, nameplate and uniform to use in the film. The budget was approximately CAD 11 million . Laszlo Barna and Michael Donovan, who won an Oscar in 2003 with Bowling for Columbine , acted as producers . As an actor were Deborah Kara Unger , Jean-Hugues Anglade , James Galla DERS and Tom McCamus committed. Maury Chaykin can be seen in a cameo . The approximately 100-minute film should be in English and French and with English subtitles. The post-production was the end of April 2007 in the final phase. Rwandan President Paul Kagame attended a special screening in his country's capital on August 9, 2007. Roméo Dallaire, now a Canadian Senator, has seen several screenings so far (as of August 10, 2007). He felt the film was too much about his character and too little about genocide. The world premiere of Shake Hands with the Devil took place on September 9, 2007 at the Toronto International Film Festival 2007 in a special presentation in the presence of Roméo Dallaire. He then opened the 27th Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax, which ran from September 13-22, 2007 and screened 249 films. Dupuis was named best actor at this festival. On September 28, 2007, the film was distributed by Seville Pictures in the original English version and in the French version in Canadian cinemas. The subject has already been filmed several times, for example in the film Hotel Ruanda , in the documentary with Roméo Dallaire Shake Hands with the Devil - The Journey of Roméo Dallaire and in the dramatic love story A Sunday in Kigali ( Un dimanche à Kigali ). Shake Hands with the Devil was released on DVD in Canada on January 29, 2008. The drama was nominated twelve times at the 28th Genie Awards , as often as David Cronenberg's thriller Deadly Promises - Eastern Promises , but received only one award for the best original song. The film was nominated for best editing at the 2008 Prix Jutra , and Dupuis won the award for best leading actor.
Roy Dupuis starred in the drama Emotional Arithmetic with Susan Sarandon and Christopher Plummer , who played his parents, as well as Gabriel Byrne and Max von Sydow . The film is about three Holocaust survivors who meet again after decades. The world premiere of the film took place on September 15, 2007 as the closing film of the Toronto International Film Festival 2007 . It was released in Canadian cinemas in April 2008.
Dupuis, Celine Bonnier, Pierre Lebeau, Danielle Proulx , Michèle Richard and Jean-Nicolas Verreault played in the black comedy Truffe (translated: truffle ). Kim Nguyen acted as director, producer, and screenwriter for the film. Filming took place in the Montreal area for twenty-two days from March 27 to May 3, 2007. The budget is 1.2 million Canadian dollars. The action takes place in Montreal in 2017. The black and white film opened on July 3, 2008, the Fantasia Festival and had its premiere there. The DVD of the film is in French with English subtitles.
In the film Un été sans point ni coup sûr ( A No-Hit, No-Run Summer ) Dupuis trains a youth baseball team in a supporting role. The film was shot from June 26th to mid-August 2007. The material is loosely based on the novel of the same name by Marc Robitaille. The action takes place in 1969. The budget is approximately four million CAD. The film was shot in July in the Montreal area and for two weeks in the Park Gilles-Forest in the city of Mascouche. Patrice Robitaille, Jacinthe Lagüe and Guy Thauvette played along. The director Francis Leclerc has already worked with Dupuis on Mémoires affectives . The film was released on August 1, 2008 by Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm in Québec. It was shown on October 1st and 2nd, 2008 under the title Home Run at the Hamburg Film Festival . The DVD of the film is in French with English subtitles.
In addition, the English-language film The Timekeeper is based on a novel by the Canadian Trevor Ferguson. Louis Bélanger acts as the director. Craig Olejnik casts the leading role. Roy Dupuis' character in this film is called Scully. Julian Richings and Stephen McHattie play along. Filming began on July 12 and will last until August 23, 2007. The film was shot in and around a game reserve in Port-Cartier- Sept-Îles , on the north coast of the province of Québec, in the Côte-Nord region. There are no indoor scenes, everything was staged outdoors in the forests of Québec. The action takes place in 1964. The budget is $ 5.9 million. Christal Films is expected to release the drama in 2009.
Another film is entitled L'Instict de mort (translated: The Death Drive ) (2008). Dupuis portrayed Jean-Paul Mercier, an accomplice of bank robber Jacques Mesrine , played by Vincent Cassel . Eva Green , Gérard Depardieu , Jean-Pierre Cassel , Cécile de France , Guillaume Canet , Ludivine Sagnier , Samuel Le Bihan , Samy Naceri and former boxer Deano Clavet played. The director is Jean-François Richet. The autobiographical novel of the same name by Mesrine from 1977 served as a template. The film adaptation consists of two parts. The second part L'Ennemi public n ° 1 or Public Enemy No. 1 (2009) is filmed before or at the same time. The shooting started on April 30, 2007. Dupuis and other actors from Québec filmed (from the end of August) in Paris. From mid-September 2007, filming took place in Montreal and Québec for the first part. It was filmed for over 33 weeks in Paris, France, Canada, Algeria and Spain. Some scenes were filmed in Thunder Bay and Arizona. The budget for the two films is 45 million euros (70 million CAD). Public Enemy No. 1 - Murder instinct came into German cinemas on April 23, 2009 and the second part Public Enemy No. 1 - Death instinct , in which Dupuis does not play, on May 21, 2009.
Dupuis shot the family drama Je me souviens for the second time together with the director André Forcier. The actors Rémy Girard, Michel Barrette, Gaston Lepage, Hélène Bourgeois-Leclerc, Céline Bonnier, France Castel and Pierre-Luc Brillant are there. Shooting started on Sunday, September 30th, 2007 in Val-d'Or, a city in the province of Québec. It was filmed for 23 days, of which 17 days in Abitibi, including the Harricana River. Shooting days for the winter scenes took place at the end of November and in the first two weeks in December 2007. It is also said to have been shot in Ireland. The action takes place in the miners' milieu of Abitibi between 1949 and 1958. The French-language film was released on March 6, 2009 in Canada.
From March 18 to April 5, 2008 Dupuis appeared again on a theater stage in Montreal in the play Blasté by Sarah Kane . The German title of the piece is Zerbombt . Celine Bonnier and Paul Ahmarani played along. Jean Marc Dalpé translated the English text into French. Brigitte Haentjens directed. 14 years before that, Dupuis last appeared on stage under her direction in Sam Shepard's True West .
In 2009, the comedy Les doigts croches was made with Patrice Robitaille and for the first time as director Ken Scott .
Works
Filmography
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Director
- 2001: Nikita ( La Femme Nikita ) - in episode 5.06 Attack on Nikita ( The Evil That Men Do )
theatre
- 1985: Les Deux Gentilshommes de Vérone ( The Two Veronese ), by William Shakespeare , as Proteus
- 1986: Harold et Maude ( Harold and Maude ), by Colin Higgins , edited by Jean-Claude Carrière , directed by Richard Thériault, as Harold
- 1987: Fool for Love, by Sam Shepard, as Martin
- 1987: Au pied de la lettre ( At the End of the Letter ), by André Simard
- 1987: Toupie Wildwood, by Pascale Rafie, as Pierrick Le Bosnec
- 1988: Le Chien ( The Dog ), by Jean-Marc Dalpé, director: Brigitte Haentjens, as Jay
- 1988: Les Muses orphelines ( The Orphan Muses ), by Michel Marc Bouchard, as Luc
- 1989: Roméo et Juliette ( Romeo and Juliet ), by William Shakespeare, directed by Guillermo de Andrea, as Roméo
- 1990: Un Oiseau vivant dans la gueule ( A Live Bird in Its Jaws ), by Jeanne-Mance Delisle, directed by Brigitte Haentjens, as Adrien
- 1994: True West , by Sam Shepard , directed by Brigitte Haentjens, as Lee
- 2008: Blasté ( Zerbombt ) by Sarah Kane , directed by Brigitte Haentjens, as Ian
Awards
- 1991: FIPA d'Or for Les Filles de Caleb at the Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels in Cannes
- 1991: Rose d'Or named actor of the year in a Canadian popularity poll
- 1991: Roy Dupuis won a Prix Gémeaux for the male lead in the dramatic series Les Filles de Caleb
- 1991 and 1992: he won Metrostars (now renamed Gala Artis ) as best male leading actor for Les Filles de Caleb
- 1993: Nomination for a Genie Award as leading actor in Cap Tourmente
- 1993: Nomination for a Prix Gémeaux for the male lead in the series Scoop II
- 1993, 1994 (2 ×), 1995, 1996: nominations for metrostars (e.g. for Scoop , Blanche )
- 2000: Nomination for a metrostar as best male leading actor for the mini-series Maurice Richard: Histoire d'un canadien
- 2003: Nomination for a Prix Jutra as best actor in Séraphin: un homme et son péché
- 2003: Nomination for a Genie Award as a supporting actor in Séraphin: un homme et son péché
- 2003: Nomination for a Prix Gémeaux ( Gémeaux Award ) for the male lead in the dramatic series The Last Chapter II (episode 6)
- 2003: won a Metro star for best male lead actor for The Last Chapter
- 2004: Nomination for a metro star for best male leading actor for The Last Chapter II
- 2005: won a Prix Jutra for best actor in Mémoires affectives
- 2005: won a Genie Award for leading actor in Mémoires affectives
- 2006: Nomination for a Prix Jutra as best actor for Maurice Richard
- 2006: Won Best Actor at the Tokyo International Film Festival for Maurice Richard
- 2007: Nomination for the 7th Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards - 2006 for Best Actor in a Canadian Film for Maurice Richard
- 2007: Won a Genie Award for Best Actor for Maurice Richard at the 27th Genie Awards
- 2007: won Best Actor in Shake Hands with the Devil at the Atlantic Film Festival .
- 2008: won a Prix Jutra for Best Actor for Shake Hands with the Devil .
literature
- Danièle St-Denis: Dans les peaux de Roy Dupuis . Stanké, Outremont 2004, ISBN 2-7604-0955-4 , (French).
- Christopher Heyn : Inside Section One. Creating and Producing TV's La Femme Nikita . Persistence of Vision Press, Los Angeles CA September 2006, ISBN 0-9787625-0-9 , (Roy Dupuis was interviewed. Among other things, pages 75 to 81 deal with him and his role. Heyn was in all seasons the assistant to the executive consultants of Nikita , especially of Joel Zusammenarbeit , the main inventor of the series).
Web links
- Roy Dupuis in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Unofficial fan page
- Roles of Roy Dupuis on the side of his agent Hélène Mailloux (English and French)
- Canadian Theater Encyclopedia (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Dupuis, Roy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dupuis, Roy Michael Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Liskeard , Ontario , Canada |