Gilles Renaud

Gilles Renaud
Born (1944-09-25) 25 September 1944 (age 80)[1]
Montreal, Quebec
OccupationActor

Gilles Renaud (born 25 September 1944) is a Canadian actor who has starred in cinema and television in Quebec.

In 1983, he received a Genie Award nomination for Best Actor for the film A Day in a Taxi (Une journée en taxi).[2] He is also a two-time Jutra Award nominee for Best Supporting Actor, receiving nods at the 9th Jutra Awards in 2007 for The Secret Life of Happy People (La Vie secrète des gens heureux) and at the 16th Jutra Awards in 2014 for The Dismantling (Le Démantèlement).[3]

In 2016, he appeared in the film Bad Seeds. While heavily involved in that production, he filmed a death scene for his character in his TV series Mémoires Vives, which began airing in 2013.[4] In 2017, he starred in François Girard's film Hochelaga, Land of Souls, as a Montreal archaeologist in search of Hochelaga.[5]

  1. ^ Faucher, Jean (2006). "Ma mere este morte d'amour". Gilles Renaud: Entretiens. Québec Amerique. ISBN 2764404964.
  2. ^ "News of the Arts". Canada Weekly. Vol. 11, no. 16. Department of External Affairs, Public Affairs Branch. 20 April 1983.
  3. ^ Manon Dumais, "Jutra 2014: Le triomphe de Louis Cyr". Voir, March 23, 2014.
  4. ^ Leclerc, Yves (19 March 2016). "La fin d'une aventure pour Gilles Renaud". Le Journal de Montreal. Retrieved 26 September 2017.
  5. ^ Harvey, Dennis (10 September 2017). "Toronto Film Review: 'Hochelaga, Land of Souls'". Variety. Retrieved 25 September 2017.