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Roy Dupuis

January 20, 2023

Roy Michael Joseph Dupuis (French pronunciation: [ʁɔj dypɥi]; born April 21, 1963) is a Canadian actor best known in America for his role as counterterrorism operative Michael Samuelle in the television series La Femme Nikita. In Canada, specifically Quebec, he's known for numerous leading roles he's played in film. He portrayed Maurice Richard on television and in film and Roméo Dallaire in the 2007 film Shake Hands with the Devil.

Roy Dupuis
Dupuis at the Agence Premier Rôle
Born
Roy Michael Joseph Dupuis

(1963-04-21) April 21, 1963 (age 59)
New Liskeard, Ontario, Canada
OccupationActor
Years active1985 – present
Websitepremierrole.com

Early life and education

Dupuis was born in New Liskeard, Ontario to French-Canadian parents. From early infancy until he was 11 years old, Dupuis lived in Amos, Quebec in the Abitibi Regional County Municipality. Over the next three years he lived in Kapuskasing, Ontario, where he learned to speak English. His father was a travelling salesman for Canada Packers; his mother was a piano teacher. He has a younger brother and an older sister. When he was 14, after his parents divorced, his mother moved the family to Sainte-Rose, Laval, 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.[citation needed]

Personal life

Dupuis lives southeast of Montreal, in an 1840 farmhouse located on 50 acres (20 ha) of land which he bought in 1996 and which he has restored and renovated. He enjoys sports, particularly hockey, skydiving, 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. In recent 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.[1][2]

Career

Dupuis is a celebrity in French-speaking areas of Canada and is also well known in anglophone areas due to his English-language and bilingual projects. He has 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.[citation needed]

Dupuis gained popularity in Quebec as Ovila Pronovost in the series 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).[3] 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.

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.[4]

Among Dupuis' 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 Looking for Alexander (Mémoires affectives) (2004), directed by Francis Leclerc, who co-wrote the screenplay with Marcel Beaulieu, received awards.[citation needed]

In The Rocket (Maurice Richard), directed by Charles Binamé (Séraphin: Heart of Stone) and released in late November 2005, Dupuis stars as French-Canadian ice hockey icon Maurice "Rocket" Richard, who played for the Montreal Canadiens from 1942–60, 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 February 13, 2007, at the Carlu Event Theatre in Toronto, including Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for Dupuis.[5][6]

In December 2005, Dupuis completed filming That Beautiful Somewhere, based on the 1992 novel Loon by Bill Plumstead, its executive producer. It was set and filmed on location in North Bay, Ontario. The film, directed by Robert Budreau, is produced by Lumanity Productions. Its world premiere was on August 26, 2006, at the Montreal World Film Festival (August 24-September 4, 2006); it was presented at Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival (September 16–24, 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.[citation needed]

On location in Kigali, Rwanda, in mid-June 2006, 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.[7]

The film was a "special presentation" at the Toronto International Film Festival on 9 September 2007,[8] and opened the 27th Atlantic Film Festival on September 13, 2007.[9] Shake Hands with the Devil opened in theaters on September 28, 2007.[10] 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."[11]

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).[12] The film closed the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival on September 15, 2007.[13][14]

In winter 2007, he participated in the improvisational short film directed by Francis Leclerc, entitled Revenir (Return), which was filmed and screened during the 11th edition of Festival Regard, a festival of short films, held in Saguenay, Quebec.[15]

Later in 2007 and 2008, Dupuis began working on several new film projects, including: as Charles in Truffe, directed by Kim Nguyen, produced by Renée Gosselin and distributed by Christal Films, whose world premiere opens the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal on July 3, 2008;[16][17] as Jean-Paul Mercier in Mesrine: Killer Instinct; as Mr. Turcotte in A No-Hit No-Run Summer (Un été sans point ni coup sûr), a feature film about baseball set at the beginning of the 1960s adapted from the novel of that title by Marc Robitaille, directed by Francis Leclerc;[18] as Scully in The Timekeeper (L'Heure de vérité), an English-language feature film directed by Louis Bélanger;[19] as an Irishman named Liam Hennessy in André Forcier's Je me souviens and as another character named Charles in Sticky Fingers (Les doigts croches), directed by Ken Scott.[20]

On March 18, 2008, after a fourteen year absence, 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).[21] Jean-Marc Dalpé's French version, Blasté, directed by Brigitte Haentjens for her company Sybillines Inc., also featured Céline Bonnier and Paul Ahmarani.[22]

Selected awards

Selected stage performances

Selected television performances

  • 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 Compte (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 Caleb (Caleb's Daughters) (1990–91) [Also known as: Emilie]
  • Scoop (1991–95)
  • Emilie (1992) [English-dubbed version of Les Filles de Caleb]
  • Blanche (1993) [Sequel to Les Filles de Caleb]
  • Dark Eyes (Pilot) (1994)
  • Million Dollar Babies (1994) [Also known as: Les jumelles Dionne: La véritable histoire tragique des quintuplées Dionne (The Dionne "Twins": The True Tragic Story of the Dionne Quintuplets)] (1994)
  • Urgence (Emergency Call: Hospital Code 66) (1995)
  • Heritage Minutes (Minutes du patrimoine) [Also known as: Historica Minutes or History by the Minute]: Louis Riel and Maurice "Rocket" Richard (1997)
  • Les Beaux Dimanches (Beautiful Sundays): Maurice Richard: Histoire d'un Canadien. [Also known as: Maurice Rocket Richard Story (Canada: 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 Chapter) (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 pauvreté: Agissons! (A World without Poverty: Take Action!) (2005) Public-service voiceover (in collaboration with Pascale Montpetit) sponsored by the Québécois section of Make Poverty History (Abolissons La Pauvreté) on behalf of Global Call to Action Against Poverty
  • Les Rescapés Claude Desrosiers / Productions Casablanca (2009 to 2011)
  • Une terre 1001 mondes Phile Beauchemin / Polivista Production (2013)
  • Toute la vie Christophe L'Allier / Christophe (2019-2022)

Selected filmography

See also

References

  1. ^ Sarah Hampson, "A Home Boy, Happy That Way," The Globe and Mail, August 31, 2002, pg. R3 (Metro ed.).
  2. ^ Les Règles du jeu: Roy Dupuis (The Name of the Game: Roy Dupuis. In French with English subtitles), 23 mins, documentary film aboutDupuis completed in 2005 and first broadcast on Super Écran on January 26, 2006.
  3. ^ "Film to tell saga of the Dionne quints". Deseret News. United Press International. 28 May 1994.
  4. ^ Prod. Agent Orange Inc., with participation of Telefilm Canada & Hammerhead Productions & the collaboration of Société Radio-Canada: Short experimental film featuring Roy Dupuis & Louise Bedard. Dir./conception Bernar Hébert; prod. Michel Ouellette; music Randall Kay; script Nicole Boutin; dir. of photography/cameraman David Franco. (Full clips of the film, providing these production details, are accessible on the internet via a variety of fansites.)
  5. ^ Marise Strauss, "Rocket Sweeps Genies – Almost", Playback, February 13, 2007; accessed February 14, 2007.
  6. ^ Peter Howell, 'Rocket' Scores Genies Triple Hat Trick: The Rocket Scores Nine Genies, But Bon Cop, Bad Cop Takes Best Picture", The Toronto Star; accessed February 14, 2007.
    Includes photograph with caption "Roy Dupuis Wins Best Actor for The Rocket at the Genie Awards on February 13" and related links to other photographs from the award ceremony.
  7. ^ "Shake Hands with the Devil Reawakens Past in Rwanda", CBC, August 10, 2007; accessed August 24, 2007.
  8. ^ Visa Screening Room Schedule", accessed August 24, 2007.
  9. ^ For further updates and useful features, including a downloadable PDF press kit and production stills, see the film's official website at Shake Hands with the Devil, accessed August 25, 2007.
  10. ^ Jay Stone, "Opening Reel Soon: Fall Movie Season Offers a Wealth of Selection", The Ottawa Citizen; accessed August 25, 2007.
  11. ^ The Canadian Press,"Keira Knightley Drama 'Silk' among Winners at Quebec's Jutra Awards", The Chronicle Journal; accessed March 16, 2008.
  12. ^ "Casting Adds Up for 'Emotional Arithmetic'", Production Weekly, September 12, 2006; accessed September 15, 2006.
    See also Agnès Gaudet, "Emotional Arithmetic: Roy Dupuis dans un film sur l'Holocauste", Le Journal de Montréal, September 15, 2006; accessed September 16, 2006.
  13. ^ Emotional Arithmetic, "Gala Programme Schedule" 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine, official website of the Toronto International Film Festival; accessed August 24, 2007.
  14. ^ Marise Strauss, "Films by Branagh, Moore, Reitman announced for TIFF", Playback, August 22, 2007; accessed August 24, 2007.
  15. ^ Dir. Francis Leclerc. Cf. Stéphane Bégin, "Un Record d'assistance pour la 11e édition: 20,000 festivaliers au rendez-vous" ("A Record Attendance for the 11th Edition [of Festival Regard]: 20,000 festival-goers at the event"), Le Quotidien, February 12, 2007; accessed February 14, 2007: Revenir (literally, to "return" or "come back" or "go back"; or to "return home") is a short improvised film created with the participation of Dupuis and Sylvain Marcel; it was conceived, directed, and filmed within 48 hours according to impromptu criteria, and then screened during the 11th Festival Regard sur le court métrage au Saguenay, Quebec. For some documentary footage of Dupuis and Leclerc engaged in the filming process, see "Roy Dupuis and Francis Leclerc", Flash, broadcast February 12, 2007 (video clip; in French).
  16. ^ "La SODEC termine sa ronde de décisions en longs métrages de fiction", SODEC communiqué (press release), January 10, 2007; accessed March 13, 2007 (in French).
  17. ^ Brendan Kelly, " Truffe' to Kick Off Fantasia: Montreal's Fantasy and Genre Fest Bows July 3", Variety, June 26, 2008.
  18. ^ "Patrice Robitaille, Jacinthe Lagüe, Roy Dupuis et Guy Thauvette joueront pour Francis Leclerc", cinoche.com, June 5, 2007; accessed June 13, 2007 (in French).
  19. ^ "La SODEC annonce sa première ronde de décisions pour l'exercice 2007-2008", SODEC communiqué (press release), February 23, 2007; accessed March 13, 2007 (in French).
  20. ^ Roy Dupuis at Agence Premier Rôle; accessed June 29, 2008.
  21. ^ Christiane Charette, radio interview with Roy Dupuis, Radio-Canada, broadcast January 26, 2007, online posting of audio clip, ZapMédia; accessed February 25, 2007 (in French).
  22. ^ "Blasté", Sybillines Inc. (company website); accessed January 18, 2008 (in French).

Further reading

  • Hampson, Sarah. "A Home Boy, Happy That Way." The 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.
  • Cooper, Gina Pia. . 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 Archive.]
  • "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.
  • 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 Écran on 26 January 2006.

External links

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Roy Dupuis.
  • ("Our Cinema at Radio-Canada: The Stars: Roy Dupuis.") Selected filmography and related links in French.
  • Roy Dupuis at Agence Premier Rôle. English version of official webpage.
  • Roy Dupuis at IMDb
  • Roy Dupuis The Official Roy Dupuis Fan Club

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Roy Michael Joseph Dupuis French pronunciation ʁɔj dypɥi born April 21 1963 is a Canadian actor best known in America for his role as counterterrorism operative Michael Samuelle in the television series La Femme Nikita In Canada specifically Quebec he s known for numerous leading roles he s played in film He portrayed Maurice Richard on television and in film and Romeo Dallaire in the 2007 film Shake Hands with the Devil Roy DupuisDupuis at the Agence Premier RoleBornRoy Michael Joseph Dupuis 1963 04 21 April 21 1963 age 59 New Liskeard Ontario CanadaOccupationActorYears active1985 presentWebsitepremierrole wbr com Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Personal life 3 Career 4 Selected awards 5 Selected stage performances 6 Selected television performances 7 Selected filmography 8 See also 9 References 10 Further reading 11 External linksEarly life and education EditThis section relies largely or entirely on a single source Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources Find sources Roy Dupuis news newspapers books scholar JSTOR April 2017 Dupuis was born in New Liskeard Ontario to French Canadian parents From early infancy until he was 11 years old Dupuis lived in Amos Quebec in the Abitibi Regional County Municipality Over the next three years he lived in Kapuskasing Ontario where he learned to speak English His father was a travelling salesman for Canada Packers his mother was a piano teacher He has a younger brother and an older sister When he was 14 after his parents divorced his mother moved the family to Sainte Rose Laval where he finished high school After high school he studied acting in Montreal at the National Theatre School of Canada L Ecole nationale de theatre du Canada from which he graduated in 1986 citation needed Personal life EditDupuis lives southeast of Montreal in an 1840 farmhouse located on 50 acres 20 ha of land which he bought in 1996 and which he has restored and renovated He enjoys sports particularly hockey skydiving 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 In recent 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 1 2 Career EditThis section of a biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification Please help by adding reliable sources Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately especially if potentially libelous or harmful Find sources Roy Dupuis news newspapers books scholar JSTOR April 2017 Learn how and when to remove this template message Dupuis at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival Dupuis is a celebrity in French speaking areas of Canada and is also well known in anglophone areas due to his English language and bilingual projects He has 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 Andre Brassard in 1985 Romeo in a Quebecois adaptation of William Shakespeare s Romeo and Juliet Romeo et Juliette directed by Guillermo de Andrea in 1989 and Jay in Jean Marc Dalpe 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 Quebecois version of Sam Shepard s True West all three productions directed by Brigitte Haentjens in 1987 89 1990 and 1994 respectively citation needed Dupuis gained popularity in Quebec as Ovila Pronovost in the series Les Filles de Caleb also known as Emilie when it premiered on Radio Canada 1990 92 and he co starred as the journalist Michel Gagne 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 veritable histoire tragique des quintuplees Dionne The Dionne Twins The True Tragic Story of the Dionne Quintuplets 3 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 Dupuis s first appearance on film was in a 1987 short experimental work inspired by the 1926 avant garde film Anemique Cinema by Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray featuring the same title 4 Among Dupuis 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 Rene 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 Looking for Alexander Memoires affectives 2004 directed by Francis Leclerc who co wrote the screenplay with Marcel Beaulieu received awards citation needed In The Rocket Maurice Richard directed by Charles Biname Seraphin Heart of Stone and released in late November 2005 Dupuis stars as French Canadian ice hockey icon Maurice Rocket Richard who played for the Montreal Canadiens from 1942 60 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 February 13 2007 at the Carlu Event Theatre in Toronto including Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for Dupuis 5 6 In December 2005 Dupuis completed filming That Beautiful Somewhere based on the 1992 novel Loon by Bill Plumstead its executive producer It was set and filmed on location in North Bay Ontario The film directed by Robert Budreau is produced by Lumanity Productions Its world premiere was on August 26 2006 at the Montreal World Film Festival August 24 September 4 2006 it was presented at Cinefest Sudbury International Film Festival September 16 24 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 citation needed On location in Kigali Rwanda in mid June 2006 Dupuis began filming the dramatic feature film Shake Hands with the Devil in which he performs the principal role of Lieutenant General Romeo 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 7 The film was a special presentation at the Toronto International Film Festival on 9 September 2007 8 and opened the 27th Atlantic Film Festival on September 13 2007 9 Shake Hands with the Devil opened in theaters on September 28 2007 10 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 11 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 12 The film closed the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival on September 15 2007 13 14 In winter 2007 he participated in the improvisational short film directed by Francis Leclerc entitled Revenir Return which was filmed and screened during the 11th edition of Festival Regard a festival of short films held in Saguenay Quebec 15 Later in 2007 and 2008 Dupuis began working on several new film projects including as Charles in Truffe directed by Kim Nguyen produced by Renee Gosselin and distributed by Christal Films whose world premiere opens the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal on July 3 2008 16 17 as Jean Paul Mercier in Mesrine Killer Instinct as Mr Turcotte in A No Hit No Run Summer Un ete sans point ni coup sur a feature film about baseball set at the beginning of the 1960s adapted from the novel of that title by Marc Robitaille directed by Francis Leclerc 18 as Scully in The Timekeeper L Heure de verite an English language feature film directed by Louis Belanger 19 as an Irishman named Liam Hennessy in Andre Forcier s Je me souviens and as another character named Charles in Sticky Fingers Les doigts croches directed by Ken Scott 20 On March 18 2008 after a fourteen year absence 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 21 Jean Marc Dalpe s French version Blaste directed by Brigitte Haentjens for her company Sybillines Inc also featured Celine Bonnier and Paul Ahmarani 22 Selected awards EditMetroStar 1991 Comedien Teleroman ou mini serie Les Filles de Caleb Gemeaux 1991 Meilleure interpretation dans un premier role masculin serie dramatique Les Filles de Caleb Fipa d Or 1991 Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels Cannes Best Actor Les Filles de Caleb MetroStar 1992 Comedien de teleroman ou mini serie quebecoise Emilie English dubbed version of Les Filles de Caleb MetroStar 2003 Role masculin Teleserie quebecoise Le Dernier Chapitre La Vengeance Genie 2004 Meilleure interpretation dans un premier role masculin Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role Memoires affectives Jutra 2005 Meilleur acteur Best Actor Memoires affectives Tokyo International Film Festival 2006 Best Actor The Rocket Genie 2007 Meilleure interpretation dans un premier role masculin Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role The Rocket Jutra 2008 Meilleur acteur Best Actor Shake Hands with the Devil Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival Louisiana 2020 Meilleur acteur Best Actor in a Feature Film Les Fleurs oublieesSelected stage performances EditLes Deux Gentilshommes de Verone The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare 1985 La Passion selon Pier Paolo Pasolini The Passion According to Pier Paolo Pasolini a play by Rene Kalinsky based on Teorema 1985 Harold et Maude Harold and Maude trans and adapt by Jean Claude Carriere of the play by Colin Higgins 1986 Toupie Wildwood by Pascale Rafie 1987 Au pied de la lettre At the End of the Letter by Andre Simard 1987 Fool for Love by Sam Shepard trans Michele Magny 1987 Le Chien The Dog by Jean Marc Dalpe 1987 1989 Les Muses orphelines The Orphan Muses by Michel Marc Bouchard 1988 Romeo et Juliette Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare trans Jean Louis Roux 1989 Un Oiseau vivant dans la gueule A Live Bird in Its Jaws by Jeanne Mance Delisle 1990 True West by Sam Shepard trans Pierre Legris 1994 Blasted by Sarah Kane trans as Blaste by Jean Marc Dalpe 2008 Selected television performances EditLe 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 Heritage 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 Helene et Alexis 1988 Lance et Compte He Shoots He Scores 1986 89 Tous Pour Un All for One 1990 telefilm based on the TV series Le Grand Jour The Big Day 1988 La Maison Deschenes The House of Deschenes 1987 89 episode in 1989 Les Filles de Caleb Caleb s Daughters 1990 91 Also known as Emilie Scoop 1991 95 Emilie 1992 English dubbed version of Les Filles de Caleb Blanche 1993 Sequel to Les Filles de Caleb Dark Eyes Pilot 1994 Million Dollar Babies 1994 Also known as Les jumelles Dionne La veritable histoire tragique des quintuplees Dionne The Dionne Twins The True Tragic Story of the Dionne Quintuplets 1994 Urgence Emergency Call Hospital Code 66 1995 Heritage Minutes Minutes du patrimoine Also known as Historica Minutes or History by the Minute Louis Riel and Maurice Rocket Richard 1997 Les Beaux Dimanches Beautiful Sundays Maurice Richard Histoire d un Canadien Also known as Maurice Rocket Richard Story Canada 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 Chapter 2002 Le Dernier Chapitre La Vengeance The Last Chapter II The War Continues 2003 Les Regles du jeu Roy Dupuis The Name of the Game Roy Dupuis 2005 Un monde sans pauvrete Agissons A World without Poverty Take Action 2005 Public service voiceover in collaboration with Pascale Montpetit sponsored by the Quebecois section of Make Poverty History Abolissons La Pauvrete on behalf of Global Call to Action Against Poverty Les Rescapes Claude Desrosiers Productions Casablanca 2009 to 2011 Une terre 1001 mondes Phile Beauchemin Polivista Production 2013 Toute la vie Christophe L Allier Christophe 2019 2022 Selected filmography EditAnemic Cinema Anemique cinema 1987 Exit 234 Sortie 234 1988 Short Gaspard et fil 1988 In the Belly of the Dragon Dans la ventre du dragon 1989 as Jean Marie How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired Comment faire l amour avec un negre sans se fatiguer 1989 as Pusher 2 Jesus of Montreal Jesus de Montreal 1989 as Marcel Brochu The Singles Game Le Marche du couple 1990 as Barman Being at Home with Claude 1992 as Yves Entangled 1993 as Max Cap Tourmente 1993 as Alex O Neil Chili s Blues C etait le 12 du 12 et Chili avait les blues 1994 as Pierre Paul Screamers 1995 as Marshal Richard Cooper Private Becker Screamer Waiting for Michelangelo 1995 as Thomas The Ideal Man L Homme ideal 1996 as Christian Out in the Open Aire Libre 1996 as Aime Bonpland Heads or Tails J en suis 1997 as Dominique Samson Bleeders 1997 as John Strauss Free Money 1998 as The Turk Seraphin Heart of Stone Seraphin Un homme et son peche 2002 as Alexis LaBranche The Barbarian Invasions Les Invasions barbares 2003 as Gilles Levac L Invitation aux images 2003 documentary as The Archivist Jack Paradise Montreal by Night Jack Paradise Les Nuits de Montreal 2004 as Jack Paradise Machine Gun Molly Monica la mitraille 2004 as Gerald Gerry Simard Looking for Alexander Memoires affectives 2004 as Alexandre Tourneur Manners of Dying L Execution 2004 as Kevin Barlow The Cop the Criminal and the Clown C est pas moi c est l autre 2004 as Vincent Papineau Claude Laurin The United States of Albert Les Etats Unis d Albert 2005 as Jack Decker The Rocket Maurice Richard 2005 as Maurice Richard That Beautiful Somewhere 2006 as Detective Conk Adams Shake Hands with the Devil 2007 as General Romeo Dallaire Emotional Arithmetic 2007 as Benjamin Winters Return Revenir 2007 Truffe 2008 as Charles A No Hit No Run Summer Un ete sans point ni coup sur 2008 as Gilbert Turcotte Mesrine Killer Instinct 2008 as Jean Paul Mercier Je me souviens 2009 as Liam Hennessy The Timekeeper 2009 as Scully Sticky Fingers 2009 as Charles Coteau rouge 2011 as Eric Miljours Rock Paper Scissors Roche papier ciseaux 2013 as Vincent Cyanide 2013 as Joe Another House L autre maison 2013 as Gabriel Bernard Stranger in a Cab Ceci n est pas un polar 2014 as Andre Kosinski The Forbidden Room 2015 as Cesare The Sound of Trees 2015 as Regis Otis Where Atilla Passes La ou Atilla passe 2015 as Michel Dead Leaves Feuilles mortes 2016 as Bob Kiss Me Like a Lover Embrasse moi comme tu m aimes 2016 as Narcisse St Germain Barefoot at Dawn Pieds nus dans l aube 2017 as Leo Forgotten Flowers Les fleurs oubliees 2020 as Albert Payette Brain Freeze 2021 as Dan Nuit 2020 as ChristianSee also EditCanadian cinema Cinema of QuebecReferences Edit Sarah Hampson A Home Boy Happy That Way The Globe and Mail August 31 2002 pg R3 Metro ed Les Regles du jeu Roy Dupuis The Name of the Game Roy Dupuis In French with English subtitles 23 mins documentary film aboutDupuis completed in 2005 and first broadcast on Super Ecran on January 26 2006 Film to tell saga of the Dionne quints Deseret News United Press International 28 May 1994 Prod Agent Orange Inc with participation of Telefilm Canada amp Hammerhead Productions amp the collaboration of Societe Radio Canada Short experimental film featuring Roy Dupuis amp Louise Bedard Dir conception Bernar Hebert prod Michel Ouellette music Randall Kay script Nicole Boutin dir of photography cameraman David Franco Full clips of the film providing these production details are accessible on the internet via a variety of fansites Marise Strauss Rocket Sweeps Genies Almost Playback February 13 2007 accessed February 14 2007 Peter Howell Rocket Scores Genies Triple Hat Trick The Rocket Scores Nine Genies But Bon Cop Bad Cop Takes Best Picture The Toronto Star accessed February 14 2007 Includes photograph with caption Roy Dupuis Wins Best Actor for The Rocket at the Genie Awards on February 13 and related links to other photographs from the award ceremony Shake Hands with the Devil Reawakens Past in Rwanda CBC August 10 2007 accessed August 24 2007 Visa Screening Room Schedule accessed August 24 2007 For further updates and useful features including a downloadable PDF press kit and production stills see the film s official website at Shake Hands with the Devil accessed August 25 2007 Jay Stone Opening Reel Soon Fall Movie Season Offers a Wealth of Selection The Ottawa Citizen accessed August 25 2007 The Canadian Press Keira Knightley Drama Silk among Winners at Quebec s Jutra Awards The Chronicle Journal accessed March 16 2008 Casting Adds Up for Emotional Arithmetic Production Weekly September 12 2006 accessed September 15 2006 See also Agnes Gaudet Emotional Arithmetic Roy Dupuis dans un film sur l Holocauste Le Journal de Montreal September 15 2006 accessed September 16 2006 Emotional Arithmetic Gala Programme Schedule Archived 2007 09 27 at the Wayback Machine official website of the Toronto International Film Festival accessed August 24 2007 Marise Strauss Films by Branagh Moore Reitman announced for TIFF Playback August 22 2007 accessed August 24 2007 Dir Francis Leclerc Cf Stephane Begin Un Record d assistance pour la 11e edition 20 000 festivaliers au rendez vous A Record Attendance for the 11th Edition of Festival Regard 20 000 festival goers at the event Le Quotidien February 12 2007 accessed February 14 2007 Revenir literally to return or come back or go back or to return home is a short improvised film created with the participation of Dupuis and Sylvain Marcel it was conceived directed and filmed within 48 hours according to impromptu criteria and then screened during the 11th Festival Regard sur le court metrage au Saguenay Quebec For some documentary footage of Dupuis and Leclerc engaged in the filming process see Roy Dupuis and Francis Leclerc Flash broadcast February 12 2007 video clip in French La SODEC termine sa ronde de decisions en longs metrages de fiction SODEC communique press release January 10 2007 accessed March 13 2007 in French Brendan Kelly Truffe to Kick Off Fantasia Montreal s Fantasy and Genre Fest Bows July 3 Variety June 26 2008 Patrice Robitaille Jacinthe Lague Roy Dupuis et Guy Thauvette joueront pour Francis Leclerc cinoche com June 5 2007 accessed June 13 2007 in French La SODEC annonce sa premiere ronde de decisions pour l exercice 2007 2008 SODEC communique press release February 23 2007 accessed March 13 2007 in French Roy Dupuis at Agence Premier Role accessed June 29 2008 Christiane Charette radio interview with Roy Dupuis Radio Canada broadcast January 26 2007 online posting of audio clip ZapMedia accessed February 25 2007 in French Blaste Sybillines Inc company website accessed January 18 2008 in French Further reading EditHampson Sarah A Home Boy Happy That Way The 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 Daniele Dans les peaux de Roy Dupuis In Roy Dupuis Skins Outremont Qc Les Editions internationales Alain Stanke 2004 ISBN 2 7604 0955 4 Detailed account of Roy Dupuis characters as embodied in some of his documented stage television and film performances 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 Archive 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 Les Regles 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 Ecran on 26 January 2006 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Roy Dupuis Notre Cinema a 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 Role English version of official webpage Roy Dupuis at IMDb Roy Dupuis The Official Roy Dupuis Fan Club Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Roy Dupuis amp oldid 1133861487, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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