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Gilles Renaud

Sep 25, 1944 (81 years old) in Montréal, Québec, Canada

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). 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).

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. In 2017, he starred in François Girard's film Hochelaga, Land of Souls, as a Montreal archaeologist in search of Hochelaga.

Known For

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Peak Everything
Eugène
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Route 132
Curé de St-André
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Laurence Anyways
Board Chairman
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The Outlander
Didace Beauchemin
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Fantastica
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The Auction
Accountant / Friend
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D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers
M. de Tréville
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The Red Kitchen
The father
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The Late Blossom
Yvon Thériault
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The Secret Life of Happy People
Jean-Pierre

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