Gilles Renaud
Birthday: 1944-09-25
Place of Birth: Montréal, Québec, Canada
Biography: 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.
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Gaz Bar Blues
This is the story of Mr. Brochu, whose friends like to call "the Boss". He runs his gas station the ...
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The Outlander
It is the early 20th century. A stranger arrives in the small, rural community and disrupts the live...
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Laurence Anyways
The story of an impossible love between a woman named Fred and a transgender woman named Laurence wh...
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The Auction
Gaby owns a farm on which he raises lambs: Bouchard & Sons Farm. But he has no sons. Rather, he ...
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Roméo et Juliette
Juliette, 15, is the only child of an eminent judge and has had the best of education in the best of...
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Le complexe d'Édith
Today, Edith is tired of being the favorite spectator of her parents, famous but somewhat outdated s...
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Cheech
Six people, some more depressed than others, living through the worst day of their lives....
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Far Away From You, Darling
In 1940, two sisters work in an ammunition factory, but dream of marriage....
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The Secret Life of Happy People
A struggling architecture student falls for a free-spirited waitress who has a hidden agenda....
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The Woman Who Drinks
On the eve of her final moments, a woman recalls her alcoholic past. She revisits her entire youth, ...
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Route 132
Two old friends and small-time crooks embark on a crime spree, but take an unexpected detour that co...
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All That You Possess
An obsessed scholar attempts to withdraw from the world but finds personal ties drawing him back int...
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Tideline
His father's untimely death sends young Wahab into an intense turmoil. Shaken by family feuds and wh...
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Le génie du crime
Two gangsters had a mission to start a case of arson, but instead they kidnapped the daughter of cra...
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Bernard the Great
It's Bernard's birthday, but he is not happy about it. In a strange world where adults are selfish a...
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D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers
Exile and possibly death are in the cards for the Queen of France in this edgy cloak-and-dagger adve...
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Cadavres
Raymond is a jealous, misanthropic, couch potato. Angèle is a sexy TV star, childish and disillusion...
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Notre Dame de Moncton
Anna (Laurie Gagné) is going through a particularly stressful time: she is preparing to reconnect wi...
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The Handyman
One of Canada's talented directors, actress Micheline Lanctot expresses an effective, engaging appro...
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Bad Seeds
Jacques is an actor who runs away to the countryside to escape his gambling debts. He meets Simon, a...
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The Red Kitchen
On a wedding day, women are confined to the kitchen to prepare the meal while the men wait to be ser...
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Valérie
Valerie leaves behind her life at a convent for the wild side of life. Getting a job as a topless da...
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Cabotins
To avoid total bankruptcy, a down-on-his-luck show-business legend puts on one last show....
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The Conquest
Each married on their side, a teacher and a sociologist meet by chance in Quebec. Political and inte...
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La piastre
Robert decides to drop everything and go back to his homeland, accompanied by his daughter and a cou...
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Hochelaga, Land of Souls
Mohawk archaeologist Baptiste Asigny engages in a search for his ancestors following a tragic terrai...
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L'exil
Summoned by his bosses to broadcast only neutral information, Jean, a reporter, leaves town with his...
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Amoureux fou
When Remy, an ad consultant, falls in love with Sarah, the newest star of an ad campaign, sparks fly...
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The Sex of the Stars
A 12-year-old girl faces a father she hardly remembers after his transition into a woman....
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The Mob
Seasoned drug smuggler and thief François “Chico” Tremblay is tired of his modest lifestyle. Given t...
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The Lady of Colours
In Quebec 40s, orphans or abandoned children are placed in a gigantic psychiatric hospital where chi...
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The Late Blossom
30-year-old Quebec City native Gisèle lives a quiet life as a secretary without happiness with her p...
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Anastasie oh ma chérie
Anastasia chooses to lock herself in an apartment and tame through rituals. She barricades herself, ...
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The Guide to the Perfect Family
A couple in Québec deals with the pitfalls, pressure and high expectations of raising kids in a soci...
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Fantastica
In this French–Canadian oddity of music and drama, an actress in a traveling musical revue is involv...
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The Heart Exposed
When 24 year old apiring actor Mathieu meets and falls for 39 year old Jean-Marc who has just ended ...
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The Plouffe Family
The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and throu...
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Bon Cop Bad Cop
When the body of the executive of hockey Benoit Brisset is found on the billboard of the border of Q...
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La Contemplation du mystère
Éloi, whose father was killed in a hunting accident a year ago, is called to take part in a strange ...
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Once Upon a Time in the East
Two women and a transvestite gay man cross paths in this French Canadian drama. The transvestite is ...
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Peak Everything
Adam is a kind-hearted kennel-owner. Hypersensitive and borderline depressed, Adam orders a therapeu...
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La naissance d'une messe
Making of documentary filmed over months of rehearsal and experimentation between director André Bra...
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The Hair of the Beast
Takes place in 1665 in New France at a time when a part of Canada was colonialized by France. Joseph...
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Le grand jour
A day in the life of two Québec families reunited for their children's wedding....
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A Woman in Transit
Even though the protagonist of the Canadian Femme De L'Hotel is a female filmmaker, one would think ...
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