Anthony Therrien

Last updated

Anthony Therrien (born December 17, 1997) is a Canadian actor from Charlemagne, Quebec. [1] He is most noted for his performances in the films Fake Tattoos (Les faux tatouages), for which he was a Vancouver Film Critics Circle nominee for Best Actor in a Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2017, and Slut in a Good Way (Charlotte a du fun), for which he received a Prix Iris nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2018. [2]

He has also appeared in the films The Torrent (Le Torrent), Corbo , 1:54 , Miséricorde, Vieux Jeu, The Dishwasher (Le Plongeur) and Until You Die (Jusqu'à ce que tu meures), and the television series Faux départs and Alerte amber.

From 2022 to 2024 he played the leading role of Félix in the drama series Les Bracelets rouges. [3] His character was a leg amputee due to cancer treatment; Therrien himself is not an amputee, and special effects were used to hide his leg. [3]

He received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Performance in a Live Action Short Drama at the 12th Canadian Screen Awards in 2024, for Until You Die. [4]

Related Research Articles

The Prix Iris is a Canadian film award, presented annually by Québec Cinéma, which recognizes talent and achievement in the mainly francophone feature film industry in Quebec. Until 2016, it was known as the Jutra Award in memory of influential Quebec film director Claude Jutra, but Jutra's name was withdrawn from the awards following the publication of Yves Lever's biography of Jutra, which alleged that he had sexually abused children.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Charlotte Aubin</span> Canadian actress from Quebec

Charlotte Aubin is a Canadian actress from Quebec. She is most noted for her performance in the film Isla Blanca, for which she received a Prix Iris nomination for Best Actress at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2018.

Simon Lavoie is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec. He is best known as codirector with Mathieu Denis of Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves , which won the award for Best Canadian Film at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival and garnered several Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017, including for Best Picture and Best Director.

<i>The Fall of Sparta</i> 2018 Canadian film

The Fall of Sparta is a Canadian drama film, directed by Tristan Dubois and released in 2018. Adapted from the young adult novel by Sébastien "Biz" Fréchette, the film stars Lévi Doré as Steeve Simard, a bookish and introverted teenager in Saint-Lambert, Quebec in his final year of high school.

Québec Cinéma presents an annual award for Best Actor to recognize the best in the Cinema of Quebec.

Théodore Pellerin is a Canadian film and television actor from Quebec. He is most noted for his performance in the 2018 film Family First , for which he won the Prix Iris for Revelation of the Year at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards, and the Canadian Screen Award for Best Actor at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards. In 2021, he starred as Oliver Larsson in the Netflix film There's Someone Inside Your House.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jorge Antonio Guerrero</span> Mexican actor

Jorge Antonio Guerrero is a Mexican actor born on August 11, 1987. He is most noted for his performance as Fermín in the 2018 film Roma, for which he was an Ariel Award nominee for Best Supporting Actor at the 61st Ariel Awards in 2019. He has also appeared in the television series Luis Miguel: The Series, Narcos: Mexico, Crime Diaries: The Candidate, Sitiados: México and Hernán, and in the film Drunken Birds . He received a Vancouver Film Critics Circle nomination for Best Actor in a Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2021, and a Prix Iris nomination for Revelation of the Year at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2022, for Drunken Birds.

Irlande Côté is a Canadian actress from Quebec.

Fake Tattoos is a Canadian drama film, directed by Pascal Plante and released in 2017. The film stars Anthony Therrien as Theo, a young loner who meets and falls in love with Mag at a rock concert.

Québec Cinéma presents an annual award for Best Supporting Actor to recognize the best in the Cinema of Quebec.

Québec Cinéma presents an annual award for Best Supporting Actress to recognize the best in the Cinema of Quebec.

<i>The Torrent</i> (2012 film) 2012 Canadian film

The Torrent is a Canadian drama film, directed by Simon Lavoie and released in 2012. An adaptation of Anne Hébert's novella Le Torrent, the film centres on the life of François, a man who was raised by his devoutly religious and abusive mother Claudine. Left deaf when his refusal to obey her demand that he enter the seminary to become a Catholic priest led Claudine to hit him on the head, he has continued to live in rural isolation, and struggles to establish human connection when he purchases Amica, a woman being sold into slavery who is eerily similar to his mother in her youth.

Mathieu Laverdière is a Canadian cinematographer, who won the Prix Iris for Best Cinematography at the 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards in 2021 for Underground (Souterrain).

Pascal Plante is a Canadian film director and screenwriter from Quebec, whose debut feature film, Fake Tattoos , premiered in 2017.

The Prix Iris for Best Editing is an annual film award presented by Québec Cinéma as part of the Prix Iris awards program, to honour the year's best film editing in the Cinema of Quebec.

The Prix Iris for Best Live Action Short Film is an annual film award presented by Québec Cinéma as part of its Prix Iris program, to honour the year's best short film made within the cinema of Quebec. Starting at the 16th Jutra Awards, the award was presented to the directors and producers of the short films. Prior to that ceremony, only the directors received nominations.

Vincent Leclerc is a Canadian actor from Trois-Rivières, Quebec. He is most noted for his performance in the 2018 film The Fall of the American Empire , for which he received a Prix Iris nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 21st Quebec Cinema Awards in 2019, and his starring role as Séraphin Poudrier in the television series Les Pays d'en haut, for which he won the Gémeaux Award for Best Actor in a Short Run Drama Series in 2016.

Erik Gosselin is a Canadian make-up artist and special effects technician. He is most noted for his work on the 2017 film Ravenous , for which he won both the Canadian Screen Award for Best Makeup at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards and the Prix Iris for Best Makeup at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2018, and the 2020 film Blood Quantum, for which he won both of the same awards at the 9th Canadian Screen Awards and the 22nd (B) Quebec Cinema Awards in 2021.

Éric K. Boulianne is a Canadian screenwriter and actor from Quebec. He is most noted as the writer of the film Before We Explode , for which he was a Prix Iris nominee for Best Screenplay at the 21st Quebec Cinema Awards in 2019, and as cowriter with Stéphane Lafleur of the film Viking, for which they received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023.

Until You Die is a Canadian short drama film, written and directed by Florence Lafond and released in 2023. The film stars Marine Johnson and Anthony Therrien as Léa and Xavier, a couple who have recently decided to maintain an open relationship, and centres on their conversation after Xavier returns home from his first time having sex with somebody else.

References

  1. Olivier Boisvert-Magnen, "Anthony Therrien : Faire sa place". Voir , February 28, 2018.
  2. Duchesne, André (April 10, 2018). "Iris: Le problème d'infiltration et Hochelaga en tête des nominations". La Presse . Retrieved April 10, 2018.
  3. 1 2 Sarah-Émilie Nault, "Anthony Therrien se confie sur la fin du tournage des Bracelets rouges: «C’est un peu effrayant que ça se termine»". Le Journal de Montréal , December 22, 2023.
  4. "BlackBerry Leads CSA Nominations". Northern Stars, March 6, 2024.