Lothaire Bluteau | |
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 Bluteau at the Calgary International Film Festival in 2007 | |
| Born | 14 April 1957 |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1980–present |
Lothaire Bluteau (born 14 April 1957) is a Canadian actor.
Lothaire Bluteau | |
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| Bluteau at the Calgary International Film Festival in 2007 | |
| Born | 14 April 1957 |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1980–present |
Lothaire Bluteau (born 14 April 1957) is a Canadian actor.
He was born in Montreal, Quebec, and performs in both French and English. Bluteau has worked in theatre, film and television throughout Canada and internationally. He abandoned medicine for the theatre and was first noticed for his performance as a mentally challenged youth in Yves Simoneau's In the Shadow of the Wind (Les Fous de Bassan). After receiving great acclaim for the lead in the stage version of Being at Home with Claude , he won a best actor Genie Award for his performance in Denys Arcand's Oscar-nominated Jésus de Montréal . He has since appeared in Black Robe and Robert Lepage's Le Confessionnal , and his international credits include Orlando (1992) and I Shot Andy Warhol (1996). [1]
He had a recurring role in the third season of the television series 24 as the character Marcus Alvers. In the fourth season of The Tudors , he played Charles de Marillac, the French ambassador to the court of King Henry VIII. In July 2014, it was announced he was cast in the History Channel series Vikings as the 9th century King of France, Charles the Bald.
Bluteau won the 1990 Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for his work on Jesus of Montreal and was nominated for the same award in 1996 for his work in the film The Confessional (Le Confessionnal). [2] He was nominated for the AFI Award for Best Actor for his work on Black Robe. [3]
Bluteau won the award for Best Actor at the 1997 Gijón International Film Festival for his work on Bent . [3]
Anne Hébert, was a Canadian author and poet. She won Canada's top literary honor, the Governor General's Award, three times, twice for fiction and once for poetry.
Georges-Henri Denys Arcand is a French Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer. His film The Barbarian Invasions won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2004. His films have also been nominated three further times, including two nominations in the same category for The Decline of the American Empire in 1986 and Jesus of Montreal in 1989, becoming the only French-Canadian director in history whose films have received this number of nominations and, subsequently, to have a film win the award. For The Barbarian Invasions, he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, losing to Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation.
Jesus of Montreal is a 1989 Canadian comedy drama film written and directed by Denys Arcand, and starring Lothaire Bluteau, Catherine Wilkening and Johanne-Marie Tremblay. The film tells the story of a group of actors in Montreal who perform a Passion play in a Quebec church, combining religious belief with unconventional theories on a historical Jesus. As the church turns against the main actor and author of the play, his life increasingly mirrors the story of Jesus, and the film adapts numerous stories from the New Testament.
Paul Georges Buissonneau, was a leading francophone theatre director in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Rémy Girard is a Canadian actor and former television host from Montreal, Quebec.
Black Robe is a 1991 historical drama film directed by Bruce Beresford, adapted by Brian Moore from his 1985 novel of the same name. Set in the 17th century, it depicts the adventures of a Jesuit missionary tasked with founding a mission in New France. To do so, he must traverse 1500 miles of harsh wilderness with the help of a group of Algonquins, facing danger from both the unfamiliar environment and rival tribes. The title refers to the nickname given to the Jesuits by the Algonquins, referring to his black cassock.
The Confessional is a 1995 mystery-drama film directed by Robert Lepage.
Érik Canuel is a film director and actor from Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Yves Simoneau is a Canadian film and television director.
Paul Hébert, OC, CQ was a French Canadian television and stage actor and director, and the founder of six theatres in Quebec. He is best known for his role as Siméon Desrosiers in Le Temps d’une paix, a Canadian soap opera.
Marie Tifo is a Canadian actress, and a major star in French-speaking Canada.
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Dead Heat is a 2002 crime comedy-drama film starring Kiefer Sutherland, Anthony LaPaglia and Radha Mitchell. It was written and directed by Mark Malone.
Ziad Touma is a Lebanese Canadian film director, producer and screenwriter born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1974 and residing in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is the founder of the film, television and digital media production company Couzin Films.
Nostromo is a 1997 British-Italian television drama series directed by Alastair Reid and produced by Fernando Ghia of Pixit Productions, a co-production with Radiotelevisione Italiana, Televisión Española, and WGBH Boston. The music is composed by Ennio Morricone. It stars Claudio Amendola, Paul Brooke, Lothaire Bluteau, Claudia Cardinale, Colin Firth and Albert Finney. It is described as "an adaptation of Joseph Conrad's epic story Nostromo of political upheaval, greed and romance in turn-of-the-20th-century South America."
In the Shadow of the Wind is a Canadian drama film, directed by Yves Simoneau and released in 1986. It was entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Festival.
Angèle Coutu is a Canadian actress from Quebec. She is most noted for her performance in the film Borderline, for which she won the Jutra Award for Best Supporting Actress at the 11th Jutra Awards in 2009, and her long-running television role in the series Two's a Crowd .
Richard Grégoire is a Canadian film and television composer from Montreal, Quebec. He is most noted for his work on the film Being at Home with Claude, for which he won the Genie Award for Best Original Score at the 13th Genie Awards in 1992.
Justine Héroux was a Canadian film and television producer, who was a partner with her husband Denis Héroux in Cite Internationale du Cinema et de L'Audiovisuel, later known as Ciné-Vidéo. She is most noted as a two-time Genie Award nominee as producer of the Best Picture finalists The Plouffe Family at the 3rd Genie Awards in 1982 and The Alley Cat at the 7th Genie Awards in 1986, and an Emmy Award nominee as producer of the television miniseries Little Gloria... Happy at Last.
The Thawing of Ice is a Canadian drama film, directed by François Péloquin and released in 2024. The film stars Christine Beaulieu as Louise Denoncourt, a parole officer who runs an experimental rehabilitation program for murder convicts who are nearing eligibility for parole, but who faces challenges when evidence emerges that Marc St-Germain, one of the criminals in her program, may have committed the still-unsolved murder of her mother.
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