Robert Marinier | |
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Born | 1954 Sudbury, Ontario, Canada |
Occupation | dramatist, television writer |
Period | 1980s-present |
Notable works | L'Insomnie, Météo+ |
Robert Marinier (born 1954 in Sudbury, Ontario) is a Canadian stage actor, playwright and television writer, who was a nominee for the Governor General's Award for French-language drama at the 1997 Governor General's Awards for his play L'Insomnie. [1] For the same play, he was also a Dora Mavor Moore Award nominee for Best Actor in a Play, Mid-Size Theatre division, in 1997. [2]
His 2021 book Un conte de l'apocalypse was the winner of the Trillium Book Award for French Prose in 2022. [3]
He has also been a television writer for the series The Smoggies , Météo+ [4] and Les Bleus de Ramville .
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