Robin Aubert

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Robin Aubert
BornMay 1972 (age 52)
Canada
Occupation(s)Actor, screenwriter, film director

Robin Aubert (born May 13, 1972) is a Canadian actor, screenwriter and film director. [1] He is most noted for his performance in the film The Countess of Baton Rouge (La Comtesse de Bâton Rouge), for which he received a Genie Award nomination for Best Actor at the 18th Genie Awards in 1997, [2] and his 2017 film Ravenous (Les Affamés), which won the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Film at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. [3]

Aubert was born in Ham-Nord, Quebec. He is a founding member of the sketch comedy troupe Les Chick'n Swell in 1990, [4] he began acting in stage roles including productions of Jean-Marc Dalpé's Eddy [5] and Daniel Danis's Le Pont de pierres et la peau d'images. [6] Around the same time, he appeared in the television series 4 et demi and Radio Enfer and the films The Escort (L'Escorte) and The Countess of Baton Rouge. His subsequent acting roles included the films Maelström , The Negro (Le nèg'), Mammouth , Father and Guns (De père en flic), Miraculum , The Masters of Suspense (Les Maîtres du suspense), Amsterdam , My Internship in Canada (Guibord s'en va-t-en guerre), A Way of Life (Une manière de vivre) and My Very Own Circus (Mon cirque à moi), and the television series Temps dur, Les Invincibles and Le Gentleman. He received a Prix Jutra nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 17th Jutra Awards in 2015 for Miraculum. [7]

As a filmmaker, he released a number of short films beginning in 1999, receiving a Jutra nomination for Best Short Film at the 3rd Jutra Awards in 2001 for Lila, before his feature-length debut Saint Martyrs of the Damned (Saints-Martyrs-des-Damnés) was released in 2005. [8] He followed up with Train to Nowhere (À quelle heure le train pour nulle part) in 2009, [9] Crying Out (À l'origine d'un cri) in 2010, [10] Tuktuq in 2016 [1] and Ravenous in 2017.

In 2023 he released You'll Never Know (Tu ne sauras jamais). [11]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Robin Aubert: l'appel du Nunavik". La Presse , March 21, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Sweet on The Hereafter; Atom Egoyan movie leads Genie parade". Edmonton Journal , November 5, 1997.
  3. ↑ "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri takes home TIFF's top honour". CBC News, September 17, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Une magie créative puisée aux Chick'n Swell". La Tribune , October 18, 2010.
  5. ↑ "Actors thrive on Eddy script". Montreal Gazette , October 15, 1994.
  6. ↑ "Study in contrasts: Le Pont is talky, L'Echo can't sit still". Montreal Gazette , May 29, 1996.
  7. ↑ "Up for a Jutra". Montreal Gazette , March 14, 2015.
  8. ↑ "Saint Martyrs of the Damned an eerie look at small towns". Niagara Falls Review , October 12, 2006.
  9. ↑ "Genre benders all; Nine Quebec feature films - and more than 200 shorts - are busting out of traditional horror and martial arts categories to embrace romantic comedy and more". Montreal Gazette , July 22, 2009.
  10. ↑ "Quebec films flock to Toronto fest; 'It's a business decision' -TIFF is where the commercial action is". Montreal Gazette , September 4, 2010.
  11. ↑ Maxime Demers, "«Ç’a été une catharsis d’écrire ça pendant la pandémie»: Robin Aubert se confie sur son nouveau film, «Tu ne sauras jamais»". Le Journal de Montréal , March 15, 2024.
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