Denis Bouchard (born October 9, 1953) is a Canadian actor and playwright from
Quebec
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Jutra Award
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Winter Stories
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(Histoires d'hiver)'', for which he received a
Genie Award
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nomination for
Best Actor
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at the
20th Genie Awards
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in 2000.
Originally from L'Abord-à-Plouffe, a village which has since been amalgamated into the city of Laval, Bouchard has acted in film, television and stage roles since the late 1970s. His noted roles have included the television series '' Terre humaine'', '' He Shoots, He Scores (Lance et compte)'', ''
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The Barbarian Invasions
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(Les Invasions barbares)'', '' The Little Queen (La Petite reine)'' and '' The Fall of the American Empire (La chute de l'empire américain)'', and a 1980s stage revival of Gratien Gélinas's ''Fridolinades''.Matthew Fraser, "Fridolin's as funny as ever". '' The Globe and Mail'', January 27, 1987.
He was formerly married to actress Sandra Dumaresq, with whom he has one son.Élizabeth Lepage-Boily "Denis Bouchard parle amoureusement de sa nouvelle conjointe" ''Showbizz'', October 29, 2010. In a 2020 interview on Julie Snyder's television talk show ''La semaine des 4 Julie'', he spoke for the first time about his relationship with his new wife, a funeral director whom he met while doing radio promotion for his death-themed theatrical play ''Le dernier sacrement''.