Gerald L’Ecuyer (born 1959) is a Canadian film and television director. L’Ecuyer was born in

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. He studied at Marianopolis College in Montreal, before going to New York City, where he studied at the New School and worked for

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''. He returned to Montreal and studied cinema at

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. He had a small role in

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's television series ''

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''. He was a host of ''

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'', a literary series on

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. After years of working in Toronto and a brief second stint in New York, L'Ecuyer has returned to live in Montreal (2013) and works as an actor, director and writer. His credits include the films '' The Grace of God'' and ''Gerald L'Ecuyer: A Filmmaker's Journey'', and the television series '' It's Me...Gerald''. In these last two productions, L'Ecuyer, who is gay, plays a fictionalized version of himself: a young, gay, Canadian director. He is the older brother of

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, also a noted Canadian film and television director."Filmmaker Gerald L'Ecuyer". ''

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'', August 15, 1999.

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