Jean-Guy Bouchard is a Canadian actor from

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. He is most noted for his role as Tonio in the film ''

Requiem for a Handsome Bastard ''Requiem for a Handsome Bastard'' (french: Requiem pour un beau sans-cœur) is a 1992 Canadian film written and directed by Robert Morin. The film depicts the downfall of a Montreal criminal following his escape from prison. It was nominated fo ...

(Requiem pour un beau sans-coeur)'', for which he received a

Genie Award The Genie Awards were given out annually by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to recognize the best of Canadian cinema from 1980–2012. They succeeded the Canadian Film Awards (1949–1978; also known as the "Etrog Awards," for scu ...

nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the

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in 1992. A 1979 graduate of the

National Theatre School of Canada The National Theatre School of Canada (NTS, french: École nationale de théâtre du Canada) is a private institution of professional theatre studies in Montreal, Quebec. Established in 1960, the NTS receives its principal funding from grants aw ...

, he began his acting career in 1980 in a production of

David Fennario David William Fennario, (born David Wiper, 26 April 1947) is a Canadian playwright best known for '' Balconville'' (1979), his bilingual dramatization of life in working-class Montreal, for which he won the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award. A ...

's play ''Nothing to Lose''.Pat Donnelly, "Canadians are invading Washington with great success". ''

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'', September 23, 2000. His other credits have included the films ''

The Years of Dreams and Revolt ''The Years of Dreams and Revolt'' () is a Canadian drama film, directed by Jean-Claude Labrecque and released in 1984. A sequel to his 1975 film '' The Vultures (Les Vautours)'', the film revisits the story of Louis Pelletier (Gilbert Sicotte) in ...

(Les Années de rêves)'', ''

Phantom Life ''Phantom Life'' (french: La Vie fantôme) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Jacques Leduc and released in 1992. An adaptation of the novel by Danièle Sallenave, the film stars Ron Lea as Pierre, an academic at the Université de Sherbrooke w ...

(La Vie fantôme)'', ''

Karmina Karmina is an American indie pop music duo of sister singer-songwriters Kelly Adams (Rudisill) (lead vocals, harmonies, keyboards) and Kamille Rudisill (lead vocals, harmonies, guitars). Their name is derived from ''carmina'', which means “song� ...

'', ''

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(J'en suis !)'', ''

The Revenge of the Woman in Black ''The Revenge of the Woman in Black'' (french: La vengeance de la femme en noir) is a Canadian crime comedy film, directed by Roger Cantin and released in 1997. A sequel to his 1991 film '' Four Stiffs and a Trombone (L'assassin jouait du tromb ...

(La Vengeance de la femme en noir)'', ''

It's Your Turn, Laura Cadieux ''It's Your Turn, Laura Cadieux'' (french: C't'à ton tour, Laura Cadieux) is a Canadian comedy film, directed by Denise Filiatrault and released in 1998. The film was based on the comedic novel by Michel Tremblay. The film centers on a group of ...

(C't'à ton tour, Laura Cadieux)'', ''

The Sleep Room ''The Sleep Room'' is a 1998 Canadian television movie about experiments on Canadian mental patients that were carried out in the 1950s and 1960s by Donald Ewen Cameron and funded by the CIA's MKUltra program. It originally aired as a miniseries a ...

'', ''

When I Will Be Gone ''When I Will Be Gone'' (french: L'Âge de braise) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Jacques Leduc and released in 1998. The film stars Annie Girardot as Caroline Bonhomme, an elderly woman who is preparing for death.Gerald Pratley, ''A Centur ...

(L'Âge de braise)'', ''

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'', ''

The Collector ''The Collector'' is a 1963 thriller novel by English author John Fowles, in his literary debut. Its plot follows a lonely, psychotic young man who kidnaps a female art student in London and holds her captive in the cellar of his rural farmhous ...

(Le Collectionneur)'', ''

The Negro ''The Negro'' is a book by W. E. B. Du Bois published in 1915 and released in electronic form by Project Gutenberg in 2011. It is an overview of African-American history, tracing it as far back as the sub-Saharan cultures, including Great Zim ...

(Le Nèg')'', ''

May God Bless America ''May God Bless America'' (french: Que Dieu bénisse l'Amérique) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Robert Morin and released in 2006. A critique of suburban values and lifestyles, the film stars Gildor Roy as Maurice Ménard, a police inspect ...

(Que Dieu bénisse l'Amérique)'', ''

Thrill of the Hills ''Thrill of the Hills'' (french: Frisson des collines) is a Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Richard Roy and released in 2011. Set in Quebec in the late 1960s, the film stars Antoine Olivier Pilon as Frisson, a young boy whose father Aur� ...

(Frisson des collines)'', ''

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'', ''

Death Dive ''Death Dive'' (french: Le Scaphandrier) is a Canadian horror film, directed by Alain Vézina and released in 2015.Charles-Henri Ramond"Scaphandrier, Le – Film de Alain Vézina" ''Films du Québec'', January 26, 2015. The film centres on a zombi ...

(Le Scaphandrier)'' and '' Boundaries (Pays)''. On stage he is most noted for

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's 2000 production of

Michel Tremblay Michel Tremblay (born 25 June 1942) is a French-Canadian novelist and playwright. Tremblay was born in Montreal, Quebec, where he grew up in the French-speaking neighbourhood of Plateau Mont-Royal; at the time of his birth, a neighbourhood wit ...

's ''For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again'' at the

Arena Stage Arena Stage is a not-for-profit regional theater based in Southwest, Washington, D.C. Established in 1950, it was the first racially integrated theater in Washington, D.C. and its founders helped start the U.S. regional theater movement. It is ...

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, and for the 2018 production of

Fabien Cloutier Fabien Cloutier is a Canadian actor and playwright from Quebec.Paul Pörtner Paul Pörtner (25 January 1925 – 16 November 1984) was a German playwright, novelist, translator, and editor. Life After completing a directorial apprenticeship at the municipal theatre of his native Wuppertal, from 1951 Pörtner studied phi ...

's ''

Shear Madness ''Shear Madness'' is an interactive whodunit play, and is one of the longest-running nonmusical plays in the world.Montreal Gazette The ''Montreal Gazette'', formerly titled ''The Gazette'', is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Three other daily English-language newspapers shuttered at various times during the second half of th ...

'', January 23, 1988.

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