Roy Dupuis Biography And Filmography:

Roy Dupuis was born on April 21, 1963, in New Liskeard, Ontario. Roy spent a major part of his early childhood in Amos, a region of Québec called Abitibi. For the next five years, he lived in Kapuskasing, Ontario, where he learned to speak English. His father was a traveling salesman for Canada Packers, a meat company. His mother is a piano teacher. Roy has one younger brother and an older sister. When Roy Dupuis was just fourteen years old his parents divorced and his mother relocated the family to Sainte-Rose, Laval, Québec (in the Montréal area), where Roy finished high school. After high school, Roy studied acting in Montréal, at the National Theatre School of Canada, graduating in 1986.

Acting and performing was not Roy Dupuis' first career choice. He studied physics in high school, but watching Ariane Mnouchkine's film "Molière" (1978) made him start thinking about being an actor. Dupuis entrance into drama school was unexpected. A good friend had been invited to audition for admission to the National Theatre School of Canada, but her equal, who had also been invited to audition, changed his mind and backed out at the last minute. She asked Dupuis to take his place, and he agreed to help out and auditioned, posing as the original entrant. Although he was not really the one invited to audition, he impressed the school's director so much that she invited him to request for admission to the school, and Roy was accepted. 

After his graduation in 1986, and a few years of successful experience acting in the theater, Roy began his roles in film and television.

The virtual obscurity Dupuis had during the early years ended when eighty percent of the residents of Québec watched the admired classic period series drama "Filles de Caleb, Les" (1990) (Emilie), turning him into a sexy celebrity overnight, and winning him quite a few awards for his performance as Emilie's husband, Ovila Pronovost. Roy's next major role was as a writer in the Canadian television series "Scoop" (1992), which ran for four seasons (1991 until 1995). In 1991 Dupuis starred in his first major film role, as the gay pimp, Yves, in Jean Beaudin's internationally celebrated "Being at Home with Claude" (1992), which was Canada's entry at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival. Other leading roles in French followed, and more English language roles as well, including the role of Becker in "Screamers" (1995), was Dupuis' introduction into United States theaters.

For the next five years, from 1996 to 2000, Roy Dupuis spent nearly all of his time in Toronto, producing the television series "La Femme Nikita" (1997-2001) alongside sexy Peta Wilson , which was seen in more than 45 countries around the world. When the final season of "La Femme Nikita" finished production at the end of 2000, Dupuis returned to Montreal, for a few months of vacation, before beginning production again on French Canadian projects made in his native country. 

The television series "Dernier chapitre, Le" (2002), about motorcycle mob rivalry, was filmed in both French and English versions at the same time. Then Dupuis teamed up again with "Chili's Blues" director Charles Binamé to star as in the romantic lead of Alexis Labranche, the heroes romantic love interest, in a variation of another Québec classic, "Séraphin: un homme et son péché" (2002), which became the province's highest grossing movie.

In 2003, Dupuis participated in several projects, combining leading roles with occasional supporting roles. In Denys Arcand's "Invasions Barbares, Les" (2003) (The Barbarian Invasions), which saw even greater worldwide success than "Jésus de Montréal" (1989), Dupuis again played a small role as a police detective. Released between 2004 and 2005 were six more movies in which Dupuis starred as either the lead or supporting role. His role as Alexandre in "Mémoires Affectives" (2004) brought him his first major film acting awards.

Roy Dupuis recently played the part of French-Canadian hockey hero Maurice "Rocket" Richard in the film "Maurice Richard" (2005), a story about Quebec's most famous hockey player, Maurice "The Rocket" Richard, focusing on the struggles of a French Canadian in the National Hockey League dominated by Anglophones. Dupuis then appeared in the mystery film, "That Beautiful Somewhere" (2006), about a weathered detective who teams up with a young female archaeologist to unravel the mysterious death of a 'bog body' found in a native swamp rumored to have curative powers. A story of two wounded souls searching for healing and redemption.

Dupuis next appeared in the historical drama "Shake Hands with the Devil" (2006), the film adaptation of the Romeo Dallaire autobiography "Shake Hands with the Devil". After being screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and the Atlantic Film Festival, the movie opened to rave reviews on September 28, 2007.

Next up was another dramatic movie, "Emotional Arithmetic" (2007), starring alongside Gabriel Byrne, Christopher Plummer, Susan Sarandon, and Max von Sydow, and tells the story of three people who formed a life-long bond while housed at a detention camp during World War II that are reunited some 35 years later after being separated from one another

Dupuis was then hired and cast in the romantic comedy "Truffe" (2008) where chaos ensues after global warming transforms a working-class Montreal neighborhood into a world Mecca for truffles. Roy then followed with the adventure film "The Timekeeper" (2008) and the crime drama "Instinct de mort, L'" (2008), the story of notorious French gangster Jacques Mesrine. The follow-up film to "Public Enemy No. 1". Dupuis wrapped up the year with the drama "Nemesis" (2008) about a miner who dies tragically on Saint-Valentine's Day night and the entire mining community believes it was Mathilde his wife who killed him, which is not true.

Roy Dupuis lives in the countryside outside of Montréal. In the past he has enjoyed sky diving and playing golf. Roy has become busy with sailing and renovations on his home and old boats.

For over ten years Roy has actively supported the Mira Foundation which provides guide dogs for visually impaired children and adults, and service dogs for those with other disabilities. Roy  co-founded the Rivers Foundation to protect the rivers of Canada from abuse by hydro electric companies. Roy acts as co-president and lends much of his free time to developing the foundation when not working professionally on films, movies and television.