Gilles Renaud
Gilles Renaud (born 25 September 1944) is a Canadian actor who has starred in cinema and television in Quebec.
In 1983, he received a Genie Award nomination for Best Actor for the film A Day in a Taxi (Une journée en taxi). He is also a two-time Jutra Award nominee for Best Supporting Actor, receiving nods at the 9th Jutra Awards in 2007 for The Secret Life of Happy People (La Vie secrète des gens heureux) and at the 16th Jutra Awards in 2014 for The Dismantling (Le Démantèlement).
In 2016, he appeared in the film Bad Seeds. While heavily involved in that production, he filmed a death scene for his character in his TV series Mémoires Vives, which began airing in 2013. In 2017, he starred in François Girard's film Hochelaga, Land of Souls, as a Montreal archaeologist in search of Hochelaga.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.2218 |
| Birthday | 1944-09-25 |
| Place of Birth | Montréal, Québec, Canada |
| Also Known As |
2003
Gaz Bar Blues
6.684/19
This is the story of Mr. Brochu, whose friends like to call "the Boss". He runs his gas station the best he can and tries to stay happy no matter what...
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Gaz Bar Blues
2005
The Outlander
4.9/5
It is the early 20th century. A stranger arrives in the small, rural community and disrupts the lives of its inhabitants. The man, who refuses to give...
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The Outlander
2012
Laurence Anyways
7.628/898
The story of an impossible love between a woman named Fred and a transgender woman named Laurence who reveals her inner desire to become her true self...
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Laurence Anyways
2013
The Auction
6.7/24
Gaby owns a farm on which he raises lambs: Bouchard & Sons Farm. But he has no sons. Rather, he has two daughters that he raised like princesses a...
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The Auction
2006
Roméo et Juliette
4.7/9
Juliette, 15, is the only child of an eminent judge and has had the best of education in the best of schools. Her father is in the limelight because h...
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Roméo et Juliette
1991
Le complexe d'Édith
7/1
Today, Edith is tired of being the favorite spectator of her parents, famous but somewhat outdated singers. She wants to sing too. But just as she dec...
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Le complexe d'Édith
2006
Cheech
4.5/8
Six people, some more depressed than others, living through the worst day of their lives.
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Cheech
1976
Far Away From You, Darling
5/2
In 1940, two sisters work in an ammunition factory, but dream of marriage.
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Far Away From You, Darling
2006
The Secret Life of Happy People
7/2
A struggling architecture student falls for a free-spirited waitress who has a hidden agenda.
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The Secret Life of Happy People
2001
The Woman Who Drinks
6.667/12
On the eve of her final moments, a woman recalls her alcoholic past. She revisits her entire youth, including a binge that, at 46, cost her everything...
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The Woman Who Drinks
2010
Route 132
5.9/13
Two old friends and small-time crooks embark on a crime spree, but take an unexpected detour that could lead them down the road to redemption.
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Route 132
2012
All That You Possess
5.3/6
An obsessed scholar attempts to withdraw from the world but finds personal ties drawing him back into the family he had left behind, in this novelisti...
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All That You Possess
2004
Tideline
4.333/6
His father's untimely death sends young Wahab into an intense turmoil. Shaken by family feuds and what he discovers, he decides to bury his father in...
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Tideline
2006
Le génie du crime
3.7/3
Two gangsters had a mission to start a case of arson, but instead they kidnapped the daughter of crazy mafia boss.
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Le génie du crime
2013
Bernard the Great
0/0
It's Bernard's birthday, but he is not happy about it. In a strange world where adults are selfish and indifferent, his parents never accepted him as...
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Bernard the Great
2005
D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers
5.239/46
Exile and possibly death are in the cards for the Queen of France in this edgy cloak-and-dagger adventure based on Alexandre Dumas' unrivaled tale of...
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D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers
2009
Cadavres
4.9/22
Raymond is a jealous, misanthropic, couch potato. Angèle is a sexy TV star, childish and disillusioned. One Halloween, their mother, Solange, suddenly...
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Cadavres
1982
A Day in a Taxi
9/2
Two men spend 24 hours driving around the outskirts of Montreal.
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A Day in a Taxi
2022
Notre Dame de Moncton
8.5/2
Anna (Laurie Gagné) is going through a particularly stressful time: she is preparing to reconnect with Jason (Thomas Lapointe), the son she was forced...
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Notre Dame de Moncton
1980
The Handyman
3.75/4
One of Canada's talented directors, actress Micheline Lanctot expresses an effective, engaging approach in this simple, poignant drama about Armand (J...
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The Handyman
2016
Bad Seeds
6.9/18
Jacques is an actor who runs away to the countryside to escape his gambling debts. He meets Simon, a rough and wily farmer who manipulates him into a...
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Bad Seeds
1980
The Red Kitchen
4.833/6
On a wedding day, women are confined to the kitchen to prepare the meal while the men wait to be served. While men talk politics and sports, women tal...
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The Red Kitchen
1969
Valérie
4.429/7
Valerie leaves behind her life at a convent for the wild side of life. Getting a job as a topless dancer, Valerie quickly graduates to becoming a high...
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Valérie
2010
Cabotins
5/1
To avoid total bankruptcy, a down-on-his-luck show-business legend puts on one last show.
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Cabotins
1982
Appelez-moi Stéphane
7/1
Men and women gather at a Montreal suburban health clinic to create a theater show under the deceptive direction of a hammy actor.
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Appelez-moi Stéphane
1973
The Conquest
6/4
Each married on their side, a teacher and a sociologist meet by chance in Quebec. Political and intellectual discussions followed a brief mad love.
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The Conquest
1976
La piastre
6/4
Robert decides to drop everything and go back to his homeland, accompanied by his daughter and a couple of friends.
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La piastre
2017
Hochelaga, Land of Souls
5.1/21
Mohawk archaeologist Baptiste Asigny engages in a search for his ancestors following a tragic terrain slump in the Percival Molson Stadium.
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Hochelaga, Land of Souls
1972
Ô ou l'invisible enfant
9/1
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Ô ou l'invisible enfant
1972
L'exil
8/1
Summoned by his bosses to broadcast only neutral information, Jean, a reporter, leaves town with his friend to go and collect testimonies from simple...
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L'exil
1991
Amoureux fou
4.25/4
When Remy, an ad consultant, falls in love with Sarah, the newest star of an ad campaign, sparks fly. The only problem is that they are both married....
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Amoureux fou
1993
The Sex of the Stars
4.714/7
A 12-year-old girl faces a father she hardly remembers after his transition into a woman.
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The Sex of the Stars
1975
The Mob
7.143/7
Seasoned drug smuggler and thief François “Chico” Tremblay is tired of his modest lifestyle. Given the opportunity to earn $50,000 killing a prominent...
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The Mob
1985
The Lady of Colours
6.2/5
In Quebec 40s, orphans or abandoned children are placed in a gigantic psychiatric hospital where children were locked. Were they sick? No, they simply...
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The Lady of Colours
1977
The Late Blossom
8/1
30-year-old Quebec City native Gisèle lives a quiet life as a secretary without happiness with her parents and siblings. One day, tired of being tease...
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The Late Blossom
1977
Anastasie oh ma chérie
0/0
Anastasia chooses to lock herself in an apartment and tame through rituals. She barricades herself, to protect herself from external violence and the...
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Anastasie oh ma chérie
2021
The Guide to the Perfect Family
6.5/102
A couple in Québec deals with the pitfalls, pressure and high expectations of raising kids in a society obsessed with success and social media image.
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The Guide to the Perfect Family
1980
Fantastica
6.188/8
In this French–Canadian oddity of music and drama, an actress in a traveling musical revue is involved with the show's director until she meets and fa...
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Fantastica
1986
The Heart Exposed
3.333/3
When 24 year old apiring actor Mathieu meets and falls for 39 year old Jean-Marc who has just ended a seven year relationship, things are not all rose...
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The Heart Exposed
1981
The Plouffe Family
6.875/16
The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.
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The Plouffe Family
2006
Bon Cop Bad Cop
6.465/231
When the body of the executive of hockey Benoit Brisset is found on the billboard of the border of Quebec and Ontario, the jurisdiction of the crime i...
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Bon Cop Bad Cop
2021
La Contemplation du mystère
0/0
Éloi, whose father was killed in a hunting accident a year ago, is called to take part in a strange tribute ceremony in the country. There, immersed i...
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La Contemplation du mystère
1974
Once Upon a Time in the East
5.333/9
Two women and a transvestite gay man cross paths in this French Canadian drama. The transvestite is preparing for a drag-queen beauty pageant, and has...
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Once Upon a Time in the East
2025
Peak Everything
6.6/8
Adam is a kind-hearted kennel-owner. Hypersensitive and borderline depressed, Adam orders a therapeutic solar lamp. Through the lamp’s supplier's tech...
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Peak Everything
2002
La naissance d'une messe
0/0
Making of documentary filmed over months of rehearsal and experimentation between director André Brassard and the cast to flesh out Michel Tremblay's...
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La naissance d'une messe
2010
The Hair of the Beast
4.5/14
Takes place in 1665 in New France at a time when a part of Canada was colonialized by France. Joseph Côté escapes from a prison in order to avoid deat...
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The Hair of the Beast
1989
Sous les draps, les étoiles
8/1
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Sous les draps, les étoiles
1988
Le grand jour
0/0
A day in the life of two Québec families reunited for their children's wedding.
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Le grand jour
1984
A Woman in Transit
5.8/5
Even though the protagonist of the Canadian Femme De L'Hotel is a female filmmaker, one would think twice before suggesting that this effort by Swiss-...
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A Woman in Transit
Denise Without Denis
0/0
A few days before she retires, devoted Winnipeg school principal Denise has spent her entire life taking care of everyone else. She is the glue holdin...
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