Gilles Renaud
Biography
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.
Movie Appearances
Gaz Bar Blues
as Gaston Savard
2003
The Outlander
as Didace Beauchemin
2005
Laurence Anyways
as Board Chairman
2012
The Auction
as Accountant / Friend
2013
Roméo et Juliette
as Réal Rex Lamontagne
2006
Le complexe d'Édith
1991
Cheech
as Paluchi
2006
Far Away From You, Darling
as Méo
1976
The Secret Life of Happy People
as Jean-Pierre
2006
The Woman Who Drinks
as Brunelle
2001
Route 132
as Curé de St-André
2010
All That You Possess
as Christian Leduc
2012
Tideline
as Le père
2004
Le génie du crime
as Rolly
2006
Bernard the Great
as Narrator
2013
D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers
as M. de Tréville
2005
Cadavres
as Ronald Maisonneuve
2009
A Day in a Taxi
as Johnny
1982
Notre Dame de Moncton
as Hergé
2022
The Handyman
as Armand St-Amant
1980
TV Appearances
Les Enfants de la télé
as Self
2010
Musée Éden
as Professeur Eugène Casgrain
2010
La tour
as Self - Guest
2020
Living Memories
as Jacques Berthier
2013
Dans ton temps
as Self
2021
Les Beaux Malaises
as Bernard
2014
Mirador
as Richard Racine
2010
The Siege
as Mario Cormier
2017
René Lévesque
as Jean Lesage
2006
Les échangistes
as Self
2016
D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers
as M. de Tréville
2005
La petite séduction
as Self
2006