Roy Dupuis is a Canadian actor, director and producer, best known for his role as Michael Samuelle, a terrorist fighter in the television series La Femme Nikita from 1997 to 2001, as well as roles in The Rocket (2005), Shaking Hands With The Devil (2007) and Mesrine Part 1: Killer Instinct (2008). He also played a character of Ovila Pronovost in Les Filles de Caleb (1990) and Blanche (1993) TV series and Michel Gagné in Scoop (1992) TV series as well as the next 3 seasons – Scoop II (1993), Scoop III (1994) and shovel IV (1995).

Roy was credited for the roles of Dominique Samson in Heads or Tails (1997) and John Strauss in Bleeding (1997) before finally landing the role in 1997’s La Femme Nikita , which helped his acting career tremendously. After that, Roy had prominent roles in films such as Pretty Somewhere (2006), Emotional Arithmetic (2007), Truffe (2007), Mesrine Part 2: Public Enemy #1 (2008), The Timekeeper (2009) and Les rescapés TV series from 2010 to 2012 and films Another House (2013), The Sound of Trees (2015) andBarefoot at Dawn (2017).

Born name

Roy Michael Joseph Dupuis

nickname

Roy

Sun sign

Trails

Place of birth

New Liskeard, Ontario, Canada

Residence

Montreal, Quebec, Kanada

nationality

training

Roy attended secondary school in Sainte-Rose, Laval, Quebec, Canada.

He then studied acting at the National Theater School of Canada in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, graduating in 1986.

occupation

Actor, director, producer

family

• Father – He is a traveling salesman.
• Mother – She is a piano teacher.
• Siblings – He has an older sister and a younger brother.

Manager

Roy Dupuis is represented by –

• Premier Role (Talent Agent) in Montreal, Quebec, Kanada
• Robert Stein Management (Manager) in Beverly Hills, Kalifornien, USA

To build

Athletic

Height

5 feet 11 inches or 180.5 cm

weight

76 kg or 167.5 lbs

girlfriend/spouse

Roy Dupuis dated –

1. Simone-Élise Girard (1990-1993) – Roy began dating actress Simone-Élise Girard around June 1990 and they were around two and a half years old before breaking up in 1993.
2. Céline Bonnier (1994-2008) – One of Roy’s most famous relationships was with Canadian actress Céline. They had a long-term relationship spanning 14 years but ultimately separated in 2008. Neither of them believed in the concept of marriage and just enjoyed the time they spent together. The couple had the chance to star in a French play Gestrahlt (Blasté) , directed by Brigitte Haentjens in March 2008.
3. Christine Beaulieu (From 2012 to present) – In 2012 he started a relationship Canadian actress Christine Beaulieu was still in a fertile relationship as of March 2019. Again, neither Roy nor Christine cared about getting engaged or married and didn’t let bureaucracy dictate them.

race/ethnicity

White

Roy Dupuis is of French Canadian descent.

hair colour

dark brown

Due to his advanced age, his hair has turned into “salt and pepper”.

eye color

Light Blue

sexual orientation

Just

distinguishing features

• Long combed haircut
• Often wears stubble or a full facial hair beard
• Large, muscular build
• Salt and pepper hair and beard

brand promotion

He supported Mira Foundation until 2006, which provided guide dogs for visually impaired people or people with other disabilities. Roy was also a founder of the Rivers Foundation with the intention of protecting Canada’s rivers from human exploitation and being tainted by factories and cities’ hydropower development.

Known for

• A prominent role of Michael Samuelle in La Femme Nikita television series from 1997 to 2001
• Actors Shake Hands with the Devil (2007) as the main character General Romeo Dallaire
• Starring Maurice Richard in The Rocket (2005)
• Play a Jean-Paul Mercier character in Mesrine Part 1: Killer Instinct (2008)

first movie

Roy Dupuis made his big screen debut as Jean-Marie in a comedy, drama, sci-fi film Dans le ventre du dragon in 1987.

First TV show

Roy Dupuis first appeared as himself on a talk show episode L’heure juste in 1986.

Roy Dupui’s favorite things

• Activity – hiking, antique restoration, charity, environmental protection
• Sports – hockey, swimming, skydiving, golf, sailing
• Hobbies – playing the cello, physics, astronomy
• Actor – Alain Delon

Roy Dupuis Facts

1. Both of his parents were born in Canada but are of French descent.
2. Shortly after his birth, the whole family moved to Amos, Quebec, Canada and stayed there until Roy was 11 years old.
3. When he was 13, his family moved to Kapuskasing, Ontario to start Canada Packers’ business. There he learned to speak and write English.
4. When he was 14, his parents divorced and he moved to Sainte-Rose, Laval, Quebec with his mother, younger brother and an older sister.
5. His mother was a piano teacher, but Roy learned the cello from a young age and had the opportunity to play it in some of his television and film roles.
6. Roy’s first choice in his career wasn’t acting at all. In fact, he studied physics in high school, but after seeing the film Molière (1978), directed and screenplayed by Ariane Mnouchkine, lit a spark in him.
7. Roy accidentally started acting after one of his friends at the National Theater School of Canada asked him to help her with her lines for a play. A few days later, another friend of the girl, Stefen Labelle, withdrew from auditioning for the play at the last minute, but had the same date and time as the girl, after which he stepped in at the urging of his girlfriend.
8. Roy presented himself as essentially Stefen, and impressed the play’s director, but was quickly identified because the picture of the real Stefen revealed that he was African-American with Afro-hair, making the impersonation easily detectable and highly illegal. However, the principal told Roy to enroll if he really wanted to go to school and not tell anyone how he started if he was accepted, which he did.
9. He went from almost total anonymity to superstardom when he starred in the drama film Les Filles de Caleb in 1990, which was seen by 80% of Quebec’s population.
10. Roy was chosen to play the role of Maurice “Rocket” Richard because he bears a strong physical resemblance to him. He starred in a biographical TV performance called The Rocket in 1999 before starring in a popular hockey film The Rocket in 2005.
11. Roy won the 2005 Jutra Award for Mémoires Effective (2004) in the Best Actor category as well as the 2005 Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for the same film.
12. He won a 2008 Jutra Award for “Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role” for his role in Shaking Hands with the Devil (2007) as well as a Canadian Award at the 2007 Atlantic Film Festival for “Best Actor”.
13. His love of mountains, forests and lakes originated in the Abitibi region, a desolate natural area about 800 kilometers from Montreal, where he lived as a child. After a successful career, Roy moved to the countryside near Quebec and began restoring a circa 1840 farmhouse out of a passion and interest in renovating antiques.
14. In 2005 he began restoring used sailboats and bringing them back to their former glory. He also took lessons in water navigation and began going on various adventures.
15. Jon Cassar, the producer of the popular TV series 24 (2001-2010) offered Roy a role in season 5 alongside Kiefer Sutherland and Elisha Cuthbert, but he turned it down.
16. He’s not on social media.