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Roy Dupuis (born April 21,1963) is a celebrated French-Canadian (Québécois) actor. Internationally, he is best-known so far for his role as Michael Samuelle in the television series La Femme Nikita (Nikita) filmed in Toronto beginning in 1996 and first broadcast in the U.S., Canada, and other countries from 1997 to 2001 (still re-run throughout the world). He is represented by Hélène Mailloux, of .

Roy Dupuis spent a significant portion of his childhood (from early infancy until he was eleven years old) in Amos, which is in the Northwestern region of Québec called Abitibi, before moving from there to Kapuskasing, Ontario, for the next three years, when he learned to speak English. His father (now deceased) was a traveling salesman for Canada Packers, a meat company (now part of ). His mother, who is still living, is a piano teacher. He has a younger brother and an older sister. When he was fourteen, after his parents divorced, his mother moved the family to Sainte-Rose, Laval, Québec (in the greater Montréal area), where he finished high school. After high school, he studied acting in Montréal, at the (L'École nationale de théâtre du Canada), from which he was graduated in 1986.

While becoming an accomplished actor in Québec and well-known in some of the rest of Canada, Roy Dupuis performed in many theater productions, movies, and television series, becoming a national phenomenon as Ovila in Les filles de Caleb (Emilie) (1990-92). Among the stage roles that he has performed so far are: Luc in Michel-Marc Bouchard's Les muses orphelines (The Orphan Muses), directed by André Brassard in 1985; Roméo in a Québécois adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (Roméo et Juliette), directed by Guillermo de Andrea in 1989; and Jay in Jean-Marc Dalpé's Le Chien (The Dog), Adrien in Jeanne-Mance Delisle's Un Oiseau vivant dans la gueule (A Live Bird in Its Jaws), and Lee in a Québécois version of Sam Shepard's True West, all three productions directed by Brigitte Haentjens, in 1987-89, 1990, and 1994, respectively. Dupuis was introduced to the American public on television as Oliva Dionne in Million Dollar Babies (1994) and, on the big screen, in such film roles as Becker in Screamers
(1995) and as John Strauss in Bleeders (1996), also known as Hemoglobin in the UK (1997).

In 1997 he began appearing as Michael Samuelle in the television series La Femme Nikita, which is also known as Nikita and was based on the 1990 film by French director Luc Besson. Among his "tour-de-force" film performances are Yves, in (1991; Cannes, Un Certain Regard 1992)--his first major screen role--directed by Jean Beaudin, adapted from a screenplay by Johanne Boisvert based on the 1986 stage play by René-Daniel Dubois; and Kevin Barlow, in (2004), the first feature film directed by Jeremy Peter Allen, adapted from his own screenplay based on the short story first published in the 1993 collection The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios and Other Stories by Yann Martel. His performance as Alexandre Tourneur in (2004), directed by Francis Leclerc, who co-wrote the screenplay with Marcel Beaulieu, has recently received awards.

Roy Dupuis lives southeast of Montréal, on 50 acres (200,000 m²) of land, in an 1840 farmhouse, which he bought in 1996 and has restored and renovated. Sports in which he has participated include hockey, sky-diving, and golf. His hobbies include astronomy and physics (his interests in high school). He learned to play the cello as a boy and, at times, still plays, sometimes in dramatic roles. In preparing his role in the film (2004), Dupuis learned very precise jazz piano hand movements accompanying the actual piano playing (performed on the movie sound track by pianist , the composer of the original music). For the past few years, between film projects, he has been occupied with learning to sail; he owns a couple of sailboats, and he is custom-outfitting the larger aluminum-keeled vessel in preparation for extended ocean voyages.

In , directed by Charles Binamé (Séraphin: Un homme et son péché
) and released to much acclaim in late November 2005, Roy Dupuis stars as French-Canadian hockey icon Maurice "Rocket" Richard, who played for the Montréal Canadiens from 1942 to 1960 and whom he portrayed previously on Canadian television in 1997 and 1999. Dupuis' own experience playing hockey and his ability to perform on the ice on authentic period are especially useful for this film, in which several professional hockey players are also cast in supporting roles. (See which contains some excerpts from an interview with Roy Dupuis). The film was nominated for the | in , including Best Actor (Roy Dupuis). At the Eighth Jutras Soirée, televised live on ARTV| and Radio-Canada| on 19 March 2006, it did not win a Jutra.

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