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Trudeau was a 2002 television miniseries, which aired on CBC Television. The film, written by Wayne Grigsby and directed by Jerry Ciccoritti, dramatized the life of former Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau.

The miniseries was one of the highest-rated Canadian television programs of the year. It won several Gemini Awards, including Best Actor, Best Writing and Best Direction.

It follows Pierre Trudeau through the major events of his political mandates up to the patriation of the Canadian Constitution. A few of the major characters in the film (notably "Greenbaum" and "Duncan") are fictional, or composite characters.

A sequel, Trudeau II came out in 2005, examining Trudeau's early life.

Cast

Colm Feore
- Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Polly Shannon
- Margaret Trudeau
Patrick McKenna
- Duncan
Don McKellar
- Greenbaum
Peter Outerbridge
- Jim Coutts
Raymond Cloutier - Gérard Pelletier
Raymond Bouchard - Jean Marchand
Luc Proulx - René Lévesque
R. H. Thomson
- Mitchell Sharp
Guy Richer - Jean Chrétien
Jean Marchand ¹ - Marc Lalonde
Geraint Wyn Davies
- Bill Davis
Eric Peterson
- Tommy Douglas
Robert Bockstael - Roy McMurtry
Ron White - James Sinclair
Sara Botsford - Kathleen Sinclair
Michael Copeman - Robert Stanfield
Brian Heighton - Brian Peckford
Gary Levert - Roy Romanow
Jean-Guy Moreau - Jean Drapeau
Stephen Morgan - Bryce Mackasey
William Parsons - Lester B. Pearson
Hugh Thompson - Ron Basford
Karl Pruner - John Turner
David McIlwraith - Peter Lougheed

Archival footage of Joe Clark, Knowlton Nash and Queen Elizabeth II is used in the film. Cynthia Dale and Peter Mansbridge also have small roles; Mansbridge plays himself.

Trivia

In several interviews at the time of the premiere, actual Trudeau PMO bureaucrats commented on the general accuracy of the film with one major exception. Most characters in the film refer to Trudeau as "Mr. Prime Minister." This is improper Canadian government protocol; the prime minister is simply referred to as "Prime Minister." It is notable that actor R. H. Thomson refused to use the scripted address and ad-libbed instead.

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