Roy Michael Joseph Dupuis (French pronunciation: [Ê É"j dypÉ¥i]; born
April 21, 1963) is a Canadian actor best known for his role as
counterterrorism operative Michael Samuelle in the television series
La Femme Nikita. He portrayed Maurice Richard on television and in
film and Roméo Dallaire in the 2007 film Shake Hands with the
Devil.Dupuis was born in New Liskeard, Ontario to French-Canadian
parents. From early infancy until he was 11 years old, Dupuis lived in
Amos, Quebec in the Abitibi Regional County Municipality. Over the
next three years he lived in Kapuskasing, Ontario, where he learned to
speak English. His father was a travelling salesman for Canada
Packers; his mother was a piano teacher. He has a younger brother and
an older sister. When he was 14, after his parents divorced, his
mother moved the family to Sainte-Rose, Laval, where he finished high
school. After high school, he studied acting in Montreal, at the
National Theatre School of Canada (L'École nationale de théâtre du
Canada), from which he graduated in 1986.Dupuis lives southeast of
Montreal, in an 1840 farmhouse located on 50 acres (20 ha) of land
which he bought in 1996 and which he has restored and renovated. He
enjoys sports, particularly hockey, skydiving, 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 recent years, between television and
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.Dupuis is a celebrity in French-speaking areas of Canada and
is also well known in anglophone areas due to his English-language and
bilingual projects. He has performed in many theater productions,
movies, and television series. 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.
April 21, 1963) is a Canadian actor best known for his role as
counterterrorism operative Michael Samuelle in the television series
La Femme Nikita. He portrayed Maurice Richard on television and in
film and Roméo Dallaire in the 2007 film Shake Hands with the
Devil.Dupuis was born in New Liskeard, Ontario to French-Canadian
parents. From early infancy until he was 11 years old, Dupuis lived in
Amos, Quebec in the Abitibi Regional County Municipality. Over the
next three years he lived in Kapuskasing, Ontario, where he learned to
speak English. His father was a travelling salesman for Canada
Packers; his mother was a piano teacher. He has a younger brother and
an older sister. When he was 14, after his parents divorced, his
mother moved the family to Sainte-Rose, Laval, where he finished high
school. After high school, he studied acting in Montreal, at the
National Theatre School of Canada (L'École nationale de théâtre du
Canada), from which he graduated in 1986.Dupuis lives southeast of
Montreal, in an 1840 farmhouse located on 50 acres (20 ha) of land
which he bought in 1996 and which he has restored and renovated. He
enjoys sports, particularly hockey, skydiving, 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 recent years, between television and
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.Dupuis is a celebrity in French-speaking areas of Canada and
is also well known in anglophone areas due to his English-language and
bilingual projects. He has performed in many theater productions,
movies, and television series. 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.
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