Roy Dupuis (April 21,1963) is a French-Canadian (Québécois) actor. Internationally, he is best-known for his role as Michael Samuelle in the television series La Femme Nikita.

Biography

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Roy Dupuis was born in New Liskeard, Ontario to parents of Franco-Ontarian and French-Canadian (Québécois) descent. From early infancy until he was eleven years old, Roy Dupuis lived in Amos, Abitibi, Québec. The next three years he lived in Kapuskasing, Ontario, where he learned to speak English. His father was a traveling salesman for Canada Packers; his mother 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, where he finished high school. After high school, he studied acting in Montréal, at the National Theatre School of Canada (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, Dupuis 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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