Hany Manuel Tadros is an Egyptian-Canadian singer, songwriter, actor, comedian and voice actor.
18 Facts About Manuel Tadros
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Manuel Tadros's father, Emmanuel Saadi Tadros, was a Copt, and his mother, Suzette Sawaya, was of Lebanese descent.
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Manuel Tadros's parents immigrated to Quebec when he was ten years old.
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Manuel Tadros's father bought him a guitar when he was 12 and he started composing and singing, eventually performing at the Vieux Damas venue in Saint Vincent.
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Manuel Tadros's fame began to grow after he took part in Premiere chance, a TV program hosted by Fernand Gignac for new talents, in which he sang "Je t'aime, tu sais".
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Manuel Tadros hosted the variety shows Jeunesse and Pop Express between 1982 and 1984 on Tele Metropole.
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Toward the end of the 1970s and throughout the 1980s Manuel Tadros turned to writing songs for other artists, including the hit tune "C'est zero" for Julie Masse.
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Manuel Tadros wrote for Veronic Dicaire, Roch Voisine, Nicole Martin, Patrick Norman and Natasha St-Pier and for shows including Cirque du Soleil's Alegria.
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At the beginning of the 1990s, Manuel Tadros diversified, doing voice-overs for movies and TV series.
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Manuel Tadros acted on stage including in the 2001 play Romeo et Juliette, de la Haine a l'Amour.
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Manuel Tadros hosted the educational magazine Code d'acces between 1998 and 2000.
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Manuel Tadros wrote the French versions of the music in Chicago in 2003 and Nostalgia in 2004.
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Manuel Tadros is the voice of Rodrigo Borgia in the Ubisoft game Assassin's Creed II and its follow-up Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood in addition to the short film Assassin's Creed: Lineage.
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Manuel Tadros has dubbed close to 750 films and series.
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Manuel Tadros is a founding member and administrator of ArtistI, an organization that oversees the payment of royalties to artists.
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Manuel Tadros was married to Genevieve Dolan, a Quebecois public college administrator, with whom he had a son, film director and actor Xavier Dolan.
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Manuel Tadros has another son from a previous relationship with a woman named Diane.
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On 28 August 2021, Manuel Tadros married Quebecois writer Emilie Ndejuru, with whom he had been in a relationship since 2016.