13 Facts About Roy Dupuis

Roy Dupuis portrayed Maurice Richard on television and in film and Romeo Dallaire in the 2007 film Shake Hands with the Devil.

From early infancy until he was 11 years old, Roy Dupuis lived in Amos, Quebec in the Abitibi Regional County Municipality.

Roy Dupuis's father was a travelling salesman for Canada Packers; his mother was a piano teacher.

Roy Dupuis has a younger brother and an older sister.

Roy Dupuis's hobbies include astronomy and physics.

Roy Dupuis learned to play the cello as a boy and, at times, still plays, sometimes in dramatic roles.

Roy Dupuis is a celebrity in French-speaking areas of Canada and is well known in anglophone areas due to his English-language and bilingual projects.

Roy Dupuis has performed in many theater productions, movies, and television series.

Roy Dupuis gained popularity in Quebec as Ovila Pronovost in the series Les Filles de Caleb when it premiered on Radio-Canada, and he co-starred as the journalist Michel Gagne in four seasons of Scoop.

In December 2005, Roy Dupuis completed filming That Beautiful Somewhere, based on the 1992 novel Loon by Bill Plumstead, its executive producer.

On location in Kigali, Rwanda, in mid-June 2006, Roy Dupuis began filming the dramatic feature film Shake Hands with the Devil, in which he performs the principal role of Lieutenant-General Romeo Dallaire, head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda during the Rwandan genocide.

Roy Dupuis plays Benjamin Winters, the "embittered" son of Melanie Lansing Winters and her husband, David Winters.

On March 18,2008, after a fourteen year absence, Roy Dupuis returned to the stage for a limited run as Ian in a French translation of Blasted, the controversial first play by British playwright Sarah Kane.