Cast & creator
Gilles Renaud
Best known for Bonsoir bonsoir!, Les Enfants de la télé, La tour
Gilles Renaud (born 25 September 1944) is a Canadian actor who has starred in cinema and television in Quebec. In 1983, he received a Genie Award nomination for Best Actor for the film A Day in a Taxi (Une journée en taxi). He is also a two-time Jutra Award nominee for Best Supporting Actor, receiving nods at the 9th Jutra Awards in 2007 for The Secret Life of Happy People (La Vie secrète des gens heureux) and at the 16th Jutra Awards in 2014 for The Dismantling (Le Démantèlement). In 2016, he appeared in the film Bad Seeds. While heavily involved in that production, he filmed a death scene for his character in his TV series Mémoires Vives, which began airing in 2013. In 2017, he starred in François Girard's film Hochelaga, Land of Souls, as a Montreal archaeologist in search of Hochelaga.
52
film credits
25
television credits
77
1969–2025 · acting roles
6.1
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (77)
Showing 77 of 77 credits
Bonsoir bonsoir!
Self
2019
Les Enfants de la télé
Self
2010
La tour
Self - Guest
2020
Les échangistes
Self
2016
Silence, on joue!
Self
2015La petite séduction
Self
2006
Un gars, une fille
Le vendeur d'auto
1997
Viens voir les comédiens
Self
2002
Living Memories
Jacques Berthier
2013Il va y avoir du sport
Self
2004
Mirador
Richard Racine
2010
Ça va bien aller
Self - Guest
2020
Grande Ourse
Robert Belliveau
2004
La Petite Vie
Monsieur Bricole
1993Roxy
2008
Les Beaux Malaises
Bernard
2014
Outbreak
Jacques
2020
René Lévesque
Jean Lesage
2006
A Criminal Affair
Jean-Guy Bilodeau
2022
Peak Everything
Eugène
2025
Bon Cop Bad Cop
Michel Grossbut
2006
Laurence Anyways
Board Chairman
2012
Nos étés
André-Jules Bezile
2005
D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers
M. de Tréville
2005
Musée Éden
Professeur Eugène Casgrain
2010
The Siege
Mario Cormier
2017
The Maple Leaf
François Bellerose
1971
D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers
M. de Tréville
2005
Hochelaga, Land of Souls
Antoine Morin
2017
The Guide to the Perfect Family
Robert Dubois
2021
The Auction
Accountant / Friend
2013
The Hair of the Beast
Seigneur de Beauport
2010
The Woman Who Drinks
Brunelle
2001Le frère André
Docteur Charette
1987
The Late Blossom
Yvon Thériault
1977
The Secret Life of Happy People
Jean-Pierre
2006
Amoureux fou
Rick
1991
The Handyman
Armand St-Amant
1980
The Conquest
Larent
1973
Far Away From You, Darling
Méo
1976
Once Upon a Time in the East
Cuirette
1974
Cadavres
Ronald Maisonneuve
2009
All That You Possess
Christian Leduc
2012
The Sex of the Stars
Jacob
1993
Dans ton temps
Self
2021
A Woman in Transit
1984
Valérie
1969
Le grand jour
Gilbert
1988
The Lady of Colours
Barbouilleux
1985
Roméo et Juliette
Réal Rex Lamontagne
2006
A Day in a Taxi
Johnny
1982
The Outlander
Didace Beauchemin
2005
La Contemplation du mystère
Yvon
2021
Gaz Bar Blues
Gaston Savard
2003
Fantastica
1980
The Plouffe Family
Phil Talbot
1981Le complexe d'Édith
1991
Le génie du crime
Rolly
2006
Cabotins
Roger Boucher
2010
Bad Seeds
Simon Boulerice
2016
La naissance d'une messe
2002
Appelez-moi Stéphane
Stéphane
1982
Notre Dame de Moncton
Hergé
2022
Anastasie oh ma chérie
1977
Cheech
Paluchi
2006Sous les draps, les étoiles
1989
Ô ou l'invisible enfant
1972Denise Without Denis
Route 132
Curé de St-André
2010
The Mob
Policier
1975
Bernard the Great
Narrator
2013
The Red Kitchen
The father
1980
I Will Go Out To The Field
Simon
2011
The Heart Exposed
Jean-Marc
1986
Tideline
Le père
2004
La piastre
Philippe Tremblay, Robert's brother
1976