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).[2] 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).[3]
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.[4] In 2017, he starred in François Girard's film Hochelaga, Land of Souls, as a Montreal archaeologist in search of Hochelaga.[5]
| Year | Title | width=225 | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | Exile (L'Exil) | |||
| 1972 | Ô ou l'invisible enfant | |||
| 1973 | The Conquest (La Conquête) | |||
| 1974 | Once Upon a Time in the East (Il était une fois dans l'est) | Cuirette | ||
| 1975 | The Swindle (La Gammick) | Police officer | ||
| 1976 | La Piastre | Philippe Tremblay | ||
| 1976 | Far from You Sweetheart (Je suis loin de toi mignonne) | Méo | ||
| 1977 | The Late Blossom (Le soleil se lève en retard) | Yvon Thériault | ||
| 1977 | One Man | Second Hood | ||
| 1979 | To Be Sixteen (Avoir 16 ans) | Psychiatrist | ||
| 1980 | The Handyman (L'Homme à tout faire) | Armand St-Amant | ||
| 1980 | Fantastica | |||
| 1980 | The Red Kitchen (La cuisine rouge) | Le père | ||
| 1981 | De jour en jour | Colbert | ||
| 1981 | The Plouffe Family (Les Plouffe) | Phil Talbot | ||
| 1982 | A Day in a Taxi (Une journée en taxi) | Johnny | ||
| 1984 | A Woman in Transit (La femme de l'hôtel) | |||
| 1985 | The Dame in Colour (La Dame en couleurs) | |||
| 1986 | The Heart Exposed (Le Cœur découvert) | Jean-Marc | ||
| 1987 | Brother André (Le Frère André) | Dr. Charette | ||
| 1989 | Sous les draps, les étoiles | |||
| 1991 | Love Crazy (Amoureux fou) | Rick | ||
| 1993 | The Sex of the Stars (Le Sexe des étoiles) | Jacob | ||
| 2001 | The Woman Who Drinks (La Femme qui boit) | Brunelle | ||
| 2003 | Gaz Bar Blues | Gaston Savard | ||
| 2004 | Tideline (Littoral) | Le père | ||
| 2005 | The Outlander (Le Survenant) | |||
| 2006 | Bon Cop, Bad Cop | Michel Grossbut | ||
| 2006 | The Secret Life of Happy People (La Vie secrète des gens heureux) | Jean-Pierre | ||
| 2006 | Cheech | Paluchi | ||
| 2006 | Romeo and Juliet (Roméo et Juliette) | Réal Rex Lamontagne | ||
| 2006 | The Genius of Crime (Le Génie du crime) | Rolly | ||
| 2008 | Le déserteur | Gordon Coutu | ||
| 2009 | Cadavres | Ronald Maisonneuve | ||
| 2010 | Mourning for Anna (Trois temps après la mort d'Anna) | Enquêteur | ||
| 2010 | The Comeback (Cabotins) | Roger Boucher | ||
| 2010 | Route 132 | Curé de Saint-André | ||
| 2010 | Tough Luck (Y'en aura pas de facile) | |||
| 2010 | The Hair of the Beast (Le poil de la bête) | Seigneur de Beauport | ||
| 2012 | Laurence Anyways | Council President | ||
| 2013 | The Dismantling (Le Démantèlement) | |||
| 2016 | Bad Seeds (Les Mauvaises herbes) | Simon Boulerice | ||
| 2017 | Hochelaga, Land of Souls (Hochelaga, terre des âmes) | Antoine Morin | ||
| 2019 | Vu pas vue | Father | ||
| 2021 | The Guide to the Perfect Family (Le Guide de la famille parfaite) | |||
| 2021 | La Contemplation du mystère |