Denis Bouchard
Denis Bouchard is a Canadian actor and playwright from Quebec. He is most noted for his performances in Denise Filiatrault's 1998 film It's [Your Turn, Laura Cadieux] , for which he received a Jutra Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 1st Jutra Awards in 1998, and François Bouvier's 1999 film Winter Stories , for which he received a Genie Award nomination for Canadian [Screen Award for Best Actor|Best Actor] at the 20th Genie Awards in 2000.
Originally from L'Abord-à-Plouffe, a village which has since been amalgamated into the city of Laval, Bouchard has acted in film, television and stage roles since the late 1970s. His noted roles have included the television series Terre humaine, He Shoots, He Scores , René Lévesque, Avec un grand A and Annie et ses hommes, the films Unfaithful Mornings , An Imaginary Tale , Love Me , La Florida, The Ideal Man , The Barbarian Invasions , The Little Queen and The Fall of [the American Empire] , and a 1980s stage revival of Gratien Gélinas's Fridolinades.
He was formerly married to actress Sandra Dumaresq, with whom he has one son. In a 2020 interview on Julie Snyder's television talk show La semaine des 4 Julie, he spoke for the first time about his relationship with his new wife, a funeral director whom he met while doing radio promotion for his death-themed theatrical play Le dernier sacrement.