Emmanuel Schwartz

Emmanuel Schwartz is a Canadian actor and playwright from Montreal, Quebec. He is most noted for his performance as Étienne Maltais in the film Hochelaga, Land of Souls , for which he won the Prix Iris for Best Supporting Actor at the 20th [Quebec Cinema Awards] in 2018.

Early life and career

The fluently bilingual son of a Jewish father and a Québécois mother, he performs in both English and French roles. He has appeared in the films Without Her , Laurence Anyways, Laurentia , L'Affaire Dumont, Nelly, Sashinka, We Are Gold , The [Twentieth Century (film)|The Twentieth Century], Goddess of the Fireflies , La Contemplation du mystère and The Dishwasher , and the television series Kif-Kif, Blue Moon, Sylvain le magnifique, L'Écrivain public and Lâcher prise.
In 2014, he was cowriter with Alexia Bürger of the theatrical play Alfred. In 2017, his theatrical piece Exhibition/L’Exhibition, co-created with Benoît Gob and Francis La Haye, premiered at Montreal's Festival TransAmériques. In 2020, he performed the role of the Librarian in a dual stage production of Glen Berger's play Underneath the Lintel, both in English for the Segal Centre for Performing Arts and in a French translation by Serge Lamothe for the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde.
In 2022 he released Projet Pigeons, his debut film as a director. The film was a docufiction created with students in the theatre program at Collège Lionel-Groulx.
He followed up with Le Partage, a filmed version of his own one-man stage show, in 2024, and The Future , a film again created with students from Collège Lionel-Groulx, in 2025.