Jean-Pierre Bergeron
Jean-Pierre Bergeron is a Canadian actor and film director from Quebec.
He is most noted for his performances in the film The Big Snake of the World , for which he received a Jutra Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 2nd Jutra Awards in 2000, and the television film Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story, for which he received a Gemini Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Television Film or Miniseries at the 20th Gemini Awards in 2005.
Background
Born in Jonquière, Quebec, he graduated from the National Theatre School of Canada in 1971.Career
He had early acting roles in the television series Rue des Pignons, Quelle famille ! and La Petite Patrie, and made his film debut with a small supporting role in Once Upon a Time in the East in 1974.Throughout his career he has regularly acted in both English-language and French-language films, television series and stage plays, as well as working as a theatre director.
In 2011 he made his filmmaking debut with Alone with Mr. Carter, a short film which starred Robert Naylor as a young boy coping with an unrequited crush on the older man next door. Around the same time, he came out as gay for the first time in his career, later telling the press that he had struggled to be open about his sexual orientation for many years because as an actor who had been associated principally with masculine "tough guy" roles such as police officers and criminals, he feared the possible effects on his career of coming out. He subsequently became more active and outspoken as an advocate for LGBTQ mental health and suicide prevention programs.
In 2023, expressing a desire to tell the often overlooked and underrepresented stories of older gay men, he began production on his first full-length feature film, Old Guys in Bed. The film premiered at the 29th Fantasia International Film Festival in 2025.