Pier-Luc Funk


Pier-Luc Funk is a Canadian film and television actor. He is most noted for his role as Maxime in the 2018 film Genesis , for which he received a Prix Iris nomination for Prix Iris for [Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor] at the 21st [Quebec Cinema Awards].
Funk had his first acting role in childhood, as the protagonist of the 2008 film A [No-Hit No-Run Summer] . Following that he joined the cast of the teen drama series Tactik, in which he played Samuel Langevin from 2009 to 2013.
In 2014 and 2015 he was a cast member in SNL Québec, a Quebec-based adaptation of Saturday Night Live. After the show was cancelled by Télé-Québec in 2015, he joined the cast of the new series Le [nouveau show]. In the same year he joined the cast of the drama series Mémoires vives as Jérémie, a sinister character who plotted and carried out a kidnapping of the main character's daughter. In 2017, he won the Prix Gémeaux for Best Actor in a Drama Series for Mémoires vives, the youngest actor to win in the history of the category.
In 2021 Funk hosted Sans rancune, a TVA variety series. In an episode devoted to drag queens in February, Funk participated in a lipsync battle against Rita Baga.

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