Emmanuel Bilodeau

Emmanuel Bilodeau (born August 29, 1964) is a Canadian actor from Quebec. He is most noted for his performances in the 2000 film Soft Shell Man (Un crabe dans la tête), for which he won the Jutra Award for Best Supporting Actor at the 4th Jutra Awards in 2002, and the 2006 television miniseries René Lévesque, for which he won the Gémeaux Award for Best Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2007.

He was also a Jutra nominee for Best Supporting Actor at the 7th Jutra Awards in 2005 for Love and Magnets (Les Aimants) and at the 10th Jutra Awards in 2008 for Bluff, and a nominee for Best Actor at the 13th Jutra Awards in 2011 for Curling.

In addition to his film and television performances, he has also toured two one-man comedy stage shows, One Manu Show in 2014 and Manu Bilodeux dans le pétrin in 2021.

Personal life He is married to actress Édith Cochrane. In 2021 they starred in the television documentary series , which centred on their process of expanding the gardens at their home to move toward an agricultural lifestyle to become more self-sufficient and reduce their ecological footprint.

He was previously married to actress Monique Spaziani. Their daughter Philomène is an actress, who appeared alongside her father in Curling and starred in the television series Toute la vie.

Filmography

Film

Television Year Title Role Notes 1992 Scoop Journalist 1993 Blanche Comedian 1993 La princesse astronaute Vladimir 1995 L'Instit Patrick Lafontaine Season 3, episode 5 1997Le Volcan tranquille Louis-Joseph Dessables 1997 Les Bâtisseurs d'eau 2000 Gypsies Le Mur 2001 Si la tendance se maintient Benoît Drapeau 2003 Grande Ourse Armand Laflamme 2004 Le Sketch Show Emmanuel 2006 René Lévesque René Lévesque 2008 René Lévesque: Le destin d'un chef 2008 Blaise le blasé Gaétan-Gilbert Pyrowski 2008 La Cache Host 2010 Ni plus ni moi Marc-Antoine Lecours 2010 Belle-Baie Charles Paulin 2010 Tranches de vies 2015 Pour Sarah Gilles Simoneau 2021 C'est plus qu'un jardin Himself