Benoît McGinnis is a
Canadian
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theatre
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors to present experiences of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a Stage (theatre), stage. The performe ...
,
film
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and
television
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actor
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who was nominated for a
for his role in ''
Le Banquet''. McGinnis has also appeared in other works including the hit TV series ''
Les hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin
''Les Hauts et les bas de Sophie Paquin'' (''The Highs and Lows of Sophie Paquin'') is a Canadian television comedy-drama series, which premiered on Radio-Canada in 2006. The show stars Suzanne Clément as Sophie Paquin, a single mother and busin ...
'' and the Canadian movies ''
Heartbeats (Les Amours imaginaires)'' and ''
Love Project (Love Projet)''. He graduated from the
National Theatre School of Canada
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in 2001.
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Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Canadian male film actors
Canadian male stage actors
Canadian male television actors
National Theatre School of Canada alumni
Male actors from Quebec
21st-century Canadian male actors
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