Emmanuel Schwartz is a Canadian actor and playwright from

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, "Bilingual actor Emmanuel Schwartz brings Montreal together, reopening stages in French and English". ''

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'', September 23, 2020. He is most noted for his performance as Étienne Maltais in the film ''

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(Hochelaga, terre des âmes)'', for which he won the

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for Best Supporting Actor at the

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in 2018.

Early life and career

The fluently bilingual son of a

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father and a Québécois mother, he performs in both English and French roles. He has appeared in the films '' Without Her (Sans elle)'', ''

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'', ''

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(Laurentie)'', '' L'Affaire Dumont'', ''

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'', '' Sashinka'', ''

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(Nous sommes Gold)'', ''

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'', '' Goddess of the Fireflies (La déesse des mouches à feu)'', ''

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'' and '' The Dishwasher (Le Plongeur)'', and the television series '' Kif-Kif'', ''Blue Moon'', ''Sylvain le magnifique'', ''L'Écrivain public'' and ''

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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

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.Tristan Malavoy
"Emmanuel Schwartz et la pensée pure"
''

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'', May 31, 2017. In 2020, he performed the role of the Librarian in a dual stage production of

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's play ''

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'', both in English for the

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and in a French translation by

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for the

Théâtre du Nouveau Monde The Théâtre du Nouveau Monde (; TNM) is a theatre company and venue located on rue Sainte-Catherine in Montreal, Quebec. Founded in , it launched with the classic play ''L'Avare'' by Molière. Initially located at the Gesù (1951–1958), it ...

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