Joel Bissonnette is a Canadian-American

actor An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...

Early life and education

Born in

Baltimore Baltimore is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland. With a population of 585,708 at the 2020 census and estimated at 568,271 in 2024, it is the 30th-most populous U.S. city. The Baltimore metropolitan area is the 20th-large ...

, Maryland, Bissonnette was raised in

Montreal Montreal is the List of towns in Quebec, largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec, the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest in Canada, and the List of North American cit ...

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. He is a graduate of the

Dawson College Dawson College is an English-language public college in Westmount and Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The college is situated near the heart of Downtown Montreal in a former nunnery on approximately of green space. It is the largest CEGEP in the p ...

Theatre Program in Montreal.

Career

Bissonnette is best known as Arnaud DeFöhn from the SciFi channel's show ''

Invisible Man ''Invisible Man'' is Ralph Ellison's first novel, and the only one published during his lifetime. It was first published by the British magazine Horizon in 1947, and addresses many of the social and intellectual issues faced by African American ...

'' and was a lead in Canadian series '' Liberty Street''. He has appeared in the films ''

Looking for Leonard ''Looking for Leonard'' is a Canadian crime comedy-drama film, directed by Matt Bissonnette and Steven Clark and released in 2002.Rick Groen, "Leonard's quest finds both vice and virtue". ''The Globe and Mail'', November 29, 2002. Synopsis The f ...

'', '' Century Hotel'', ''

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'', ''

Suspicious River ''Suspicious River'' is a 2000 Canadian drama film directed by Lynne Stopkewich, based on a novel by Laura Kasischke, and starring Molly Parker and Callum Keith Rennie. Its plot follows a young woman in 1981 who begins prostituting herself and ...

'', ''

The Sum of All Fears ''The Sum of All Fears'' is a political thriller novel, written by Tom Clancy and released on August 14, 1991, as the sequel to '' Clear and Present Danger'' (1989). Main character Jack Ryan, who is now the Deputy Director of Central Intellig ...

'', ''

Fight Club ''Fight Club'' is a 1999 American film directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter. It is based on the 1996 novel ''Fight Club (novel), Fight Club'' by Chuck Palahniuk. Norton plays The Narrator (F ...

'', '' Darkman III'', ''Language of the Heart'', ''

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'', '' The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'' and '' Death of a Ladies' Man''. In 2010, Bissonnette played the assassin Pavel Tokarev in the eighth season of the television series '' 24''. In 2018, played Brian in the film '' Desert Shores'' for which he won the Best Actor Marcello Mastroianni Award at the Blow-Up Chicago International Arthouse Film Festival.

Personal life

Bissonnette's brother is film director Matt Bissonnette.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

* American male film actors American male television actors Canadian people of American descent Canadian male film actors Canadian male television actors Male actors from Montreal Male actors from Baltimore Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Dawson College alumni {{US-film-actor-stub