Name |
Jean Marc Genereux |
Height |
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Naionality |
French-Canadian |
Date of Birth |
25-December-1962 |
Place of Birth |
Longueuil, Canada |
Famous for |
Acting |
is a French Canadian ballroom dance champion, choreographer and television personality from Longueuil, Quebec, Canada. He is most prominently known for his roles as judge and choreographer on the American, Canadian and French versions of the hit television series: Dancing with the Stars.
They have been featured dancers on the PBS series Championship Ballroom Dancing and most recently, were guest choreographers on the Fox dance competition-reality show So You Think You Can Dance. They were also featured dancers on the big screen in the film Dance with Me, starring Vanessa L. Williams. Also, Genereux played a "Smarmy Old Man" in the ballroom dance film Shall We Dance, starring Jennifer Lopez.
Along with dancer/choreographer Tre Armstrong, Genereux has appeared as a Permanent Judge on CTV's So You Think You Can Dance Canada for the first four seasons. In 2010, he appeared in an episode in the tenth season of Degrassi as a Ballroom instructor for a remedial gym class. As of February 2011, he also appears as the Head Judge on TF1's Danse avec les stars, the French version of Dancing With The Stars. On the August 8th 2011 broadcast of So You Think You Can Dance Canada, Genereux announced the creation of his new dance shoe company, JMG Dance.