Name |
Xavier Dolan |
Height |
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Naionality |
Canadian |
Date of Birth |
20-March-1989 |
Place of Birth |
Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
Famous for |
Acting |
Xavier Dolan sometimes credited as Xavier Dolan-Tadros, is a Quebecois actor and filmmaker, the son of Genevieve Dolan, a teacher, and Manuel Tadros, a Quebecois actor and singer of Egyptian descent. Formerly a child actor in films such as J'en suis!, Le Marchand de sable and La Forteresse suspendue and television series such as Omerta, la loi du silence, Dolan attracted international attention when his first film as a director and screenwriter, J'ai tue ma mere, won three awards from the Director's Fortnight program at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
J'ai tue ma mere has been sold to more than 20 countries.
After J'ai tue ma mere he directed his second feature film Les Amours Imaginaires (Heartbeats), which was financed privately. It follows the infatuation of two friends with the same mysterious young man. Inevitably, their friendship suffers. It premiered in the Un Certain Regard category at the 63e Festival de Cannes in May 2010, to a standing ovation, and won the top prize of the Official Competition at the Sydney Film Festival in June.