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Hot Properties He’s homegrown and the hottest item on American television, thanks to a smouldering look and Nikita, a Toronto-based TV series that has hit the big time in the U.S. So, your Trends realtors recommend that you VIEW EARLY AND OFTEN
Name >Roy Dupuis Splendid edifice is further enhanced by a refined facade. Interior may seem dark and brooding, but there's a European quality that defies clear definition. For viewing: The Plateau Mont-Royal area and at Le Continental on St. Denis St. All the recent hype about Roy Dupuis isn't news to Trends readers - he's had "superstar" status in Quebec since the TV miniseries, Les Filles de Caleb, Blanche and Million-Dollar Babies, in which he played Oliva Dionne, father of the quintuplets. So, after tons of research and a flurry of phone calls, here's the low-down on Roy, a Taurus born on April 21,1963, in Abitibi who spent his early childhood in Kapuskasing, Ont. And remember that smouldering look? It's apparently there to replace any semblance of extended conversation. He's what you might call a man of few words. Some basic details: his eyes are hazel, he has a brother named Rodrick and a sister named Roxanne. He moved to Montreal in Grade 7, and excelled in hockey, track and field, basketball and volleyball. He got into acting, the fan sites and mags say, after an early interest in physics. Seems he saw the film Molière, got himself an audition at > the National Theatre School (when a friend couldn't go) and was chosen out of 2,000 applicants!He's starred in "audacious but revered" films like Jesus of Montreal and How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired and counts his favourite starring role as Being at Home with Claude, by director Jean Beaudin, released in 1991. Roy describes Michael, the character he plays in Nikita as "very dangerous, very smart," and told Playboy magazine in July (we read 'em all, folks) that his two favourite fashion accessories are a silver bracelet that looks like a motorcycle chain (he bought it from a street vendor in New and a pair of Gaultier tortoiseshell sunglasses with round lenses and transparent temples. He films the TV series in Toronto but returns to Montreal on weekends; loves his new 150-year-old farmhouse somewhere outside the city (where? where?). Seems smitten with a bit of wanderlust, though - he just spent the summer backpacking in Turkey. And he's the darling of the Web fans; check out this soliloquy from one Lady Crimson: "... next thing you know, you're drowning, drowning in those deep green eyes, that virtually hairless chest, as barely audible flinty French whispers flood your mind..." We'll let Roy respond in his own words(actually part of a USA Network interview where he describes his philosophy on acting) - use your imagination: "For me, an actor is a servant. First I have to choose to serve a writer and then a director. To serve is to give everything you are which means for an actor, you give your imagination, your conscience, your body and your soul." (Yes, yes!) |