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Canadian actor

Roy Michael Joseph Dupuis (French pronunciation:[ʁɔjdypɥi]; born April 21, ) is a Canadianactor best known in America for his role as counterterrorism operative Michael Samuelle in the television series La Femme Nikita.

In Canada, specifically Quebec, he's known for numerous leading roles he's played in film. He portrayed Maurice Richard on television and in film and Roméo Dallaire in the film Shake Hands with the Devil.

Early life and education

Dupuis was born in New Liskeard, Ontario to French-Canadian parents.

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From early infancy until he was 11 years old, Dupuis lived in Amos, Quebec in the Abitibi Regional County Municipality. Over the next three years he lived in Kapuskasing, Ontario, where he learned to speak English. His father was a travelling salesman for Canada Packers; his mother was a piano teacher.

He has a younger brother and an older sister. When he was 14, after his parents divorced, his mother moved the family to Sain