# Emmanuel Bilodeau

Emmanuel Bilodeau (born August 29, 1964) is a Canadian actor from Quebec. He is most noted for his performances in the 2000 film Soft Shell Man (Un crabe dans la tête), for which he won the Jutra Award for Best Supporting Actor at the 4th Jutra Awards in 2002, and the 2006 television miniseries René Lévesque, for which he won the Gémeaux Award for Best Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2007.
He was also a Jutra nominee for Best Supporting Actor at the 7th Jutra Awards in 2005 for Love and Magnets (Les Aimants) and at the 10th Jutra Awards in 2008 for Bluff, and a nominee for Best Actor at the 13th Jutra Awards in 2011 for Curling.
In addition to his film and television performances, he has also toured two one-man comedy stage shows, One Manu Show in 2014 and Manu Bilodeux dans le pétrin in 2021.

## Personal life

He is married to actress Édith Cochrane [fr]. In 2021 they starred in the television documentary series C'est plus qu'un jardin [fr], which centred on their process of expanding the gardens at their home to move toward an agricultural lifestyle to become more self-sufficient and reduce their ecological footprint.
He was previously married to actress Monique Spaziani. Their daughter Philomène is an actress, who appeared alongside her father in Curling and starred in the television series Toute la vie.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role |
| 1994 | Ruth | Jean-Paul |
| 1994 | Chili's Blues (C'était le 12 du 12 et Chili avait les blues) | CN employee |
| 1996 | Poverty and Other Delights (Joyeux Calvaire) | |
| 1997 | The Seat of the Soul (Le Siège de l'âme) | Jules |
| 1998 | The Sleep Room | Dandain |
| 1998 | August 32nd on Earth (Un 32 août sur terre) | Friend of Philippe |
| 1999 | The Long Winter (Quand je serai parti... vous vivrez encore) | |
| 2000 | Family Pack (Que faisaient les femmes pendant que l'homme marchait sur la Lune ?) | Antoine |
| 2001 | Soft Shell Man (Un crabe dans la tête) | Samuel |
| 2002 | The Negro (Le Nèg') | Canard Plourde |
| 2003 | Gaz Bar Blues | Jocelyn |
| 2004 | Bonzaïon | |
| 2004 | Le Golem de Montréal | François |
| 2004 | Taking Lives | Doctor |
| 2004 | TV Dinner...Burp! | |
| 2004 | CQ2 (Seek You Too) | Gabriel |
| 2004 | Happy Camper (Camping sauvage) | Ti-Caille |
| 2004 | Love and Magnets (Les Aimants) | Manu |
| 2004 | So the Moon Rises (La Lune viendra d'elle-même) | Lionel |
| 2005 | Maman Last Call | Fernand |
| 2005 | Les Moutons de Jacob | |
| 2006 | On the Trail of Igor Rizzi (Sur la trace d'Igor Rizzi) | Gilbert McCoy |
| 2007 | Bluff | Nico |
| 2010 | Curling | Jean-François Sauvageau |
| 2010 | Tough Luck (Y'en aura pas de facile) | René |
| 2011 | Le Colis | Michel Beaulieu |
| 2015 | The Revenant | French interpreter |
| 2017 | Innocent | Francis |
| 2018 | Silence | |
| 2018 | Mad Dog Labine | Roch Labine |
| 2021 | Cerceuil, tabarnak! | Raymond Tremblay |
| 2023 | Gaby's Hills (Gaby les collines) | Jasmin |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1992 | Scoop | Journalist | |
| 1993 | Blanche | Comedian | |
| 1993 | La princesse astronaute | Vladimir | |
| 1995 | L'Instit | Patrick Lafontaine | Season 3, episode 5 |
| 1997 | Le Volcan tranquille | Louis-Joseph Dessables | |
| 1997 | Les Bâtisseurs d'eau | | |
| 2000 | Gypsies | Le Mur | |
| 2001 | Si la tendance se maintient | Benoît Drapeau | |
| 2003 | Grande Ourse | Armand Laflamme | |
| 2004 | Le Sketch Show | Emmanuel | |
| 2006 | René Lévesque | René Lévesque | |
| 2008 | René Lévesque: Le destin d'un chef | René Lévesque | |
| 2008 | Blaise le blasé | Gaétan-Gilbert Pyrowski | |
| 2008 | La Cache | Host | |
| 2010 | Ni plus ni moi | Marc-Antoine Lecours | |
| 2010 | Belle-Baie | Charles Paulin | |
| 2010 | Tranches de vies | | |
| 2015 | Pour Sarah | Gilles Simoneau | |
| 2021 | C'est plus qu'un jardin | Himself | |