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Germain Houde
Germain Houde (born December 14, 1952) is a Genie Award-winning Canadian actor from Petit-Saguenay, Quebec. He has usually played tough-guy parts; his screen characters have ranged from cruel criminals to corrupt policemen.
A graduate of the Conservatoire d’Art Dramatique de Québec, Houde spent his early years in theatre including time with an experimental troupe in England. His first cinematic role was in Anne Claire Poirier’s acclaimed A Scream from Silence (Mourir à tue-tête), where he played a vicious rapist. He has won two Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for his roles in Good Riddance (Les bons débarras) and Night Zoo (Un Zoo la nuit).
His other roles have included the television series Omerta, Les Filles de Caleb, Les Invincibles and Vertige, and the films Prettykill, Love Me (Love-moi), Terminal City Ricochet, Léolo, Jerome's Secret, Fear of Water (La Peur de l'eau) and 2 Frogs in the West.
As actor
Les filles de Caleb: l'histoire d'une passion
Marie-Soleil et Jean-Claude: au-delà des étoiles
La Bolduc
Heads or Tails
On My Mother's Side
Fear of Water
The Happiness of Others
2 Frogs in the West
The Broken Line
Saint Martyrs of the Damned
The Outlander
L’est de la brúixola
The Mysterious Miss C.
Matusalem II: le dernier des Beauchesne
The Revenge of the Woman in Black
Jerome's Secret
Craque la vie!
Léolo
Four Stiffs and a Trombone
Love-moi
Terminal City Ricochet
Lonely Child: The Imaginary World of Claude Vivier
The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy
La nuit avec Hortense
Night Zoo
Pretty Kill
Shellgame
Lucien Brouillard
Good Riddance
A Scream from Silence