Biography: Rémy Girard
Born August 10, 1950 in Jonquière, Québec, Canada is a Québécois actor and former television host.
He played the role of Rémy, the main character, who is dying of terminal cancer, in the Canadian film Les Invasions Barbares (The Barbarian Invasions) by director Denys Arcand. This film was awarded the 2003 Academy Award for best foreign picture. Arcand's earlier film Le Déclin de l’empire américain (The Decline of the American Empire) revolved around the same characters who appear 17 years later in Les Invasions barbares. Girard also appeared in Arcand's 1989 film Jésus de Montréal. He is the most-nominated actor in the history of the Genie Awards. He has won the Leading Actor award twice, for Amoureux Fou and Les Invasions barbares, the Supporting Actor award twice, for 'Jesus de Montreal' and 'Les Portes Tounantes', and has garnered three other nominations, for Le Déclin de l'empire américain, La Florida, Les Boys (all four movies), Séraphin: un homme et son péché and Aurore.

A 1 st project codirected by two new young Quebecois directors, with an amazing cast.
Marc-André Lavoie and Simon Olivier Fecteau met by chance at a shorts evening performance and a friendship started instantly. Marc-André Lavoie offered Simon Olivier Fecteau-who was an actor and animator for TV shows-a role in the movie that he had started to write. Simon Olivier Fecteau then became co-writer and co-director of Bluff. For the two of them, it was a first-film project. Luckily, neither this risk nor the independent financing prevented them from bringing together an amazing cast of Quebecois actors, which still continues to be difficult to reunite in the same movie. His style, fresh and light, but able to touch deep topics, was key to the success of Bluff , who opened the Montreal World Film Festival.