François Arnaud

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

2.1076

Gender

Male

Birthday

05-Jul-1985

Age

(41 years old)

Place of Birth

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Also Known As
  • Франсуа Арно

François Arnaud

Biography

François Arnaud (born François Barbeau; July 5, 1985) is a French Canadian television, stage and film actor. Arnaud is best known for his performances as Cesare Borgia in Showtime's TV series The Borgias, as Scott Hunter in Heated Rivalry, and as Antonin in the critically acclaimed French Canadian movie J'ai tué ma mère. In Quebec, he is known for his role as Théo in the TV series Yamaska.


Credits

Missing Missing (2011) Character: Derek
Alice, sixteen years old, wakes up by a pond near a forest. She cannot remember how she arrived there, nor why she is naked. Her first instinct is to run home, but something sinister hangs in the air, and it follows her like a cloud. Her body begins to show signs of injury and, as she gets closer to her destination, she is haunted by memories, both nostalgic and terrible, that blur her sense of reality...
ABRIL ABRIL (2026) Character: Gabriel
Abril is a sharp-tongued, exhausted social worker whose life is held together by caregiving, obligation, and a constant state of emotional triage. Recently divorced, she raises her teenage daughter Valentina in a cramped, precarious domestic rhythm that feels increasingly unsustainable. During a family therapy session, Valentina announces she wants to move in with her father Julián, whose life appears effortless by comparison. As she faces an empty house, Abril finds an unexpected spark of possibility in Gabriel, a charming bartender whose warmth offers escape from her carefully managed despair. The budding romance opens the door to a version of herself unshaped by marriage or motherhood, but her own insecurities and unresolved history with Julián threaten to derail her progress. When buried truths about the end of their marriage unexpectedly surface, Abril reaches a breaking point - collapsing under the weight of her grief, professional burnout, and growing isolation.
The Letter The Letter (2025) Character: Demian
An old war veteran and man of few words wants to write a goodbye letter to his only daughter and decides to hire a failed writer desperate for money. A relationship which originated purely out of interest ends up changing both their lives.
Origami Origami (2017) Character: David Marceau
David is travelling. He's on a unique trip that doesn't take him from one place to another but from one moment in time to another. Seeking to understand the strange power he has to move around in his own timeline, David will eventually have to confront the disassembled chronology of his own life as well as his repressed past.
Hamelin Hamelin (2013) Character: The Piper
This story is about the dark days that the town of Hamelin lived, many years ago. And how the visit of a foreigner - changed it all.
Amapola Amapola (2014) Character: Luke
A romantic reimagining of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream set against the turbulent backdrops of the 1962 Argentinian military coup and the 1982 war for the Falkland Islands.
Marlowe Marlowe (2023) Character: Nico Peterson
Private detective Philip Marlowe becomes embroiled in an investigation involving a wealthy Californian family after a beautiful blonde hires him to track down her former lover.
High School Lover High School Lover (2017) Character: Christian Booth
17-year-old Kelly falls in love with Christian, an older man, her father tries to intervene before the crush turns into a dangerous obsession.
Jean of the Joneses Jean of the Joneses (2016) Character: Jeremiah
Chaos ensues after the estranged patriarch of the Jones family dies on their doorstep. When the paramedic who answers their 911 call tries to win over acerbic Jean Jones, his attempts are disrupted by old conflicts that come to a boil at the funeral.
Tenderly Tenderly (2020) Character: James
After months of building chemistry, two coworkers stop the overthinking that's been keeping them apart. But what James and Aubrey try to ignore at night proves harder to avoid the morning after - James' long-term girlfriend, Marissa.
Moroccan Gigolos Moroccan Gigolos (2013) Character: Nicolas
The story follows three young men who are willing to do anything to reach their dreams, even to prostitute themselves to gain money for the bussines they want. They obviously get themselves into trouble and various funny situations.
J'ai tué ma mère J'ai tué ma mère (2009) Character: Antonin Rimbaud
Hubert, a brash 17-year-old, is confused and torn by a love-hate relationship with his mother that consumes him more and more each day. After distressing ordeals and tragic episodes, Hubert will find his mother on the banks of Saint Lawrence river, where he grew up, and where a murder will be committed: the murder of childhood.
The Double Life of Eleanor Kendall The Double Life of Eleanor Kendall (2008) Character: Stefan
Nellie, née Bouchard, is divorced by wealthy Jack Givens because after a miscarriage even in vitro fails to overcome her infertility. She finds herself destitute as her own account were plundered by someone who stole her maiden identity, Eleanor Kendall. Bank officer lover Dave helps her trace the impostor to Montréal and prevent if being spent on a Corsica home. She starts an affair with British doctor Christopher Dolan, who is in town for a conference, and bumps into Eleanor, a local French tutor and single mother. Instead of informing the police, she gets acquainted with and comes to like 'Eleanor'. Finally the truth catches up, but more complex and perilous then anyone anticipated.
Paint Paint (2020) Character: Connor Fontaine
The story of three art-school grads realizing that their degrees and artistic ambitions haven't necessarily prepared them for the real world and putting themselves in positions to confirm that darkness and pain are necessary to produce great art.
Fucktoys Fucktoys (2025) Character: The Mechanic
A cursed young woman sets out on a wild fundraising adventure through Trashtown, USA, after she's told by multiple psychics that she can break the curse by paying them $1000.
Copperhead Copperhead (2013) Character: Warner Pitts
A family is torn apart during the American Civil War. Abner Beech (Billy Campbell), a righteous farmer from upstate New York, exercises his right to free speech in a time when families are divided by the Civil War.
In Transit In Transit (2025) Character: Tom
When a complacent young bartender living in small-town Maine agrees to model for a existentially floundering painter on an artist's retreat, both women must confront their preconceptions of what makes a good life.
Rapid Eye Movement Rapid Eye Movement (2019) Character: Rick Weider
A publicity seeking radio DJ is driven to the edge of insanity when he attempts to break the 11 day world record for staying awake-under the threat of a deranged caller who will kill him if he falls asleep.
La switch La switch (2022) Character: Leblanc
A sniper returns home from Afghanistan to his small Northern Ontario town. Confronted with the mundane reality of everyday life he longs for the release provided by shooting. Slowly his need for regimented military discipline takes over leading to violent confrontation.
Twinless Twinless (2025) Character: Sammy
Two men who lost their respective twin brothers develop a growing friendship after meeting in a support group. However, both harbor long-hidden secrets that threaten to tear them apart.
Norbourg Norbourg (2022) Character: Vincent Lacroix
The story of Vincent Lacroix, a businessman convicted of defrauding thousands of investors and embezzling over $130 million in mid-2000s Quebec, Canada. Inspector and auditor Éric Asselin is mandated to monitor the activities of the Norbourg firm. Literally fascinated by the audacity of Vincent Lacroix, the investigator leaves his post and becomes his right hand man. Norbourg then thwarts the investigations and checks by embezzling hundreds of millions of dollars. But the party can't last forever when the company is surrounded from all sides.
The People Garden The People Garden (2016) Character: Jamie
Sweetpea searches for her missing rock star boyfriend Jamie in a forest in Japan.
The Girl King The Girl King (2015) Character: Karl Gustav Kasimir
A portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are against her ideas to modernize Sweden and who have no tolerance for her awakening sexuality.
She's in Portland She's in Portland (2020) Character: Luke
Two college friends, now in their thirties, admire each others' lives and feel trapped in their own. Wes, tied to a demanding career and responsibilities to family, extends a work trip to drag his dispirited artist friend Luke to find Luke's "one that got away."
Permission Permission (2018) Character: Dane
Anna and Will, were each other’s first every-things: first kiss, first love, first and only relationship. Now, 10 years in, at Anna’s 30th birthday party, as Will is about to propose, the couple’s best friend makes a drunken toast, suggesting that they should sleep around before their inevitable marriage. The joke lands like a lead balloon, but the thought lingers until Anna proposes that they try opening their relationship – as a sexual experiment.
Big Sky Big Sky (2015) Character: Clete
Hazel suffers from a crippling case of agoraphobia - so much so that it causes a rift between her and her mother, Dee. They agree that Hazel will go to a treatment facility to help her deal with her fear, transported by a driver and specialty van from the facility. But when two masked gunmen attack them on the desert road, Hazel has to battle her fears so she and her mother can survive.
23 décembre 23 décembre (2022) Character: Alex
On December 23, the holiday season is in full force and the destinies of strangers intertwine: a hardened bachelor wants to find love; a couple expect their first child; a singer returns to the stage after a break; a mother tries to organize the perfect Christmas; a teen carries a big secret; a man struggles with the modern world; and the new manager of a large hotel must prove her worth.
Canadian, Sniper Canadian, Sniper (2023) Character: Sniper
While attempting to reintegrate peacefully into civilian life on a remote farm, an army sniper silently struggles to discern reality from the haunting uncertainty of PTSD.
J'me voyais déjà J'me voyais déjà (2008) Character: Self
A documentary portrait of aspiring actors from the Conservatoire d’art dramatique de Montréal. Over an extended period, Bachir Bensaddek followed ten students subjected to a rigorous workload and drawn into the endless cycle of auditions. We watch them live their lives as they struggle to carve out a difficult path in a world where solidarity exists alongside competition, and where the playful joy of theatre collides with the urgent need to build a career.
Les grandes chaleurs Les grandes chaleurs (2009) Character: Yannick Ménard
After the death of her unfaithful husband, Gisele, a social worker of 52 years, falls madly in love with Yannick, one of her former customers and kleptomaniac addict. She tries to repress her feelings, but the attraction she has for this 19 year old boy is beyond comprehension. Her sister, her boss and two children will each turn, disrupt her secret meetings with her young lover.
The Winter House The Winter House (2021) Character: Jesse
Eileen is grieving. She needs to get away. She rents a house in a remote corner of New Hampshire, in the dead of winter, where no one is likely to bother her. But wouldn't you know it? Someone does.
Enragés Enragés (2015) Character: Vincent
After a bank job goes badly wrong, three desperate criminals take a young woman and a father and child hostage - it's the beginning of a frantic and violent road trip that not all of them will survive.
The Man Who Was Thursday The Man Who Was Thursday (2016) Character: Father Smith / Thursday
THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY is inspired by the existentialist novel of the same name by G.K. Chesterton (1908). The novel is considered a metaphysical thriller, and our film could be considered the same, though it also can be thought of in more classical cinematic terms a psychological and supernatural thriller.
Esther's Choice Esther's Choice (2020) Character: Michael
Esther, a film composer going through a dry spell, moves in with her boyfriend Michael only to find out that he still keeps his Ex-girlfriend's belongings in his closet. What follows is an emotional roller coaster of a film exploring the great lengths an artist chooses to go to for the sake of inspiration.
Mom Mom (2025) Character: Jared
Struggling with postnatal depression and feeling misunderstood by her husband, Meredith begins to experience terrifying visions foreshadowing an ultimate tragedy.
Au revoir le bonheur Au revoir le bonheur (2021) Character: L'Épicurien - Nicolas
To commemorate the passing of their beloved father, four brothers very much at odds congregate for one final week at their summer house in the Magdalen Islands. As they bid their final goodbyes, the four brothers revisit their past joys and hardships as each one of them struggles to give meaning to their very different lives.



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