{{Short description|Canadian actor, screenwriter and film director}} {{Infobox person | name = Robin Aubert | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1972|05|03}} | birth_place = Canada | death_date = | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Actor, screenwriter, film director | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }}
'''Robin Aubert''' (born May 13, 1972) is a Canadian actor, screenwriter and film director.<ref name=nunavik>[http://www.lapresse.ca/cinema/cinema-quebecois/entrevues/201703/21/01-5080718-robin-aubert-lappel-du-nunavik.php "Robin Aubert: l'appel du Nunavik"]. ''La Presse'', March 21, 2017.</ref> He is most noted for his performance in the film ''The Countess of Baton Rouge (La Comtesse de Bâton Rouge)'', for which he received a Genie Award nomination for Best Actor at the 18th Genie Awards in 1997,<ref>"Sweet on The Hereafter; Atom Egoyan movie leads Genie parade". ''Edmonton Journal'', November 5, 1997.</ref> and his 2017 film ''Ravenous (Les Affamés)'', which won the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Film at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.<ref>[http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/tiff-2017-awards-1.4293440 "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri takes home TIFF's top honour"]. CBC News, September 17, 2017.</ref>
Aubert was born in Ham-Nord, Quebec. He is a founding member of the sketch comedy troupe Les Chick'n Swell in 1990,<ref>[http://www.lapresse.ca/la-tribune/actualites/estrie-et-regions/201010/18/01-4333563-une-magie-creative-puisee-aux-chickn-swell.php "Une magie créative puisée aux Chick'n Swell"]. ''La Tribune'', October 18, 2010.</ref> he began acting in stage roles including productions of Jean-Marc Dalpé's ''Eddy''<ref>"Actors thrive on Eddy script". ''Montreal Gazette'', October 15, 1994.</ref> and Daniel Danis's ''Le Pont de pierres et la peau d'images''.<ref>"Study in contrasts: Le Pont is talky, L'Echo can't sit still". ''Montreal Gazette'', May 29, 1996.</ref> Around the same time, he appeared in the television series ''4 et demi'' and ''Radio Enfer'' and the films ''The Escort (L'Escorte)'' and ''The Countess of Baton Rouge''. His subsequent acting roles included the films ''Maelström'', ''The Negro (Le nèg')'', ''Mammouth'', ''Father and Guns (De père en flic)'', ''Miraculum'', ''The Masters of Suspense (Les Maîtres du suspense)'', ''Amsterdam'', ''The Handout (Autrui)'', ''My Internship in Canada (Guibord s'en va-t-en guerre)'', ''A Way of Life (Une manière de vivre)'' and ''My Very Own Circus (Mon cirque à moi)'', and the television series ''Temps dur'', ''Les Invincibles'' and ''Le Gentleman''. He received a Prix Jutra nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 17th Jutra Awards in 2015 for ''Miraculum''.<ref>"Up for a Jutra". ''Montreal Gazette'', March 14, 2015.</ref>
As a filmmaker, he released a number of short films beginning in 1999, receiving a Jutra nomination for Best Short Film at the 3rd Jutra Awards in 2001 for ''Lila'', before his feature-length debut ''Saint Martyrs of the Damned (Saints-Martyrs-des-Damnés)'' was released in 2005.<ref>"Saint Martyrs of the Damned an eerie look at small towns". ''Niagara Falls Review'', October 12, 2006.</ref> He followed up with ''Train to Nowhere (À quelle heure le train pour nulle part)'' in 2009,<ref>"Genre benders all; Nine Quebec feature films - and more than 200 shorts - are busting out of traditional horror and martial arts categories to embrace romantic comedy and more". ''Montreal Gazette'', July 22, 2009.</ref> ''Crying Out (À l'origine d'un cri)'' in 2010,<ref>"Quebec films flock to Toronto fest; 'It's a business decision' -TIFF is where the commercial action is". ''Montreal Gazette'', September 4, 2010.</ref> ''Tuktuq'' in 2016<ref name=nunavik/> and ''Ravenous'' in 2017.
In 2023 he released ''You'll Never Know (Tu ne sauras jamais)''.<ref>Maxime Demers, [https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2024/03/15/ca-ete-une-catharsis-decrire-ca-pendant-la-pandemie-robin-aubert-se-confie-sur-son-nouveau-film-tu-ne-sauras-jamais "«Ç’a été une catharsis d’écrire ça pendant la pandémie»: Robin Aubert se confie sur son nouveau film, «Tu ne sauras jamais»"]. ''Le Journal de Montréal'', March 15, 2024.</ref>
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