François Arnaud

Acting

François Arnaud

Born July 5, 1985 · Montreal, Quebec, Canada (age 41)

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.

Known For

MarloweMarlowe · 2023
Marlowe
★ 5.72023
MovieCrime
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.
TwinlessTwinless · 2025
Twinless
★ 7.22025
MovieComedyDrama
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.
I Killed My MotherI Killed My Mother · 2009
I Killed My Mother
★ 7.42009
MovieDrama
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 Girl KingThe Girl King · 2015
The Girl King
★ 6.22015
MovieDramaHistory
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.
PermissionPermission · 2018
Permission
★ 5.12018
MovieComedyRomance
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.
She's in PortlandShe's in Portland · 2020
She's in Portland
★ 5.42020
MovieDrama
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."
FucktoysFucktoys · 2025
Fucktoys
★ 9.02025
MovieComedyDrama
AP’s got a curse and it’s really fucking up her vibe.
Rabid DogsRabid Dogs · 2015
Rabid Dogs
★ 5.52015
MovieActionDrama
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.

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ABRILABRIL · 2026
ABRIL
★ 8.02026
MovieDramaFamily
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.

Gabriel

The Double Life of Eleanor KendallThe Double Life of Eleanor Kendall · 2008
The Double Life of Eleanor Kendall
★ 6.22008
MovieCrimeDrama
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.

Stefan