Louis Negin

Louis Negin is a Canadian actor, recently best known for his roles in the films of Guy Maddin.Negin, most prominently a stage actor, had his earliest film and television roles in the 1950s Canadian dramatic anthology series First Performance, and as a chorus member in Tyrone Guthries 1957 film of the Stratford Festival production of Oedipus Rex. He appeared in the Stratford Festival production of Tamburlaine, which had a run on Broadway in 1956, and later appeared in London productions of Fortune and Mens Eyes and his own play Love and Maple Syrup; in Fortune and Mens Eyes, he became one of the first actors ever to appear fully nude on stage in England.He later appeared in films including The Ernie Game (1967), Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? (1969), Ooh… You Are Awful (1972), Barry McKenzie Holds His Own (1974), Rabid (1977), Two Solitudes (1978) and Highpoint (1982), as well as TV series such as Brett, Mousey and The Zoo Gang and episodes of King of Kensington and The Littlest Hobo. In the 1980s he had a recurring role on Seeing Things, as well as acting in the television films Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, Freddie the Freeloaders Christmas Dinner and Charlie Grants War.In 1994, he acted in drag as Mrs. White in a Toronto production of John Wimbs and Christopher Richards play Molly Wood. In 1998, he played Noël Coward in a production of Linda Griffiths play The Duchess at Theatre Passe Muraille. He played Truman Capote, both in a Toronto stage production of the play Tru in 1996 and in the film 54.In recent years, he has acted in several of Maddins films, including Cowards Bend the Knee, The Saddest Music in the World, Sissy Boy Slap Party and Keyhole, as well as narrating Maddins documentary films Brand Upon the Brain! and My Winnipeg. He has also had guest roles in the television series Lord Have Mercy!, Mona the Vampire, ReGenesis and Slings and Arrows, and in Bruce McDonalds film Pontypool.In 2008, he performed The Glass Eye, a semi-autobiographical play which he wrote in collaboration with Marie Brassard, in Montreal and Toronto.Negin, who is gay, is the partner of former Canadian television and film designer Charles Dunlop. In a 2007 interview with Xtra!, Negin described his age as Write that Im 95 years old, and that Ive been to Hungary to have some work done.

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