Biography

Dany Papineau is a bilingual actor-filmmaker who was born in Quebec into a French-speaking family. At the age of 21, Dany took a summer off from his civil engineering University studies to travel and improve his English in Western Canada. He never returned to his studies.

Instead, after two years of extensive traveling, Dany moved back to Montreal to start an acting career. His acting coach referred him to several casting agencies and he starts landing a few parts while taking up various jobs on film sets.

In 2000, Dany moved back west to Vancouver, to study Acting for Film at the Vancouver Film School. After his studies, he was involved both in many professional and independent film projects.

Fortunately, the National Film Board accepted his proposal and provided a grant to shoot 2 Frogs in the West, a 21 minute short film inspired from his adventures in the West.

2 Frogs was shown in several film festivals and even inspired a Vancouver Casting director to cast him in Underworld : Evolution.

After spending six years in Vancouver, Dany returned to Montreal to continue his acting career in Quebec and to further develop the feature film version of 2 Frogs in the West.