Biography

Dany Papineau was born in Bromont, east of Montreal, 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.

After two years of extensive traveling, Dany moves 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.

In 2003, the Canadian National Film Board accepted his proposal and provided a grant to shoot his film "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 inspires a Vancouver Casting director to audition him for Underworld : Evolution. Dany gets his first part in a major Hollywood production.

In 2006, Dany returned to Montreal to continue his acting career and to further develop his feature film project.