Xavier Dolan-Tadros CQ CM (born 20 March 1989) is a Canadian filmmaker and actor. He began his career as a child actor in commercials before directing several arthouse feature films. He first received international acclaim in 2009 for his feature film directorial debut, I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère), which he also starred in, wrote, and produced, and which premiered at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival in the Directors' Fortnight section and won three awards from the program Since 2009, he has written and directed eight feature films, all of which have premiered at Cannes, with the exception of Tom at the Farm—which premiered at the 70th Venice International Film Festival in 2013—and his first English-language film, The Death & Life of John F. Donovan, which premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. Dolan has also directed music videos, notably with Adele for her singles "Hello" (2015), and "Easy on Me" (2021), for which he received a Grammy Award for Best Music Video nomination. Dolan has won many accolades for his work, including the Jury Prize at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival for Mommy and the Grand Prix at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival for It's Only the End of the World. He has also won several Canadian Screen Awards and César Awards. Outside of his own films, he has also starred in films from other directors, such as Elephant Song (2014), Boy Erased (2018), Bad Times at the El Royale (2018), and It Chapter Two (2019). Description above from the Wikipedia article Xavier Dolan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2025Lean On Me — Director, Writer, Editor
• 2025The Great Arch — Jean-Louis Subilon
• 2024The Beast — Système intelligence artificielle (voice), Co-Producer
• 2023Toopy and Binoo The Movie — Jacques-Henri (voice)
• 2022Charlotte — Executive Producer
• The Night Logan Woke Up — Elliot Larouche, Producer, Editor, Director, Writer, Creator
• 2021Lost Illusions — Nathan d'Anastazio
• Happily Married — Sexiste #3
• 2020Smoothie — Editor
• 2019It Chapter Two — Adrian Mellon
• 2019Matthias & Maxime — Maxime, Director, Editor, Costume Design, Producer, Screenplay
• 2019Relai — Editor
• 2019The Death & Life of John F. Donovan — Director, Producer, Editor, Costume Design, Writer, Idea
• 2019The Physics of Sorrow — (voice)
• Anatane: Saving the Children of Okura — Anatane
• 2018Bad Times at the El Royale — Buddy Sunday
• 2018Boy Erased — Jon
• 2016It's Only the End of the World — Director, Producer, Editor, Writer, Casting
• 2015Elephant Song — Michael Aleen
• 2014Miraculum — Étienne Simard
• 2014Mommy — Director, Editor, Producer, Costume Design, Screenplay
• 2014Tom at the Farm — Tom, Director, Editor, Screenplay, Costume Design, Producer, Dialogue, Executive Producer
• 2013An Extraordinary Person — Editor
• 2012Laurence Anyways — Man at the Party (uncredited), Director, Editor, Screenplay, Executive Producer, Costume Design, Story
• Les bobos — Xavier Dolan
• 2011Boys On Film: Bad Romance — Julien (segment "Mirrors")
• 2011Good Neighbours — Jean-Marc
• En audition avec Simon — Xavier Dolan
• 2010Heartbeats — Francis, Director, Costume Design, Editor, Producer, Screenplay, Art Direction
• 2010Lipsett Diaries — Narrator (voice), Translator
• 2009I Killed My Mother — Hubert Minel, Director, Producer, Screenplay, Costume Design
• 2009Suzie — Punk
• 2008Martyrs — Antoine
• 2007Mirrors — Julien
• 2001The Hidden Fortress — Michael
• 1997Heads or Tails — Edouard
• Omertà, la loi du silence — Nicholas Favara
• Bye Bye
• Le Horla — Writer, Director, Producer
• Miles & Juliette

Appearances as themselves (18)

• Hot Ones Québec — Self
• 2023Il était une fois... les Contes pour tous — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Star Académie — Self - Academy Teacher
• 2018Des hommes stylés — Self
• Fan fini — Self
• 2018Le cri du rhinocéros — Self
• 2017Il était une fois... « Mommy » — Self
• Rétroviseur — Self
• 2016Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible — Self
• Les recettes pompettes — Self
• L'Été indien — Self
• PaparaGilles — Self
• En mode Salvail — Self
• Les Appendices — Self
• Taxi payant — Self
• Club social — Self
• Vlog — Self
• Tout le monde en parle — Self