Xavier Dolan

Xavier Dolan (born March 20, 1989), sometimes credited as Xavier Dolan-Tadros, is a Canadian actor and filmmaker. Formerly a child actor in films such as J’en suis!, Le marchand de sable and La forteresse suspendue and television series such as Omertà, La loi du silence, he attracted international attention when his first film as a director and screenwriter, J’ai tué ma mère, won three awards from the Director’s Fortnight program at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.

After J’ai tué ma mère he directed his second feature film Les amours imaginaires (Heartbeats), which was financed privately. It follows the infatuation of two friends with the same mysterious young man. Inevitably, their friendship suffers. It premiered in the Un Certain Regard category at the 63e Festival de Cannes in May 2010, to standing ovation.

Dolan says that he is planning his third film called Laurence any ways, about a transsexual, with the script already ready. Pending financing of the movie project, production is planned to start in fall of 2010.

As of September 2009, the Québec-specific French-language dubbed version of the animated series South Park features Dolan as the voice of Stan.

Dolan is openly gay, and has described J’ai tué ma mère as being semi-autobiographical. He is the son of Quebec actor Manuel Tadros. –Wikipedia