 He studied theatre at the Cégep de Saint-Hyacinthe, and began acting on stage in both Quebec City and Montreal.He became more widely known to film and television audiences beginning in 1981 as a sketch performer in Télévision de Radio-Canada's annual "Bye Bye" New Year's Eve variety special, and soon began appearing more widely in film and television roles.To international audiences, he is best known as Claude, the gay academic in Denys Arcand's "The Decline of the American Empire" and "The Barbarian Invasions".