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Mani Soleymanlou (born 1982) is a Canadian actor and playwright based in Montreal, Quebec. He is most noted for his regular role as police officer Robert "Coco" Bédard in the television series Happily Married (C'est comme ça que je t'aime), and his role as the current artistic director of the French theatre program at the National Arts Centre.

Born in Tehran, Iran, he moved with his family to France in childhood before they moved again to Toronto, Ontario, when he was nine. He was educated at the University of Ottawa and the National Theatre School of Canada, and founded his own Montreal-based theatre company, Orange Noyée, in 2011. He first became known for Un/One, Deux/Two and Trois/Three, a series of plays about immigrant identity; initially staged individually, he later presented a version which saw all three plays performed as a continuous trilogy, as well as the solo performance ZÉRO on related themes.

He was appointed artistic director of the NAC French theatre in 2020. In the same year he was one of the hosts of the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards, which were presented as a webcast due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

References

1. ^ Gail Johnson, "For Mani Soleymanlou, the search for identity is back to ZÉRO". Stir, February 4, 2022.
2. Norimitsu Onishi, "A Cop Called Coco, an Actor Named Mani, a Quebecer Exploring Quebec". The New York Times, December 30, 2022.
3. ^ Brad Wheeler, "Mani Soleymanlou named new artistic director of National Arts Centre’s French Theatre". The Globe and Mail, August 18, 2020.
4. Peter Hum, "Mani Soleymanlou appointed next artistic director of NAC French theatre". Ottawa Citizen, August 18, 2020.
5. Allan Woods, "Quebec en scene: Mani Soleymanlou and the Quebecois quest for identity". Toronto Star, September 12, 2014.
6. Gail Johnson, "With Un.Deux.Trois, Mani Soleymanlou brings the largest production to date in the history of Franco-Canadian theatre to Vancouver". Stir, November 4, 2022.
7. Demers, Maxime (May 21, 2020). "Un Gala Québec Cinéma en mode confinement". Le Journal de Montréal (in French). Retrieved May 21, 2020.

External links

• Mani Soleymanlou at IMDb

• 1982 births
• Living people
• 21st-century Canadian male actors
• 21st-century Canadian male writers
• 21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
• Canadian male stage actors
• Canadian male film actors
• Canadian male television actors
• Canadian male dramatists and playwrights
• Canadian dramatists and playwrights in French
• Iranian emigrants to Canada
• Male actors from Montreal
• Male actors from Tehran
• Male actors from Toronto
• Writers from Montreal
• Writers from Tehran
• Writers from Toronto
• National Theatre School of Canada alumni
• University of Ottawa alumni
• Canadian writers of Asian descent
• Canadian theatre directors