Welcome to my website.

I am originally from a small village named "Ferme-Neuve" in the north of Quebec Province.
From young age, my parents used to take me with them to see martial arts movies. After watching Bruce Lee in "Enter The Dragon", I asked my parents to put me into a martial arts school and began studying at the "L'ecole de Bushido Henri Lamontagne". I was ten years old…

At sixteen, since education was very limited in the village, my parents sent me to private school (Campus-Notre-Dame-De-Foy) in Quebec City. This is where I fell in love with the stage... At first, I was acting in few French plays such as "La Corriveau", "Le Juge", "Visa Le Noir, Tua le Blanc" then I got involved with live amateur school comedy shows… My friend, Harold Paradis and I were just having fun doing these shows because we were making our friends laugh… It got so bad that we couldn't even get on stage and be taken seriously anymore. We ended up receiving an award for it: "Meritas destine a l'etudiant s'etant distingue dans le domaine des arts et du spectacle"

At nineteen, I got accepted at Laval University in Quebec City... My dad was a doctor and my mom, an opera singer. They could see I like showbiz but wanted me to have a solid profession. Mathematics had always been very easy for me so I decided to take the ultimate challenge with one of the hardest course in mathematics out there… Actuarial Sciences. Three years later, while studying Karate Shotokan, Gymnastic, occasionally performing in "La Revue Concert" (comedy show usually performed by the students of the faculty of Medicine) and competing with the Laval University Albatros High Board Diving Club, I graduated a bachelor degree and even got my ASA (Associate of the Society of Actuaries).

Sun Life of Canada offered me my first job and I moved to Toronto. At the time, I barely spoke English. I had started break dancing while in Quebec City and met Christopher Lee Clements during one of his street performance in the posh Toronto Yorkville. We became good friends and decided to team up as a dance duo act. Elwood Saracuse (ESP Productions) saw us one day and asked us to work for him. He was a booking agent for the "Pharazon Dance Company". Few months later, the company picked us up as dancers and choreographers and we worked for them for many years thereafter. Since the company was doing mainly street jazz, early hip hop and Michael Jackson impersonator type shows, I needed to expand my skills and joined a two year dance program at Randolph Dance Theater.

Soon thereafter, I got back deeply into Martial Arts which I had neglected for few years due to dance training. I dedicated the next years to study Tae Kwon Do, Wushu, Wing Chun, Capoeira, Jiu Jitsu, Five Animal Style Kung Fu and so on… I was taking classes one after the other and would train every morning in the park, practicing open hand and weapon forms. I also spent a lot of time playing videos (Jet Li, Jackie Chan,...) in slow motion over and over to pick up certain moves that I liked, or experimenting and creating with them. I would incorporate them in my routines for competitions, live shows and live fight scenes on music...

As well, I had started taking singing, acting and even dialect reduction classes to help me reduce my French accent. I had gotten myself an agent and was trying to enter the film business.

C.J. Fidler was a good friend of mine. She had become an established stunt woman in the film industry over the years. She knew my skills and one day introduced me to Ken Quinn, one of the top ten stunt coordinators in Toronto. This is how I got my first job as a stuntman.

I became full ACTRA member while still working first full-time then part-time as an ASA for Aetna Canada which became Maritime Life (now owned by Manulife). In this industry, you need a steady job with enough flexibility to provide time off when you need it. Luckily, I was working on long term projects and the company was quite flexible with me. I used to take all my vacation time to work on sets or do live shows.

Now, I don't work in the Insurance industry anymore. I have been working on films for about fifteen years. I also work as a personal trainer because of the flexible hours but mainly because I love helping people and provide them with a healthy mind in a healthy body. I am one of the original founders of Team Ryouko in Toronto.

My current projects include making a film about my dad's life. He was radiated for life in 1989 for practicing a medicine that had not been proven yet but still works. My dad deceased in 1995. He was very poor and had barely enough money to put gas in his car or even eat. This is a project that is obviously very important to me as his story must be told so that all is work doesn't go to waste.

"Working in the entertainment industry is definitely one of the hardest businesses out there but it's not work to me because I love what I do…"

"Life is about realizing your dreams."