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Louis Negin is a Canadian actor, recently best known for his roles in the films of Guy Maddin.〔"Enchantment". ''In Toronto'', September 2011.〕 Negin, most prominently a stage actor, had his earliest film and television roles in the 1950s Canadian dramatic anthology series ''First Performance'', and as a chorus member in Tyrone Guthrie's 1957 film of the Stratford Festival production of ''Oedipus Rex''. He appeared in the Stratford Festival production of ''Tamburlaine'', which had a run on Broadway in 1956,〔(Louis Negin ) at the Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia.〕 and later appeared in London productions of ''Fortune and Men's Eyes'' and his own play ''Love and Maple Syrup''; in ''Fortune and Men's Eyes'', he became one of the first actors ever to appear fully nude on stage in England.〔 He later appeared in films including ''The Ernie Game'', ''Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?'', ''Ooh… You Are Awful'' and ''Barry McKenzie Holds His Own'', as well as TV series such as ''Brett'', ''Mousey'' and ''The Zoo Gang'' and episodes of ''King of Kensington'' and ''The Littlest Hobo''. In the 1980s he had a recurring role on ''Seeing Things'', as well as acting in the television films ''Overdrawn at the Memory Bank'', ''Freddie the Freeloader's Christmas Dinner'' and ''Charlie Grant's War''. In 1994, he acted in drag as Mrs. White in a Toronto production of John Wimbs and Christopher Richards' play ''Molly Wood''.〔"Molly Wood goes the way of all flash". ''Toronto Star'', October 27, 1994.〕 In 1998, he played Noël Coward in a production of Linda Griffiths' play ''The Duchess'' at Theatre Passe Muraille.〔 He played Truman Capote, both in a Toronto stage production of the play ''Tru'' in 1996〔("Toronto Tru Delays Opening" ). ''Playbill'', May 23, 2996.〕 and in the film ''54''.〔 In recent years, he has acted in several of Maddin's films, including ''Cowards Bend the Knee'', ''The Saddest Music in the World'', ''Sissy Boy Slap Party'' and ''Keyhole'', as well as narrating Maddin's documentary films ''Brand Upon the Brain!'' and ''My Winnipeg''.〔 He has also had guest roles in the television series ''Lord Have Mercy!'', ''Mona the Vampire'', ''ReGenesis'' and ''Slings and Arrows'', and in Bruce McDonald's film ''Pontypool''. In 2008, he performed ''The Glass Eye'', a semi-autobiographical play which he wrote in collaboration with Marie Brassard, in Montreal and Toronto.〔 Negin, who is gay, is the partner of former Canadian television and film designer Charles Dunlop.〔 In a 2007 interview with ''Xtra!'', Negin described his age as "Write that I'm 95 years old, and that I've been to Hungary to have some work done."〔("Silver screen: Louis Negin's shocking disclosures" ). ''Xtra!'', May 24, 2007.〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Louis Negin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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