MANUEL SINOR is a French actor with an international outlook – and strong bonds to Canada: as a naturalized Canadian, member of Actra (SAG’s Canadian sister union) and past jury member for the Canadian Screen Awards.
🎬 Between characters of six nationalities, created with sharp attention to languages and accents, and as many French parts, he has acted for seasoned filmmakers (e.g., Bryan Singer, Luc Besson, David Oelhoffen) and with distinguished colleagues (incl. Oscar winner Cillian Murphy, two César winners and three César nominees). He is also one of few French actors to have acted in a Marvel film. And while television allows him back-and-forths between French and American networks/platforms, his co-lead work in independent features had him collaborate with filmmakers from France, Québec and India (Nicolas Pereira, Olivier Asselin, Tushar Raheja).
🎭 His stage beginnings took place in Canada, late in his life but with performances greeted by Radio-Canada, Le Devoir or theatre review Jeu. On his return to France in 2016, he helped make original play Résistantes a success of the Off Avignon (the world’s second largest theatre festival), before touring it as far as La Réunion Island.
🧳 Born in the Congo and raised in Nice, Sinor knew about versatility long before training as an actor: as a blues singer in Brittany, French Navy sailor in Djibouti, IBMer in Dublin and lecturer at the University of Alberta in Western Canada. From this alma mater he holds a Ph.D, for a psycholinguistics thesis that would be cited by a team from the Max Planck Institute, world leader in this field. And out of this overall background, music remains central to his life: from regular open mikes on guitar and vocals to a Spotify-hosted and film-inspired jazz E.P.: 35 mm.
