François Arnaud

Actor — Heated Rivalry, The Borgias, I Killed My Mother

Born

1985

Birthplace

MONTREAL, QUEBEC

Citizenships

Canadianness Score

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5.0/ 5

Weighted across 2 scored criteria

Designation

Bleeds Maple Syrup 🍁

Born, raised, and still says “out for a rip” unironically.

Scorecard

Path A — born on Canadian soil

I. Origin

Born on Canadian soil

MONTREAL, QUEBEC

Canadian parentage

Both parents Canadian

Citizenship on record

Automatic by birth

II. Residency

Formative years spent in Canada

Raised — Quebec

Lived in Canada by choice

Residency on record as an adult

Worked or filmed in Canada

Credits filed north of the 49th

III. Cultural evidence — not scored

Section III is recorded for the file only. Birth on Canadian soil already settles the matter.

Publicly claims to be Canadian

Says so, out loud

Canada claims them back

No claim lodged

Fun fact

He plays the American in Heated Rivalry — a show shot in Ontario, made for a Canadian streamer, created by a Montrealer, in which the Canadian character is played by a fellow Canadian. The accents are the only import.

The verdict

Scott Hunter in Heated Rivalry, playing an American captain despite being thoroughly Montrealais. Came up through Xavier Dolan's I Killed My Mother and Quebec's film scene before The Borgias, and has two Canadian Screen Award nominations. Born, raised, bilingual. Five points.

Adjudicated by

The Standings Committee

Status

Final — appealable