MANUEL SINOR has worked with seasoned filmmakers (e.g., Bryan Singer, Luc Besson, David Oelhoffen) and shared the screen with distinguished actors (incl. Cillian Murphy, César winner Valérie Lemercier, César nominees Michèle Laroque, Melvil Poupaud and Gilles Lellouche). He is also one of few French actors to have acted in a Marvel film. Canada is where he launched this career, late in life but soon greeted for his stage work by Radio-Canada, Le Devoir or theatre review Jeu. On his return to France, he helped make original play Résistantes one of the successes of the Off Avignon, the world’s second largest theatre festival, before touring it as far as La Réunion Island. Another bet has been to play characters of no less than six nationalities for film and television, with sharp attention to languages and accents. With as many French roles to his credit, he draws on the poise and offbeatness built over a rich life.
Born in Kinshasa 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 was cited by a team from the Max Planck Institute, world leader in this field. Today based in Paris, as a French citizen, Sinor is also a naturalized Canadian, a continuing member of the Screen Actors’ Guild’s Canadian sister union ACTRA, and a former jury member for the Canadian Screen Awards. In his spare time he writes the odd song, and his film-inspired jazz E.P. 35 mm can be found on major online platforms.
