1989-03-20

XAVIER DOLAN-TADROS born today, is a Canadian actor, director, screenwriter, editor, costume designer, and voice actor. He began his career as a child actor in commercials before directing several arthouse feature films. He first received international acclaim in 2009 for his debut feature I Killed My Mother (J’ai tué ma mère), which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in the Directors’ Fortnight.

He has won many awards for his film work, including the Jury Prize at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival for Mommy and the Grand Prix at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival for It’s Only The End of The World.

In 2015 he directed the music video for “Hello”, the lead single from the album 25 by Adele. The video broke the Vevo record for most views in 24 hours, over 27.7 million views. Dolan is out Gay and described his film I Killed My Mother as semi-autobiographical.

All this and he’s dreamy looking. Don’t you just hate him?