Acting
Martin Drainville
Born
1964-08-21 (62)
Place of birth
Repentigny, Québec, Canada
Known for
Acting
Credits
44 titles
Martin Drainville (born August 21, 1964) is a Canadian film and television actor and comedian from Quebec. He is best known for his role in the film Louis 19, le roi des ondes, for which he received a Genie Award nomination for Best Actor at the 15th Genie Awards in 1994.
Known for
5.6This daily quiz show puts strategy front and centre, as five celebrities answer general-knowledge questions to win money for their favourite charity. But here’s the catch: one of the five participants is cheating, because they’re secretly being fed the answers. The cheater’s mission is to play it smart so they can fool the other players and win the game without getting caught.
Le Tricheur
2012
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Les Enfants de la télé
2010
NRAnnie-Soleil Proteau and Patrick Langlois spend an hour with a beloved and well-known figure to find out as much about them as possible and discover new aspects of their personality, in an entertaining mix of interviews and wackiness!
Ménage à trois
2014
9.3Patrice Bélanger and his team are here to give Quebecers a little boost to their lives with this show where fun and pleasure prevail. With a front row seat to events happening across the province, the show is the reference for summer culture. Above and beyond the artists featured, the show puts our entire province in the spotlight.
Sucré salé
2002
A dance-off where stars learn, prepare and present dance routines that they must show to a select panel of judges.
Le match des étoiles
2005
1.0A variety show with a twist: a celebrity guest get to attend their own memorial service – an entertaining send-off filled with eulogies and some gentle ribbing.
In Lieu of Flowers
2012
Film credits
2020s · 6 titles
5.9While his peers have all turned white, Katak is still small and grey. To prove that he has grown up and to grant the last wish of his adored grandma, Katak departs on a perilous journey to the Great North.
Katak: The Brave Beluga
2023
NRWhile doing her laundry, an old lady discovers millions of dollars in cash in a turned on drying machine.
Money Laundering
2025
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Les Hardings
2021
NRAfter having his license revoked for health reasons, an aviator must accept that he will never fly again.
Les ailes
2025
NRDanny nervously starts a new job, unaware of the dark machinations that seem to be unfolding behind the scenes of the company. He must make a choice: endure the growing pressure of this increasingly oppressive environment, or flee…
Sheep
2026
5.8Driven by the idea of making people around her happy, Virginie lies constantly. As her partner Phil fears, her many lies become reality and create multiverses that completely disrupt their lives and those around them.
Compulsive Liar 2
2025
2010s · 2 titles
3.0An unassuming middle-aged accountant learns he has only weeks to live. Rather than tell everyone, Martin determines to learn the three pages of a Bach adagio for piano he'd abandoned as a child. That accomplished, he performs the piece for his wife and friends, completing his life and thanking those who brightened it along the way.
Three Pages
2018
7.5No synopsis available yet.
Les Parlementeries 2010
2010
2000s · 3 titles
6.7An aging thief hopes to retire and live off his ill-gotten wealth when a young kid convinces him into doing one last heist.
The Score
2001
5.2After reading a bedtime story to her daughter, Alice Tremblay leaves her daughter's room and enters her own fairytale.
Alice's Odyssey
2002
10.0This feature-length documentary follows actor Jean-Louis Millette as he travels to Italy to present the play The Dragonfly of Chicoutimi, in which he plays the lead role. Director Jean-Claude Coulbois attempts to unravel the mystery of this protected, hard-to-reach area, which he calls the "actor's territory," where life and theater intertwine and interact.
Le territoire du comédien
2000
1990s · 11 titles
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Nénette
1992
3.3Fredo just inherited his uncle's company but it bores him. Then he meets Angelo, a French movie director that introduces to the magical world of feature films. Suddenly, Fredo sees himself in different films. Soon, Fredo discovers that Angelo has a hidden agenda...
Angelo, Fredo, and Romeo
1996
5.7Louis Jobin is an ordinary young man from Montreal who sells televisions at an electronics store. He wins a contest sponsored by the local cable company in which the first prize is that he'll be followed non-stop by a camera crew, with the footage broadcast live on Channel 19. Unfortunately, his ordinary life is so ordinary, despite the best efforts of his starstruck mother, that the producers attempt to spice things up behind his back.
Louis the 19th, King of the Airwaves
1994
5.8Tired of rough winters, a Quebec family buys a motel in south Florida. But life is not easy down where motels grow faster than grass. Two bigger businessmen are out to get them for invading their turf. However, that is not even the beginning of their troubles...
La Florida
1993
7.0Two harum-scarums who think they are good stand-up comics try to make a career in showbiz, partly for the career, partly to seduce women. They try alternatively the scene, a movie set and TV. They only succeed in making a fool of themselves
Ding et Dong : Le film
1990
5.0Six stories about Montreal. 1: A young housewife from Toronto samples the nightlife using basic French. 2: The tale of a painting of Montreal's first mayor, Jacques Viger. 3: During a hockey game, Madeleine tries to tell Roger she wants a divorce after forty years of marriage. 4: A visitor to a conference on pictographs arrives at the airport, where the female customs officer steals a momento from each person. 5: As she is being driven to the hospital in an ambulance after an auto accident, Sarah recalls her life. 6: At a diplomatic reception, an older woman reminisces about her grand love in Montreal.
Montreal Stories
1991
5.0Laura Cadieux and her friends are taking a cruise on the St. Lawrence River to celebrate Laura's 50th birthday.
Laura Cadieux II
1999
4.8Marie, incapable of choosing between three marriage proposals, decides to give up. Circumstances mean that the three men meet. Far from being hostile, Stéphane, Fabrice and Paul console each other....
The Ideal Man
1996
No synopsis available yet.
Les Parlementeries 1997
1997
5.4Large women with a zest for life gather weekly at a Montreal doctor's office to receive diet injections.
It's Your Turn, Laura
1998
3.8This historical drama with music examines the life and times of Émile Nelligan, one of the major Canadian poets of the 19th century who struggled through a difficult childhood with the help of his loving mother, only to see his career cut short by tragic circumstances.
Nelligan
1991
Series credits
5.6This daily quiz show puts strategy front and centre, as five celebrities answer general-knowledge questions to win money for their favourite charity. But here’s the catch: one of the five participants is cheating, because they’re secretly being fed the answers. The cheater’s mission is to play it smart so they can fool the other players and win the game without getting caught.
Le Tricheur
2012
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Les Enfants de la télé
2010
NRAnnie-Soleil Proteau and Patrick Langlois spend an hour with a beloved and well-known figure to find out as much about them as possible and discover new aspects of their personality, in an entertaining mix of interviews and wackiness!
Ménage à trois
2014
9.3Patrice Bélanger and his team are here to give Quebecers a little boost to their lives with this show where fun and pleasure prevail. With a front row seat to events happening across the province, the show is the reference for summer culture. Above and beyond the artists featured, the show puts our entire province in the spotlight.
Sucré salé
2002
A dance-off where stars learn, prepare and present dance routines that they must show to a select panel of judges.
Le match des étoiles
2005
1.0A variety show with a twist: a celebrity guest get to attend their own memorial service – an entertaining send-off filled with eulogies and some gentle ribbing.
In Lieu of Flowers
2012
NRA frenzied series of wacky sketches, surprising and unexpected.
Les Appendices
2009
No synopsis available yet.
Bar ouvert
2011
NRNo synopsis available yet.
On passe à l'Histoire
2013
8.0Follow both the professional and personal lives of reporters working for The Express, a daily Montréal Newspaper.
Scoop
1992
7.7Two writers whose critically savaged crime show is a surprise hit decide that they need real criminal experiences to spice up their second season.
Série Noire
2014
8.1No synopsis available yet.
Lol:-)
2011
6.0A sketch comedy presenting the daily life of four couples and two roommates of different ages and backgrounds. In a realistic tone, it explores in a raw and disarming way all facets of the couple, unfiltered in the privacy of the bedroom, one of the only places where one can truly be oneself.
Entre deux draps
2021
7.2Fragile tells the story of two diametrically opposite families: the wealthy, influential Bachands, and the salt-of-the-earth Coutures. It’s also the story of an unlikely friendship, that of Dominic Couture (Pier-Luc Funk) and Félix Bachand (Marc-André Grondin). The pair’s mysterious death sends shock waves through their families and community, exposing jealously guarded secrets, dangerous liaisons, and hidden agendas.
Fragile
2019
8.0Adam and Mounir, two actors from the Maghreb, are recruited to infiltrate various criminal circles thanks to their acting talent.
Playing Both Sides
2025
6.0The post-apocalyptic misadventures of Rafe and Gabe Burns, two brothers who are hired to become protectors of their rural hometown. Unbeknownst to them, their long-lost mother Judith is locked in a secret military super bunker. As Judith tries to outwit the super bunker’s sentient computer system and get back to her sons, Rafe and Gabe discover the wonders, horrors, and temptations of the wasteland.
Doomsday Brothers
2020
8.0The touching story of four friends in their 20s who need some air, literally. They have all been diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. With their urgency to live, they make every day memorable, for better and for worse!
L'air d'aller
2023
4.7Following the death of their father, a businessman's heirs must go through a series of troubling tests that bring back the wounds of their childhood, in order to get their hands on $84 million. But their memories of an abusive childhood put their family bond in jeopardy.
In Memoriam
2024
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Martin Matte en direct
2023
No synopsis available yet.
Mais où se cache Carmen Sandiego ?
1994
8.7When Oliva and Elzire Dionne have quintuplets in rural 1930s Canada, news of their uncommon family spreads like wildfire and steps up local tourism, thanks in part to an opportunistic town doctor who uses the children to enhance his own celebrity.
Million Dollar Babies
1994