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Jean-Simon Leduc

Canadian actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ65095370
Source-derived summary

Jean-Simon Leduc is a Canadian actor. He is most noted for his performances as Bruno in Love in the Time of Civil War (L'amour au temps de la guerre civile), for which he received a Quebec Cinema Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 18th Quebec Cinema Awards, and as JP in the 2018 film Family First (Chien de garde), for which he received a Prix Iris nomination for Best Actor at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards.

He has also appeared in the films Shambles (Maudite poutine), Worst Case, We Get Married (Et au pire, on se mariera), Genesis (Genèse), In Broad Daylight (Au grand jour), My Mother's Men (Les Hommes de ma mère) and Redemptions (Rédemptions), and the television series Au secours de Béatrice, Terreur 404, Plan B and Fugueuse.

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“Jean-Simon Leduc” enters the record as canadian actor. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jean-Simon, Leduc and Canadian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jean-Simon, Leduc and Canadian.
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“Jean-Simon Leduc” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Jean-Simon, Leduc and Canadian provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q65095370. VIAF identifies the subject as 15149415070689551884. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from Jean-Simon Leduc” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.