- Born
- Height6′ (1.83 m)
- Robert D. Morais (pronounced: Ro Bear More Hay) is a DGC and ARRQ film director and scriptwriter, but also a teenage world champion ballroom dancer and an award-winning gymnast & film & commercial producer.
Morais was born in Montréal, Québec, Canada, to Monique Lanthier, a bank teller, and Réal Morais, a very wealthy entrepreneur in the office supply business with several stores to his name. His mother was French-Canadian, with Austrian ancestry, while his father was a French-Acadian from New Brunswick, with Portuguese ancestry.
He wrote, directed & acted in his first theater play while starting his first year of high school, at 11 years old. That same year, he was cast as juror #4, on the school play of "12 Angry Men".
Morais started to study ballroom dancing privately at 12 years old under the tutelage of the amazing Méryem Rainville-Pearson and later on at the University. He danced: Québec folklore, ballroom [international modern & latin], ballet, tap, modern [José Limon & Martha Graham] & baroque. Winning several competitions locally, provincially (Québec), throughout Canada and finally becoming a world champion at 17 in Essen, Germany.
While at University, he started a 40 years career in the movie business, becoming an award-winning film producer, a successful 1st Assistant Director, as well as a film and theater director.
He created his own film company in 1993: the OAK and the WILLOW film (c), developing personal, engaging and inspiring film projects.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Robert D. Morais
- SpouseNicole Leduc(May 16, 1981 - June 22, 1984) (divorced, 1 child)
- Gender / Gender identityMale
- Wears shorts all the time on sets (lives in Québec...)
- His gravelly low, deep commanding voice
- Statuesque, model-like figure
- Muscular dancer physique
- His film, 'Sous Un Soleil Insolite', won the People's Choice Award at L'Université de Montréal student film festival in 1990.
- A passionate film enthusiast, with secret aspiration to become the next Gene Kelly or Fred Astaire, he started dreaming of becoming a filmmaker at a young age.
- A trained logistician of the arts, with over 50 years experience.
- In his spare time, Robert is an avid bird-watcher, with more than 200 sightings in his 'life list'.
- He was an active member of the ACCT [Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television], sitting on the Board of Directors, in the province of Quebec [2004-2006].
- Being diagnosed with cancer changes everything. I am in treatment for a year and a half. I can no longer worked, like before. Your life stops, literally. You can't just walk out of there like nothing happened. It's hard to explain why, how it changed my life, but it completely changed my life.
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