Biography
François Arnaud is a Canadian actor. Born François Landriault-Barbeau on 5 July 1985 in Montreal, Quebec, he trained at the Conservatoire d'art dramatique de Montréal.
He began his screen career with a role in Xavier Dolan's I Killed My Mother (2009), for which he received a Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award. Arnaud gained wider recognition as Cesare Borgia in the series The Borgias (2011–2013) and as Manfred Bernardo in Midnight, Texas (2017–2018). He has also appeared in Schitt's Creek (2015), Yellowjackets (2021), Marlowe (2023) and Twinless (2025).
In 2025 he began portraying Scott Hunter in the Crave series Heated Rivalry.
