François Arnaud

François Arnaud is a Canadian actor who studied at Montreal's Conservatoire d'art dramatique and started out in Quebec television. Born in Montreal, he began with a role on the comedy Taxi 0-22 in 2008, then played Antonin Rimbaud in Xavier Dolan's I Killed My Mother (2009), a coming-of-age drama that premiered at Cannes. He won a Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for his supporting performance in that film. Arnaud became known for playing Cesare Borgia in the Showtime period drama The Borgias from 2011 to 2013, and he later starred as the psychic Manfred Bernardo in Midnight, Texas from 2017 to 2018. His other screen credits include Permission (2018), She's in Portland (2020), Marlowe (2022), Mom (2025), and Twinless (2025), plus roles on Blindspot, Schitt's Creek, and The Moodys. He gained wider recognition for the Crave sports romance series Heated Rivalry (2025), playing Scott Hunter.