Réjean Cournoyer is a French-Canadian actor born in Nova Scotia, partially raised in Québec, and has lived and worked across Canada. He has played leading roles at Canadian Stage, Neptune Theatre, The National Arts Centre, The Artsclub Theatre, Theatre Calgary, The Citadel Theatre, the Confederation Centre of the Arts and close to every Regional Theatre from Newfoundland to British Columbia. His work in French includes Pélagie (Traduction Antonine Maillet), Don Quixote (L'Homme de la Mancha), Émile Nelligan (Glenn Gould Studio), and a bilingual recording of Jazz Standards and French Art songs, (The Very Thought of You).

His cabin in the woods and garden is his very happy place.