Marcel Simoneau

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Marcel Simoneau

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Marcel is a New York City based actor who has appeared on TV in: Gotham, God Friended Me, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Fringe, Law & Order, Ed and Strangers with Candy and recently on the original Law & Order reboot, a guest starring role on Blacklist, on the Daily Show with Leslie Jones and a National commercial for E*Trade. In Film: The Rebound, Imperialists are Still Alive, Horizon, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist, Stranger, Kinsey, Seduction, Meridian

Marcel also has done extensive Voice-Over work in commercials for Budweiser, Canada Dry, NyQuill, GoDaddy, Goody, Chloé, BDO, MFS among others and in more recently in Rob Zombie’s Untitled Munsters Reboot, Stillwater, Halston, Mythic Quest, Birds of Paradise & Little Women, Emily in Paris, The Queen’s Gambit, Dash & Lily, Wildlike, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, High Maintenance, Super Troopers 2, What Just Happened, Royal Pains and The Pirates of Somalia. 

His old band, Hot Seconds can also be heard in the TV shows: The Big Bang Theory, Shameless, The New Girl, Gossip Girl, The Unit and The Office. Marcel now performs under Potterfield.

He studied at The Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, NYU, Columbia University and the Maggie Flanigan Studio. He currently teaches Method Acting at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute in New York and at New York University (NYU).

Marcel Simoneau
New York (US)
Gendermale
Place of birthCanada
NationalityCanadian, American
Main professionActor
Working permitsUnited States, Canada
Housing optionsParis (FR), London (GB), Montreal (CA)
Driver's licensesB - Car
Eye colorgreen-brown
Hair colorbrown
Height (cm)180
LanguagesEnglish(native)French(native)SpanishItalian
DialectsStandard American EnglishBoston EnglishBrooklyn EnglishCalifornia EnglishCanadian(native dialect)New York English(native dialect)Quebec(native dialect)
AccentsEnglishFrenchItalianQuébécoisRussian
InstrumentsBass guitarElectric guitarGuitarKeyboard/SynthesizerSynthesizerPiano
Special skillsActing coachAudio bookAudio dramaBarmanImprovisationStudio musician
Training
Primary professional training
Other professional training
2001 – 2003
Maggie Flaningan Studio
1998 – 2002
Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute
Television
2022
LAW & ORDER picture
LAW & ORDER - The Right Thing (TV series)
Ryan Bell (LR)
Jean de Segonzac NBC Dick Wolf & Rick Eid
2021
Blacklist picture
Blacklist - Chemical Mary (No. 143) (Series)
Stephane Gervais (GR)
Christine Moore NBC
Theater
2008 – 2010
MY FIRST TIME picture
MY FIRST TIME (Other)
Lead (LR)
Ken Davenport Ken Davenport New World Stages Daryl Eisenberg Ken Davenport