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Egoyan was born to Joseph and Shushan Yeghoyan in Cairo , Egypt . He and his sister Eve Egoyan (who is now a concert pianist based in Toronto) were raised by their parents in Victoria, British Columbia , Canada . As a teenager, he became interested in reading and writing plays. Significant influences included Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter . He graduated from Trinity College in the University Of Toronto . Egoyan is now based in Toronto , where he lives with his wife, Arsinée Khanjian , an actress who appears in many of Egoyan's films, and their son, Arshile. Egoyan has directed a dozen full-length films, several television episodes, and a few shorter pieces. His early work was based on his own material, and he received some notice for the film '' Exotica '' ( 1994 ), but it was Egoyan's first attempt at adapted material that resulted in his best-known work, '' The Sweet Hereafter '' ( 1997 ), which landed him an Academy Award nomination for Best Director. The film '' Ararat '' ( 2002 ) also generated some publicity for Egoyan, as it was the first major motion picture to deal directly with the Armenian Genocide . '' Ararat '' later won the Best Picture prize at the Genie Awards (ironically, he failed to receive a Best Director nomination for the same film). In 1999 , he was made an Officer of the Order Of Canada . FILMOGRAPHY
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