Gad Elmaleh Biography

Fast Facts

• He and Audrey Tautou won the NRJ Ciné Award for Best Kiss in 2007 for their kiss in "Hors de prix․"
• Spent four years in Montreal studying political science before studying drama in Paris
• Performed his first one-man show, the autobiographical "Décalages," in 1997
• His comedy routines and films often offer his insights into paternal roles as they break domestic stereotypes
• Best known as a comedian, he often plays outrageous characters, but has also played dramatic roles in such films as "La Rafle," in which he plays a family man caught up in the largest mass arrest of French Jews during World War II
• Steven Spielberg once blew him a kiss after a single take of recording dialogue for "The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn․"
• Moroccan by birth, he also acquired French citizenship