Gad Elmaleh

Birth Name:

Gad Elmaleh

Birth Place:

Casablanca, Morocco

Profession

Actor, Writer, Director, Soundtrack, Producer

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
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
His comedy routines and films often offer his insights into paternal roles as they break domestic stereotypes
Moroccan by birth, he also acquired French citizenship
Steven Spielberg once blew him a kiss after a single take of recording dialogue for "The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn․"

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