Gad Elmaleh

At 53 years old, Gad Elmaleh has this physical status:

Gad Elmaleh (born 19 April 1971) is a Moroccan-Canadian stand-up comedian and actor who has achieved notoriety in France and Canada.

He has appeared in many French-speaking films, most recently in the United States, including Coco, Priceless, La Doublure, and Midnight in Paris.

He was named knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the Minister of Culture, and he was also named knight of the National Order of Quebec.

Elmaleh is often described as France's "Seinfeld." Elmaleh performed national comedy tours in the United States in 2015 and 2018.

Huge, a Netflix series set in France, was released in 2019.

Early years

Elmaleh was born and raised in Casablanca to a Moroccan Berber Jewish family. Elmaleh was brought up in a culturally diverse environment, speaking both Moroccan Arabic and French. With a placard, he would greet his father, a mime, as an infant. Arié's brother, as well as his sister, Judith, is an actor and singer, and stage producer.

He attended École Macromedia and Lycée Lyautey in Casablanca. When Elmaleh was 17 years old, his family immigrated from Morocco to Canada. He later studied political science at a university in Montreal (it is unknown if he attended University of Montreal or McGill University, as both schools' records show he did not graduate) for four years, but did not graduate. Elmaleh studied drama at Cours Florent in 1992 under Isabelle Nanty's tutelage.

Personal life

Elmaleh worked with French actress Anne Brochet from 1998 to 2002. They have one son, Noé, together. In Brochet's book Trajet d'une amoureuse éconduite, the tale of their marriage and break-up was told.

Marie Drucker, a French journalist, worked with him from 2009 to 2010.

He was in a friendship with Charlotte Casiraghi from December 2011 to June 2015. Raphal, their son, was born on December 17, 2013.

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Career

Décalages, Elmaleh's first one-man show Décalages, was unveiled on "Palais des glaces" in 1997. In the show, he retraces his journey from Morocco after high school, continuing with his studies in Montreal, and finishing in France, where he studied drama at Cours Florent. With the success of his second one-man show, La Vie Normale, his first appearance at the Olympia and his first show of more than two hours, his fame has grown. On January 23, 2001, the program was released on DVD.

His L'autre c'est moi (2005), compared to his first two one-man shows, contains more experimentation and public interaction. He has been credited with bringing the American stand-up style to France and using it in his one-man shows. In September 2006 (Montreal) and in the United States, he appeared with L'autre, c'est moi; in Broadway, before 3000 people; also in Casablanca, Morocco; He appeared in France, Belgium, and Switzerland from April to August 2007. Over 300,000 spectators attended the show. The show was later released on DVD and sold 1,500,000 copies.

He was named the "funniest man of the year" by TF1 viewers from a list of 50 comedians on January 6, 2007. Papa est en haut, Elmaleh's fifth one-man performance, opened in Montreal on July 15, 2007 as part of the Just for Laughs festival. He sold out seven weeks at the legendary Olympia theater in Paris, a new record. After that, Gad appeared in Le Palais des Sports for another seven weeks. One million tickets were sold to this performance in total.

He appeared in Cars Getting Coffee with Jerry Seinfeld.

Sans Tambour's sixth stand-up display was held (bugleless), implying making a big entrance unannounced.

In 2016, he appeared alongside Kev Adams in the M6 comedy special Tout est Possible. The two comedians performed a 10-minute sketch where they played Chinese men on the program, which later received flak about its racial representations.

Elmaleh has appeared in Morocco on a combination of French and Arabic, as well as including some Hebrew in Israeli shows. Elmaleh is often described as the "Seinfeld of France," a term he coined "flattering" and understandable given that both he and Seinfeld are encouraged to do comedy based on "everyday life."

Both comedians are friends

Elmaleh's "Oh My Gad" tour began in 2015 and took him to New York City. He appeared in Joe's Pub in December after multiple workouts in the fall. Although Elmaleh speaks English fluently, he works with an English tutor to write his jokes while also appreciating the English language's nuance. There is one major difference between his French shows and his English ones is that no riffing is allowed in his English shows; everything is scripted. A segment about Elmaleh and his transition to American comedy was included in an episode of This American Life in September 2016.

Elmaleh appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on December 15, 2016, as the show's stand-up act.

Gad Gone Wild, Elmaleh's French stand-up special, was shot in Montreal, Canada, and was released on Netflix on January 24, 2017. In March 2018, an English language special was released.

Elmaleh was pro bono for a local Chabad-Lubavitch center in Côte-Saint-Luc in May 2017. In Elmaleh's hometown of Casablanca, the director's father ran a Jewish summer camp and other Jewish services, and the performance was devoted to him.

The full film, Salut cousin, was Elmaleh's first encounter with cinema. Merzak Allouache was the author of Merzak Allouache's book. He appeared in L'homme est une femme comme les autres and Train de Vie later. He appeared in "Dov," the seducer in La Vérité si je mens, in 2000. 2. In the comedy Chouchou (2002), directed by Merzak Allouache and also starring Alain Chabat, the character of "Chouchou" in La Vie Normale was recreated; the film attracted large audiences. In "it's kiz my life," a common song in a non-existing language, he made his debut as a performer. J.G Biggs produced the music video and shot in the famous Parisian Hôtel Costes.

He returned to film in 2004 when he appeared in the 2004 film Olé! Gérard Depardieu is the author of a French film. In 2005, he appeared in La Doublure (English word "The Valiant") by Francis Veber. He appeared in Priceless, by Pierre Salvadori, opposite Audrey Tautou in 2006.

In the French version of the 2007 film Bee Movies, Drôle d'Abeille, Barry B. Benson played Barry B. Benson. Jerry Seinfeld came in to visit him and became close friends with him.

Coco, which he directed and starred in in, was released in 2009. It's been open in France, Belgium, and Switzerland. He appeared in a dramatic role in Roselyne Bosch's The Round Up, which is based on the events surrounding the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup in 2010.

In 2011, he was in a small role in Woody Allen's Paris-set film Midnight in Paris. Along Jamie Bell, he appeared in The Adventures of Tintin: The Unconvention of the Unicorn. The film, directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Peter Jackson, was released in Belgium on October 26, 2011 in Belgium, and in the United States on December 23. He appeared in Jack & Jill as Al Pacino's French cook the previous year. He appeared in The Dictator in 2012 but he was only insignificant. Huge in France, his first film project in 2019, brings him to a broader American audience. Jerry Seinfeld's cameo was included in the satiric film.

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