Gad Elmaleh Biography

Gad Elmaleh (Hebrew: גד אלמלח; Arabic: جاد المالح; French pronunciation: [ɡad‿ɛlmalɛ]; born April 19 1971) is a Moroccan French stand-up comedian and actor who lives and works in France. He has starred in several feature films including Coco Hors de prix La Doublure and Midnight in Paris.
Elmaleh was born in Casablanca Morocco. Being a Moroccan Sephardic Jew Gad Elmaleh was brought up in a culturally diverse environment speaking Moroccan Arabic Hebrew English and French. Son of David Elmaleh and Régine Elmaleh. He has a brother Arié actor and singer and a sister Judith actress and stage director. He studied for a few years in Morocco at Lycée Lyautey in Casablanca before he studied political science at McGill University in Montreal for four years then moved to Paris to study drama.
Elmaleh's first contact with cinema was the full-length film Salut cousin ! by Merzak Allouache. He later appeared in L'homme est une femme comme les autres and Train de Vie.
His fame further increased with the success of his second one-man show La Vie Normale and the film La Vérité si je mens ! 2 (2000) in which he played the role of Dov the seducer. The character of Chouchou in La Vie Normale was reproduced in the comedy Chouchou (2002) directed by Merzak Allouache and also starring Alain Chabat; the film drew large audiences.[citation needed]. He then did his debut as a singer in it's kiz my life a popular song in a non-existing language. The music video was directed by J.G Biggs and shot in the famous Parisian Hôtel Costes.

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