1. Gad Elmaleh is a Moroccan-Canadian stand-up comedian and actor.
26 Facts About Gad Elmaleh
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Gad Elmaleh has starred in several feature films, including Coco, Priceless, La Doublure and Midnight in Paris.
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In 2015 and 2018, Elmaleh did national comedy tours across the United States.
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Gad Elmaleh was born and raised in Casablanca to a Moroccan Sephardic Jewish family.
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Gad Elmaleh's brother, Arie, is an actor and singer, and his sister, Judith, is an actress and stage director.
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Gad Elmaleh studied at Ecole Maimonide, and Lycee Lyautey in Casablanca.
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Gad Elmaleh's family emigrated from Morocco to Canada when Elmaleh was 17.
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Gad Elmaleh later studied political science at a university in Montreal for four years but did not graduate.
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In 1992, Gad Elmaleh moved to Paris to study drama at Cours Florent under the tutelage of Isabelle Nanty.
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Gad Elmaleh has been credited with bringing the American stand-up style to France and using it in his one-man shows.
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Gad Elmaleh came back to the stage with L'autre, c'est moi in September 2006 in Canada and in the US ; it was performed in Casablanca, Morocco.
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On 15 July 2007, Gad Elmaleh premiered his fifth one-man show, Papa est en haut, in Montreal as part of the Just for Laughs festival.
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Gad Elmaleh has performed in a mix of French and Arabic in Morocco and included some Hebrew in shows in Israel.
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In 2015 Elmaleh began an American tour entitled "Oh My Gad" and moved to New York City.
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Elmaleh's French stand-up special Gad Gone Wild was filmed in Montreal, Canada, and was released on Netflix on 24 January 2017.
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Gad Elmaleh later appeared in L'homme est une femme comme les autres and Train de Vie.
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Gad Elmaleh then did his debut as a singer in "it's kiz my life", a popular song in a non-existing language.
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Gad Elmaleh played the voice of Barry B Benson in the French version of the 2007 film Bee Movie, Drole d'Abeille.
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Gad Elmaleh appeared in the motion capture film The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, alongside Jamie Bell.
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On 28 January 2019, the anonymous YouTube channel CopyComic released a video showing various stand-up comedians performing several years prior to many of Gad Elmaleh's performances, showing similarities that the YouTube channel described as plagiarism.
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Gad Elmaleh sued the YouTube channel and asked for the videos to be removed from the website, on copyright infringement grounds.
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Gad Elmaleh lived with French actress Anne Brochet from 1998 to 2002.
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Gad Elmaleh was in a relationship with Charlotte Casiraghi from December 2011 until June 2015.
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In 2004, Gad Elmaleh received an award for the best one man show from SACEM in France.
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In 2006 Gad Elmaleh was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres.
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Gad Elmaleh was made a Member of the National Order of Quebec by Quebec premier Philippe Couillard in 2017.