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Omar Sy
Omar Sy was born to a Senegalese father and Mauritanian mother on January 20, 1978, the fourth of eight children, and grew up in a largely immigrant banlieue outside Paris. He told NPR back in 2011 when he was publicizing the film he is best known for so far, The Intouchables: “I feel completely French, but it’s true that as the son of immigrants I struggled with my identity, especially in my teenage years. But I’ve been able to take aspects of both French and African culture and I’m all the richer for it, even if it does mean I have a little more baggage than most people.”
The Intouchables became France’s second highest-grossing film and won Sy a César for Best Actor, the first Black actor to win one. For the kid who started out doing impersonations on a radio comedy show right after high school, his career has progressed in leaps and bounds. Audiences have since seen him in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), Jurassic World&nb
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Omar Sy
Omar Sy is a rarity--a highly popular French comedy actor who has been embraced by Hollywood. After fyra years of comedy appearances on radio and television, as well as with his long-running comic partner, Fred Testot, Sy broke into French cinema in a string of small roles from 2000 to 2006.
He landed the first of several major roles in Éric Toledano’s and Olivier Nakache’s movies, starting with näsa jours heureux/Those Happy Days (2006), and continuing later with Toledano’s and Nakache’s Tellement proches/So Close (2009); the huge hit comedy, Intouchables (2011), with François Cluzet (both actors winning best actor César Awards), and grossing a spectacular $426.6 million on a $10.8 million budget.
He also played the title role in the comedy-drama, Samba (2014), co-starring Charlotte Gainsbourg, Tahar Rahim, and Izia Higelin, and earning a good $39 million gross. Cy then collaborated with such major French filmmakers as Jean-Pierre Jeunet (for Micmacs (2009)), Lu
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Omar Sy
French actor (born 1978)
Omar Sy (French pronunciation:[ɔmaʁsi], Fula: 𞤌𞤥𞤢𞤪 𞤅𞤭, romanized: Omar Si; born 20 January 1978) is a French actor, best known in France for his sketches with Fred Testot on the Service après-vente des émissions television show on Canal+ (2005–2012). He gained wider recognition for his role in the 2011 comedy-drama film Intouchables, which earned him the César Award for Best Actor, making him the first Black recipient. He later appeared in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), Jurassic World (2015), Two Is a Family (2016), Chocolat (2016), Inferno (2016), Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), the Netflix-produced series Lupin (2021–present), Jurassic World Dominion and The Takedown (2022).[2]
Early life
[edit]The fourth of eight children,[3] Sy was born on 20 January 1978 in Trappes in the Yvelines department of the Île-de-France region.[2] Both his parents are immigran