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Kad Merad

Kad Merad

Acting

Born March 27, 1964, Sidi Bel Abbes, Algeria

Kad Merad is a French-Algerian filmmaker and actor who has acted both on stage and on screen. Kad Merad was born in Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria, on March 27, 1964 to an Algerian father and a French mother. During his teens, he played drums and sang with various rock bands. Soon afterwards, he started playing as an animator in Club Med alongside the Gigolo Brothers troop. In 1990, he was hired by Ouï FM, the Paris Rock genre station where he met Olivier Baroux. The duet most known as Kad & Olivier began working together and started their own show, the Rock'n Roll Circus, introducing some of their most famous sketches (Pamela Rose, Teddy Porc Fidèle...). The early success of the show allowed them to meet Jean-Luc Delarue who brought their act to TV. In 1999, they began appearing on the French Satellite TV channel Comédie+ on their own show, La Grosse Emission. At the same time, Merad started his Cinema career with a lot of secondary roles. In 2003, he scored his First box-office success with Mais Qui a tué Pamela Rose?, co-written with Baroux. In 2007, Kad received the César Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Je vais Bien, ne t'en fais pas! and appears in AaRON's film soundtrack video clip. His best challenger was Dany Boon. During the shooting of Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis, this friendly struggle was a running joke between the two of them. That same year, he made his first appearance with Les Enfoirés music troop and is still one of its members. He was also inducted as the Godfather of the Telethon. The next year, he starred as Phillipe Abrams in the French movie Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis. The film was a surprise - and phenomenal - success in France and Europe, becoming the best-attended movie ever made in France, with 21 million moviegoers.

Filmography

Appearances as themselves (47)
  • 202611e edition de La Nuit de la Deprime aux Folies Bergère — self
  • 2025Florent Pagny fait son Taratata — Self
  • Liars Club — Self
  • 2025The Original+ — Self - Guest
  • 2025Traquer l'invisible - Nos chercheurs face à la menace mondiale des virus et des bactéries — Self : Godfather of Pasteur Institute
  • 2025Vos 40 chansons préférées des Enfoirés — Self (archive footage)
  • 202440 — Self
  • Beau geste — Self
  • Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma — Self - Guest
  • 2023Florent Pagny : un homme libre — Self
  • Improbox — Self - Guest
  • 2023Studio Bagel's 10th Anniversary — Self - Guest Star
  • 2023Une journée avec Jacques Brel — Self
  • 2022Benjamin Biolay Christmas Show — Self : Guest
  • 2022Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2022 : 10 ans — Self
  • 2022Jean-Luc Delarue, 10 ans déjà : de succès en excès — Self
  • 2022Making of Biolay Christmas Show — Self
  • 2021Johnny Hallyday : Que je t'aime — Self
  • 2021Kad Merad on Stage — Self
  • Tous en cuisine avec Cyril Lignac — Self
  • 2019Ce soir, c'est Palmashow — Self - Guest
  • 2019Sixty — Self - Comedian
  • 3615 code Arthur et Jarry — Self - Guest
  • Bonsoir ! — Self - Guest
  • 2018L'Étrange Noël de Jeff Panacloc — Self
  • 2018On refait les grands duos d'humour — Self
  • The Secret Song — Self
  • Face the Classroom — Self - Guest
  • 2017La télé de Valérie Lemercier — Self
  • 2016La Folle Soirée du Palmashow 3 — Self - Guest
  • 2016Les Enfoirés 2016 - Au rendez-vous des Enfoirés — Self
  • 2015Gad Elmaleh - 20 ans de scène ! — Self
  • Un soir à la tour Eiffel — Self
  • Clique — Self - Guest
  • The Unexpected Getaway — Self
  • Vendredi, tout est permis — Self
  • C à vous — Self, Self - Guest
  • N'oubliez pas les paroles - Primes événementiels — Self
  • On n'est pas couché — Self - Guest
  • Salut les Terriens ! — Self - Guest
  • Burger Quiz — Self
  • Star Academy — Self
  • The Apartment — Self - Guest
  • Vivement dimanche — Self
  • Téléthon — Self
  • Télématin — Self
  • Cérémonie des César — Self - Host, Self - Presenter
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