Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa (born 28 January 1955) is a French politician who served as President of France from 2007 to 2012. Born in Paris, he is of Hungarian, Greek Jewish, and French origin. Mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine from 1983 to 2002, he was Minister of the Budget under Prime Minister Édouard Balladur (1993–1995) during François Mitterrand's second term. During Jacques Chirac's second presidential term he served as Minister of the Interior and as Minister of Finances. He was the leader of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party from 2004 to 2007. He won the 2007 French presidential election by a 53.1% to 46.9% margin against Ségolène Royal, the Socialist Party (PS) candidate. During his term, he faced the financial crisis of 2007–2008 (causing a recession, the European sovereign debt crisis), the Russo-Georgian War (for which he negotiated a ceasefire) and the Arab Spring (especially in Tunisia, Libya, and Syria). He initiated the reform of French universities (2007) and the pension reform (2010). He married Italian-French singer-songwriter Carla Bruni in 2008 at the Élysée Palace in Paris. In the 2012 French presidential election, Sarkozy was defeated by the PS candidate François Hollande, by a 3.2% margin. After leaving the presidential office, Sarkozy vowed to retire from public life before coming back in 2014, being subsequently reelected as UMP leader (renamed The Republicans in 2015). Being defeated at the Republican presidential primary in 2016, he retired from public life. He was charged with corruption by French prosecutors in two cases, notably concerning the alleged Libyan interference in the 2007 French elections. In 2021, Sarkozy was convicted of corruption in two separate trials. His first conviction resulted in him receiving a sentence of three years, two of them suspended and one in prison; he has appealed against the ruling. For his second conviction, he received a one-year sentence, which he is allowed to serve under home confinement. Sarkozy was born in Paris, and is the son of Pál István Ernő Sárközy de Nagy-Bócsa (Hungarian: nagybócsai Sárközy Pál—in some sources Nagy-Bócsay Sárközy Pál István Ernő), (born 5 May 1928), a Protestant Hungarian aristocrat, and Andrée Jeanne "Dadu" Mallah (12 October 1925 – 12 December 2017), whose Ottoman Greek Jewish grandfather converted to Catholicism to marry Sarkozy's French Catholic maternal grandmother.] They were married in the Saint-François-de-Sales church, 17th arrondissement of Paris, on 8 February 1950, and divorced in 1959. During Sarkozy's childhood, his father founded his own advertising agency and became wealthy. The family lived in a mansion owned by Sarkozy's maternal grandfather, Benedict Mallah, in the 17th arrondissement of Paris. The family later moved to Neuilly-sur-Seine, one of the wealthiest communes of the Île-de-France région immediately west of Paris. According to Sarkozy, his staunchly Gaullist grandfather was more of an influence on him than his father, whom he rarely saw. Sarkozy was raised Catholic. ... Source: Article "Nicolas Sarkozy" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Filmography

• 2024Dissolution, histoire d'un séisme politique
• LEGEND
• 2023Trois mille milliards : les secrets d'un État en faillite — Nicolas Sarkozy
• L'émission politique
• 2016Nous, les intranquilles — Nicolas Sarkozy
• 2015Le président et le dictateur — Nicolas Sarkozy
• 2004Leclerc, a dream of Indochina — Writer
• 2005 : Quand les Français ont dit non à l'Europe

Appearances as themselves (47)

• 2026Je t'aime moi non plus - France-Maroc — Self : Président de la République de 2007 à 2012
• 2025François Baroin ou les hésitations du destin — Self
• 2025La banlieue, c’est le paradis — Self - Guest
• La última llamada — Self
• 2025Les mille et une vies de Philippe Bouvard — Self
• 2023Au cœur du Papotin — Self
• 2023Didier Barbelivien : tant qu'il y aura des chansons — Self
• 2023Président : le prix à payer - Face à la rue — Self
• The Billionaire, the Butler, and the Boyfriend — Self (archive footage)
• 2023The Revenge of Bernadette Chirac — Self - Former President of the Republic
• 2022De Charles de Gaulle à Emmanuel Macron, les gardiens de l'empire — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Les petits secrets de L'Équipe du Soir — Self (archive footage)
• 2021The Arc de Triomphe: A Nation's Passion — Self (archive footage)
• Decolonisation — Self - Politician (archive footage)
• 2020Entretien politique : Histoire et mode d'emploi — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Laboratory Greece — Self (archive footage)
• The Cameron Years — Self
• 2019Un peu, beaucoup, passionnément... Les Présidents et les Français — Self (archive footage)
• 2016King of Morocco, the secret reign — Self (archive footage)
• 2016Stupor Mundi: Livre 2, Les Hommes qui mangèrent la montagne — Self (archive footage)
• 2015The Clearstream Affair — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2013Campagne Intime — Self
• 2013La Droite a-t-elle tué Nicolas Sarkozy — Himself
• 2013Les Ambitieux — Self
• 2013Nicolas Sarkozy, Secrets d'une Présidence — Himself
• 2012Bernadette Chirac - Un jour, un destin — Self (archive footage)
• 2012Candidats pour du beur ? — Self
• 2012Hollande, DSK, etc ... — Self
• 2012Les fauves: Sarkozy - Villepin, 15 ans d'affrontements — Self
• 2012The New Watchdogs — Self
• 2011Gas Monopoly — Self (archive footage)
• La Guerre de la TNT — Self (archive footage)
• Arte Journal — Self
• 2010L'Amour Fou — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Spécial Investigation — Self
• 2010The Referee — Self
• C à vous — Self - Guest
• 2009Somebody Told Me About Carla Bruni — Self
• 2008Modern Life — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2008Starko! — Self
• 2007A Year of TV Seen by Guillaume — Self
• Un jour, un destin — Self
• 2007Élysez-moi ! — Self
• 1999Les Guignols, les 10 premières années — Self
• Vivement dimanche — Self
• Zone interdite — Self (archive footage)
• 60 Minutes — Self