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List Of French People Of Immigrant Origin
Below are lists of notable French people of immigrant origin (at least one great-grandparent). Algeria ;Actors and filmmakers * Kev Adams, actor * Isabelle Adjani, actress * Daniel Auteuil, actor * Jean-Pierre Bacri, actor * Leïla Bekhti, actress * Yamina Benguigui, film director, Junior Minister for French Nationals Abroad and Relations with La Francophonie (French-speaking countries worldwide) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs * Jean Benguigui, actor * Richard Berry (actor), Richard Berry, actor * Dany Boon, actor, comedian * Rachid Bouchareb, film director * Sofia Boutella, actress * Rachida Brakni, actress * Alain Chabat, comedian, film director, scriptwriter and producer * Élie Chouraqui, film director, producer and scriptwriter * Gérard Darmon, actor * Samir Guesmi, actor * Roger Hanin, actor filmmaker * Hafsia Herzi, actress * Salim Kechiouche, actor * Claude Lelouch, film director, producer, scriptwriter and actor * Jalil Lespert, actor * Maïwenn, actress, film dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French People
The French people (french: Français) are an ethnic group and nation primarily located in Western Europe that share a common French culture, history, and language, identified with the country of France. The French people, especially the native speakers of langues d'oïl from northern and central France, are primarily the descendants of Gauls (including the Belgae) and Romans (or Gallo-Romans, western European Celtic and Italic peoples), as well as Germanic peoples such as the Franks, the Visigoths, the Suebi and the Burgundians who settled in Gaul from east of the Rhine after the fall of the Roman Empire, as well as various later waves of lower-level irregular migration that have continued to the present day. The Norse also settled in Normandy in the 10th century and contributed significantly to the ancestry of the Normans. Furthermore, regional ethnic minorities also exist within France that have distinct lineages, languages and cultures such as Bretons in Brittany ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Élie Chouraqui
Élie Chouraqui (born 3 July 1950) is a French film director and scriptwriter. His 1996 film '' Les menteurs'' was entered into the 46th Berlin International Film Festival. He made several films with Anouk Aimée.Ryan, Desmond.SCOTT GLENN PLAYS A FORMER CIA AGENT WHO GUARDS A GIRL" ''The Philadelphia Inquirer''. Monday November 9, 1987. E4 Features Daily Magazine. Retrieved on Tuesday April 3, 2012. In his younger days he was a volleyball enthusiast and was captain of the French Volleyball team at the European and World championships winning 112 caps. He commentated on volleyball from French Television at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Filmography *1978: '' Mon premier amour'' *1980: ''Une page d'amour'' *1982: '' Qu'est-ce qui fait courir David?'' *1985: ''Paroles et Musique'' *1987: '' Man on Fire'' *1990: ''Miss Missouri'' *1993: '' Les marmottes'' *1996: '' Les menteurs'' *2000: '' Harrison's Flowers'' *2006: '' O Jerusalem'' *2009: ''Celle que j'aime'' *2016: ''The Origin of Viole ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Safy Nebbou
Safy Nebbou (born 27 April 1968) is a French actor and director. Life and career Nebbou was born on 27 April 1968 in Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France to a German mother and an Algerian father. He is the brother of actor Mehdi Nebbou. He started his career as a stage director at the Théâtre des Chimères in Bayonne, where Tsilla Chelton was one of his mentors, and worked as an actor. Subsequently, he directed short films, commercials for France Télécom, Orange and Renault Groupe Renault ( , , , also known as the Renault Group in English; legally Renault S.A.) is a French multinational automobile manufacturer established in 1899. The company produces a range of cars and vans, and in the past has manufactured ..., and feature films. Filmography References External links * 1958 births Living people 20th-century French male actors 21st-century French male actors French film directors French male film actors French male stage actors French mal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mehdi Nebbou
Mehdi Nebbou (born 10 January 1974) is a French actor. Biography Nebbou was born on 10 January 1974 in Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France, to a German mother and an Algerian father. His brother is the film director Safy Nebbou. He started his career by appearing in the film '' My Sweet Home'', directed by Filipos Tsitos. In 2004, the director Samir Nasr offered him the leading role in the film '' Seeds of Doubt'', which won the Golden Gate Award for best film at the San Francisco Film Festival. 2005 was a turning point in Nebbou's career thanks to the film '' Schläfer'' by German film director Benjamin Heisenberg. The film received excellent reviews and was selected for the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. In 2006, he portrayed Ali Hassan Salameh in the Steven Spielberg blockbuster film ''Munich''. In 2007, for his performance in '' Teresas Zimmer'', directed by German film director Constanze Knoche, he won the award for best actor at First Steps Awards. In 2008, Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-José Nat
Marie-José Benhalassa (22 April 1940 – 10 October 2019), known professionally as Marie-José Nat, was a French actress. Among her notable works in cinema were the sequel films '' Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc'' and '' Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise'' (1963), directed by André Cayatte. In 1974, she received a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film '' Violins at the Ball''. Early life and family Benhalassa was born in Bonifacio, Corse-du-Sud, to a Kabyle Berber father, Abdelkader Benhalassa, and a Corsican mother, Vincentine (Biancarelli).'' Who's Who in France'', édition 2015,. . In 1960, she married the actor Roger Dumas and divorced him in 1962. She then married French director Michel Drach with whom she had three sons, David, Julien and Aurélien. They divorced in 1981. She had a relationship of several years with the actor Victor Lanoux. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samy Naceri
Saïd Naceri ( ar, سعيد ناصري, link=no; born 2 July 1961), known as Samy Naceri (), is a French actor known for his work in the four ''Taxi'' films and '' The Code'' (''La Mentale''). Early life and career Naceri was born to an Algerian Berber Kabyle father and a French mother in the 4th arrondissement of Paris and spent his childhood in the Parisian suburb of Fontenay-sous-Bois. His brother is Bibi Naceri, who co-wrote and co-starred in international hit film ''District 13''. He shared the award for ''Best Actor'' for his role in the film '' Days of Glory'' at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. Personal life Stemming from a substance abuse charge in 2003, Naceri was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment with deferment, had his driving licence suspended for three years, and was penalized with a €5,000 fine for a road rage incident in which he smashed a car and assaulted one of its occupants. In November 2005, after waiting for a late guest, Naceri attacked a 22-year-o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kad Merad
Kad Merad (born Kaddour Merad, ar, قدور ميراد, link=no; 27 March 1964) is a French-Algerian filmmaker and actor who has acted both on stage and on screen. Life and career Kad Merad was born in Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria, on 27 March 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 roles at Club Med alongside the Gigolo Brothers troupe. In 1990, he was hired by Ouï FM, the Paris rock radio 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maïwenn
Maïwenn Le Besco (; born 17 April 1976), known mononymously as Maïwenn, is a French actress and filmmaker. Early life Maïwenn Le Besco was born on 17 April 1976 in Les Lilas, Seine-Saint-Denis, the daughter of artist Catherine Belkhodja. She is of mixed Breton, Vietnamese, French and Algerian descent. Her Algerian ancestry comes from her maternal grandfather. Maïwenn's stage mother pressured her to act at a young age, an experience later chronicled by Maïwenn in her one-woman shows ''Le Pois Chiche'' (''The Chickpea'') and ''I'm an Actress''. Career Maïwenn starred in several films as a child, then teen, actress—notably as "Elle, as a child" (the child version of the lead role played by Isabelle Adjani) in the 1983 hit film '' L'été meurtrier'' (''One Deadly Summer''). Following her marriage to director Luc Besson and the birth of their daughter in 1993, Maïwenn interrupted her career for several years. During this period, she only appeared in a support ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jalil Lespert
Jalil Lespert (born 11 May 1976) is a French actor, screenwriter and director. Life and career Born to an ethnic French (Pied-Noir) father, actor Jean Lespert, and an Algerian mother, who is an attorney and a jurist, Lespert first studied law, to please his mother. But he was more interested in acting. He married Sonia Rolland, a former Miss France, with whom he has one child named Kahina. He also has two other children, Jena and Aliosha, from a previous relationship. Lespert made his film debut in 1995, in Laurent Cantet's film '' Jeux de plage'', opposite his father. His first major role came in 1999, in Jacques Maillot's film '' Nos vies heureuses''. The following year, he appeared in another Cantet film, '' Ressources humaines'', which earned him a César Award for Most Promising Actor in 2001. His career took off and he appeared in several films, playing a wide range of characters, such as a sensual gardener in ''Sade'', a body builder addict in '' Vivre me tue'', a box ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Lelouch
Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch (; born 30 October 1937) is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer. Lelouch grew up in an Algerian Jewish Family. He emerged as a prominent director in the 1960s. Lelouch gained critical acclaim for his 1966 romantic melodrama film '' A Man and A Woman''. At the 39th Academy Awards in 1967, ''A Man and a Woman'' won Best Original Screenplay and Best Foreign Language Film. Lelouch was also nominated for Best Director. While his films have gained him international recognition since the 1960s, Lelouch's methods and style of film are known for attracting criticism. Life and career Lelouch was born in the 9th arrondissement of Paris to Charlotte (née Abeilard) and Simon Lelouch. His father was born to an Algerian Jewish family while his mother was a convert to Judaism. Lelouch says that his first contact with cinema was very young: "My mother hid me in movie theaters when I was little. We were wanted by the Gestapo. .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salim Kechiouche
Salim Kechiouche (born 2 April 1979) is a French actor. Early life He was born to Algerian parents. While 15 years old, he was first discovered by French actor director Gaël Morel. Morel gave him his first role in a feature film, '' À Toute Vitesse'' (''Full Speed''), released in 1996. Kechiouche has acted in most of Morel's works, including ''Premières Neiges'' in 1999, ''Le Clan'' (''Three Dancing Slaves'') in 2004 and '' Après Lui'' (2007). He entered acting school and graduated in 2002. Salim Kechiouche now lives in Paris, dividing his time between cinema and the stage. Career Film and stage In addition to Morel, Kechiouche has worked with other French directors such as François Ozon, as well as with non-French directors. In 2003, Kechiouche played the role of Karim in ''Gigolo'', directed by German director Bastian Schweitzer, opposite Amanda Lear. Kechiouche played a self-destructive gigolo trying to get his life back on track in the jet-set world of Paris. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hafsia Herzi
Hafsia Herzi (born 25 January 1987) is a French actress and film director. She is best known for her debut role in the award-winning Franco-Tunisian feature '' The Secret of the Grain'' for which she won the award for most promising actress at the César Awards 2008, and the Marcello Mastroianni award, for best emerging actor/actress at the 64th Venice International Film Festival. Life Herzi is of Tunisian descent from her father and Algerian from her mother, and is the youngest of a family of four children (two brothers and a sister, Dalila). After her parents' divorce, her father remarried in Algeria. Her mother lives in Marseille Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Fra ..., where Herzi grew up. Selected filmography References External links * 2009 Interview with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
