Jacky Ido (born 14 May 1977) is a Burkinabé-born French actor. His first role was as Lemalian in the 2005 German film, '' The White Masai''. He is best known to English-language audiences for his role as Marcel, the film

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's 2009 film, ''

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''. Ido's brother

Cédric Ido Cédric Ido (born 22 October 1980) is a French-Burkinabe director, writer and actor. He grew up in Stains, Seine-Saint-Denis, a small suburban town near Paris and in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso during Thomas Sankara’s revolution. His directing wor ...

, who is also an actor, has directed him in the short ''

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''. Ido works and resides in

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and, as of 2010, is working on an album of slam poetry. In 2014, Ido starred as Leo Romba in the short lived French-American television series '' Taxi Brooklyn''. In 2015, he was cast opposite Mireille Enos in the ABC legal thriller, '' The Catch'' produced by

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ido, Jacky 1977 births Living people French male television actors French male film actors Burkinabé emigrants to France 21st-century Burkinabé male actors Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Screen Actors Guild Award winners Male actors from Paris People from Ouagadougou 21st-century French male actors Burkinabé male film actors Burkinabé male television actors