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Kad Merad
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 fath…
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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.
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2026
Fausse note
Movie Nathan Dinke
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2026
Les Héros du Louvre
Movie Babi Maklouf
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2026
Permis de détruire
Movie Dominique
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2026
A Family of Bastards
Movie Djilali
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2026
Lost Media
TV show ?
- 2026
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2025
The Original+
Movie Self - Guest
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2025
Belphegor
TV show Charles Moreau
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2025
Florent Pagny fait son Taratata
Movie Self
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2025
Traquer l'invisible - Nos chercheurs face à la menace mondiale des virus et des bactéries
Movie Self : Godfather of Pasteur Institute
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2025
Vos 40 chansons préférées des Enfoirés
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2025
Popemobile
Movie Slim / Barnabé VI
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2025
100 Million!
Movie Patrick
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2025
Liars Club
TV show Self
- 2025
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2025
Honeymoon Crasher
Movie Michel
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2025
Before What Comes After
Movie Augustin Masset
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2024
Les Boules de Noël
Movie Antonin
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2024
40
Movie Self
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2024
At the End of the Day
Movie Lino
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2024
King of My Castle
Movie Jean-François Casteigne
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2024
Terminal
TV show Sylvain Cresson
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2024
Anthracite
TV show Claude Chevallier
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2024
The Trigger
TV show Philippe Rickwaert
- 2024
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2024
Le soir où j'ai reçu le César 2024
Movie Kad Merad
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2023
Une journée avec Jacques Brel
Movie Self
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2023
Pamela Rose: The Series
TV show Richard Bullit
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2023
Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma
TV show Self - Guest
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2023
Florent Pagny : un homme libre
Movie Self
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2023
Improbox
TV show Self - Guest
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2023
LEGEND
TV show
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2023
Life for Real
Movie Louis
- 2023
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2023
Studio Bagel's 10th Anniversary
Movie Self - Guest Star
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2023
Beau geste
TV show Self
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2022
Making of Biolay Christmas Show
Movie Self
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2022
Benjamin Biolay Christmas Show
Movie Self : Guest
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2022
Citoyen d'honneur
Movie Samir Amin
- 2022
