Gad Elmaleh

Q: Has Gad Elmaleh won any awards?

Yes, Gad Elmaleh has received several awards, including the 'Best Comedy Show' award at the 2018 Marrakech International Film Festival for his stand-up performance.

Q: What was Gad Elmaleh's first film?

Gad Elmaleh's first film was 'La vérité si je mens!' released in 1997, which significantly boosted his popularity in the French film industry.

Q: Which films are considered Gad Elmaleh's most successful?

Some of Gad Elmaleh's most successful films include 'Coco', 'La Vérité si je mens!', and 'Chouchou', each contributing to his reputation as a leading comedic actor.

Q: What is known about Gad Elmaleh's personal life?

Gad Elmaleh has two children, Noé and Alice, and was married to Marie Drucker. He often shares aspects of his personal life in his comedy.

Q: What is Gad Elmaleh's estimated net worth?

Gad Elmaleh's estimated net worth is around $10 million, reflecting his successful career in film and comedy.

Q: What are some milestones in Gad Elmaleh's filmography?

Milestones in Gad Elmaleh's filmography include his breakout role in 'La Vérité si je mens!' and his successful transition to English-speaking roles, such as 'The Adventures of Tintin'.

Q: Is Gad Elmaleh involved in any other projects?

Gad Elmaleh is active in both film and stand-up comedy, and he continues to tour with his comedy shows while appearing in various film projects, including 'LOL: Last One Laughing'.

Known for

The Adventures of Tintin (1992)

IMDb 8.3 / 10

1992 / Action, Adventure

Travel with Tintin, the young and intrepid Belgian reporter, and his faithful dog Snowy as they take you from Tibet to the Moon, or...

The Valet (2022)

IMDb 6.7 / 10

2022 / Comedy, Drama / 124mins

World famous movie star Olivia faces a PR disaster when a paparazzi snaps a photo of her with her married lover, Vincent. The hard-working...

Name

Gad Elmaleh

Height

6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)

Born

19 April 1971, Casablanca, Morocco

Spouses

Marie Drucker (2003–2006)

Children

2, Noé and Alice

Parents

Abdelhak Elmaleh, Monique Guedj

Estimated Net Worth

$10 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2026	Movie La Nirvana	Unknown character	Not rated
2026	Movie John Achkar: Tryin' Comedian John Achkar delivers a heartfelt and hilarious take on the chaos of life in your thirties. While everyone else...	uncredited	Not rated
2026	Movie Gad Elmaleh : Lui-même	Self	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2025	Movie Booder fête ses 20 ans	Self	Not rated
2025	Movie Juste pour Rire Montréal 2025 The world's largest comedy festival, Just for Laughs Montreal, returns with a French gala bringing together the biggest stars of...	Self	TMDB 4.0 / 10
2025	Movie Vos 40 chansons préférées des Enfoirés As Les Restos du Cœur have just celebrated their 40th anniversary, you voted for your favorite tracks from among 40...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2025	TV Tout beau tout n9uf	Self - Guest (voice)	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2025	TV Famille je vous aime	Self - Main Guest	Not rated
2025	Movie TPMP ! Toute la vérité Cyril Hanouna invites viewers to a special show where he answers their questions.	Self	TMDB 1.0 / 10
2025	Movie Redouane Bougheraba - Du Panier à l'Orange Vélodrome	Unknown character	TMDB 3.8 / 10
2024	Movie Michel Denisot n'aime pas les anniversaires He may not like birthdays, but Michel Denisot celebrates LGJ's 20th, CANAL+'s 40th, and his own 80th!	Self	Not rated
2023	Movie L'Olympia, du rêve à la scène	Self	Not rated
2023	Movie C'est Montreux bébé ! (De Pagnol à Jul)	Unknown character	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2023	Movie Kev Adams : De l'autre côté du miroir	Self	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2023	TV Beau geste	Self	TMDB 1.0 / 10
2023	Movie Gad Elmaleh : D'ailleurs After Sans tambour and an international tour with Oh My Gad! performed in English in more than fifteen countries, Gad...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2023	Movie Alibi.com 2 After closing his agency Alibi.com and promising Flo that he would never lie to her again, Greg's new life became...	Hafid	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2022	Movie Stay With Us Gad Elmaleh decides to leave New York and move back to Paris, to get baptized and become a Catholic. Despite...	Gad	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2022	TV Quelle époque ! Talk show hosted by Léa Salamé, featuring incisive, funny, and surprising personalities debating current events in culture, society, politics, and...	Self - Guest	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2022	Movie Drôles de familles When comedians draw on the family to make people laugh, everyone is concerned. This documentary looks at everything that is...	Self	Not rated
2021	Movie Le gala de Paul Mirabel (avec de l'aide)	Self	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2021	Movie Enrico Macias, l'inattendu Enrico Macias is best known for his songs and his commitment to peace. He is less known for his self-mockery,...	Self	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2021	TV Parler comme jamais	Unknown character	Not rated
2021	Movie Flashback A female lawyer travels back in time and crosses paths with other women in history who fought for women's rights.	Maximilien de Robespierre	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2021	Movie Les seigneurs du château	Self	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2021	Movie Johnny Hallyday : Que je t'aime Thirty-four years ago, Johnny Hallyday performed for the first time on the Bercy stage. He remains the artist who played...	Self	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2021	Movie Calvi Comedy Festival	Self	Not rated
2021	Movie Purplemind Sally aka Purplemind, a telepath who once founded a superhero collective, now lives in a retirement home. Interviewed by a...	Arthur Trimbaldi	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2021	TV LOL : Qui rit, sort ! Philippe Lacheau has invited 10 actors and comedians to live a unique experience in a grandiose setting. There is only...	Self	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2021	TV Samedi Sébastien	Self - Guest	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2021	Movie CamKev Comedy & Songs Camille Lellouche and Kev Adams are hosting a live special with some of their comedians and musicians friends.	Self	Not rated
2021	Movie Kevgad & Friends au Fridge Comedy	Self	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2020	TV We're Live On est en direct is the place where we talk about news and culture, where we host singers, actors, writers,...	Self	TMDB 1.5 / 10
2020	Movie Les 60 ans du one-man-show	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2020	TV La Grosse Rigolade !	Self	TMDB 1.0 / 10
2020	Movie L'Invitation	Daniel	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2019	TV Kemps In each episode, two teams of 2 celebrities challenge each other in a game of Kemps. The goal is simple:...	Self	Not rated
2019	TV Huge in France Famous comedian Gad Elmaleh moves to LA to reconnect with his son and must learn to live without the celebrity...	Gal Elmaleh	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2018	TV The Secret Song Singers, actors, TV hosts, athletes and comedians: in each episode, several of them will have to seat in the already...	Self	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2018	Movie La famille, ça me fait bien rire !	Self	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2018	Movie Gad Elmaleh: American Dream In his first English-language special, comedian Gad Elmaleh gleefully digs into America's food obsessions, dating culture, slang, and more.	Self	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2018	Movie Voulez-vous rire avec moi ce soir? French humorist Yacine Belhousse tours the world to explore how stand-up comedians make audiences laugh across cultures.	Self	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2017	Movie Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2017	Self	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2017	TV Face the Classroom 25 youngsters, aged 10 to 12 years, probe political party leaders on a range of topics.	Self - Guest	Not rated
2017	Movie Gad Gone Wild French comic Gad Elmaleh regales a Montreal crowd with tales of awkward mix-ups and baffling customs he's encountered since moving...	Himself	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2017	TV Le Saturday Night Live French version of the famous sketch show that parodies cultural and political news.	Self - Host	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2016	Movie Juste pour rire fait son show	Self	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2016	Movie Kev Adams & Gad Elmaleh - Kev Gad, Tout est possible	Self	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2016	Movie Jeff Panacloc, l'extraordinaire aventure	Self	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2016	TV Crisis in Six Scenes A comedy that takes place in the 1960s during turbulent times in the United States when a middle class suburban...	Moe	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2016	TV Quotidien Quotidien (nicknamed "The French Show with the Good Lighting" abroad) is a French daily infotainment television program broadcast in the...	Self - Guest	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2016	Movie Kev & Gad : Tout est possible	Self	Not rated
2016	Movie The Midnight Orchestra After leaving Morocco amidst racial tensions spurred by the Yom Kippur war, the son of a once famous Jewish musician...	Rabbi Moshe	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2016	Movie Good Guys Go to Heaven, Bad Guys Go to Pattaya Franky and Krimo dream of leaving the grey grime of their neighborhood behind and of traveling to the famous and...	Le Marocain	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2015	Movie Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2015	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2015	Movie Gad Elmaleh - Le Big Show	Self	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2015	Movie Gad Elmaleh - 20 ans de scène !	Self	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2014	Movie Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui	Unknown character	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2014	Movie Gad Elmaleh : Sans tambour...	Gad Elmaleh	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2014	Movie Gad Elmaleh: 20 Ans sur Scène	Unknown character	TMDB 9.0 / 10
2014	TV Un soir à la tour Eiffel	Self	TMDB 1.8 / 10
2013	Movie Les Enfoirés 2013 - La Boîte à Musique des Enfoirés Show recorded at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy on January 27 and 28, 2013 for the benefit of the Restos...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2013	Movie Welcome to China Gad Elmaleh has agreed to be the guest star for the opening of a karaoke in China but the date...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2013	Movie Mood Indigo A woman suffers from an unusual illness caused by a flower growing in her lungs.	Chick	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2012	Movie Départ immédiat	Self	Not rated
2012	Movie Capital The head of a giant European investment bank desperately clings to power when an American hedge fund company tries to...	Marc Tourneuil	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2012	Movie The Dream Team A former footballer living in Brittany enlists his old teammates to help the local fisherman to win some games in...	Rayane Ziani	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2012	TV Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee Jerry takes his comedy pals out for coffee in a selection of his classic automobiles. Larry David sums it up...	Self	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2012	Movie Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2012 Marrakech du Rire is an annual international festival of humor that has been held since 2011 in Marrakech, Morocco. Created...	Self	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2012	Movie Happiness Never Comes Alone Sacha is a real seducer, a man with no ties or emotional or professional. Charlotte is a modern and independent...	Sacha Keller	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2012	Movie The Dictator The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country...	Demonstrator in Wadiya (uncredited)	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2011	TV Vendredi, tout est permis	Self	TMDB 4.5 / 10
2011	Movie Tout sur Jamel	Self	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2011	Movie Jack and Jill Jack Sadelstein, a successful advertising executive in Los Angeles with a beautiful wife and kids, dreads one event each year:...	Xavier	TMDB 4.4 / 10
2011	Movie The Adventures of Tintin Intrepid young reporter, Tintin, and his loyal dog, Snowy, are thrust into a world of high adventure when they discover...	Ben Salaad (voice)	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2011	Movie A Monster in Paris Paris, 1910. Emile, a shy movie projectionist, and Raoul, a colourful inventor, find themselves embarked on the hunt for a...	Raoul (voice)	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2011	Movie Marrakech du rire From June 8 to 12, 2011, Jamel Debbouze organized the first Marrakech Laughter Festival. For this major event, Jamel invited...	Self	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2011	Movie Midnight in Paris While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the...	Détective Tisserant	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2011	Movie Gad Elmaleh - La dernière de Papa est en haut	Self	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2010	Movie Made in Jamel Pour cette nouvelle aventure, Jamel a invité des artistes, à participer à plus d’une douzaine de courts-métrages originaux créés par...	Self	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2010	Movie The Round Up A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.	Schmuel Weismann	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2009	TV C à vous Every day live on FRANCE 5, Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine and her team receive those who make the news. In the second...	Self - Guest	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2009	Movie Coco Coco is a French comedy released in 2009 and produced by Gad Elmaleh. This is the first embodiment of the...	Coco	TMDB 4.3 / 10
2008	Movie Gad Elmaleh - Papa est en haut Dans ce spectacle, mis en scène par sa soeur Judith Elmaleh, il parle de son enfance, de son fils et...	Self	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2007	Movie Comme ton père 1968. La famille Maïmon : Félix, Mireille et leurs deux enfants, Eric et Michel, débarquent à Marseille. Quelques années plus...	Félix	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2006	Movie Priceless A beautiful young gold-digger mistakes a lowly hotel clerk as a rich and therefore worthwhile catch.	Jean	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2006	Movie Les Galas juste pour rire : Un monde sans femme	Self	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2006	Movie The Valet Caught by tabloid paparazzi with his mistress Elena, a famous and beautiful fashion model, billionaire Pierre Levasseur tries to avoid...	François Pignon	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2005	Movie Olé ! Ramon Holgado is the driver of a big boss, as well as his confidant, his golf partner, and the alibi...	Ramon	TMDB 4.9 / 10
2005	Movie Les Enfoirés, 15 ans d'Enfoirés	Unknown character	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2005	Movie Gad Elmaleh - L’autre c’est moi L'Autre c'est moi est le troisième spectacle de l'humoriste Gad Elmaleh, en 2005.	Himself	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2004	Movie La Nuit du rire II à l'Olympia	Self	Not rated
2004	Movie The 11 Commandments After an evening of drinking, six men find themselves in front of The God of the Joke. Distressed to find...	Gad	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2003	Movie The Car Keys Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...	Gad Elmaleh	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2003	TV Samedi soir en direct	Self - Main Guest	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2003	Movie Qui Veut Gagner de l'Argent en Masse	Host	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2003	Movie Chouchou Choukri, alias Chouchou, a transvestite Maghrebi with clear eyes, comes illegally to Paris to find his nephew. Hired as an...	Choukri, alias Chouchou	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2003	Movie The Dope Alphonse Brown, who firmly believes he is the bastard son of James Brown, meets up with his best friend Scotch...	Le spécialiste des Stups	TMDB 4.6 / 10
2002	Movie A+ Pollux Halvard Sanz believes in the principle according to which we always meet people who really interest us twice. It’s written...	Halvard Sanz	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2001	TV The Apartment The guest of the day is received on a set, located in an apartment without an audience, and guided simply...	Self - Guest	TMDB 8.3 / 10
2001	Movie Would I Lie to You? 2 Eddie, Dov, and Yvan are back, still working in Paris' Sentier textile district, This time they're confronting the high-stakes world...	Dov Mimran	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2001	Movie À bicyclette During the winter of 1995, while a transport strike paralyses the Ile de France, Anne and Patrice go to work...	Night watchman	TMDB 9.0 / 10
2001	Movie Gad Elmaleh - La Vie normale La Vie normale est un spectacle de Gad Elmaleh sorti en 2001 où sont dépeints les caractères de plusieurs personnages...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2001	Movie People in Swimsuits Aren't (Necessarily) Shallow A week on St-Martin with vacationing Parisians. Camille surprises her lover Philippe, who's with his wife and children. Lonely Laurette,...	Jimmy	TMDB 4.8 / 10
2000	Movie Second life Vansan is 30 years old, but he never learned to make decisions. Whatever it is. Should he marry his girlfriend,...	Lionel	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2000	Movie Jamel Debbouze - Le très très bien de Jamel	Self	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2000	Movie On fait comme on a dit One fine day, at about 10 am, in a suburban house, three men, in their thirties are waiting for a...	Terry	TMDB 4.9 / 10
1999	Movie Jamel Show Jamel is given carte blanche at CANAL+ for an hour, the comedian took this opportinity to gather friends and guests...	Self	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1999	Movie Les Petits Souliers The misadventures of four friends hired as Santa Claus.	Samuel Azoulay	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1998	TV Vivement dimanche	Self	TMDB 3.6 / 10
1998	Movie Train of Life In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they...	Manzatou	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1998	Movie Man Is a Woman Simon Eskenazy is a gay Parisian clarinet player who lives his single life to the fullest. One day, he receives...	David Eskenazi	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1998	Movie Les soeurs Hamlet At long last, the two Hamlet sisters are allowed to go to Paris by themselves, and the discotheque they have...	Malo	TMDB 4.0 / 10
1997	Movie Christmas at Bunny's Santa Claus is depressed and refuses to give away gifts as he usually does. Bugs Bunny is charged with finding...	Boîte à Souhaits segment	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1997	Movie XXL Tunisian-Jewish businessman Alain Berrebi (Michel Boujenah) courts Ashkenazi princess Arlette Stern (Elsa Zylberstein). Her father David (Maurice Chevit) learns of...	Samy	TMDB 4.6 / 10
1997	Movie Long Live the Republic A group of young unemployed people from Le Mans (France) decide to create a new political party.	Yannick	TMDB 4.5 / 10
1997	Movie Gad Elmaleh - Décalages "Décalages" is Gad Elmaleh's first show, where he humorously tells the story of his arrival in France and his cultural...	Self	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1996	Movie Salut cousin ! The comedy in this lively film barely conceals its darker, more serious undertones as it chronicles a young Algerian's eye-opening...	Alilo	TMDB 4.5 / 10
1996	TV The Daily Show The World's Fakest News Team tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and pop culture.	Self - Guest	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1987	TV Téléthon	Self	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1987	TV Matin Bonheur	Self	Not rated
1976	TV Cérémonie des César The César Awards are cinematographic awards created in 1976 and presented annually in Paris to professionals of the 7th art...	Self - Host	TMDB 4.6 / 10

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2026	Movie Gad Elmaleh : Lui-même	Producer Production	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2026	Movie Gad Elmaleh : Lui-même	Author Writing	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2025	Movie Bernadette of Lourdes: The Musical Bernadette Soubirous, just 14 years old, goes by the river near the Massabielle cave. It is there that, for the...	Co-Producer Production	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2022	Movie Stay With Us Gad Elmaleh decides to leave New York and move back to Paris, to get baptized and become a Catholic. Despite...	Screenplay Writing	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2022	Movie Stay With Us Gad Elmaleh decides to leave New York and move back to Paris, to get baptized and become a Catholic. Despite...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2018	Movie Gad Elmaleh: American Dream In his first English-language special, comedian Gad Elmaleh gleefully digs into America's food obsessions, dating culture, slang, and more.	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2017	TV Le Saturday Night Live French version of the famous sketch show that parodies cultural and political news.	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2015	Movie Gad Elmaleh - 20 ans de scène !	Writer Writing	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2014	Movie Gad Elmaleh : Sans tambour...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2011	Movie Gad Elmaleh - La dernière de Papa est en haut	Director Directing	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2011	Movie Gad Elmaleh - La dernière de Papa est en haut	Writer Writing	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2009	Movie Coco Coco is a French comedy released in 2009 and produced by Gad Elmaleh. This is the first embodiment of the...	Writer Writing	TMDB 4.3 / 10
2009	Movie Coco Coco is a French comedy released in 2009 and produced by Gad Elmaleh. This is the first embodiment of the...	Director Directing	TMDB 4.3 / 10
2008	Movie Gad Elmaleh - Papa est en haut Dans ce spectacle, mis en scène par sa soeur Judith Elmaleh, il parle de son enfance, de son fils et...	Writer Writing	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2005	Movie Gad Elmaleh - L’autre c’est moi L'Autre c'est moi est le troisième spectacle de l'humoriste Gad Elmaleh, en 2005.	Writer Writing	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2003	Movie Chouchou Choukri, alias Chouchou, a transvestite Maghrebi with clear eyes, comes illegally to Paris to find his nephew. Hired as an...	Scenario Writer Writing	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2001	Movie Gad Elmaleh - La Vie normale La Vie normale est un spectacle de Gad Elmaleh sorti en 2001 où sont dépeints les caractères de plusieurs personnages...	Writer Writing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1997	Movie Gad Elmaleh - Décalages "Décalages" is Gad Elmaleh's first show, where he humorously tells the story of his arrival in France and his cultural...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.3 / 10

Gad Elmaleh : Lui-même

2026 / TMDB 6.9

Booder fête ses 20 ans

2025

Juste pour Rire Montréal 2025

2025 / TMDB 4.0

Vos 40 chansons préférées des Enfoirés

2025 / TMDB 7.0

TPMP ! Toute la vérité

2025 / TMDB 1.0

Redouane Bougheraba - Du Panier à l'Orange Vélodrome

2025 / TMDB 3.8

Got a question about Gad Elmaleh?

What are some of Gad Elmaleh's career highlights?

Gad Elmaleh's career highlights include his roles in films like 'La Vérité si je mens!' and 'Coco', as well as his successful stand-up specials that have garnered critical acclaim.

Has Gad Elmaleh won any awards?

What was Gad Elmaleh's first film?

Which films are considered Gad Elmaleh's most successful?

What is known about Gad Elmaleh's personal life?

What is Gad Elmaleh's estimated net worth?

What are some milestones in Gad Elmaleh's filmography?

Is Gad Elmaleh involved in any other projects?

Known for

The Adventures of Tintin (1992)

The Valet (2022)

Personal details

Credits

Latest Release

Gad Elmaleh : Lui-même

Booder fête ses 20 ans

Juste pour Rire Montréal 2025