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Omar Sy
Omar Sy is a French actor. Sy was initially best known in France for his comedy sketches with Fred Testot on the Service après-vente des émissions television show on Canal+ (2005–2012). He gained wider international recognition for his role in the 2011 comedy-drama film The Intouchables, which earned him the César Award for Best Actor, making him the first black recipient.
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entertainment · French actor (born 1978) · actor · comedian · film actor · television actor · screenwriter · also Omar Sy, Sy
Born 20 January 1978 · Q357387
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2025· 1 entry
2024· 3 entries
Yahoo: Omar Sy: Too much individualism in France fueling rise of far-right
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Deadline.com: Omar Sy, Louis Leterrier & Thomas Benski Launch Film & TV Outfit Carrousel Studios
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Deadline.com: ‘The Strangers’ Case’ Clip: Watch Omar Sy Play A Smuggler Who Helps Syrian Refugees Across The Aegean Sea In Special Gala Title – Berlin Film Festival
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2021· 3 entries
Awarded Time 100 (2021).
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Was included on the Time 100, Time's annual list of the most influential people in the world
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Starred in Netflix's hit series Lupin, a modern day retelling of Arsène Lupin novels
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2017· 1 entry
Voiced the character Hot Rod in the film Transformers: The Last Knight, the fifth installment in the Transformers series
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2015· 1 entry
Alongside Bradley Cooper, he played a compromised chef in Burnt
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2014· 1 entry
Sy appeared in X-Men: Days of Future Past, playing the character Bishop
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded César Award for Best Actor for The Intouchables (2012).
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2011· 2 entries
And becoming the bestselling French film of all time in its native country, with more than 19 million tickets sold
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Sy starred in The Intouchables, playing a streetwise young man who becomes the personal care assistant to a wealthy quadriplegic (played by François Cluzet)
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2009· 1 entry
Voiced some of the characters of Logorama with his partner Fred Testot
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2008· 1 entry
Appeared in "Bienvenue chez les Bylkas," a video clip by Sinik
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1996· 1 entry
Working at Radio Nova, where he met his comedy partner Fred Testot
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1978· 1 entry
Born 1978-01-20.
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