Omar Sy

Omar Sy
Omar Sy
	Sy at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival
Born	20 January 1978; Trappes, France
Years active	1996–present
Spouse(s)	Hélène (m. 2007)[1]
Children	5

Omar Sy (French pronunciation: [ɔmaʁ si]; born 20 January 1978) is a French actor and comedian. Best known in his homeland for his sketches with Fred Testot on the Service après-vente des émissions television show on Canal+ (2005–2012), he gained fame abroad with the 2011 comedy-drama film The Intouchables, which earned him the César Award for Best Actor. Sy became the first Black recipient of the award. He further appeared in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), Jurassic World (2015), Two Is a Family (2016), Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) and the Netflix-produced show Lupin (2021).[2]

Early life

The fourth of eight children,[3] Sy was born in Trappes in the Yvelines department, France.[2] His parents are both immigrants from West Africa.[3] His Mauritanian mother worked as a house-cleaner, and his Senegalese father worked in a factory.[3] He has Fulani origins.[4] He was raised in low-income suburban housing projects.[3][4]

Career

Omar Sy winning the César Award for Best Actor in 2012 at the 37th César Awards for The Intouchables

He started his career after high school in 1996[4] with Radio Nova as a comedian where he met comedy partner Fred Testot.[2] Afterwards, he appeared in the TV show Le Cinéma de Jamel on Canal+, with Jamel Debbouze. He then created a TV show called Le Visiophon.[2] This was followed by various TV and stage shows such as Je ne fais pas mon âge, Service après-vente des émissions, Omar et Fred: le spectacle. In 2005, Service après-vente des émissions was adapted into short sketches of 2 or 3 minutes on Canal+. (In 2012, Canal+ announced that the programme had been dropped from its schedule.)

He appeared in the television game show Fort Boyard in 2006.

Omar then went to Los Angeles, where he lent his voice to Zip in the French version of the Tomb Raider Legend video game. He previously had also voiced a sheep in Disney's Brother Bear.[2]

In 2008, he appeared in "Bienvenue chez les Bylkas", a video clip by Sinik. In 2009, he voiced some of the characters of Logorama with his partner Fred Testot.

In 2011, he starred in The Intouchables, playing a streetwise young man who becomes the personal care assistant to a wealthy quadriplegic (played by François Cluzet). This film enjoyed tremendous popular success, with more than 19 million tickets sold. It topped the French box office in 2011 and became the best selling French film of all time at the French box office. As a result, Omar Sy was voted third favourite French personality behind Yannick Noah and Zinedine Zidane. The role earned him the 2012 Globe de Cristal for Best Actor. He also received a nomination for a Satellite Award for Best Actor.[5] He and co-star François Cluzet were jointly bestowed the Best Actor Award at the Tokyo International Film Festival. Additionally, he won the César Award for Best Actor in 2012 for the same film.

On 30 December 2012, Omar Sy was voted favourite personality in France, based on a poll run by Le Journal du Dimanche, ahead of fellow actor Gad Elmaleh.

In 2014, Sy appeared in X-Men: Days of Future Past, in which he played the character Bishop. He also stars in Samba, directed by Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano. He co-starred in the fourth film of the Jurassic Park saga, Jurassic World,[2] which was released in June 2015.[6] In 2017, he voiced the character Hot Rod in the film Transformers: The Last Knight, the fifth installment in the Transformers series. In 2021, he starred in Netflix's hit series Lupin, a modern day retelling of Arsène Lupin novels.[7][8]

Personal life

On 5 July 2007, he married Hélène, the mother of his five children,[4][9] in Tremblay-sur-Mauldre. They were together ten years before marrying.[9] The family resides in a house in the Montfort-l'Amaury commune of Île-de-France.[9]

Sy is Muslim.[3][10]

Filmography


Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
2000	La cape et l'épée	Le ménestrel		TV Series (1 episode)
2000	Granturismo	Voice	Denis Thybaud	Short
2001	La Tour Montparnasse Infernale	Taxi	Charles Nemes
	La concierge est dans l'ascenseur		Olivier Coussemacq	Short
	Omar et Fred	Various Characters		TV Series
2002	Le Boulet	Malian No. 3	Alain Berberian & Frédéric Forestier
	Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra	Painter	Alain Chabat
	Samourais	Tyson	Giordano Gederlini
	The Race	UNO Sergeant	Djamel Bensalah
	Ces jours heureux	Brice	Olivier Nakache & Éric Toledano	Short
	Si j'étais lui	Gabriel	Philippe Triboit	TV Movie
2003	La Beuze	Michel Dembélé	François Desagnat & Thomas Sorriaux
2003	Pardon aux familles... Tout ça!	Voice	Patrick Menais	Video
2004	Le Carton	Lorenzo	Charles Nemes
	Coming-out	Max	Olivier Ayache-Vidal	Short
	Un Jean-Pierre ça peut tout faire		Patrick Menais	Video
2006	Nos jours heureux	Joseph	Olivier Nakache & Éric Toledano	NRJ Ciné Awards – Most Promising Actor Nominated – NRJ Ciné Award for The Best Kiss (with Marilou Berry) Nominated – Raimu de la Comédie for The Best Supporting Actor
2006	Les multiples	Jimmy (voice)		TV Series
2007	Garage Babes	Hamidou	Julien Pelgrand	Video
2007	Moot-Moot	Isidore		TV Series
2008	Seuls two	Sammy Bouglioni	Éric Judor & Ramzy Bedia
2008	La France d'après	Voice	Patrick Menais	Video
2009	Micmacs	Remington	Jean-Pierre Jeunet
	Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard	Snow (voice)	Luc Besson	French dub
	Lascars	Narbé (voice)	Emmanuel Klotz & Albert Pereira-Lazaro
	Tellement proches	Bruno	Olivier Nakache & Éric Toledano
	King Guillaume	Jean-Peter	Pierre-François Martin-Laval
	Safari	Youssouf Hammal	Olivier Baroux
	Envoyés très spéciaux	Jimmy	Frédéric Auburtin
	La Loi de Murphy	Father Joachim Ortega	Christophe Campos
2010	Allez raconte!	Momo (voice)	Jean-Christophe Roger
	Le pas Petit Poucet	Grand Poucet	Christophe Campos	TV Movie
	Histoires de vies	Mo'		TV Series (1 episode)
	Florence Foresti: Mother Fucker	Chauffeur de taxi	Nicolas Benamou	Video
2010–2012	SAV des émissions	Various		TV Series (4 episodes)
2011	Les Tuche	Curé de Bouzolles	Olivier Baroux
	Intouchables	Bakary "Driss" Bassari	Olivier Nakache & Éric Toledano	César Award for Best Actor Tokyo International Film Festival – Best Actor (Share with François Cluzet) Lumières Award for Best Actor Globes de Cristal Award for Best Actor Etoiles d'Or Award for Revelation of the Year Santa Barbara International Film Festival – Virtuoso Award Nominated – Black Reel Award for Best Actor Nominated – Black Reel Award for Best Breakthrough Performance Nominated – European Film Award for Best Actor Nominated – Satellite Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture
	Fish'n Chips	Fish		TV Series (52 episodes)
2012	De l'autre côté du périph	Ousmane Diakhaté	David Charhon
	Les seigneurs	Wéké N'Dogo	Olivier Dahan
	Mais qui a re-tué Pamela Rose?	Mosby	Olivier Baroux & Kad Merad
	Crazy Pink Limo	The Philosopher	Joséphine de Meaux	Short
	Bref	Himself		TV Series (1 episode)
2012	Zak	Himself
2013	Mood Indigo	Nicolas	Michel Gondry
2013	Aux Armes: AIDES	Narrator (voice)		Short
2014	Good People	Khan	Henrik Ruben Genz
	X-Men: Days of Future Past	Bishop	Bryan Singer
	Samba	Samba Cissé	Olivier Nakache & Éric Toledano
	Mune: Guardian of the Moon	Sohone (voice)	Benoît Philippon & Alexandre Heboyan
2015	Jurassic World	Barry	Colin Trevorrow
	Lego Jurassic World	Barry (voice)		Video Game
	Burnt	Michel	John Wells
2016	Chocolat	Clown Chocolat	Roschdy Zem	Globes de Cristal Award for Best Actor Nominated – César Award for Best Actor Nominated – Lumières Award for Best Actor
	The Angry Birds Movie	Red (voice)	Fergal Reilly & Clay Kaytis	French dub
	Norm of the North	Norm (voice)[11]	Trevor Wall	French dub
	Inferno	Christoph Bouchard	Ron Howard
	Demain tout commence	Samuel	Hugo Gélin
2017	Sahara	Ajar (voice)	Pierre Coré
	Knock	Knock	Lorraine Lévy
	Transformers: The Last Knight	Hot Rod (voice)	Michael Bay
2018	Le flic de Belleville	Sebastian Bouchard	Rachid Bouchareb
2018	Yao	Seydou Tall	Philippe Godeau
2019	Le Chant du loup	D'Orsi	Antonin Baudry
	Arctic Dogs	Leopold (voice)	Aaron Woodley
	ForesTiVi			TV Series short (1 episode)
2020	The Call of the Wild	Perrault	Chris Sanders
	Le prince oublié	Le père / Le prince	Michel Hazanavicius
	Police	Aristide
	Refugee	Marwan	Brandt Andersen	Short
	Tout simplement noir	Omar	John Wax & Jean-Pascal Zadi	Post-production
	Soul	Joe Gardner	Pete Docter and Kemp Powers	French dub
2021	Lupin	Assane Diop / Paul Sernine / Arsène Lupin		Netflix series[12]
2022	Jurassic World: Dominion	Barry	Colin Trevorrow	Post-production
TBA	Le Chat du Rabbin	Le chat (voice)	Joann Sfar	Pre-production

References

https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/1382545/Omar-Sy-wife-Lupin-is-Omar-Sy-married-helene-sy-evg
Biography Archived 24 October 2015 at the Wayback Machine on Première.fr
Beardsley, Eleanor (28 June 2012). "In France, A Star Rises From An Oft-Neglected Place". NPR.org. National Public Radio. Archived from the original on 23 February 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
"Omar Sy, den orörbara!" [Omar Sy, the untouchable!]. AzurCultures.com (in Swedish). 10 January 2013. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
Lodge, Guy (3 December 2012). "Satellite Award noms run the gamut from 'Silver Linings Playbook' to 'Skyfall'". Hitfix.com. Archived from the original on 27 March 2013. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
Fritz, Ben (22 May 2014). "'X-Men: Days of Future Past': A Guide to the Mutants". Speakeasy blog. Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 30 April 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
Ouellette, Jennifer (3 December 2020). "Lupin trailer offers a fresh retelling of classic French gentleman thief". Ars Technica. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
Elisabeth Vincentelli (14 January 2021). "In 'Lupin,' Omar Sy Puts a New Twist on a Classic French Tale". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
"Omar Sy Et Sa Femme Helene : Un Couple Amoureux En 5 Infos" [Omar Sy and His Wife Helene: A Loving Couple — 5 Facts]. PureTrend.com (in French). 22 June 2014. Archived from the original on 6 April 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
"Sy on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
AlloCine. "Teaser Norm : Omar Sy prête sa voix à un ours polaire qui veut sauver sa banquise". allocine.fr. Archived from the original on 1 July 2016. Retrieved 3 July 2016.
Han, Karen (29 September 2020). "The trailer for Netflix's Lupin introduces a new gentleman thief - Omar Sy stars in the upcoming live-action series". Polygon. Retrieved 29 September 2020.

External links

Omar et Fred
Omar Sy at IMDb

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[Bio_Premiere-2] Biography Archived 24 October 2015 at the Wayback Machine on Première.fr

[Rises-3] Beardsley, Eleanor (28 June 2012). "In France, A Star Rises From An Oft-Neglected Place". NPR.org. National Public Radio. Archived from the original on 23 February 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2015.

[azur-4] "Omar Sy, den orörbara!" [Omar Sy, the untouchable!]. AzurCultures.com (in Swedish). 10 January 2013. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2015.

[5] Lodge, Guy (3 December 2012). "Satellite Award noms run the gamut from 'Silver Linings Playbook' to 'Skyfall'". Hitfix.com. Archived from the original on 27 March 2013. Retrieved 2 April 2015.

[6] Fritz, Ben (22 May 2014). "'X-Men: Days of Future Past': A Guide to the Mutants". Speakeasy blog. Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 30 April 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2015.

[7] Ouellette, Jennifer (3 December 2020). "Lupin trailer offers a fresh retelling of classic French gentleman thief". Ars Technica. Retrieved 5 December 2020.

[8] Elisabeth Vincentelli (14 January 2021). "In 'Lupin,' Omar Sy Puts a New Twist on a Classic French Tale". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 January 2021.

[PTrend-9] "Omar Sy Et Sa Femme Helene : Un Couple Amoureux En 5 Infos" [Omar Sy and His Wife Helene: A Loving Couple — 5 Facts]. PureTrend.com (in French). 22 June 2014. Archived from the original on 6 April 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2015.

[10] "Sy on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 10 June 2017.

[11] AlloCine. "Teaser Norm : Omar Sy prête sa voix à un ours polaire qui veut sauver sa banquise". allocine.fr. Archived from the original on 1 July 2016. Retrieved 3 July 2016.

[12] Han, Karen (29 September 2020). "The trailer for Netflix's Lupin introduces a new gentleman thief - Omar Sy stars in the upcoming live-action series". Polygon. Retrieved 29 September 2020.

Tokyo International Film Festival – Best Actor
1980s	Zhang Yimou (1987) Marlon Brando (1989)
1990s	Otar Megvinetukhutsesi (1991) Max von Sydow (1992) Masahiro Motoki (1993) Niu Zhenhua (1994) Zhu Xu (1996) Kōji Yakusho (1997) Brad Renfro (1998) Carlos Álvarez-Nóvoa (1999)
2000s	Moussa Maaskri (2000) Andrew Howard (2001) Graham Greene (2002) Teruyuki Kagawa (2003) Oldzhas Nusupbayev (2004) Kōichi Satō (2005) Roy Dupuis (2006) Damian Ul (2007) Vincent Cassel (2008) Christo Christov (2009)
2010s	Wang Qianyuan (2010) François Cluzet / Omar Sy (2011) Seo Young-joo (2012) Wang Jingchun (2013) Robert Więckiewicz (2014) Roland Møller / Louis Hofmann (2015) Paolo Ballesteros (2016) Duan Yihong (2017) Jesper Christensen (2018) Navid Mohammadzadeh (2019)