Dany Boon
Dany Boon, actually Daniel Hamidou ( born June 26, 1966 in Armentieres, Nord, France ) is a French comedian, actor and director.
Life
His father is of Algerian descent, his mother was a maid and worked in the gas station of their parents. Boon has two brothers. His stage name is based on the cartoon character Daniel Boone.
Boon was married from 1998 to 2002 with the actress and writer Judith Godrèche, with whom he has a son. In 2002, he converted to Judaism; In December 2003, he married the then 22 - year-old model Yael Harris. He has three children with her.
Career
He began his career as a comedian in Paris in 1989 with little public perceptions before he gave on the street or in small theaters, while he was still working full time as a draftsman in an animation studio. As of 1992, however, he was seen regularly with his sketches and cabaret programs on French television. In 1994 he also took on numerous film roles. So you saw him among other internationally renowned productions, such as the Oscar-nominated film Merry Christmas, or the award-winning strip my best friend. The influential film producer and successful talent scout Claude Berri discovered Boon at a theater performance, took a liking to him and supported him financially in his movie La maison du bonheur (2006). After this success, with a million visitors Berri supported him and his business partner Jérôme Seydoux immediately with the next film project, Welcome to the Sticks.
Boon feels his home region of Nord- Pas -de- Calais deeply connected. In 2003, he played a full cabaret program exclusively in his native dialect, the ch'ti, a regional variety of the Picardy. Although this idiom is difficult to understand for outsiders, the program was ( with subtitles in French) sold over 600,000 times on DVD, which meant a new record for France in this sector.
In 2008, he helped the ch'ti to a further triumph. Welcome to the Sticks, a production in which he directed, wrote the screenplay and even took a starring role was in the domestic market became the most successful French film in history, with over twenty million moviegoers; until then, this was the Louis de Funès classic three- breaking pilots in Paris, too: was " The Last Temptation " (La grande vadrouille ) of 1966. For this film, Boon was awarded by the Federal Association of Communal Film Work for outstanding film dubbing and subtitling.
Then turned Boon movie "Rien à déclarer " ( Nothing to Declare ). He came into the French cinema in the January / February 2011. On July 27, 2011, he started in German cinemas.
Programs
Stage plays
- 2003: La Vie de chantier (writer, director, actor)
- 2007: Le Dîner de cons ( Théâtre de la Porte Saint- Martin)