Biography
Gad Elmaleh is a Moroccan-Canadian actor and stand-up comedian. He was born on 19 April 1971 in Casablanca, Morocco, and moved to Montreal in 1988 before settling in Paris in 1992, where he trained at Cours Florent under Isabelle Nanty.
He began his career with one-man shows including Décalages (1997) and La Vie normale (2000). Elmaleh has appeared in films such as Priceless (2006), Midnight in Paris (2011) as Détective Tisserant, The Adventures of Tintin (2011) as Ben Salaad (voice), and The Dictator (2012).
