Omar Sy
Highest Rated: 100% All Out (2016)
Lowest Rated: 12% Good People (2014)
Birthday: Jan 20, 1978
Birthplace: Trappes, France
A charismatic actor with a gift for physical comedy, Omar Sy became an overnight sensation after his career-making performance in the French film "The Intouchables" (2011). Sy launched his career doing skits on a local radio station, which eventually morphed into the television series "Omar et Fred" (Canal+, 2001- ), a weekly sketch-comedy show based on phony radio call-ins. He went on to land a string of featured roles in mostly French comedies, including "Nos jours heureux" ("Those Happy Days") (2006), "Tellement proches" (2009), and the arthouse film "Micmacs" (2009), a satire on the world arms trade. After several years playing supporting characters, Sy suddenly became the toast of European cinema after his scene-stealing performance in "The Intouchables," an unlikely hit film about a wealthy quadriplegic (François Cluzet) whose life is turned upside down when he hires a rambunctious young man, just out of prison, to take care of him. The tailor-made role transformed Sy into a marquee star who also made history by becoming the first black performer to win a César Award for Best Actor, all of which made him a bona fide celebrity even beyond his native France.
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Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Strangers' Case | Marwan (Character) | - | 2024 |
66% | 80% | The Book of Clarence | Unknown (Character) | $6.1M | 2023 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Book Of Clarence: Trailer | Unknown (Character) | - | 2023 |
29% | 77% | Jurassic World Dominion | Barry Sembène (Character) | $376.0M | 2022 |
38% | 82% | The Takedown | Unknown (Character) | - | 2022 |
75% | No Score Yet | Father & Soldier |
Bakary (Character), Producer |
- | 2022 |
67% | 38% | Night Shift | Aristide (Character) | - | 2020 |
63% | 89% | The Call of the Wild | Perrault (Character) | $62.1M | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lost Prince | Le prince (Character) | - | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Simply Black | Self | - | 2020 |
29% | No Score Yet | The Lost Prince | Unknown (Character) | - | 2020 |
12% | 60% | Arctic Dogs | Leopold (Voice) | $5.8M | 2019 |
85% | 73% | The Wolf's Call | D'Orsi (Character) | - | 2019 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Refugee | Marwan (Character) | - | 2019 |
No Score Yet | 14% | Belleville Cop | Sébastian 'Baaba' Bouchard (Character) | - | 2018 |
No Score Yet | 75% | Yao |
Seydou Tall (Character), Producer |
- | 2018 |
25% | 41% | Knock | Knock (Character) | - | 2017 |
100% | 67% | All Out | Rafael Padilla (Character) | - | 2016 |
43% | 76% | Two Is a Family | Samuel (Character) | - | 2016 |
23% | 36% | Inferno | Christoph Bruder (Character) | $34.3M | 2016 |
28% | 45% | Burnt | Michel (Character) | $13.7M | 2015 |
71% | 78% | Jurassic World | Barry (Character) | $652.6M | 2015 |
No Score Yet | 100% | Mune | Sohone (Voice) | - | 2014 |
61% | 55% | Samba | Samba Cissé (Character) | $149.8K | 2014 |
12% | 22% | Good People | Khan (Character) | - | 2014 |
90% | 91% | X-Men: Days of Future Past | Bishop (Character) | $233.9M | 2014 |
61% | 53% | Mood Indigo | Nicolas (Character) | $303.0K | 2013 |
No Score Yet | 31% | On the Other Side of the Tracks | Ousmane Diakhité (Character) | $5.9K | 2012 |
No Score Yet | 19% | The Dream Team | Weke N'Dogo (Character) | - | 2012 |
No Score Yet | 41% | F.B.I. Frog Butthead Investigators | Unknown (Character) | - | 2011 |
76% | 93% | The Intouchables | Driss (Character) | $13.2M | 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Allez, Raconte | Unknown (Character) | - | 2010 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Storytelling Show | Momo (Voice) | - | 2010 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Murphy's Law |
Joachim Ortega / |
- | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | So Happy Together | Bruno (Character) | - | 2009 |
No Score Yet | 20% | Special Correspondents | Jimmy (Character) | - | 2009 |
No Score Yet | 12% | Safari | Youssouf Hammal (Character) | - | 2009 |
72% | 74% | Micmacs | Remington (Character) | $1.3M | 2009 |
No Score Yet | 24% | Two Alone in Paris | Sammy Bouglioni (Character) | - | 2008 |
No Score Yet | 80% | Those Happy Days | Joseph (Character) | - | 2006 |
No Score Yet | 25% | The Box | Lorenzo (Character) | - | 2004 |
No Score Yet | 15% | Samouraïs | Tyson (Character) | - | 2002 |
TV
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98% | 78% | Lupin | Assane Diop (Character) | 2021 2023 |
No Score Yet | 36% | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Guest | 2021 |
No Score Yet | 44% | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2021 |