Dany Boon

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Dany Boon, 2015

Dany Boon (* 26 June 1966 as Daniel Hamidou in Armentières , Nord , France ) is a French comedian , actor and director .

Life

His father comes from Kabylia and is of Algerian descent. He was a boxer and a truck driver. His mother comes from northern France, was a cleaning lady and worked at her parents' gas station. Boon has two brothers. His stage name is based on the cartoon character Daniel Boone .

With the actress Sophie Hermelin , Boon has a son Mehdi, who was born in 1997. From 1998 to 2002 he was married to the actress and writer Judith Godrèche , their son Noé, born in 1999, comes from the marriage. Boon was raised Catholic and was an acolyte in his childhood . In 2002 he converted to Judaism at the request of his future wife . In December 2003 he married the then 22-year-old model Yaël Harris . He lived with her and their three children, Eytan, Èlia and Sarah in London. After 15 years of marriage, they divorced in November 2018.

Career

Dany Boon on the set of Welcome to the Sch'tis , June 2007

He began his career as a comedian in Paris in 1989 with performances that he gave on the street or in small theaters in front of a small audience, while his main job was still working as a draftsman in an animation studio. From 1992, however, he was regularly seen with his skits and cabaret programs on French television and from 1994 also took on numerous film roles. He was seen in internationally renowned productions such as the Oscar- nominated film Merry Christmas or the award-winning film 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 Home, Happy Alone (2006). After this success with one million visitors, Berri and his business partner Jérôme Seydoux immediately supported him with the next film project, Welcome to the Sch'tis .

Boon feels deeply connected to his home region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais . In 2003 he performed a full cabaret program exclusively in his native dialect, the ch'ti, a regional variety of Picardy . Although this idiom is difficult to understand for outsiders, the program (with subtitles in French) was sold over 600,000 times on DVD , which meant a new record for France in this category.

In 2008 he helped the ch'ti to another triumph. Welcome to the Sch'tis , a production he directed, wrote the screenplay and took on a leading role himself, became the most successful French film in history with over 20 million admissions on the domestic market. For the film, Boon was recognized by the Federal Association of Municipal Film Work for outstanding film dubbing and subtitling.

He then shot the film Nothing to Declare , which was released in French cinemas in January / February 2011. It was shown in German cinemas on July 27, 2011. After Boon had been nominated for a César three times - in 2006 as best supporting actor for Merry Christmas , in 2007 as best supporting actor for In Flagranti - Wohin mit der Belohren? and in 2009 for the best original screenplay for Willkommen bei den Sch'tis - Boon won the Césars Audience Award for the first time in 2019 for the comedy The Super Cops - Always Crazy! .

Programs

  • 1992: Je vais bien, tout va bien
  • 1993: Chaud mais pas fatigué ( Café de la Gare )
  • 1994: Dany Boon Fou ( Théâtre Tristan-Bernard , Paris )
  • 1995/96: Dany Boon au Palais des glaces
  • 1996: Les Zacros de la télé
  • 1997: Tout entier
  • 1997: Nouveau spétak
  • 1998: Au Bataclan
  • 2000: A french comedian lost in LA ( Melrose Theater , Los Angeles)
  • 2001: En parfait état
  • 2003: A s'baraque et en ch'ti
  • 2006: Waïka
  • 2009: Trop stylé

Stage plays

Filmography (selection)

Explanation of the abbreviations D, B, R:
D = actor; B = book; R = director

Web links

Commons : Dany Boon  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Teresa Schaur-Wünsch: Dany Boon: "I want to die in good health". In: DiePresse.com. April 12, 2014, accessed November 19, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b Interview: Boundlessly funny. In: Trierischer Volksfreund , July 27, 2011.
  3. ↑ Daniel Boone was an American trapper and the hero of an animated series that ran weekly afternoons on French television in the 1970s.
  4. ↑ Patrick Besson: Dany roots. In: Le Figaro Magazine , April 5, 2008.
  5. ↑ Dany Boon on right-wing extremism in France in: Der Tagesspiegel online from March 13, 2016, accessed on March 14, 2016
  6. ↑ Dany Boon
  7. ^ Romain Gubert: Bagarre pour Dany Boon. In: Le Point , March 3, 2011.
  8. ↑ Until then, this was the Louis-de-Funès -Klassiker La Grande Vadrouille 1966, also titled The Last Temptation (La grande vadrouille) , have been
personal data
SURNAME Boon, Dany
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hamidou, Daniel (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French comedian, actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Armentières , Nord department , France