Frédéric Chau

Frédéric Chau (born June 6, 1977 in Ho Chi Minh City , Vietnam ) is a French actor . He became known through the Jamel Comedy Club and the films Monsieur Claude and his daughters and its sequel .

Life

Frédéric Chau was born in Ho Chi Minh City , Vietnam, the oldest of three children. His parents were from the Chinese minority in Cambodia . In 1977, shortly before he was born, his parents left Phnom Penh for Vietnam to escape the Khmer Rouge . When he was six months old, they emigrated to France. They settled in the Marx-Dormoy district in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. They later moved to the suburb of Villetaneuse in the Seine-Saint-Denis department . At the age of eighteen he graduated from school with the Baccalauréat scientifique . He then did a DUT in communications engineering.

After a fashion photographer discovered him, he worked briefly as a model for the advertising agency People International. In 1998 he started working for Air France as a flight attendant . At the same time he took acting classes.

In 2005 Frédéric Chau started working as a stand-up comedian. In 2006 he performed at the Jamel Comedy Club .

In 2009 he dubbed Chihuahua together with his colleagues from the Jamel Comedy Club Beverly Hills . In the same year he left the company around Jamel Debbouze to devote himself to his acting career.

In 2014 he played one of the sons-in-law in the French comedy film Monsieur Claude and his daughters and a supporting role in the action film Lucy . This earned him the title of “Most Successful Actor 2014” from the Magazine Première .

In September 2015 he published his autobiography Je viens von si loin , in Editions Philippe Rey.

Private

Since July 9, 2017, he and his partner have had a child.

Stage programs

2006: Mes débuts
2007: Les Chinois au cinéma
2008: Mon père

Filmography (selection)

movie theater

2008: Crise dans le secteur bancaire (short film) - Director: Marc Schaus
2008: Osc DisT (short film) - Director: Fabius Dubois
2009: 5 films contre l'homophobie: Fusion Man (short film) - directed by Xavier Gens and Marius Vale
2009: Eden is West (Eden à l'ouest) - Director: Costa-Gavras
2009: Ghettogangz 2 - Ultimatum (Banlieue 13: Ultimatum) - Director: Patrick Alessandrin
2009: Neuilly sa mère! - Directed by Gabriel Julien-Laferrière
2010: Rien à perdre (short film) - Director: Jean-Henri Meunier
2010: Coursier - Director: Hervé Renoh
2010: From Paris with Love - Director: Pierre Morel
2010: Les Princes de la nuit - Director: Patrick Levy

Frédéric Chau at the 52nd Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo

2010: Il reste du jambon? - Director: Anne Depétrini
2011: Halal police d'État - Director: Rachid Dhibou
2011: Pretty thickest girlfriends (Mince alors!) - Director: Charlotte de Turckheim
2013: Roche Papier Ciseaux - Director: Yan Turgeon Lanouette
2013: Paris à tout prix - Director: Reem Kherici
2014: Monsieur Claude and his daughters (Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au Bon Dieu?) - directed by Philippe de Chauveron
2014: Dealer - Directed by Jean Luc Herbulot
2014: Lucy - Director: Luc Besson
2015: Feuilles de printemps (short film) - Director: Stéphane Ly-Cuong
2016: Uchronia - Director: Christophe Gofette
2019: Monsieur Claude 2 (Qu'est-ce qu'on a encore fait au Bon Dieu?) - Director: Philippe de Chauveron
2019: Made in China - Director: Julien Abraham
2019: Les Traducteurs - Director: Régis Roinsard

watch TV

2008: La Taupe (TV movie) - Director: Vincenzo Marano
2008: Inside Jamel Comedy Club (TV movie)
2009: La Belle Vie (TV movie) - Directed by Virginie Wagon
2009: La Taupe 2 (TV movie) - Director: Vincenzo Maran
2009: Les Incroyables Aventures de Fusion Man (TV movie) - directed by Xavier Gens and Marius Vale
2013: Les Limiers (TV series, 1 episode)
2017: Kim Kong (TV series) - Director: Stephen Cafiero

synchronization

2009: Beverly Hills Chihuahua (Le Chihuahua de Beverly Hills) by Raja Gosnell
2017: Valerian - The City of a Thousand Planets (Valérian et la Cité des mille planètes) by Luc Besson

Publications

Je viens de si loin , éditions Philippe Rey, 2015.

Individual proof

^ "Frédéric Chau: One man Chau" . June 18, 2011.

↑ Prisma Média: Interview - Frédéric Chau: le succès de "Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au bon Dieu?" at-il changé sa vie? - Voici. Retrieved July 21, 2019 (French).

↑ L'acteur français qui a eu le plus de succès en 2014, c'est Frédéric Chau ( fr ) December 22, 2014. Archived from the original on January 28, 2015. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 23, 2015. @1@ 2

↑ Frédéric Chau ("Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au Bon Dieu") papa pour la 1ere fois! ( fr ) July 10, 2017. Accessed July 10, 2017.

Web links

Commons : Frédéric Chau - collection of images, videos and audio files

official website
Frédéric Chau in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Le Paris des Arts de Frédéric Chau at France 24

personal data
SURNAME	Chau, Frédéric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French actor
DATE OF BIRTH	June 6, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ho Chi Minh City , Vietnam

[1] "Frédéric Chau: One man Chau" . June 18, 2011.

[2] Prisma Média: Interview - Frédéric Chau: le succès de "Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au bon Dieu?" at-il changé sa vie? - Voici. Retrieved July 21, 2019 (French).