He was born on January 20, 1978, in Trappes, near Paris, the fourth of eight children of a Mauritanian cleaning woman and a Senegalese Fulani worker. Although his parents were illiterate, he did well at school, earning good grades. Due to the financial problems his parents had been struggling with since they arrived in France, as a teenager he took on jobs and made money to supplement the family budget. He never dreamed of a great career at that time.
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Although Sy dreamed of studying, he started working at Radio Nova right after finishing high school. It was then that he met Fred Testot, with whom he created a cabaret duo. They wrote and performed together on stage, always making the audience cry. In the meantime, he also began acting on the small and big screen. He played episodes, including in the comedy “Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra” in 2002. However, he did not think about acting and continued on his previously chosen path. It was then that he took on the production of the satirical program “Le Visiophone”, and began performing in the format “Service après-vente des émissions” broadcast on Canal+. He gained more and more popularity and recognition.
He was eventually noticed by Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache, who wanted him to grace their projects with his presence. He accepted them, but kept emphasizing that he was “not an actor” and maintained this position until 2011, when the cult film debuted on the big screens. It was in this film that he made his debut in the lead role, for which he became the first French-African actor in history to receive a César. “They are very talented and are great scriptwriters. They can describe the truth, so acting came easily to me; it is easy for actors to show reality. I never studied in any drama school, so I only have the school of life behind me,” he said about Toledano and Nakache in an interview.
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The success of the film made Sy quickly known in Hollywood. Just 3 years later, he starred in the production “X-Men: Days of Future Past” alongside such stars as Patrick Stewart, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence and Halle Berry. After that, he also appeared in many other excellent productions, and the most popular ones include “Jurassic Park”, “Chocolat” and “Inferno”. He also successfully fulfilled himself in . He lent his voice, among others, to one of the characters in the science fiction film “Transformers: The Last Knight”.
The next big breakthrough in his career was in 2021. It was then that he created the title character of the crime series “Lupin” on screen, for which he was awarded the Satellite, an award from the International Press Academy, a year later. He also found happiness in his private life, as he has been married to Helene since 2007, with whom he has five children. If you’d like, please vote in our poll below.
Source: Gazeta
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