Biography
Kad Merad is a French-Algerian filmmaker and actor who has acted both on stage and on screen. Kad Merad was born in Sidi Bel Abbès, Algeria, on March 27, 1964 to an Algerian father and a French mother. During his teens, he played drums and sang with various rock bands. Soon afterwards, he started playing as an animator in Club Med alongside the Gigolo Brothers troop. In 1990, he was hired by Ouï FM, the Paris Rock genre station where he met Olivier Baroux. The duet most known as Kad & Oli...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Popemobile
2025
To mark his recent appointment, the new Pope prepares for a tour of Latin America, only to find that the Vatican is bankrupt. A rich Mexican woman off...

100 millions !
2025
as Patrick

Les Enfoirés 2025 - Au pays des Enfoirés
2025

Honeymoon Crasher
2025
as Michel
When his fiancée dumps him at the altar for her ex, a young man is left with no alternative but to go on his romantic honeymoon with his mother.

The Last Breath
2025
as Augustin Masset
In a kind of philosophical dialogue, Doctor Augustin Masset and renowned writer Fabrice Toussaint discuss life and death… A whirlwind of encounters in...

Les Boules de Noël
2024
as Antonin
Every year, Christmas Eve turns into a nightmare for Nathalie and Antonin's family. Convinced that she is the victim of a curse, Nathalie makes a radi...

40
2024
as Self
Primetime special to celebrate 40 years of CANAL+.

At the End of the Day
2024
as Lino
In an increasingly crazy world, Lino, who has decided to leave everything behind, will come to realise that, at the end of the day, everything that ha...

King of My Castle
2024
as Jean-François Casteigne
Rich hotel owner hires director to create 18th-century village set, drugs and kidnaps spoiled son, leaving him to believe he time-traveled as punishme...

Les Enfoirés 2024 - On a 35 ans !
2024

Florent Pagny : un homme libre
2023
as Self
This exceptional documentary, rich in anecdotes and revelations thanks to the rare testimonies of his family (his wife, his sister...) and his closest...

Life For Real
2023
as Louis
Tridan Lagache has spent his whole life at Club Med, changing friends every 8 days. At 50, he resigns from the vacation spot where he was born, determ...

Les Enfoirés 2023 - Enfoirés un jour, toujours
2023
In January 2023, the Enfoirés performed at La Halle Tony Garnier in Lyon. True to the caused started by Coluche in 1985, forty-seven renowned artists ...

Les 10 ans de Studio Bagel
2023
as Self - Guest Star
A look back at the French Internet collective as they celebrate their 10th year anniversary.

Benjamin Biolay - Christmas Show
2022
as Self
Musical Christmas Special hosted by Benjamin Biolay.

Citoyen d'honneur
2022
as Samir Amin
Samir Amin is a fulfilled writer, Nobel Prize for Literature, who lives in Paris, far from his native country, Algeria.He systematically refuses all t...

Jean-Luc Delarue, 10 ans déjà : de succès en excès
2022
as Self
Dark suit, white shirt, earpiece and wooden plate ..., his style remains anchored in the collective memory. Favorite host́ of the French during the 20...

The Year of the Shark
2022
as Thierry
A small coastal town in the south-west of France is on high alert after a surfer disappeared - Soon the incredible truth is revealed : a shark is prow...

Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2022 : 10 ans
2022
as Self
The Marrakech du Rire is back in 2022 for its tenth edition, an opportunity to celebrate 10 years of laughter, madness, and outrageous sketches at the...

Zaï Zaï Zaï Zaï
2022
as Membre du comité de soutien
Imagine a world where the worst behaviour you could ever have is to forget your store's loyalty card in your other trousers...that's what happens to A...

Kad Merad on Stage
2021
as Self
French comedian Kad Merad is now a singer for one night only!

Johnny Hallyday : Que je t'aime
2021
as Self
Thirty-four years ago, Johnny Hallyday performed for the first time on the Bercy stage. He remains the artist who played the venue the greatest number...

Amis
2021
as Pierre
A comedy about friendship that has many surprises in store for us! How can we find the perfect friend? By connecting to Amitic, the friendly version o...

Amis
2021
Director
A comedy about friendship that has many surprises in store for us! How can we find the perfect friend? By connecting to Amitic, the friendly version o...

Les Enfoirés 2021 - Les Enfoirés à côté de vous
2021
Les Enfoirés "À côté de toi" is the 31st album/show by Les Enfoirés, recorded from January 14 to 17, 20211 at Lyon's Halle Tony-Garnier. The show was...

Bullit & Riper
2020
as Richard Bullit

Irrésistiblement Kad !
2020

The Big Hit
2020
as Étienne Carboni
Etienne, an often out of work but endearing actor, runs a theater workshop in a prison, where he brings together an unlikely troupe of prisoners to s...

Les Enfoirés 2020 - Le Pari(s) des Enfoirés
2020

Queens of The Field
2020
as Marco
After its football team is disqualified for insulting a referee during a major game, a small country town risks losing its funding along with its fiel...

Les Enfoirés jouent le jeu
2019

La part du soupçon
2019
as Thomas Kertez
Alice experiences the ordinary happiness of a mother when everything changes: the man of her life, Thomas, the father of her child, is suspected of be...

Sixty
2019
as Self - Comedian
60 comedians in 60 minutes, that's what Kyan Khojandi has to offer tonight.

Just a Gigolo
2019
as Alex
How to live happy and rich without working? To be Gigolo. But after 25 years of living with Denise, Alex the "gigolo" gets fired without notice and fi...

Just a Gigolo
2019
Writer
How to live happy and rich without working? To be Gigolo. But after 25 years of living with Denise, Alex the "gigolo" gets fired without notice and fi...

A Wolf's Journey
2019
as himself- narrateur
Cast out by his pack, a young wolf has to face his destiny alone and try to survive in a world reigned over by Man. From the forests of Romania to the...

Les Enfoirés 2019 - Le Monde des Enfoirés
2019

Ce soir, c'est Palmashow
2019
as Self - Guest

Dad Friend
2018
as Stéphane
Stéphane defers his frustration at not having had a son on his sons-in-law. So when her younger daughter decides to leave a rugby player than the idol...

L'Étrange Noël de Jeff Panacloc
2018
as Self
Alongside his impertinent puppet, ventriloquist Jeff Panacloc celebrates Christmas with humour, surrounded by personalities from music, cinema and TV ...

Looking for Teddy
2018
as Michel
A father enlists the help of an airport employee on a quest to find his daughter's teddy.

On refait les grands duos d'humour
2018
as Self

Kings for a Day
2018
as Joseph
A wannabe actor must chose between his passion and his father, a crook.

Les Enfoirés 2018 - Musique !
2018

Family Is Family
2018
as Kad Merad
Valentin D is a hot designer architect who claims to be an orphan because he is too ashamed to admit he is the son of working-class scrap metal mercha...

Brillantissime
2018
as Dr Steinman
After getting dumped on Christmas Eve, Angela must rebuild her life surrounded by her rebellious teenager, her tyrannical mother, her hysterical best ...

La télé de Valérie Lemercier
2017
as Self

Orchestra Class
2017
as Simon Daoud
A violinist looks to inspire his students at a challenging music school.

Les Enfoirés 2017 - Mission Enfoirés
2017
In January 2017, Les Enfoirés set the Zénith in Toulouse alight with seven exceptional concerts. Faithful to the cause started by Coluche in 1985, th...

Alibi.com
2017
as Mr. Godet
Greg founded a company called Alibi.com that creates any type of alibi. With his associate, Augustin, and Medhi his new employee, they devise unstoppa...

Max & Leon
2016
as Acteur à la télévision anglaise
In this WW2 epic comedy – in the vein of “La Grande Vadrouille” – our two heroes, Max and Léon, two lazy and partier pals, will try by all possible me...

La Folle Soirée du Palmashow 3
2016
as Self - Guest

Marseille
2016
as Paolo
Faced with the insistence of his brother Joseph, whom he has not seen for 25 years, Paolo resolves to give up his calm and harmonious life in Canada, ...

Marseille
2016
Director, Adaptation, Dialogue
Faced with the insistence of his brother Joseph, whom he has not seen for 25 years, Paolo resolves to give up his calm and harmonious life in Canada, ...

Les Enfoirés 2016 - Au rendez-vous des Enfoirés
2016

We Were Young
2015
as Kiki
Five long-term pals confront ageing and mortality as they enjoy their last weeks together before taking different paths.

Gad Elmaleh - 20 ans de scène !
2015
as Self

The Parisian Bitch
2015
as Himself
Thirty-year-old Camilla, realizes that she doesn't have the life she deserves and decides that the only destiny worthy of her is that of a royal princ...

Les Enfoirés 2015 - Sur la route des Enfoirés
2015

Bis
2015
as Patrice
Éric and Patrice have been friends since high school. Over the years, they have both taken very different paths: Éric has become a hedonist, has a str...

Disappeared in Winter
2015
as Daniel
Daniel is a former police officer turned debt collector. Now in his late fifties, he goes about his "dirty job" without emotion or sympathy. One winte...

Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
2014

Bangkok, We Have A Problem!
2014
as Serge Renart
Serge Renart, a television journalist who's now a has-been, and Natacha Bison, a war reporter who has been laid off because she posed too much of a da...

Nicholas on Holiday
2014
as Nicolas' father
It's the end of the school year. The long-awaited moment of the holidays is arrive. The little Nicolas, her parents and Grandma take the road towards ...

Les Enfoirés 2014 - Bon anniversaire Les Enfoirés
2014
Show recorded at the Zénith in Strasbourg on January 19 and 20, 2014 for the benefit of the Restos du Coeur.

Superchondriac
2014
as Dimitri Zvenka
Romain Faubert is a 39 year old, single, medical photographer... and a raging hypochondriac. His doctor and only friend Dr. Dimitri Zvenka thinks he k...

The Big Bad Wolf
2013
as Louis
Once upon a time in 2012, three brothers lived happily. One day their mom fell into a coma. So Henri, Philippe, and Louis suddenly started wondering a...

It Happened in Saint-Tropez
2013
as Roni Melkowich
Zef’s stormy relationship with his brother Roni is further aggravated when Roni marries his daughter just as he is attending to his wife’s funeral. Th...

Mais qui a re-tué Pamela Rose ?
2012
as Richard Bullit
French filmmaker Eric Lartigau directs the anarchic buddy comedy Bullit and Riper, originally released as Mais qui a tue Pamela Rose? French comedic t...

Mais qui a re-tué Pamela Rose ?
2012
Director
French filmmaker Eric Lartigau directs the anarchic buddy comedy Bullit and Riper, originally released as Mais qui a tue Pamela Rose? French comedic t...

Superstar
2012
as Martin Kazinski
An average guy who works in a recycling plant wakes up one morning to discover that he's become inexplicably famous.

Guerre d'Algerie - La déchirure
2012
as La narrateur

Play It Like Godard
2012
as star
Jean-Christophe Kern, known as JC, is not a teenager like any other: he won the Palme d’Or at the age of 15, the Cesar at 16. This year, he is trying ...

War of the Buttons
2011
as Père Lebrac
Occupied France; Lebrac leads a play war between two rival kid gangs, but a girl he likes, who's Jewish, is in danger of being discovered by local Naz...

The Tuche Family
2011
as Le poissonnier
Everyone in the village of Bouzolles knows the Tuche family, who live by the philosophy "Man is not made to work." Despite their lack of money, they s...

Father
2011
as Robert Pique
Monsieur Papa is a moving portrait of a modern family, centering around 12 year-old Marius Vallois. Born in a wealthy family, Marius is the son of Mar...

Father
2011
Director
Monsieur Papa is a moving portrait of a modern family, centering around 12 year-old Marius Vallois. Born in a wealthy family, Marius is the son of Mar...

The Well Digger's Daughter
2011
as Félipe Rambert
It's the beginning of the WWII. South of France. Patricia, 18, is the oldest daughter of a well-digger, Pascal, who considers her a princess because o...

Les Enfoirés 2011 - Dans l'oeil des Enfoirés
2011
Dans l’œil des Enfoirés est le vingt-et-unième album des Enfoirés, enregistré lors de leurs sept concerts à l’Arena Montpellier du mercredi 26 janvier...

Images of Women of the Social Corset
2011
as Self (archive footage)
A man asks himself about the image of women who are offered for his gaze. A documentary about the image of women in fashion, film, and life.

The Italian
2010
as Dino/Mourad
Dino Fabrizzi is the number one seller of the Maserati dealership in Nice. At 42, he arrives at a turning point in his life, the position of director ...

22 Bullets
2010
as Tony Zacchia
A retired mobster goes on a revenge spree after being left for dead with 22 bullets in his body by his former childhood friend.

Les Enfoirés 2010 - Les Enfoirés... la Crise de Nerfs
2010

Protect and Serve
2010
as Michel Boudriau
A pair of bumbling French cops team up to take on the underworld.

RTT
2009
as Arthur Lepage
When Florence, his companion of five years, shocks him with the news that she's leaving him, moving to Miami and marrying another man, Arthur loses it...

Little Nicholas
2009
as Nicolas's father
Nicolas has a happy existence, parents who love him, a great group of friends with whom he has great fun, and all he wants is that nothing changes. Ho...

Safari
2009
as Richard Dacier
Richard Dacier owns a tour agency specialized on organizing safaris for European tourists eager to confront the African wild life. Actually, he took t...

My Stars
2008
as Robert Pelage
Robert, a fan of three French actresses is a bald-headed, potbellied man on the fifties, but fully devotes himself to them, and sometimes works for th...

Paris 36
2008
as Jacky Jacquet
A star is born in a time of both celebration and instability in this historical drama with music from director Christophe Barratier. In the spring of ...

Modern Love
2008
as Olivier
Several couples break up and get back together.

Les Enfoirés 2008 - Les secrets des Enfoirés
2008

Welcome to the Sticks
2008
as Philippe Abrams
Although living a comfortable life in Salon-de-Provence, a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while. To plea...

Tonight I'll Sleep at Yours
2007
as Jacques
Alex and Laetitia appear to make the perfect couple. But, as much as he loves his gorgeous fun-loving sweetheart, Alex isn’t yet ready for her to move...

3 Friends
2007
as Baptiste 'Titi' Capla
Three childhood friends support each other through life's ups and downs in this comedy/drama. Each goes through a difficult time in their life, and is...

Pur week-end
2007
as Frédéric Alvaro
Former school friends get together one weekend a year, this year in the mountains.

In Mom's Head
2007
as Jacques Charlot
Lulu's mother is depressed and has been as far back as she can remember, Lulu is determined to discover the truth behind her listlessness.

Could This Be Love?
2007
as Rachid
Lucas, a wealthy, 43 year-old divorced businessman, is irresistibly attracted to Elsa, a 38 year old renowned sculptor from whom he has commissioned a...

Kad et Olivier - Antotologie
2007
as Himself

Kad et Olivier - Antotologie
2007
Director

Don't Worry, I'm Fine
2006
as Paul Tellier
A 19-year-old searches for her twin brother after he runs away from home, following a fight with their father.

J'invente rien
2006
as Paul
Paul has no specific life goal, and Mathilde, who provides for their household, despairs that he can find one. If he continues like this, she may well...

Beyond the Ocean
2006
as Oncle Tango
Journey of an african migrant through Europe.

Les Irréductibles
2006
as Gérard
On the day that his son fails his baccalaureate, Michel loses his job. He has been employed at the same factory for twenty years and now he has no job...

Star Trek... ou presque
2006

Try Me
2006
as Vincent
When Yves-Marie, 9, asks Jacqueline, who is her age: "Marry me", she replies with a pirouette: "The day you go to the stars, I give you my hand."

A Ticket to Space
2006
as Cardoux
Face à l'incompréhension de la population française quant au montant des crédits alloués à la recherche spatiale, le gouvernement lance une vaste opér...

A Ticket to Space
2006
Writer
Face à l'incompréhension de la population française quant au montant des crédits alloués à la recherche spatiale, le gouvernement lance une vaste opér...

Community Property
2005
as Martin
They are about to divorce, but can not agree how to share the community property.

Iznogoud
2005
as le génie Ouzmoutousouloubouloubombé
In Baghdad the Magnificent reigns Haroun al Plassid, who is the Caliph. There also dwells Iznogoud, who wants to be the Caliph. The irascible Grand Vi...

Kad et Olivier - La Traversée de l'Atlantique en solitaire à 2
2004
as Kad Merad

Lucky Luke and the Daltons
2004
as Le Mexicain Cellule
Joe and Averell are the eldest and youngest of the four Dalton brothers, the worst outlaws in Wild West history...

The Chorus
2004
as Chabert
In 1940s France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.

The Car Keys
2003
as Actor who refuses to film with Laurent
Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...

Kad et Olivier - Le Meilleur de Kad et Olivier
2003

Mais qui a tué Pamela Rose ?
2003
as Richard Bullit
FBI Agents Bullit and Riper investigate the murder of a young dancer called Pamela Rose, found dead in her motel room in Bornsville, a small american ...

Mais qui a tué Pamela Rose ?
2003
Writer
FBI Agents Bullit and Riper investigate the murder of a young dancer called Pamela Rose, found dead in her motel room in Bornsville, a small american ...

Don't Worry, Be Happy
2003
as Pierre 2
With his vitriolic pen, Désiré Loncle, does not make the life of filmmakers easy. But chickens come home to roost, don't they? As a matter of fact, Dé...

Même pas Mal
2003
as Gérard Lanza
A young woman with a vivid imagination breaks down a car in a forest...

The Dope
2003
as Le directeur artistique de Pacific Recordings
Alphonse Brown, who firmly believes he is the bastard son of James Brown, meets up with his best friend Scotch after Brown gets out of jail. On their ...

The Pharmacist
2003
as le médecin légiste
An ecological pharmacist uses ancient Celtic techniques to murder industrial magnates whose practices harm the planet.

The Tombs
2002
as Gustave
At a mundane evening, Joseph recalls the strange love affair he lived with a young widow, met during a visit to Père-Lachaise. But was it really a lov...

Bloody Christmas
2002
This Christmas Eve is going to be one the most pleasant that Gérard has ever spent. However it turns into a nightmare when the Christmas tree suddenly...

Kad et Olivier vous font montrer... Le Gros DVD
2001

Kad et Olivier vous font montrer... Le Gros DVD
2001
Director

The High Life
2001
as Le motard
On a hospital bed, Marcello is plunged into a deep coma. His guardian angel asks the angel in charge of bringing him back to the afterlife to extend t...

The Strategy of Failure
2001
as M. Golden
My various experiences in the field of failure have allowed me to highlight specific areas in which it is crucial to get disorganized and to recognize...
Tout un poème
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Héro(s)
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as Babi Maklouf
Jeu de vilains
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as Monsieur Tosca