Biography
François-Xavier Demaison (born 22 September 1973) is a French actor and humorist. Demaison was born in Asnières-sur-Seine. Both his parents were lawyers. He studied theater but dropped out to focus on an economics degree. After graduating in 1998 from the Sciences Po in Paris, he began his career as an auditor before joining Landwell & Associés (law firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers PWC) in the field of International taxation. In August 2001 he was sent on an internship to their New York office. ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Asterix, The Kingdom of Nubia
2026
as Obélix (voix)
The irreductible Gauls are turned into harmless children after a rare youth elixir accidentally ends up into the magic potion. To find the antidote an...

Francois-Xavier Demaison : Di(x)vin(s)
2025

Francois-Xavier Demaison : Di(x)vin(s)
2025
Author

Les Enfoirés 2025 - Au pays des Enfoirés
2025

Père Noël à domicile
2024

Le Nouveau
2023
as Alexis
Alexis Berthier suffers a stroke and loses the ability to read and write. In order not to lose everything, he decides to re-educate himself and return...

Le Nouveau
2023
Producer
Alexis Berthier suffers a stroke and loses the ability to read and write. In order not to lose everything, he decides to re-educate himself and return...

Head in the Stars
2023
as Daniel
Ali, a thirty-something from the suburbs, still lives with his mother and his 8-year-old daughter. Lazy and without any particular ambition, he scrape...

La Syndicaliste
2023
as Jean-Pierre Bachmann
The true story of Maureen Kearney, the head union representative of a French multinational nuclear powerhouse. She became a whistleblower, denouncing ...

Louis de Funès, le rire éternel
2023
as Self - Actor
On the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the death of Louis de Funès, this documentary by Jacques Pessis pays tribute to the cult actor by retra...

Tous Inconnus
2022
as ("Les Sectes" segment)
The three "Unknown" are back in this movie where they wake up in a world where they really are unknown! They'll eventually find out that their career,...

Pierre Richard... en mode Veber
2022
as Self
Great actors have interpreted, in the theater or in the cinema, the roles of François Pignon or François Perrin. But the one who, without any doubt, k...

Arnaud Ducret dans tous ses états
2022
as Self

Champagne !
2022
as Jean
Springtime in the French vineyards of Champagne. Patrick has gathered his oldest friends for his bachelor party. The trouble is, everyone hates his fu...

The Time of Secrets
2022
as Oncle Jules
Marseille, July 1905. Nearly a teenager, Marcel Pagnol embarks in his last summer vacation before high school and returns, at last, to his beloved hil...

Men on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
2022
as Antoine
Seven men, all city-dwellers aged between 17 and 70, with nothing in common apart from the fact that they are all on the verge of a nervous breakdown,...

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...

À mon tour
2022
as Félix de Ponte
Chateauneuf-sur-Valone, Mayor Félix de Ponte is preparing for his re-election, hoping to beat the far-right candidate Jean-Luc Molment Martinez. But w...

À mon tour
2022
Delegated Producer
Chateauneuf-sur-Valone, Mayor Félix de Ponte is preparing for his re-election, hoping to beat the far-right candidate Jean-Luc Molment Martinez. But w...

Les seigneurs du château
2021
as Self

La Traque
2021
as Commissaire Declerk
The Belgian and French police investigate the activities of Michel Fourniret, a serial killer who was active on both sides of the border.

The Grand Restaurant III
2021
as The Mafioso's Son
He had opened his Great Restaurant twice, in 2010 and 2011, as part of an entertainment broadcast on France 2. Pierre Palmade “reopens it after work” ...

Connectés
2020
as Yann
On a Saturday night during lock down, a group of very good friends go online to share a virtual aperitif. Suddenly, one of them is attacked and kidnap...

Divorce Club
2020
as Patrick
After 5 years of marriage, Ben is still madly in love. Until the day he discovers in public that his wife is cheating on him: humiliated and dumped in...

One Role for Two
2019
as Jean-Pierre
After a failed plastic surgery, an actress hires a double to replace her on the set - Unaware that it's her twin sister, whom she didn't even know exi...

François-Xavier Demaison : Les Dernières
2019
as Self

All Inclusive
2019
as Bruno Morin
A man goes on an all-inclusive vacation to the Caribbean and finds out he must share his room with someone else.

Neuilly sa mère, sa mère !
2018
as Dinaro
In 2008, Sami Benboudaoud discovered the hell of Neuilly-sur-Seine. Ten years later, now that everything is for the best for Sami who brilliantly comp...

Rolling to You
2018
as The parish priest of Lourdes
Jocelyn is a selfish and misogynist businessman. He tries to seduce a young pretty woman by pretending to be handicapped, till the day he meets her si...

Mentalistes : dans la tête des stars
2018
as Self

Normandy Nude
2018
as Thierry Levasseur
At the Mêle sur Sarthe, a small Norman village, farmers are affected by a crisis. Georges Balbuzard, the mayor of the city, is not one to let them dow...
20 sketches, une vie
2018
as Self

Comment j'ai rencontré mon père
2017
as Eliott Berthet
Kwabéna 's arrival into Enguerrand family, that the little boy takes for his biological father, will lead the whole family to many adventures and reun...

Wedding Unplanned
2017
as Ben
When she discovers a wedding planer's business card, Alexia instantly says, "YES" to Mathias unaware that it belongs to his mistress. The groom is now...

Sur la route de la grande vadrouille
2016
as Self

The No-Job Agency
2016
as Thierry
Stéphane, Cathy and Thierry are the best employees of the Employment Agency of their city. But their results are so good that the agency will have to ...

The Outsider
2016
as Keller
A drama about the less known aspects of the trading activity inside one of the biggest banks in the world - Société Générale. The movie tracks the ris...

The Ploy
2016
as Moreau
In the summer of '75 Pier Paolo Pasolini's film, "Salò", is stolen from the lab where he is editing it. This is just the first step of an intricate pl...

Arrête ton cinéma !
2016
as Jack
Sybille, an accomplished actress, is given the chance to direct a film based on her own screenplay. Everything seems to go well at first. Her producer...

Mon maître d'école
2016
Producer
A St Saint-just-et-Vacquières, Jean-Michel Burel, schoolmaster of a class at several levels, begins his last school year before retirement. The teache...

Montreux Comedy Festival 2015 - #hyperconnecté
2015
as Self

Montreux Comedy Festival 2014 - La Boum
2014
as Self

Nicholas on Holiday
2014
as 'Le bouillon'
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 ...

François-Xavier Demaison - Demaison s'évade
2013
as Self

Piaf, Hymnes à la Môme au Beacon Theatre, New York
2013
Producer

Just Like Brothers
2012
as Boris Naillac
Since Charlie is no longer there, the lives of Boris, Elie, and Maxime have been torn apart. These three men, who have nothing in common, all shared o...

Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2012
2012
as Self
Marrakech du Rire is an annual international festival of humor that has been held since 2011 in Marrakech, Morocco. Created by comedian Jamel Debbouze...

The Belgian Job
2012
as Willy Vanderbrook
Willy Vander Brook, a world with Franco-Belgian roots, travels to Paris for an interview. He is welcomed by his childhood friend Serge, an ex pub oper...

Zarafa
2012
as Malaterre (voice)
Inspired by the true story of the first giraffe to visit France, Zarafa is a sumptuously animated and stirring adventure, and a throwback to a bygone ...

Emilie Jolie
2011
as Chef Lapin (voice)
With the help of the Little Stone, the Hedgehog and the Great Bird, Emilie saves little blue rabbit Gilbert and the fantasy world. Throughout her adve...

Beur sur la ville
2011
as Picolini
25-year-old Khalid Belkacem has failed at everything: college education, summer camp instructor's permit, driver's license, and even his BCG. He never...

Nicostratos the Pelican
2011
as Aristote
After his wife died a man refuses to go out and doesn't want to talk to his only son. Life has no meaning for him. One day his son finds a baby pelica...

Moi, Michel G., milliardaire, maître du monde
2011
as Michel Ganiant
As a successful businessman, an uninhibited symbol of modern capitalism, Michel Gani has everything: money, power, love. And he wants it known. As he ...

Second Chance
2011
as Julien Monnier
Julien Monnier has a serious problem. Though he's a brilliant couples counselor, he can't keep a woman in his life for more than two weeks. Indeed, ev...

My Afternoons with Margueritte
2010
as Gardini
An illiterate and lonely man bonds with an older and well-read woman.

Traceless
2010
as Patrick Chambon
Étienne Meunier (Benoît Magimel) is a young executive who has everything going for him. His career is skyrocketing and he is about to become #1 at wor...

Retour en terre inconnue
2009
as Self

Divorces
2009
as Alex
Valentine and Alex are married, both lawyers, specializing in family matters. In the exercise of their profession, they defend the divorce of the XXI...

Little Nicholas
2009
as Mr. Dubon, aka 'le Bouillon'
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...

Neuilly Yo Mama!
2009
as Père Dinaro
Samy moves from the underdeveloped crime-ridden French suburb to the riches of Neuilly.

So Happy Together
2009
as Jean-Pierre
Famille : Groupe de personnes réunies par des liens de parenté et un fort sentiment de solidarité morale et matérielle. Quand Alain a épousé Nathalie,...

A Day at the Museum
2008
as Reception manager
Un conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un ballet de Saintes Vierges, des gardiens épuisés par Rodin,...

Coluche
2008
as Michel Colucci aka Coluche
French comedian Michel Colucci, better known as Coluche, announces - for laughs - his candidacy for the 1981 French presidential elections.

Florence Foresti & Friends
2008
as Self

L'Arbre de joie
2008

The First Day of the Rest of Your Life
2008
as Le docteur Marcaurel
A sprawling drama centered on five key days in a family's life.

48 Hours a Day
2008
as Animateur T.V.
A young professional woman takes radical action to force her husband's help with the household chores.

Disco
2008
as Guillaume
Didier Travolta is a 40-year-old disco music fan who has no job, lives with his mother, and has a son he hasn't seen for a while. The mother of his so...

Ça se soigne ?
2008
as Philippe Barrois
Tom has everything going for him! He is a renowned and celebrated conductor, sought after all over the world, and his talent is a source of national p...

François-Xavier Demaison : Demaison s'envole
2007
as Self

The Red Inn
2007
as Simon Barbeuf
A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving poisoned soup to the g...

Thirty-Five Something
2005
as Agent immobilier
Three women in their late thirties, one with marital problems, one trying to be perfect, and a spinster, discuss their relationship to men.
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