Biography
Omar Sy (born 20 January 1978) is a French film actor, best known for his duo with Fred Testot, Omar et Fred, and for his role in The Intouchables, written and directed by Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano, which became the second highest grossing French film of all time in the French box office. He received the César Award for Best Actor on 24 February 2012 for his role in The Intouchables and in doing so also became the first black actor to win the honorary French award. The role also earned h...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Dumas: Black Devil
2027
Thomas Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie Dumas was born a Caribbean slave in 1762 and beat the odds by rising through the ranks to become a revolutiona...

The Strangers' Case
2025
as Marwan
Over four centuries ago, William Shakespeare collaborated with others on a play about the historical figure Sir Thomas More. In it, he wrote a speech ...

Patience (Sabali)
2025
as Sekou

Shadow Force
2025
as Isaac
Kyrah and Isaac were once the leaders of a multinational special forces group called Shadow Force. They broke the rules by falling in love, and in ord...

Out of Control
2025
as Julien
Julien and Marie have enjoyed 15 years of seemingly stable marriage until Anaëlle, Julien’s childhood flame, returns. Her sudden presence awakens old ...

Out of Control
2025
Producer
Julien and Marie have enjoyed 15 years of seemingly stable marriage until Anaëlle, Julien’s childhood flame, returns. Her sudden presence awakens old ...

Michel Denisot n'aime pas les anniversaires
2024
as Self
He may not like birthdays, but Michel Denisot celebrates LGJ's 20th, CANAL+'s 40th, and his own 80th!

The Killer
2024
as Sey
Zee is a feared contract killer known as "the Queen of the Dead," but when she refuses to murder a young blind woman, she finds herself hunted both by...

The Book of Clarence
2024
as Barabbas
Streetwise but down-on-his-luck, Clarence is struggling to find a better life for his family, while fighting to free himself of debt. Captivated by th...

Father & Soldier
2023
as Bakary Diallo
1917. Bakary Diallo enlists in the French army to join his 17-year-old son, Thierno, who has been forcibly recruited. Sent to the front, they will hav...

Father & Soldier
2023
Producer
1917. Bakary Diallo enlists in the French army to join his 17-year-old son, Thierno, who has been forcibly recruited. Sent to the front, they will hav...

Jurassic World Dominion
2022
as Barry Sembène
Four years after Isla Nublar was destroyed, dinosaurs now live—and hunt—alongside humans all over the world. This fragile balance will reshape the fut...

The Takedown
2022
as Ousmane Diakhité
Ousmane Diakité and François Monge are two cops with very different styles, backgrounds and careers. The unlikely pair are reunited once again for a n...

Drôles de familles
2022
as Self
When comedians draw on the family to make people laugh, everyone is concerned. This documentary looks at everything that is horrifying or hilarious in...

Fake News
2021
as Starsky, the Uber driver
After stealing a gaming console from migrants, Sébastien tries to sell it to Patrick, a good guy. So far, nothing too serious. But when a rapper strai...

La télé d'Omar et Fred
2020

GIMS: On the Record
2020
as Self
Go backstage with beloved rap superstar Gims in the year leading up to his major 2019 Stade de France performance in this up-close documentary.

Anelka: Misunderstood
2020
as Self
Bad boy or football genius? Famed French footballer Nicolas Anelka's controversial legacy is examined in an unflinching documentary.

Simply Black
2020
as Omar Sy
A failed 40 year old comedian wants to organize the first Black protests in France but meeting with other French celebrities of the Black community wi...

Night Shift
2020
as Aristide
Three officers are tasked with escorting an illegal immigrant to Charles de Gaulle airport, where he will be forced onto a plane and sent back to his ...

Refugee
2020
as Marwan
A Syrian doctor attempts to escape her war-ravaged homeland with her young daughter.

The Call of the Wild
2020
as Perreault
Buck is a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to...

The Lost Prince
2020
as Djibi, le père / le prince
Djibi lives alone with Sofia, his 8-year-old daughter. Every night, he invents a story to put him to sleep. When Sofia falls asleep, these extraordina...

Arctic Dogs
2019
as Leopold (voice)
Animals band together to save the day when the evil Otto Von Walrus hatches a sinister scheme to accelerate global warming and melt the Arctic Circle.

The Wolf's Call
2019
as D'Orsi
Shown from the perspective of a young submariner with unusually sensitive hearing and uncannily precise sound recognition. The fate of many often depe...

Yao
2019
as Seydou Tall
From his village in northern Senegal, Yao is a 13-year-old boy ready to do anything to meet his hero: Seydou Tall, a famous French actor. Invited to D...

Yao
2019
Producer
From his village in northern Senegal, Yao is a 13-year-old boy ready to do anything to meet his hero: Seydou Tall, a famous French actor. Invited to D...

Omar Sy, c'est ta chance
2018
as Self

Belleville Cop
2018
as Baaba Keita
When a childhood friend from Miami gets killed after he comes to warn of encroaching drug gangs, Baaba moves to Miami and teams up with a local office...

The State Against Mandela and the Others
2018
Associate Producer
South Africa, July 11th, 1963. Several members of the African National Congress, an organization declared illegal, are arrested in Rivonia, a country ...

The Perfect Day
2018
as Self
French soccer fans, celebrities and athletes retrace the exhilarating events of July 12, 1998, as France earned a historic win in the World Cup final.

Au tableau - Edouard Philippe / Anne Hidalgo / Omar Sy
2017
as Self, Actor

Knock
2017
as Knock
Doctor Knock is a former thug who has become a doctor and arrives in the small village of Saint-Maurice to make his fortune according to a particular ...

Transformers: The Last Knight
2017
as Hot Rod (voice)
Humans and Transformers are at war. Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history ...

Sahara
2017
as Ajar (voice)
A young cobra and his scorpion best friend go on a journey across the Sahara desert to save a new-found love.

Two Is a Family
2016
as Samuel
A man without attachments or responsibilities suddenly finds himself with an abandoned baby and leaves for London to try and find the mother. Eight ye...

Inferno
2016
as Christoph Bouchard
After waking up in a hospital with amnesia, professor Robert Langdon and a doctor must race against time to foil a deadly global plot.

The Blues: Another Story of France
2016
as Self
This documentary charts 20 years of the French national soccer team, Les Bleus, whose ups and downs have mirrored those of French society.

Dans l'ombre de Teddy Riner
2016
as Himself
Documentary following Teddy Riner's incredible career from 2004 to 2016 before Rio Olympic Games. We learn about his roots in Guadeloupe, his training...

Chocolat
2016
as Rafael Padilla, aka Chocolat
Chocolat the clown, the first black stage performer in France, goes from anonymity to fame after forming an unprecedented duo with fellow performer Fo...

Burnt
2015
as Michel
Adam Jones is a Chef who destroyed his career with drugs and diva behavior. He cleans up and returns to London, determined to redeem himself by spearh...

Jurassic World
2015
as Barry
Twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park, Isla Nublar now features a fully functioning dinosaur theme park, Jurassic World, as originally en...

Mune: Guardian of the Moon
2015
as Sohone (voice)
When a faun named Mune becomes the Guardian of the Moon, little did he had unprepared experience with the Moon and an accident that could put both the...

CANAL+'s 30th anniversary
2014
as Self
Primetime special to celebrate 30 years of CANAL+.

Samba
2014
as Samba Cissé
Samba migrated to France 10 years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs. Alice is a senior executive who has recent...

Samba
2014
Co-Producer
Samba migrated to France 10 years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs. Alice is a senior executive who has recent...

Good People
2014
as Khan
Tom and Anna Wright, a young American couple, fall into severe debt while renovating Tom's family home in London. As the couple faces the loss of thei...

X-Men: Days of Future Past
2014
as Bishop
The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods as they join forces with their younger selves in an e...

L'entrée des Trappistes
2013
as Self

Mood Indigo
2013
as Nicolas
A woman suffers from an unusual illness caused by a flower growing in her lungs.

On the Other Side of the Tracks
2012
as Ousmane Diakhité
Two mismatched cops team up to investigate the murder of a business mogul's wife.

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

The Dream Team
2012
as Wéké N’Dogo
A former footballer living in Brittany enlists his old teammates to help the local fisherman to win some games in order to raise money and save jobs.

The Intouchables
2011
as Driss
A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the proje...

The Tuche Family
2011
as Le curé
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...

Marrakech du rire
2011
as Self
From June 8 to 12, 2011, Jamel Debbouze organized the first Marrakech Laughter Festival. For this major event, Jamel invited his friends from the worl...

The Storytelling Show
2010
as Momo (voice)
Two children, Pierre and Jeanne, register their father into a televised contest of papas storytellers. Terrified, Laurent, the father, will have to re...

Florence Foresti : Mother Fucker
2010
as Taxi driver
France's darling comedian came back in force on the boards in the fall of 2009 with this hour and a half show, inspired by her experience of motherhoo...

Conte de la frustration
2010
as Mo

The Not-So-Little Thumbling
2010
as Grand Poucet
French parody of the Hop-o'-My-Thumb fairytale.

Murphy's Law
2009
as Joachim Ortega / Father Joachim Ortega
After four years in jail, Elias is doing his rehabilitation in an hospital as stretcher bearer. In five hours, his parole will be completed. He will m...

Micmacs
2009
as Remington
While standing in the doorway of the video shop where he works, Bazil is inadvertently shot in the head. Now homeless and jobless, he is taken in by a...

Round Da Way
2009
as Narbé (voice)
It’s summer in the hood. As every year, there are those who stay, those who leave, and... those who should have left. Some, like Joe Hustleton, work «...

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

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

King Guillaume
2009
as Jean Peter
Magali plays in a brass band. Guillaume drives a small tourist train. Both spin a perfect love, they share modest dreams and their baby is about to co...

Special Correspondents
2009
as Jimmy
R2I, a famous news radio station, sends its best reporting duo to Iraq: Frank, journalist, and Poussin, sound engineer. Very quickly, millions of list...

2 Alone in Paris
2008
as Sammy Bouglioni
A bumbling Paris policeman is doggedly determined to capture the master thief that repeatedly eludes him, even when they're the last two men on Earth.

VERSUS
2008
as Self
Portrait of the "battle phenomenon" in the Hip-Hop scene in France. In recent years, these artistic confrontations have been multiplying across France...

Garage Babes
2007
as Hamidou
Three sexy young women break down in a desert similar to those of the American South. Thanks to a voiceover , they manage to temporarily repair their ...

Omar et Fred - Le spectacle
2007
as Omar Sy
Le spectacle d'Omar & Fred enregistré au Casino de Paris...

Those Happy Days
2006
as Joseph
Set in 1992, a manager Vincent has to run a children's holiday camp for three weeks and to face the unexpected concerning the place, his colleagues, v...

Once Upon a Time in the Oued
2005
as le génie de la lampe
In 1988, Johnny Leclerc, the son of a Norman mother and an Alsatian father, lives in a suburban housing estate with his friends. He behaves like a Mus...

The Box
2004
as Lorenzo
A guy has to move out in a day, completely unprepared, and drive his mum to the airport. Completely stressed out, he calls his friends for help. Short...

L'Année des Guignols - Un Jean-Pierre ça peut tout faire
2004
as Impersonator (voices)
Coming-Out
2004
as Omar Sy
Max has a date with a woman, and is invited to her appartment. However, he has a secret to tell her...

The Dope
2003
as Michel Dembélé
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 ...

Samouraïs
2002
as Tyson
An ageless Demon Warrior is magically impregnated into the womb of a Parisian Kung-Fu Master's girlfriend. But what is the Demon's relationship with a...

If I Was Him
2002
as Gabriel
A down-on-his-luck architect and his handsome, successful colleague married to the woman they both love, drink a potion given to the former by a black...
Ces jours heureux
2002
as Brice

Dead Weight
2002
as Malian guy
After winning the lottery, a convict must chase down the warden who has his winning ticket.

The Race
2002
as Sergent ONU
Sami, Tacchini, Yaya and Kader are four small-time crooks from the suburbs of Paris. After a failed robbery, their boss, Carlito, sends them to Canada...

La Tour Montparnasse Infernale
2001
as Le Taxi
Eric and Ramzy are working as window washers at the Montparnasse skyscraper in Paris. Thinking that he has a date set up with beautiful executive Mari...

L'année des guignols - Ras le bol les guignols !
2000
as impersonation (voices)
- The Board of DSK - The complaints of the grandmother mustache - The Tiberi make us cry - Edward loose - Right Park - Lionel Jospin Love

Jamel Debbouze - Le très très bien de Jamel
2000
as Self

Jamel Show
1999
as Self
Jamel is given carte blanche at CANAL+ for an hour, the comedian took this opportinity to gather friends and guests for a comedy special to celebrate ...
Le Chat du rabbin
N/A
as Le chat
French Lover
N/A
as Abel Camara
Abel Camara, the biggest star of the moment, crosses paths with girl-next-door Marion. Neither of them suspects this will be the beginning of a great ...
Patience
N/A
as Sekou

11817
N/A
Producer
Inexplicable forces trap a family of four inside their house indefinitely. As both modern luxuries and life-or-death essentials begin to run out, the ...