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Kad Merad
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 & Olivier began working together and started their own show, the Rock'n Roll Circus, introducing some of their most famous sketches (Pamela Rose, Teddy Porc Fidèle...). The early success of the show allowed them to meet Jean-Luc Delarue who brought their act to TV.
In 1999, they began appearing on the French Satellite TV channel Comédie+ on their own show, La Grosse Emission. At the same time, Merad started his Cinema career with a lot of secondary roles.
In 2003, he scored his First box-office success with Mais Qui a tué Pamela Rose?, co-written with Baroux.
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As actor
Les Héros du Louvre
Fausse note
Permis de détruire
11e edition de La Nuit de la Deprime aux Folies Bergère
A Family of Bastards
Popemobile
Before What Comes After
100 Million!
Les Enfoirés 2025 - Au pays des Enfoirés
Honeymoon Crasher
Vos 40 chansons préférées des Enfoirés
Traquer l'invisible - Nos chercheurs face à la menace mondiale des virus et des bactéries
Florent Pagny fait son Taratata
The Original+
At the End of the Day
Les Enfoirés 2024 - On a 35 ans !
King of My Castle
Les Boules de Noël
40
Le soir où j'ai reçu le César 2024
Les Enfoirés 2023 - Enfoirés un jour, toujours
Studio Bagel's 10th Anniversary
Life for Real
Florent Pagny : un homme libre
Une journée avec Jacques Brel
Citoyen d'honneur
Zaï Zaï Zaï Zaï
Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2022 : 10 ans
Jean-Luc Delarue, 10 ans déjà : de succès en excès
Benjamin Biolay - Christmas Show