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. In 2007, Kad received the César Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Je vais Bien, ne t'en fais pas! and appears in AaRON's film soundtrack video clip. His best challenger was Dany Boon. During the shooting of Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis, this friendly struggle was a running joke between the two of them. That same year, he made his first appearance with Les Enfoirés music troop and is still one of its members. He was also inducted as the Godfather of the Telethon. The next year, he starred as Phillipe Abrams in the French movie Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis. The film was a surprise - and phenomenal - success in France and Europe, becoming the best-attended movie ever made in France, with 21 million moviegoers.
Movie | Héro(s) | Babi Maklouf | 2025 |
Movie | Finalement | Lino | 2025 |
Series | Anthracite | 2024-04-10 | |
Movie | Les Enfoirés 2024 - On a 35 ans ! | 2024-03-01 | |
Movie | Florent Pagny : un homme libre | Self | 2023-01-01 |
Movie | Life For Real | Louis | 2023-04-19 |
Movie | Les Enfoirés 2023 - Enfoirés un jour, toujours | 2023-03-03 | |
Movie | Les 10 ans de Studio Bagel | Self - Guest Star | 2023-02-10 |
Series | Oussekine | Maitre Georges Kiejman | 2022-05-11 |
Movie | Zaï Zaï Zaï Zaï | Membre du comité de soutien | 2022-02-23 |
Series | Le Flambeau, les aventuriers de Chupacabra | Patrice | 2022-05-23 |
Movie | Citoyen d'honneur | Samir Amin | 2022-09-14 |
Movie | Benjamin Biolay - Christmas Show | Self | 2022-12-21 |
Movie | Jean-Luc Delarue, 10 ans déjà : de succès en excès | Self | 2022-08-24 |
Movie | The Year of the Shark | Thierry | 2022-08-03 |
Movie | Le Marrakech du rire 2022 : les 10 ans | Self | 2022-07-19 |
Movie | Kad Merad on Stage | Self | 2021-09-17 |
Movie | Johnny Hallyday : Que je t'aime | Self | 2021-09-14 |
Movie | Les Enfoirés 2021 - Les Enfoirés à côté de vous | 2021-03-05 | |
Series | La Flamme | Patrice | 2020-10-12 |
Movie | Une belle équipe | Marco | 2020-01-15 |
Movie | The Big Hit | Étienne Carboni | 2020-08-28 |
Movie | Les Enfoirés 2020 - Le Pari(s) des Enfoirés | 2020-03-06 | |
Movie | Les Enfoirés 2019 - Le Monde des Enfoirés | 2019-03-08 | |
Movie | Sixty | Self - Comedian | 2019-05-06 |
Movie | Just a Gigolo | Alex | 2019-04-17 |
Movie | Les Enfoirés jouent le jeu | 2019-11-30 | |
Series | Inside Suspicion | Thomas Kertez | 2019-09-10 |
Movie | Brillantissime | Dr Steinman | 2018-01-17 |
Movie | Family Is Family | Kad Merad | 2018-02-28 |
Movie | L'Étrange Noël de Jeff Panacloc | Self | 2018-12-08 |
Movie | Looking for Teddy | Michel | 2018-06-20 |
Movie | Dad Friend | Stéphane | 2018-12-19 |
Movie | Kings for a Day | Joseph | 2018-05-02 |
Movie | Les Enfoirés 2018 - Musique ! | 2018-03-09 | |
Movie | Les Enfoirés 2017 - Mission Enfoirés | 2017-03-03 | |
Movie | Alibi.com | Mr. Godet | 2017-02-15 |
Movie | Orchestra Class | Simon Daoud | 2017-11-08 |
Series | Baron Noir | Philippe Rickwaert | 2016-02-08 |
Movie | Marseille | Paolo | 2016-03-16 |
Movie | Max & Leon | Acteur à la télévision anglaise | 2016-11-01 |
Movie | Les Enfoirés 2016 - Au rendez-vous des Enfoirés | 2016-03-11 | |
Movie | La Folle Soirée du Palmashow 3 | Self - Guest | 2016-10-04 |
Movie | Bis | Patrice | 2015-02-18 |
Movie | Disappeared in Winter | Daniel | 2015-01-21 |
Series | Peplum | Timo | 2015-02-24 |
Movie | Gad Elmaleh - 20 ans de scène ! | Self | 2015-05-16 |
Movie | Les Enfoirés 2015 - Sur la route des Enfoirés | 2015-03-13 | |
Movie | We Were Young | Kiki | 2015-06-03 |
Movie | Hotel Transylvania 2 | Additional Voices (voice) | 2015-09-21 |
Movie | The Parisian B* | Himself | 2015-04-29 |
Movie | Superchondriac | Dimitri Zvenka | 2014-02-26 |
Movie | Nicholas on Holiday | Le père de Nicolas | 2014-07-09 |
Movie | Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui | 2014-12-13 | |
Movie | Bangkok, We Have A Problem! | Serge Renart | 2014-10-22 |
Movie | Les Enfoirés 2014 - Bon anniversaire Les Enfoirés | 2014-03-14 | |
Movie | It Happened in Saint-Tropez | Roni Melkowich | 2013-01-13 |
Movie | The Big Bad Wolf | Louis | 2013-06-27 |
Movie | Superstar | Martin Kazinski | 2012-08-29 |
Movie | Mais qui a re-tué Pamela Rose ? | Richard Bullit | 2012-12-05 |
Movie | Guerre d'Algerie - La déchirure | La narrateur | 2012-03-11 |
Movie | Play It Like Godard | star | 2012-02-08 |
Movie | Images of Women of the Social Corset | Self (archive footage) | 2011-01-05 |
Movie | Les Enfoirés 2011 - Dans l'oeil des Enfoirés | 2011-03-11 | |
Movie | Monsieur Papa | Robert Pique | 2011-06-01 |
Movie | Happy Feet Two | Additional Voices (voice) | 2011-11-17 |
Movie | War of the Buttons | Père Lebrac | 2011-09-21 |
Movie | The Tuche Family | Le poissonnier | 2011-06-30 |
Movie | The Well Digger's Daughter | Félipe Rambert | 2011-04-20 |
Movie | Protect and Serve | Michel Boudriau | 2010-01-03 |
Movie | Les Enfoirés 2010 - Les Enfoirés... la Crise de Nerfs | 2010-03-12 | |
Movie | The Italian | Dino/Mourad | 2010-07-07 |
Movie | 22 Bullets | Tony Zacchia | 2010-03-23 |
Movie | RTT | Arthur Lepage | 2009-12-09 |
Movie | Safari | Richard Dacier | 2009-04-01 |
Movie | Little Nicholas | Le père de Nicolas | 2009-09-30 |
Movie | Welcome to the Sticks | Philippe Abrams | 2008-02-20 |
Movie | Modern Love | Olivier | 2008-03-10 |
Movie | Paris 36 | Jacky Jacquet | 2008-09-24 |
Movie | Les Enfoirés 2008 - Les secrets des Enfoirés | 2008-03-07 | |
Movie | My Stars | Robert Pelage | 2008-10-29 |
Movie | Could This Be Love? | Rachid | 2007-02-08 |
Movie | Kad et Olivier - Antotologie | Himself | 2007-01-02 |
Movie | Tonight I'll Sleep at Yours | Jacques | 2007-11-21 |
Movie | In Mom's Head | Jacques Charlot | 2007-03-28 |
Movie | 3 Friends | Baptiste 'Titi' Capla | 2007-08-22 |
Movie | Pur week-end | Frédéric Alvaro | 2007-05-02 |
Movie | Try Me | Vincent | 2006-03-06 |
Movie | Les Irréductibles | Gérard | 2006-06-14 |
Movie | A Ticket to Space | Cardoux | 2006-01-16 |
Movie | Don't Worry, I'm Fine | Paul Tellier | 2006-09-06 |
Movie | J'invente rien | Paul | 2006-08-16 |
Movie | Happy Feet | Additional Voices (voice) | 2006-11-16 |
Movie | Beyond the Ocean | Oncle Tango | 2006-07-02 |
Movie | Iznogoud | le génie Ouzmoutousouloubouloubombé | 2005-01-19 |
Movie | Lucky Luke and the Daltons | Le Mexicain Cellule | 2004-11-08 |
Movie | The Chorus | Chabert | 2004-03-17 |
Movie | Kad et Olivier - La traversée de l'Atlantique en solitaire à 2 | Kad Merad | 2004-11-16 |
Movie | The Pharmacist | le médecin légiste | 2003-01-15 |
Movie | The Dope | Le directeur artistique de Pacific Recordings | 2003-02-05 |
Movie | Kad et Olivier - Le Meilleur de Kad et Olivier | 2003-09-23 | |
Movie | Don't Worry, Be Happy | Pierre 2 | 2003-05-14 |
Series | Samedi soir en direct | 2003-09-13 | |
Movie | Mais qui a tué Pamela Rose ? | Richard Bullit | 2003-06-04 |
Movie | The Car Keys | Un comédien qui refuse de tourner avec Laurent | 2003-12-10 |
Movie | Bloody Christmas | 2002-01-01 | |
Movie | The Tombs | Gustave | 2002-04-06 |
Series | Burger Quiz | Unknown | 2001-08-27 |
Movie | The High Life | Le motard | 2001-11-28 |
Movie | Kad et Olivier vous font montrer... Le Gros DVD | 2001-12-05 | |
Movie | The Strategy of Failure | M. Golden | 2001-11-20 |
Series | Caméra Café | Un psychopathe | 2001-10-29 |