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person_profile-Michaël Youn

Michaël Youn Age: 51

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Michaël Youn

Date of Birth:

Dec 02, 1973

Country of birth:

France

Biography of

Michaël Youn

    Michaël Benayoun (born 1973), known professionally as Michaël Youn, is a French actor, singer, comedian and television personality.

    Youn was born Michaël Benayoun in Suresnes, France, to a family of Hungarian, Italian, Moroccan-Jewish, and Algerian-Jewish descent.

    After his education as an announcer and theater actor, Youn joined the Paris radio station Skyrock in 1998. There, he made sketches and further entertainment during the morning show.

    The popularity and success of Michael Youn, at the most important French private broadcast station brought Youn to the attention of French TV executives. In July 2000, he was hired for the new morning show "Morning Live" shown on Métropole 6. With Vincent Desagnat and Benjamin Morgaine, Youn did the entertainment part of the show. Like their sketches and public events (e.g. foam bath in a Paris fountain, and waking random Parisians up shooting the slogan of the show at them), their parodies were particularly successful. In particular, they parodied the music scene of Jean-Michel Jarre, casting-popstars, the Grand Prix and French rappers.

    The success of "Morning Live" was mainly due to Youn and his colleagues – when they left the show, it remained on the air for just one more year.

    After leaving "Morning Live" in 2002, Youn, Desagnat and Morgaine have focused on their music parodies: The three sailors "Piotr", "Olaff" and "Dvorjak" from the Eastern European "Slowakistan", the Bratisla Boys, appeared on the Western music market with their song "Stach Stach". The act became a big success and was number one on the French charts for ten weeks. On a 2004 list of the all-time best selling CDs in France, "Stach Stach" was listed number 30. The success even spread beyond the French border and reached Switzerland, where it was 2nd on the official charts. On 7 July 2002, the project was stopped by its makers. They claimed that the Bratisla Boys had vanished on the Dead Sea without a trace.

    In 2003, the film "La Beuze", written by Youn and Desagnat, was released. Youn played the character of Alphonse, the "unknown son" of James Brown, who tries to start his own career – by creating a new (fictional) style called "Frunkp" (a mixture of funk and rap). The song "Le Frunkp" was published as a CD-single and Michaël Youn (under the name of Alphonse Brown) had another hit. This time, he even reached #1 in Swiss charts.

    Youn had a comedy-tour, called Pluskapoil in 2003/04 (its sequel followed in 2005) and has acted in films. New music projects followed: Les Conards (The Imbeciles) with Comme des Connards, a cover version of My Sharona by The Knack, as well as a song for the movie Iznogoud (both were in the French Top 20). He had small roles in rather big films, and was part of Les 11 commandements in 2004 (A French film done in the style of MTV's Jackass, together with Desagnat and Morgaine).

    In 2005, Youn was Iznogoud in the film version of the comic "Iznogoud" (also known as Isnogud). In 2006, he had the main role in the film comedy Incontrôlable. Those two films were not very successful, critics and viewers finding them only so-so. Both films starred Desagnat and Morgaine, but only in small roles.

    In 2010, he directed his first movie "Fatal" in which he also stars. ...

    Source: Article "Michaël Youn" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Filmography of

Michaël Youn

Found 45 Movies in total

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... 2024

Superpapa

Christophe Perrot ( Actor )

... 2023

BDE

Bob ( Actor )

Writer

... 2023

... 2022

... 2022

... 2021

Connectés

François ( Actor )

... 2020

Divorce Club

Titi ( Actor )

Director

... 2020

Lucky

Tony ( Actor )

... 2020

Meet the Malawas

Kévin Queffelec ( Actor )

Writer

... 2019

No Filter

Fabrice ( Actor )

... 2019

Watch Me Burn

Patrick Demarescau ( Actor )

... 2018

Deux gouttes d'eau

Sam Barbieri ( Actor )

... 2018

Christ(Off)

Chris ( Actor )

... 2018

Brillantissime

Ben ( Actor )

... 2018

Carbone

Laurent Melki ( Actor )

... 2017

Sahara

Poisson des Sables (voice) ( Actor )

... 2017

The Canterville Ghost

Gwilherm ( Actor )

... 2016

... 2015

Family Business

Max Perez ( Actor )

... 2014

Penguins of Madagascar

Additional Voices (voice) ( Actor )

... 2014

Vive la France

Feruz ( Actor )

Screenplay

... 2013

... 2013

The Crossing

Martin Arendt ( Actor )

... 2012

Le Chef

Jacky Bonnot ( Actor )

... 2012

Wok the Kasbah

Policier 2 ( Actor )

... 2011

Fatal

Fatal Bazooka ( Actor )

Writer

... 2010

Paris Express

Sam ( Actor )

... 2010

Lucky Luke

Billy The Kid ( Actor )

... 2009

Florence Foresti & Friends

Christelle Bazooka ( Actor )

... 2008

Héros

Pierre Forêt / Pi ( Actor )

... 2007

Le Pire du Morning Live

Michaël Youn ( Actor )

... 2006

Muppets TV

Self - Guest (5) ( Actor )

... 2006

Iznogoud

Iznogoud ( Actor )

... 2005

... 2005

The Box

Le réparateur ( Actor )

... 2004

Around the World in 80 Days

Art Gallery Manager ( Actor )

... 2004

The 11 Commandments

Mike ( Actor )

... 2004

... 2004

The Car Keys

Un comédien qui refuse de tourner avec Laurent ( Actor )

... 2003

Chouchou

Le transformiste brésilien ( Actor )

... 2003

The Dope

Alphonse Brown ( Actor )

... 2003