Frédéric Chau
Also Known As: Frederic Chau
Biography: Frédéric Chau, né le 6 juin 1977 à Saïgon (Vietnam), est un humoriste et acteur français d'origine chinoise. Il s'est révélé au public grâce à sa participation au Jamel Comedy Club. Frédéric Chau est né à Saïgon au Vietnam, de parents chinois du Cambodge. En 1977 à Phnom Penh au Cambodge, sa mère enceinte de lui quitte le pays pour le Vietnam, afin d'échapper aux Khmers rouges qui massacrent les civils. Alors qu'il n'a que 6 mois, sa famille déménage en France. Ils s'installent à Marx-Dormoy, dans le 18e arrondissement de Paris. Très rapidement ils déménagent dans la banlieue parisienne (93). Frédéric est l'aîné de trois enfants, ses parents lui prodiguent une éducation stricte et l'envoient étudier ses années de lycée à Paris. À 18 ans, Frédéric Chau obtient son bac scientifique, puis un DUT en télécommunication. Après avoir été repéré par un photographe de mode, il exerce brièvement, une carrière de modèle pour l'agence de pub "People". Passionné de voyage, en 1998 il est recruté chez Air France comme steward, tout en étudiant la comédie. En 2005, Frédéric Chau monte sur scène et obtient un vif succès en interprétant différents sketchs et en intervenant dans plusieurs scènes de stand-up, notamment au théâtre de Ménilmontant et au théâtre de Dix Heures avec le club Barres de Rires. En 2006, avec sa chemise blanche, sa cravate et sa veste de costume impeccables, il est le seul Asiatique de la bande du Jamel Comedy Club et il s'en amuse. « Pas facile d'être un comédien asiatique si tu sais pas faire de karaté, de nems, ou que tu connais rien en informatique ! » En 2009, il participe avec les autres membres du Club au doublage du Chihuahua de Beverly Hills. Il prête sa voix au personnage de Delgado. La même année il quitte la troupe de Jamel Debbouze, pour se consacrer entièrement à sa carrière de comédien. En 2014, il joue dans la comédie Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au Bon Dieu ?. Il y joue le rôle du mari d'une des filles de la famille Verneuil, au grand dam de ses parents interprétés par Chantal Lauby et Christian Clavier. Reconnu acteur français ayant eu le plus de succès en 2014 avec près de 17,5 millions d'entrées sur l'année.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Saigon, Vietnam
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Birthday: June 06, 1977
Age: 47 years old
Gender: Male
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Halal State Security
Overview: Someone is killing Parisians of Arab ethnicity. When an Algerian diplomat is murdered by the same assailant, two Algerian detectives are sent to help the French with the investigation and they have their own ways of doing things.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-02-16
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Rock Paper Scissors
Overview: Four men are each looking for a way out. Their fates collide one night.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-01-25
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Serial (Bad) Weddings
Overview: A catholic French couple sees their life upside down when their four daughters get married to men of different religion and origins.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-04-16
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Paris or Perish
Overview: Maya is living the ultimate fashionistas dream: she is working as a stylist for one of the French trend setters, in the capital of haute-couture: Paris. One of the IT girls of fashion, shes following her dreams until one night, when her life takes a sudden turn: shes being deported back to Morocco, after being stopped for over speeding, because her Visa expired some time ago. So in no more than 24 hours, shes deported back to her family and original country. The strong cultural shock and the judgmental differences are pushing the woman to obtain back her place in the city of dreams and her dreams, no matter the costs. But that doesn't mean she will have to return alone, as she finds other things also among her way back to the city.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-07-15
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District 13: Ultimatum
Overview: Damien and Leito return to District 13 on a mission to bring peace to the troubled sector that is controlled by five different gang bosses, before the city’s secret services take drastic measures to solve the problem.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-02-18
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Lucy
Overview: A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-25
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The Incredible Adventures of Fusion Man
Overview: It's a comedy, inspired superhero films. Dan, aka Fusion Man, is about to spend the evening with his boyfriend Marc, but he has to leave to rescue an innocent person. He discovers that Raphael, a young gay is about to commit suicide, handled by Waco, a super villain. The duel between Waco and Fusion Man will lead to a discussion that will allow everyone to take stock of the situation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-06-19
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Zhai
Overview: I am not what happened to me... I am what I choose to become.
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Original Language: es
Release Date: 2017-06-01
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Under my skin
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2014-04-26
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Paris Express
Overview: From multicultural Paris to designer Paris, Montmartre to the Champs-Elysées, sleazy sidewalks to high-end galleries... Watch out! Sam the courier is a man on a mission! On his scooter, Sam breaks every rule of the road to make good on the "express delivery" promise of the courier service he works for. But however hard he tries, Sam never gets a bonus from his boss, never beats his slicker colleagues and never gets past his Dad, a cop who books him every time. All Sam has up is Nadia, and she will turn on him if he doesn't show up for her sister's wedding. Trouble is, Sam has one more delivery to make and his day has just gone from bad to worse...
Genres: Comedy Action Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-02-24
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From Paris with Love
Overview: James Reese has a good job as an ambassador's aid in France, but his real passion is a side gig—working in a minor role in the CIA. He would love to be a full-fledged agent and can't believe his luck when he lands an assignment with Charlie Wax. Trigger-happy Charlie soon has James crying for his desk job, but when he learns that the same guys they're trying to catch are after him, James realises that Charlie may be his only hope of survival.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-02-04
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Dealer
Overview: After giving up a life of cocaine trafficking, Dan is offered a chance to achieve his dream : moving to Australia with his daughter. He accepts the deal and starts a downward spiral sucking him back into 24 hours of hell.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-09-04
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The Translators
Overview: Nine translators, hired to translate the eagerly awaited final book of a bestselling trilogy, are confined in a luxurious bunker.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-12-20
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Serial (Bad) Weddings 2
Overview: Claude and Marie Verneuil face a new crisis. The four spouses of their daughters, David, Rachid, Chao and Charles decided to leave France for various reasons. Here they are imagining their lives elsewhere.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-01-30
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Made in China
Overview: François, a young thirty-year-old Asian, has not been back in his family for 10 years after a violent dispute with his father Meng. Since then, he has always tried to avoid questions about his origins, until he lies to believe that he has been adopted. But when he learns that he is going to be a father, he realizes that he will have to reconnect with his past and his origins. Pushed by his companion Sophie, he decides to reconnect with his family and returns to his XIIIth native district to announce the good news, accompanied by his best friend Bruno. François is welcomed with open arms by his family, with the exception of his father and his younger brother. The return to his community is not going to be so simple .
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-06-26
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Neuilly Yo Mama!
Overview: Samy moves from the underdeveloped crime-ridden French suburb to the riches of Neuilly.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-08-12
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Qu'est-ce qu'ils ont fait au bon Dieu ?
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-07-01
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Big is Beautiful
Overview: A resort for individuals who want to lose weight is helps several women discover friendships, acceptance with body image and hard truths.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-03-27
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Les Justes
Overview: Today, immense confusion reigns over the quest for the absolute, revolt and fury, violence and its appendages. And many people plunge back in Albert Camus' work to find answers. In the foreword to his play, the philosopher and writer summarizes the intrigue as follows: "In February 1905, in Moscow, a group of terrorists, belonging to the Socialist Revolutionary Party, organized a bomb attack against the Grand Duke Serge, Tsar's uncle ”. The rapper and slammer Abd Al Malik offers with this "musical tragedy" a contemporary staging of "The Just", a complete creation, faithful to the text of Camus, but reinventing a scenic and musical language resolutely inscribed in our time.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-01-01
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Serial (Bad) Weddings 3
Overview: Claude and Marie Verneuil will soon be celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary. For the occasion, their four daughters - Isabelle, Odile, Ségolène and Laure - decide to organize a big surprise party in their family home in Chinon. They also decide to invite, each, the parents of their respective husbands - Rachid Benassem, David Benichou, Chao Ling and Charles Koffi.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-12-21
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Coup de foudre à Bangkok
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-10-21
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Le Jamel Comedy Club envahit le Casino de Paris
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-11-22
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Eden Is West
Overview: Desperate to break free from the poverty of his homeland, Elias boards a ramshackle people-smuggling trawler to France. But when the boat is raided by police, Elias leaps into the ocean, eventually finding himself washed up on a Mediterranean beach resort called Eden. So begins Elias odyssesy across Western Europe to Paris, where wondrous promise, helpful new friends and perilous dangers await him every step of the way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-02-11
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Operation Portugal
Overview: Hakim, 35, a friendly neighborhood cop, must infiltrate the Portuguese community for the purpose of an investigation. But can one become Portuguese in three days? Especially when we know that Hakim is a walking disaster at undercover operations. His clumsiness and bad luck turn his many infiltrations into cataclysms. The case is clearly too big for him. Quickly trapped between his feelings and his mission, Hakim, who lives alone with his mother, will discover a community, but also a family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-06-23
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All You Need is Lie
Overview: In the jungle that is celibacy and dating apps, Zoé just found the man of her life. An idyll which lasts - 2 hours - before Robinson falls into a coma. One misunderstanding later, she is now engaged to this man and responsible for his two children while he is hospitalized. Playing along, Zoé will have to play the perfect girlfriend to man she barely knows - But along the line of lies and time passed in the world of this charming stranger, won't she end up by believing in this love? What will happen once Robinson wakes up?
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-09-07
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