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Dany Boon
Dany Boon (pronounced [dani bun]; born Daniel Farid Hamidou on 26 June 1966) is a French actor, film director, screenwriter and producer.
Starting as a comedian during the 1990s, he found success in 2008 as an actor and director in the comedy Welcome to the Sticks. Since then, he has been involved as a screenwriter, director or both in the films Nothing to Declare (2011), Supercondriaque (2014), Raid dingue (2017), La Ch'tite famille (2018), Stuck Together (2021) and Life for Real (2023).
Boon was born Daniel Farid Hamidou in a middle-class family in northern France. His father was born in 1930 in Issers, Algeria, and was Muslim and died in Lille, France, in 1992. He was a boxer and a chauffeur. Boon's mother, Danièle Ducatel, is from northern France. A Catholic, she was a stay-at-home mother.
He converted to Judaism (his wife's faith) in 2002.
He studied graphic arts at the Institut Saint-Luc in Belgium.
Boon arrived in Paris in 1989, where he was a mime in the streets for a living while appearing frequently on open mic nights at places such as the Treviso theatre. He borrowed his stage name, Daniel Boone, from a hero in the American television series about an American trapper.
He acted in several one-man shows.
Boon is also a musician: he has done a version of "Piensa en mí" ("Think of me"). He also writes his songs, for example "Le Blues du 'tiot poulet" ("The Chicken Blues").
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Dany Boon
Dany Boon (pronounced [dani bun]; born Daniel Farid Hamidou on 26 June 1966) is a French actor, film director, screenwriter and producer.
Starting as a comedian during the 1990s, he found success in 2008 as an actor and director in the comedy Welcome to the Sticks. Since then, he has been involved as a screenwriter, director or both in the films Nothing to Declare (2011), Supercondriaque (2014), Raid dingue (2017), La Ch'tite famille (2018), Stuck Together (2021) and Life for Real (2023).
Boon was born Daniel Farid Hamidou in a middle-class family in northern France. His father was born in 1930 in Issers, Algeria, and was Muslim and died in Lille, France, in 1992. He was a boxer and a chauffeur. Boon's mother, Danièle Ducatel, is from northern France. A Catholic, she was a stay-at-home mother.
He converted to Judaism (his wife's faith) in 2002.
He studied graphic arts at the Institut Saint-Luc in Belgium.
Boon arrived in Paris in 1989, where he was a mime in the streets for a living while appearing frequently on open mic nights at places such as the Treviso theatre. He borrowed his stage name, Daniel Boone, from a hero in the American television series about an American trapper.
He acted in several one-man shows.
Boon is also a musician: he has done a version of "Piensa en mí" ("Think of me"). He also writes his songs, for example "Le Blues du 'tiot poulet" ("The Chicken Blues").