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French actor, screenwriter and film director

OverviewAI-generated

Dany Boon is a French male artist whose work period began in 1989. Born on June 26, 1966, he stands 1.78 meters tall. His artistic genres are classified as French and humorist. He has released five works.

The artist maintains a social media following of 16,800. On Last.fm, his profile lists 3,914 listeners and a total playcount of 20,744. He is referenced by 221 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 16 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
France
Active from
1966-06-26
frenchhumorist

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
3,914
Total plays
20,744

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Dany+Boon">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Key facts

Born
Daniel Farid Hamidou , ( 1966-06-26 ) 26 June 1966 (age 59) , Armentières , Hauts-de-France , France
Occupations
Actor, film director, screenwriter, producer
Years active
1992–present
Spouses
Judith Godrèche ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1998 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2002 ) ​ Yaël Harris ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2003 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2018 ) ​
Partner
Laurence Arné (2018–2025)

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Daniel
Gender
male
Citizenship
France
Place of birth
Armentières
Occupation
film producer
Languages spoken
French
Native language
French
Image
Dany Boon Césars 2015.jpg
Height
1.78
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name in native language
Dany Boon
Commons category
Dany Boon
date of birth
1966-06-26
start of work period
1989-00-00
social media followers
16800
pseudonym
Dany Boon
birth name
Daniel Farid Hamidou
notable role
François Pignon
Sources (6)

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Encyclopedic overview

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).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dany Boon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.