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Fonzy
''Fonzy'' is a 2013 French comedy film about a fish deliveryman in Paris becomes involved in a legal battle with his sperm donation children. The film is a remake of the Quebecois film '' Starbuck'' (2011). Plot Twenty years ago, Diego Costa, under the pseudonym "Fonzy", repeatedly donated sperm to the sperm bank. Today, at 42, he is a deliveryman in a family-owned fishmonger and leads a teenage irresponsible and blundering life. While his wife Elsa learns that she is pregnant, his past resurfaces. Diego discovers he is the father of 533 children, 142 of them want to know who is Fonzy. Cast * José Garcia as Diego * Audrey Fleurot as Elsa * Lucien Jean-Baptiste as Quentin * Gérard Hernandez as Ramon * Arnaud Tsamere as Maître Chasseigne * Alice Belaïdi as Sybille * François Civil as Hugo * Alison Wheeler as Alix * Pablo Pauly Pablo Pauly (born 24 January 1991) is a French actor. Theater Filmography References External links * 1991 births Living people Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnaud Tsamere
Arnaud Tsedri (born 11 March 1975), better known by the stage name Arnaud Tsamere (), is a French comedian, actor, television presenter and sports journalist. Born in Bordeaux and raised in the Yvelines, he joined the Déclic Théâtre group after quitting his sales job. There, he acted in plays and participated in improvisation events. He wrote his first one-man show, ''Réflexions profondes sur pas mal de trucs'', in 2002 with Arnaud Joyet, and his second, '' Chose Promise'', in 2007 with Joyet and François Rollin. His third, ''Confidences sur pas mal de trucs plus ou moins confidentiels'', has been performed since 2014. He has attended numerous comedy festivals and is currently a member of the Ligue Majeure d'Improvisation. Tsamere's television career began when he presented the weather forecast on Canal+. From 2010, he became well known for appearing on France 2's sketch comedy show '' On n'demande qu'à en rire''—and its short-lived spin-off the '' ONDAR Show''—after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alison Wheeler (comedian)
Alison Wheeler (born 22 July 1986) is a French comedian and actress. Wheeler initially earned recognition as a member of the French cooperative Studio Bagel, a website that was later acquired by the television channel Canal+. She has an established cinematic career and is known for creating and performing musical parodies on France Inter. She currently works as a weekly humorist for the French Talk show “Quotidien”, on the private television channel TMC. Biography Biography and early television Of French-Irish origin, Alison Wheeler was born on July 22, 1986, in Enghien-les-Bains in Val-d'Oise. After graduating with a Baccalauréat diploma in humanities at Notre-Dame-de-Bury High School, (Margency), she took comedy classes at Cours Florent and Studio Pygmalion. She also studied at the university Paris-Sorbonne IV. After having participated in several television series and co-hosted the show ''Kawai'' on Filles TV alongside Louise Bourgoin, Wheeler won a role in the Saphi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Garcia (actor)
José Doval Garcia (; born 17 March 1966), sometimes credited as José Luis Garcia, is a Spanish-French film and television actor. Early life and education He was born as José Doval in Paris, France. At age 20, he received two years of training in the ''Classe libre'' ("Free Class") for actors at the Cours Florent in Paris, with Francis Huster as a teacher. He completed his training through the Annie Fratellini Circus School (where he met his future wife Isabelle Doval) and taught in France following an Actors Studio The Actors Studio is a membership organization for professional actors, theatre directors and playwrights at 432 West 44th Street between Ninth and Tenth avenues in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded ... course. He also holds a degree in accounting. Career Since 1989, Garcia has made acting appearances in over forty-five films. Additionally, he has made appearances, some in acting roles but mostly as himsel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audrey Fleurot
Audrey Fleurot (; born 6 July 1977) is a French actress. She is best known for playing the Lady of the Lake in ''Kaamelott'', Joséphine Karlsson in ''Spiral'' and Hortense Larcher in ''Un village français''. In 2011, she played Magalie in the international hit film ''The Intouchables''. Early life Fleurot was born in Mantes-la-Jolie, west of Paris, and graduated from the ''École nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre'' in Lyon in 2000. Career Her breakout roles came in 2005, when she played the Lady of the Lake in Kaamelott, and took the part of ambitious lawyer Joséphine Karlsson in the police procedural series ''Spiral''. In 2011, she had a role in Woody Allen film ''Midnight in Paris'', though Audrey was disappointed that her part was largely cut during editing. In the same year, she played a supporting role in the French film ''Intouchables'', which went on to be an international success. in 2015, she appeared in the first season of ''Call My Agent! ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pablo Pauly
Pablo Pauly (born 24 January 1991) is a French actor. Theater Filmography References External links * 1991 births Living people French male film actors {{France-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Civil
François Civil (; born 29 January 1990) is a French actor. He has appeared in both French and English-language feature films and is known for his roles in ''Frank'' (2014), ''As Above, So Below'' (2014), ''Call My Agent!'' (2015–17), ''Five'' (2016), '' Burn Out'' (2017), ''The Wolf's Call'' (2019), '' Someone, Somewhere'' (2019), '' Who You Think I Am'' (2019), '' Love at Second Sight'' (2019), and '' BAC Nord'' (2021). Civil was twice included in the César Awards Révélations list, in 2009 and 2012 respectively, and received a Trophée Chopard at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. He has received two nominations for the César Award for Best Supporting Actor List of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Supporting Actor (french: César du meilleur second rôle masculin). History Superlatives List of winners and nominees 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Multiple awards an .... Filmography Awards and nominations Theatre References Extern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucien Jean-Baptiste
Lucien Jean-Baptiste (born 6 May 1964) is a French actor, writer and director. sur ''Evene.fr''.. Life and career He is the French voice in films starring , , and . His voice is also heard in movies with[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Belaïdi
Alice Belaïdi (born 18 March 1987) is a French actress. She has appeared in more than 20 films and television shows since 2010. Theatre Filmography References External links * 1987 births Living people French film actresses French television actresses French stage actresses 21st-century French actresses People from Nîmes French people of Algerian descent {{France-film-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Starbuck (film)
''Starbuck'' is a 2011 Canadian comedy film directed by Ken Scott and written by Scott and Martin Petit. It stars Patrick Huard (''Bon Cop, Bad Cop'') as the main character, Antoine Bertrand as his friend/lawyer, and Julie Le Breton as his girlfriend. The film's title refers to a Canadian Holstein bull, named Hanoverhill Starbuck, who produced hundreds of thousands of progeny by artificial insemination in the 1980s and 1990s. Plot In a 1988 prologue, David Wozniak is at a Quebec sperm bank making a donation. Twenty-three years later, in 2011, he is a hapless deliveryman for his family's butcher shop, pursued by thugs to whom he owes $80,000. His girlfriend Valérie is pregnant with his child. One day, David returns from work to find a lawyer from the sperm bank who tells him he has fathered 533 children. Of those, 142 have joined a class action lawsuit to force the fertility clinic to reveal the identity of "Starbuck", the alias he used as a sperm donor. David's friend and lawy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Manoukian
André Antranik Manoukian (born 9 April 1957 in Lyon) is a French songwriter, arranger, jazz musician, and actor of Armenian descent. Between 2002-2017, he served as one of four judges in the French version of Pop Idol, ''Nouvelle Star''. Early years and education Born in Lyon, France, Manoukian is of Armenian descent. He began playing the piano when he was seven years old. Later, when he was a student, he sold organs in a shop to earn money. At 20, he studied music at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. After the basics he studied musical composition, arrangement and harmony. Music career Upon returning to France Manoukian started a jazz band called ''Horn Stuff''. At the same time he composed for female singers and two jazz-funk albums were recorded. He was also approached to join the band of the singer Michèle Torr. In 1983 he met the singer Liane Foly and in addition to becoming her partner, he composed her first successes, including ''Au fur et à mesure'' and ''Doucem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fishmonger
A fishmonger (historically fishwife for female practitioners) is someone who sells raw fish and seafood. Fishmongers can be wholesalers or retailers and are trained at selecting and purchasing, handling, gutting, boning, filleting, displaying, merchandising and selling their product. In some countries modern supermarkets are replacing fishmongers who operate in shops or fish markets. Worshipful Company of Fishmongers The fishmongers guild, one of the earliest guilds, was established in the City of London by a Royal Charter granted by Edward I shortly after he became king in 1272. Partnership with foreigners was forbidden and the sale of fish was tightly controlled to ensure freshness and restrain profit, which was limited to one penny in the shilling. Nevertheless, the guild grew rich and, after Edward's victory over the Scots, was able to make a great show, including one thousand mounted knights. During the reign of Edward II, the political power of the fishmongers waned and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Comedy Films
French comedy films are comedy films produced in France. Comedy is the most popular French genre in cinema. Comic films began to appear in significant numbers during the era of silent films, roughly 1895 to 1930. The visual humour of many of these silent films relied on slapstick and burlesque. Characteristics of French comedy films French comedy films are very often social comedies, which differs largely from American comedies."La comédie française se différencie ..par son aspect social, une lutte des classes généralement absente des comédies américaines." . Social comedy Culture shock, in several French comedies, oftentimes contain several 'clichés', which include: * Religion – ''The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob'' in the 1970s, and ''Serial (Bad) Weddings'' in the 2010s * Social background – ''Life Is a Long Quiet River'' in the 1980s, and ''The Intouchables'' in the 2010s * Difference of life between two places – '' Welcome to the Land of ch'tis'' in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
