Smaïn

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1958-01-03 (67 years old)

Place of Birth

Constantine, France [now Algeria]

Smaïn

Biography

Smaïn (born Smaïn Fairouze, on January 3, 1958 in Constantine, Algeria) is a French comedian, humorist, writer, actor and director of Algerian descent. Born in 1958 in Constantine, Algeria, to an unknown father and mother, Smaïn Fairouze was taken in by the children's ward of the civil hospital. In 1960, brought back to France by an administrative assistant, he joined his foster family. His adoptive father, a street sweeper at the Régie immobilière de la ville de Paris, was Algerian and his adoptive mother, a cleaning lady, was Moroccan. He attended the Notre-Dame school in Saint-Mandé and then the Saint-Michel high school in St Mandé. Durin...

Acting

2022

Placés

as Père d'Elias

1999

Le Schpountz

as Irénée

1991

One Can Always Dream

as Rachid Merzahoui

2003

The Car Keys

as Actor who refuses to film with Laurent

2008

Harkis

as Saïd

1999

1982

2013

2012

The Bag of Flour

as Sarah's Father

1976

Mosaïque

as Self

2006

For the Love of God

as Kevin's Father

1998

Bingo!

as Vincent

2005

2023

1995

Tom est tout seul

as Street musician

2000

Old School

as M. Fonblard

2015

Certifiée Halal

as Aziz Boukamache

2015

2008

Tomboy

as Amrani

1986

The Joint Brothers

as Le jeune homme du train

2020

Les 60 ans du one-man-show

as Self (archive footage)

1984

La Smala

as Le jeune maghrébin de la bagarre

2022

The Imaginary Doctor

as Inspecteur Bachir

1994

Wacko

as Jimmy

Production

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