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Tomer Sisley

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Israeli-French actor and comedian
Tomer Sisley
תומר סיסלי
Tomer Sisley at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival
Born
Tomer Gazit

(1974年08月14日) 14 August 1974 (age 50)
Citizenship
  • Israel
  • France
Occupation(s)Actor, comedian
Years active1996–present
Children3

Tomer Sisley (born Tomer Gazit; Hebrew: תומר סיסלי; born 14 August 1974) is an Israeli[1] and French actor and comedian.

Early and personal life

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Born in West Berlin, West Germany, to Israeli-born parents who had relocated for his father's job as a research scientist in dermatology.[1] [2] His mother is also a dermatologist.[3] His parents met as schoolmates in Ramat Gan, Israel, and were childhood sweethearts.[2] [4] His father's family has roots in Lithuania and today's Belarus, while his mother is of Yemenite descent.[5] [2]

His parents separated when he was five years old. At 9 years of age, he left Berlin to live with his father in southern France, where his father was offered a position.[4] [2] He is fluent in German, Hebrew, French, and English. He attended an English-speaking school, and then attended the bi-lingual Centre international de Valbonne in Sophia Antipolis near Nice, France.[1] [3]

Sisley resides in Paris with his family.[1] [2] He is an avid horse rider, as well as practitioner of Krav Maga, jiujitsu and boxing.[6] [7] He is a licensed helicopter pilot, and has described himself as "skydiving, paragliding, and extreme skiing fan".[8] [9]

Career

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Comedy

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Sisley performed stand-up comedy for six years.[8] [3] In 2003 he was the first French stand-up comedian to win the Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montreal, Canada, the largest comedy festival in the world.[8] [3]

Plagiarism scandal

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In 2019, it was brought to light that Tomer was using material taken from American comedians. He admitted "having copied between '20-30 per cent' of his gags."[10]

Film

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Tomer Sisley skydiving for the filming of Largo Winch II .

Among his first films were the Tunisian fictional film Bedwin Hacker (2003), the comedy drama Virgil (2005), the French romantic comedy-drama Toi et moi (2006), the French crime film Paris Lockdown (2007), and the French action thriller Largo Winch (2008). In 2009, Sisley won the Most Promising Newcomer title at the Étoiles d'or French awards for his acting in Largo Winch.[8]

In 2011, Sisley accepted the leading part in a low-budget French thriller film Sleepless Night .[11] The movie was bought by Tribeca Productions, Robert De Niro's distribution company, and Warner Brothers bought the rights for a remake.[12] The film showed at the Tribeca Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, and Rome Film Festival.[13]

In the French action thriller Largo Winch II (2011), Sisley performed a fight while skydiving from a plane without a parachute.[citation needed ] He does all of his own stunts.[1] [7] Among his next films were the American comedy We're the Millers (2013), the French costume drama and adventure film Angélique (2013), and the Israeli-French docudrama political thriller Rabin, the Last Day (2015).

In the American thriller web television series Messiah (2020) Sisley plays Israeli Shin Bet intelligence officer Aviram Dahan.[14] [1] [15]

Filmography

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Awards

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Wins

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Radish, Christina (2020年01月03日). "Messiah: Tomer Sisley on the New Netflix Series". Collider. Retrieved 2020年01月11日.
  2. ^ a b c d e Gerri Miller (2020年01月02日). "Man of God or Fraud? Netflix Miniseries 'Messiah' Seeks the Truth". Jewish Journal. Retrieved 2020年01月11日.
  3. ^ a b c d Tobias Grey (March 2004). "Tomer Sisley; Stand-up on a tightrope". Paris Voice. Retrieved 2020年01月11日.
  4. ^ a b Tidhar Wald (2004年03月25日). "Tomer Sisley's tour de force". Haaretz. Retrieved 2020年01月11日.
  5. ^ Wolfisz, Francine (2020年01月03日). "Top 10 Jewish shows to watch on Netflix and Amazon in 2020! | Jewish News". Times of Israel. Retrieved 2020年01月11日.
  6. ^ Jean-François Erdeven (2009年07月20日). "Interview - Tomer Sisley (Largo Winch)". EcranLarge. Retrieved 2020年01月11日.
  7. ^ a b Matt Singer (May 11, 2012). "'Sleepless Night' Interview: Director Frederic Jardin and Star Tomer Sisley". ScreenCrush. Retrieved 2020年01月11日.
  8. ^ a b c d Daniel Jeffreys (2009年07月05日). "Tomer Sisley". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2020年01月11日.
  9. ^ V.M.M. (November 13, 2019). "Tomer Sisley: "Balthazar sort un peu des sentiers battus"". Le Progres. Retrieved 2020年01月11日.
  10. ^ Samuel, Henry (22 June 2019). "France's top stand-up comics outed for plagiarising US counterparts". The Telegraph.
  11. ^ Jeannette Catsoulis (May 10, 2012). "'Sleepless Night,' Directed by Frédéric Jardin". The New York Times. Retrieved 2020年01月11日.
  12. ^ Bettinger, Brendan (2011年09月22日). "SLEEPLESS NIGHT Remake in the Works". Collider. Retrieved 2020年01月11日.
  13. ^ "Film Info Sleepless Night," Tribeca Film.
  14. ^ Roxane Mansano (2020年01月01日). "Messiah: Tomer Sisley dévoile quelle difficulté il a rencontrée sur le tournage gigantesque de la série de Netflix". Programme-tv.net. Retrieved 2020年01月11日.
  15. ^ John Anderson (December 31, 2019). "‘Messiah’ Review: What Is His Mission?," The Wall Street Journal.
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