Élie Semoun

Élie Semoun

Comedian and actor · b. 1963

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Born in Paris to Jewish immigrants from Morocco and Algeria, he rose to fame in a comedy duo in the 1990s and became a leading French comic actor, from the Ducobu films to the French voice of Sid in Ice Age.

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