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November 10, 2020

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Malik Bentalha was born to an Algerian father and a Moroccan mother in the Gard department and then grew up in Vaucluse. During high school, he chose the ES stream and then, once he had obtained his baccalaureate, went to Paris in 2007 to join the Cours Florent. It is first of all through the stand up that Malik Bentalha is known. He joined the Jamel Comedy Club thanks to Jamel Debouze then was noticed by Gad Elmaleh who offered him to do the first part of one of his shows, something he accepted with joy. The young comedian does not take long then to invest the television sets, as evidenced by his presence in programs like The best of Paris makes its comedy on France 2, the Grand Direct des Médias on Europe 1 or even Friday everything is allowed on TF1. In parallel,"Malik Bentalha is telling it" from 2012 to 2014.

With his comedic talent, Malik Bentalha is also active in cinema. After playing small roles in And Suddenly I Miss Everyone (2011) and Us York (2012), he plays Tewfik Jallab's brother in the comedy-drama Born Somewhere (2013). Other secondary roles followed in the comedies Eyjafjallajökull (2013) and Robin Hood, the true story (2015). In 2016, his career took an important turn thanks to Pattaya by and with Franck Gastambide. The two men embody two young people from the suburbs deciding to register the dwarf of their neighborhood without his knowledge in the world championship of Thai Boxing of the Dwarves, in order to be able to go to Thailand. Soon after, Gastambide chose him again for his next film, the highly anticipated Taxi 5. In this fifth installment of the franchise,