Michaël Youn

Acting · 1.1 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: December 2, 1973
From: Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, France

Biography

Michaël Benayoun (born 1973), known professionally as Michaël Youn, is a French actor, singer, comedian and television personality. Youn was born Michaël Benayoun in Suresnes, France, to a family of Hungarian, Italian, Moroccan-Jewish, and Algerian-Jewish descent. After his education as an announcer and theater actor, Youn joined the Paris radio station Skyrock in 1998. There, he made sketches and further entertainment during the morning show. The popularity and success of Michael Youn, at the most important French private broadcast station brought Youn to the attention of French TV executives. In July 2000, he was hired for the new morning show "Morning Live" shown on Métropole 6. With Vincent Desagnat and Benjamin Morgaine, Youn did the entertainment part of the show. Like their sketches and public events (e.g. foam bath in a Paris fountain, and waking random Parisians up shooting the slogan of the show at them), their parodies were particularly successful. In particular, they parodied the music scene of Jean-Michel Jarre, casting-popstars, the Grand Prix and French rappers. The success of "Morning Live" was mainly due to Youn and his colleagues – when they left the show, it remained on the air for just one more year. After leaving "Morning Live" in 2002, Youn, Desagnat and Morgaine have focused on their music parodies: The three sailors "Piotr", "Olaff" and "Dvorjak" from the Eastern European "Slowakistan", the Bratisla Boys, appeared on the Western music market with their song "Stach Stach". The act became a big success and was number one on the French charts for ten weeks. On a 2004 list of the all-time best selling CDs in France, "Stach Stach" was listed number 30. The success even spread beyond the French border and reached Switzerland, where it was 2nd on the official charts. On 7 July 2002, the project was stopped by its makers. They claimed that the Bratisla Boys had vanished on the Dead Sea without a trace. In 2003, the film "La Beuze", written by Youn and Desagnat, was released. Youn played the character of Alphonse, the "unknown son" of James Brown, who tries to start his own career – by creating a new (fictional) style called "Frunkp" (a mixture of funk and rap). The song "Le Frunkp" was published as a CD-single and Michaël Youn (under the name of Alphonse Brown) had another hit. This time, he even reached #1 in Swiss charts. Youn had a comedy-tour, called Pluskapoil in 2003/04 (its sequel followed in 2005) and has acted in films. New music projects followed: Les Conards (The Imbeciles) with Comme des Connards, a cover version of My Sharona by The Knack, as well as a song for the movie Iznogoud (both were in the French Top 20). He had small roles in rather big films, and was part of Les 11 commandements in 2004 (A French film done in the style of MTV's Jackass, together with Desagnat and Morgaine). In 2005, Youn was Iznogoud in the film version of the comic "Iznogoud" (also known as Isnogud). In 2006, he had the main role in the film comedy Incontrôlable. Those two films were not very successful, critics and viewers finding them only so-so. Both films starred Desagnat and Morgaine, but only in small roles. In 2010, he directed his first movie "Fatal" in which he also stars. ... Source: Article "Michaël Youn" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Works

79 films

Around the World in 80 Days

20046.0

The Gardener

20256.0

Meet the Malawas

20194.5

Le Chef

20126.2

Sahara

20176.0

Le Débarquement 2

20135.5

Divorce Club

20205.7

BDE

20234.6

Lucky Luke

20094.5

Les Enfoirés 2026 - La Ballade des Enfoirés

20268.0

Vos 40 chansons préférées des Enfoirés

20257.0

Family Business

20145.8

No Filter

20196.1

Chouchou

20035.3

Les 11 commandements inédits

20045.8

Vive la France

20135.2

Brillantissime

20184.8

Superpapa

20235.2

Arnaud Ducret dans tous ses états

20225.0

Paris Express

20105.1

Connectés

20204.5

Enfoirés Kids

2017

Héros

20075.4

Certains l'aiment chauve

20254.2

Le Pire du Morning Live 2

20076.7

My Coluche

20268.0

Philosophale

20016.5

Incontrôlable

20064.0

Lucky

20204.7

Le Débarquement

20135.1

Carbone

20176.7

Un Incroyable Show

2018

The Car Keys

20035.2

The Canterville Ghost

20165.5

Les Enfoirés 2017 - Mission Enfoirés

20177.5

Les Enfoirés 2018 - Musique !

20187.1

The Dope

20034.7

Iznogoud

20054.0

The 11 Commandments

20045.3

Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui

20148.0

They Love Each Other... Well, Almost!

20225.1

Stolen Childhood

20217.6

Fatal

20106.0

Mon frère bien-aimé

20166.8

Wok the Kasbah

20114.8

Les Enfoirés 2021 - Les Enfoirés à côté de vous

20217.6

Watch Me Burn

20187.2

Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2022 : 10 ans

20225.8

The World Upside Down

20245.3

Les Enfoirés 2020 - Le Pari(s) des Enfoirés

20207.7

Les Enfoirés 2025 - Au pays des Enfoirés

20257.5

Les Enfoirés 2024 - On a 35 ans !

20247.3

Les Enfoirés 2014 - Bon anniversaire Les Enfoirés

20147.8

Les Enfoirés 2015 - Sur la route des Enfoirés

20156.5

Les Enfoirés 2016 - Au rendez-vous des Enfoirés

20167.2

One Stays, the Other Leaves

20055.2

Les Enfoirés jouent le jeu

20197.5

Can You Keep a Secret?

20086.5

Le Pire du Morning Live

20066.4

Christ(Off)

20185.5

Rahan

2026

Le Grand Show des humoristes

2020

Michaël Youn - Pluskapoil

20055.3

Vivre c'est mieux que mourir

20066.0

Bazooka

2026

The Crossing

20126.5

Maman, ne me laisse pas m'endormir

20227.4

Michaël Youn - Pluskapoil

2005

The Box

20045.7

Florence Foresti & Friends

20086.0

Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2015

20157.0

Du Morning Live à Fatal, le meilleur de Michaël Youn

2010

Le gala du Do You Comedy de Saint-Tropez

20256.0

Disney : Au Cœur de la Magie des Parcs

2015

Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2013

20136.9

Deux gouttes d'eau

20186.2

Michael Youn - Du Morning Live à Divorce Club

20205.7

Les petits secrets de L'Équipe du Soir

2022

Le Jardinier 2 – l’Élysée ne répond plus

2026