Tomer Sisley
Tomer Sisley (born Tomer Gazit; Hebrew: תומר סיסלי; born 14 August 1974) is an Israeli and French actor and comedian.
Also recorded as Tomer Gazit
Tomer Sisley
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- Full name
- Tomer Gazit.
- Born
- 1974. · West Berlin.
- Nationality
- France and Israel.
- Occupation
- actor, comedian, screenwriter and film director.
- Education
- University of Côte d'Azur and University of Nice Sophia Antipolis.
- Languages
- French, Hebrew and German.
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Early and personal life
Early and personal life
Tomer was born in West Berlin, West Germany, to Israeli-born parents who had relocated because of his father's job as a research scientist in dermatology. His mother is also a dermatologist. His parents met as schoolmates in Ramat Gan, Israel, and were childhood sweethearts. His father's family has roots in Lithuania and today's Belarus, while his mother is of Yemenite descent. His parents separated when he was five years old. At age nine, he left Berlin to live with his father Joseph Sisley in southern France, where his father was offered a position. 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. Sisley resides in Paris with his family. He is an avid horse rider, as well as practitioner of Krav Maga, jiujitsu and boxing. He is a licensed helicopter pilot, and has described himself as "skydiving, paragliding, and extreme skiing fan".
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Tomer Sisley (born 14 August 1974) is documented in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Tomer Sisley was born on 14 August 1974.
Comedy
Comedy
Sisley performed stand-up comedy for six years. 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.
Plagiarism scandal
Plagiarism scandal
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."
Filmography
Filmography
1996: Highlander: The Series (TV) as Reza 1996: Studio Sud (TV) as Nico 1999: Highlander: The Raven (TV) as Felix 2003: Dédales by René Manzor as Malik 2003: Bedwin Hacker by Nadia el Fani as Chams, a Tunisian-French journalist 2005: Virgil by Mabrouk el Mechri as Dino Taliori 2006: Toi et moi by Julie Lopes-Curval as Farid 2006: The Nativity Story by Catherine Hardwicke as Tax Collector 2007: Paris Lockdown by Frédéric Schoendoerffer as Larbi, a Moroccan gangster 2008: Largo Winch by Jérôme Salle as Largo Winch 2011: Largo Winch II by Jérôme Salle as Largo Winch 2011: Sleepless Night by Frédéric Jardin as Vincent, a police detective 2013: We're the Millers by Rawson Marshall Thurber as Pablo Chacón, a Mexican drug lord 2013: Kidon by Emmanuel Naccache as Daniel 2013: Angélique by Ariel Zeitoun as Marquis de Plessis-Bellière, a French aristocrat 2015: Rabin, the Last Day by Amos Gitai as Rabin's driver 2018-2019: Philharmonia (TV) as Rafaël Crozes 2018-2023: Balthazar (TV) as Raphaël Balthazar, a forensic pathologist 2019: Lucky Day by Roger Avary as Jean-Jacques 2020: Messiah (TV) by James McTeigue and Kate Woods as Aviram Dahan, an Israeli Shin Bet officer 2021: Don't Look Up by Adam McKay as Adul Grelio 2023: Vortex (TV) as Ludovic Béguin 2023: BDE by Michaël Youn as Dany Frydman 2023: Comme mon fils by Franck Brett as Victor 2024: The Price of Money: A Largo Winch Adventure by Olivier Masset-Depasse as Largo Winch 2024: Notre histoire de France (TV documentary) as the narrator 2026: G.I.G.N. as David, commander of the G.I.G.N.
Wins
Wins
2009: Étoiles d'Or Awards for Best Male Newcomer for his role in Largo Winch. 2009: Rémy Julienne Award of Valenciennes International Festival of Action and Adventure Films.
French humorist Tomer Sisley
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Tomer Sisley aux étoiles d'or du cinéma français.
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Film
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. In 2011, Sisley accepted the leading part in a low-budget French thriller film Sleepless Night. The movie was bought by Tribeca Productions, Robert De Niro's distribution company, and Warner Brothers bought the rights for a remake. The film showed at the Tribeca Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, and Rome Film Festival. In the French action thriller Largo Winch II (2011), Sisley performed a fight while skydiving from a plane without a parachute. He does all of his own stunts. 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.
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- 1.Radish, Christina. Messiah: Tomer Sisley on the New Netflix Series. Collider. 2020-01-03.
- 2.Gerri Miller. Man of God or Fraud? Netflix Miniseries 'Messiah' Seeks the Truth. Jewish Journal. 2020-01-02.
- 3.Tobias Grey. Tomer Sisley; Stand-up on a tightrope. Paris Voice. March 2004.
- 4.Tidhar Wald. Tomer Sisley's tour de force. Haaretz. 2004-03-25.
- 5.Wolfisz, Francine. Top 10 Jewish shows to watch on Netflix and Amazon in 2020! | Jewish News. Times of Israel. 2020-01-03.
- 6.Jean-François Erdeven. Interview - Tomer Sisley (Largo Winch). EcranLarge. 2009-07-20.
- 7.Matt Singer. 'Sleepless Night' Interview: Director Frederic Jardin and Star Tomer Sisley. ScreenCrush. May 11, 2012.
- 8.Daniel Jeffreys. Tomer Sisley. South China Morning Post. 2009-07-05.
- 9.V.M.M. Tomer Sisley: "Balthazar sort un peu des sentiers battus". Le Progres. November 13, 2019.
- 10.Samuel, Henry. France's top stand-up comics outed for plagiarising US counterparts. The Telegraph. 22 June 2019.
- 11.Jeannette Catsoulis. 'Sleepless Night,' Directed by Frédéric Jardin. The New York Times. May 10, 2012.
- 12.Bettinger, Brendan. SLEEPLESS NIGHT Remake in the Works. Collider. 2011-09-22.
- 13."Film Info Sleepless Night," Tribeca Film.
- 14.Roxane Mansano. Messiah: Tomer Sisley dévoile quelle difficulté il a rencontrée sur le tournage gigantesque de la série de Netflix. Programme-tv.net. 2020-01-01.
- 15.John Anderson (December 31, 2019). "‘Messiah’ Review: What Is His Mission?," The Wall Street Journal.
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