About
Malik Zidi was born in Châtenay-Malabry to a Kabyle Algerian father and a Breton mother. He spent his formative years in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, a suburb of Paris. Zidi abandoned his conventional studies early to concentrate on a career in comedy. Following courses at the Théâtre Véronique Nordey, and the Théâtre de Proposition in Paris, he briefly studied acrobatics and mime at the Théâtre de la Piscine and cinema at the Studio Pygmalion. Zidi made his first film appearance in the 1998 Sébastien Lifshitz-directed Les Corps ouverts. In 2000, Zidi was chosen by director François Ozon to appear as the troubled, lovelorn, bisexual youth Franz in the Teddy Award-winning film Water Drops on Burning Rocks (French:Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brûlantes). The film was based on the play Tropfen auf heisse Steine by German film director and screenwriter Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The film is a...
Known for
Made in FranceMovie • 2015
OxygenMovie • 2021
The Soul EaterMovie • 2024
When Fall Is ComingMovie • 2024
Water Drops on Burning RocksMovie • 2000
NoxSeries • 2018
Gauguin: Voyage to TahitiMovie • 2017
Sons of RamsesMovie • 2023
RebellionMovie • 2011
Lines of WellingtonMovie • 2012
Changing TimesMovie • 2004
ExMovie • 2009
Place VendômeMovie • 1998
The Great MeaulnesMovie • 2006
PlayMovie • 2019
DaguerrotypeMovie • 2016
Jacquou the RebelMovie • 2007
The MarchersMovie • 2013
Marie CurieMovie • 2016
Whatever Happened to My RevolutionMovie • 2019
Poison FriendsMovie • 2006