Omar Sy currently enjoys an exceptional film career, punctuated with successes such as the film Untouchableswhich will allow him to receive the César for best actor in 2012, or even several American blockbusters such as X-Men, Jurassic World and Infernos. Without forgetting his main role in the series Lupine broadcast on netflix. But what really defines him, and what allowed him to create notoriety on a national and then international scale, is humor.
In particular, he formed with Fred Testot in the 2000s, an exceptional comic duo (hehave made themselves known through their Emissions after-sales service on Canal+), certainly one of the funniest of recent years, with Éric Judor and Ramzy Bedia. An ability to joke that still sticks to his skin, as evidenced by this Instagram story of the day shared by his son Tidiane – born in 2006 from his union with a certain Hélène – on which we see the actor showing some doigt his last name “Sy”, which appears on a license plate, in the back of a Porsche.
I was coming to invade their space
An unusual joke, which proves how inventive Mr. Pokora’s friend is when it comes to making people laugh. Even if as a reminder, he leads today, more of an acting career than a career of comedian. And if he is very present internationally, and particularly in Hollywood, it is because he is left to settle in Los Angeles with his wife Hélène, his son Tidiane, but also his four other children: Alhadji, Sabah, Selly and Amani-Nour.
“When I drove them to school, it marked me to see that I was no longer their father and that they were only the children of Omar Sy. They were starting to lose their first names. I came to invade their space, the school, this place where they must flourish”, he confided at the time to The Obs, to justify this decision. Because yes, his notoriety had become so strong after the success ofUntouchables, that it had become impossible for him and his family to thrive in France. Today, he lives in the American way, and he seems very happy like that!