Michaël Youn
Michaël Youn is known for Around the World in 80 Days (2004), Fatal (2010), Le Chef (2012).
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. ...
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Questions about Michaël Youn
How many Michaël Youn films are in the catalogue?
The CineQuiz catalogue has 69 films with Michaël Youn, from 2001 to 2026.
What is the best rated Michaël Youn film?
The best rated Michaël Youn film in the catalogue is Watch Me Burn (2018), rated 7.2.
What was the first Michaël Youn film?
The first Michaël Youn film in the catalogue is The Dope, from 2003.
Who has Michaël Youn worked with the most?
In the catalogue, Michaël Youn shares the most credits with Vincent Desagnat (9 films), Adrian Politowski (5 films) and Nadia Khamlichi (5 films).
People data: TMDb.
Known for
Trivia
- Also works as
- comedian · singer · radio personality · film director · screenwriter · musician
- Studied at
- Cours Florent
Trivia from Wikidata, licensed CC0.
Full filmography
79 films — 69 in the catalogue
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8.0 My Coluche
2026 · Self
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8.0 Les Enfoirés 2026 - La Ballade des Enfoirés
2026 · Self
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7.0 Vos 40 chansons préférées des Enfoirés
2025 · Self (archive footage)
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6.0 Le gala du Do You Comedy de Saint-Tropez
2025 · Self
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4.3 Certains l'aiment chauve
2025 · Joseph
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7.5 Les Enfoirés 2025 - Au pays des Enfoirés
2025
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6.1 The Gardener
2025 · Serge Shuster
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5.3 The World Upside Down
2024 · Stanislas
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7.3 Les Enfoirés 2024 - On a 35 ans !
2024
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5.2 Superpapa
2023 · Christophe Perrot
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4.6 BDE
2023 · Bob
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7.2 Maman, ne me laisse pas m'endormir
2022 · Paul
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5.0 Arnaud Ducret dans tous ses états
2022 · Self
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5.8 Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2022 : 10 ans
2022 · Self
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5.1 They Love Each Other... Well, Almost!
2022 · Jacques-André
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Les petits secrets de L'Équipe du Soir
2022 · Self (archive footage)
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7.6 Stolen Childhood
2021 · Romain
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7.6 Les Enfoirés 2021 - Les Enfoirés à côté de vous
2021
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4.5 Connectés
2020 · François
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5.7 Divorce Club
2020 · Titi
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Le Grand Show des humoristes
2020 · Self
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5.7
Michael Youn - Du Morning Live à Divorce Club
2020 · Self
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7.7 Les Enfoirés 2020 - Le Pari(s) des Enfoirés
2020
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4.7 Lucky
2020 · Tony
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4.5 Meet the Malawas
2019 · Kévin Queffelec
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7.5 Les Enfoirés jouent le jeu
2019
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6.1 No Filter
2019 · Fabrice
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7.2 Watch Me Burn
2018 · Patrick Demarescau
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6.2 Deux gouttes d'eau
2018 · Sam Barbieri
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5.4 Christ(Off)
2018 · Chris
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Un Incroyable Show
2018
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7.1 Les Enfoirés 2018 - Musique !
2018
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4.8 Brillantissime
2018 · Ben
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Enfoirés Kids
2017
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6.7 Carbone
2017 · Laurent Melki
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7.5 Les Enfoirés 2017 - Mission Enfoirés
2017
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6.0 Sahara
2017 · Poisson des Sables (voice)
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6.9 Mon frère bien-aimé
2016 · Mathias Leroy
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5.5 The Canterville Ghost
2016 · Gwilherm
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7.2 Les Enfoirés 2016 - Au rendez-vous des Enfoirés
2016 · Self
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7.0 Disney : Au Cœur de la Magie des Parcs
2015 · Self
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7.0 Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2015
2015 · Self
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6.5 Les Enfoirés 2015 - Sur la route des Enfoirés
2015
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8.0 Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
2014
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5.8 Family Business
2014 · Max Perez
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7.8 Les Enfoirés 2014 - Bon anniversaire Les Enfoirés
2014
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5.5
Le Débarquement 2
2013 · Various Characters
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6.9 Jamel et ses amis au Marrakech du rire 2013
2013 · Self
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5.2 Vive la France
2013 · Feruz
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5.1 Le Débarquement
2013
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6.5 The Crossing
2012 · Martin Arendt
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6.2 Le Chef
2012 · Jacky Bonnot
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4.8 Wok the Kasbah
2011 · Policier 2
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6.0 Fatal
2010 · Fatal Bazooka
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5.1 Paris Express
2010 · Sam
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Du Morning Live à Fatal, le meilleur de Michaël Youn
2010 · Self
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4.5 Lucky Luke
2009 · Billy The Kid
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6.0 Florence Foresti & Friends
2008 · Christelle Bazooka
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6.5 Can You Keep a Secret?
2008 · Le Livreur de Pizza
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6.7 Le Pire du Morning Live 2
2007
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5.4 Héros
2007 · Pierre Forêt / Pi
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6.4 Le Pire du Morning Live
2006 · Michaël Youn
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6.0 Vivre c'est mieux que mourir
2006 · Oliver Newton-John
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4.0 Incontrôlable
2006 · Georges Pal
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5.3 Michaël Youn - Pluskapoil
2005 · Various characters
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Michaël Youn - Pluskapoil
2005 · Self
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4.0 Iznogoud
2005 · Iznogoud
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5.2 One Stays, the Other Leaves
2005 · Michaël Youn
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5.7 The Box
2004 · Le réparateur
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6.0 Around the World in 80 Days
2004 · Art Gallery Manager
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5.2 The 11 Commandments
2004 · Mike
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5.8 Les 11 commandements inédits
2004 · Mike
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5.2 The Car Keys
2003 · Actor Refusing to Film with Laurent
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5.3 Chouchou
2003 · Le transformiste brésilien
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4.6 The Dope
2003 · Alphonse Brown
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6.5 Philosophale
2001
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Bazooka
no date · Fatal Bazooka
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Rahan
no date
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Le Jardinier 2 – l’Élysée ne répond plus
no date · Serge Shuster
Series and TV shows
9 titles
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5.9
Flashback
2025 · Josselin Letellier · 12 ep.
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1.0
Visual Suspect
2022 · Guest
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5.7
A French Case
2021 · Jean-Michel Bezzina · 6 ep.
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5.8
Celebrity Hunted - France - Manhunt
2021 · Appearance · 6 ep.
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5.6
Runaway
2021 · Stéphane · 6 ep.
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6.3
Samedi Sébastien
2021 · Guest
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3.3
District Z
2020 · Appearance
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5.1
Quotidien
2016 · Guest · 2 ep.
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5.7
Star Academy
2001 · Appearance · 3 ep.
People data: TMDb.
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