Malik Zidi Movies and Career Information

Malik Zidi (14 February 1975) is a French film, television and theater actor. Zidi is a four time nominated and one time César Award recipient for Most Promising Actor. Born in Paris, France to an Algerian father and a Breton mother: the drama coach and director Hélène Zidi-Chéruy of Le Laboratoire de l'Acteur, 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 four part comedy-drama shot entirely on one set and featuring only four actors: