Fred Testot
{{short description|French actor and comedian}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Fred Testot
| image = Fred Testot 2015.jpg
| caption = Testot in 2015
| birth_name = Frédéric Giacomo Testo[http://fredtestot.net/biographie/ fredtestot.net]
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1977|2|20|df=y}}
| birth_place = Boulogne-Billancourt, France
| othername =
| occupation = Actor, screenwriter, producer
| years_active = 1996–present
| nationality = French
| website = [http://www.fredtestot.net/ www.fredtestot.net]
}}
Frédéric Giacomo Testo ({{IPA|fr|fʁedeʁik dʒakɔmo tɛsto|lang}}, {{IPA|it|ˈdʒaːkomo ˈtɛsto|lang}}; born 20 February 1977), known as Fred Testot ({{IPA|fr|fʁɛd tɛsto|lang}}), is a French actor, comedian and filmmaker. Since rising to prominence in the 2000s as he collaborated extensively with Omar Sy on the Service après-vente des émissions series on Canal+, Testot has starred in various film, theatre and television productions. He notably held the lead role in the 2017 thriller miniseries La Mante, which aired on TF1 and later premiered on Netflix.[http://www.liberation.fr/medias/0101617745-bulle-et-babil Biographie de Omar Sy & Fred Testot] on Libération.fr, 6 February 2010.{{cite web|title=Fred Testot lance la Dim Sum Academy sur Dailymotion|url=http://www.20minutes.fr/web/1520683-20150119-fred-testot-lance-dim-sum-academy-dailymotion|website=20 minutes (France)|date=19 January 2015|access-date=14 September 2017}}{{cite web|title=Eddy Mitchell, Un Singe en hiver au théâtre|url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/theatre/2013/06/26/03003-20130626ARTFIG00522-eddy-mitchell-un-singe-en-hiver-au-theatre.php|website=Le Figaro|date=26 June 2013|access-date=14 September 2017}}
Life and career
File:Dépression et des potes Fred Testot et Jonathan Lambert (Lunon).jpg in Paris, 2012]]
Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Île-de-France and raised in Porto-Vecchio, Corsica, Testot began on Fun Radio, with Éric Judor and Ramzy Bedia (Éric et Ramzy), before appearing on Radio Nova in Jamel Debbouze's program where he met Omar Sy for the first time, in 1997.
Together, they began their television career on Canal+ on Debbouze's program, Le Cinéma de Jamel. They created Le Visiophon, d'Omar et Fred, Les sketches d'Omar et Fred and Les coming-nexts.
After a two-year hiatus, the duo returned in 2005 with a show called Service après-vente des émissions (English: "After-sales service of TV shows"). From 2006 to 2012, it became a famous daily column of Le Grand Journal, hosted by Michel Denisot.
Testot then played in several comedy movies, including Sur la piste du Marsupilami (2012), The Big Bad Wolf (2013) and Arrête ton cinéma (2016). He starred in the Netflix Original Series La Mante in 2017. In 2023, he was in the live twitch of Pertex, a French influencer.
Filmography
=Actor=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Director ! class="unsortable" | Notes | |
|---|
| rowspan=2| 2000
| Old School | Steve | Kader Ayd | |
| Granturismo
| Voice | Denis Thybaud | Short |
| rowspan=3| 2001
| La Tour Montparnasse Infernale | Policeman | Charles Nemes | |
| La concierge est dans l'ascenseur
| | Olivier Coussemacq | Short |
| Crimes et déguisements
| Bob | Tristan Schulmann | Short |
| rowspan=4| 2002
| Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra | Painter | |
| Ces jours heureux
| Thomas | Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano | Short |
| Caméra Café
| Julien | | TV series (1 episode) |
| Ma Forever
| Man R19 | Ida Techer | Short |
| rowspan=1| 2004
| David | Charles Nemes (2) | |
| rowspan=2| 2006
| Les multiples | FJP | Julien David | TV mini-series |
| Pigeon
| Bus Driver | Benoît Gand | Short |
| rowspan=4| 2007
| Kozak | The Cop | Olivier Fox | Short |
| Dans leur peau
| | Arnaud Malherbe | Short |
| Moot-Moot
| Michel | François Reczulski | TV series |
| Garage Babes
| The Boss | Julien Pelgrand | Short |
| 2008
| Seuls Two | Xavier | |
| rowspan="6" | 2009
| Lascars | Sammy | Emmanuel Klotz, Albert Pereira-Lazaro | |
| Je vais te manquer
| Pierrot | Amanda Sthers | |
| La loi de Murphy
| Various | Christophe Campos | |
| Le siffleur
| Xavier Mazini | |
| Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard
| Replay | |
| Logorama
|Ronald McDonald, Big Boy |François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy |French version |
| rowspan=5| 2010
| Ya basta! | Voice | Gustave Kervern, Sébastien Rost | Short |
| Le pas Petit Poucet
| Jean Doumé | Christophe Campos (2) | TV movie |
| Gardiens de l'ordre
| Simon | |
| Allez raconte!
| The host | Jean-Christophe Roger | |
| Histoires de vies
| Stef | Akhenaton, Didier D. Daarwin | TV series (1 episode) |
| rowspan=4| 2011
| Itinéraire bis | Jean | Jean-Luc Perréard | |
| Au bistro du coin
| Manu | Charles Nemes (3) | |
| La guerre des boutons
| Father Simon | |
| Voisin voisin
| Xavier | Timothée Augendre, Geoffroy Degouy | Short |
| rowspan=1| 2005–2012
| Service après-vente des émissions | Various | | TV series |
| rowspan=1| 2011–2012
| Fish'n Chips | Chips | Naga Christelle, Prakash Topsy | TV series (52 episodes) |
| rowspan=4| 2012
| Sea, No Sex & Sun | Guillaume | Christophe Turpin | |
| Bref
| Party Guest on Phone | TV series (1 episode) |
| Sur la piste du Marsupilami
| Hermoso | Alain Chabat (2) | |
| Dépression et des potes
| Franck | Arnaud Lemort | |
| rowspan=3| 2013
| Henri Delcroix | Nicolas Charlet & Bruno Lavaine | |
| Y'a pas d'âge
| Luc | Carlo Da Fonseca Parsotam | TV series (1 episode) |
| Platane
| Fred | Denis Imbert, Éric Judor (2) | TV series (2 episodes) |
| rowspan=1| 2014
| Captain Maxime Leroy | |
| rowspan=2| 2015
| Rose et le soldat | Jacques Meyer | Jean-Claude Barny, Jean-Claude Flamand | TV movie |
| L'emprise
| Marcello Guillemin | Claude-Michel Rome | TV movie |
| rowspan="3" | 2016
| Adrien | |
| Pattaya
| The pilot | Franck Gastambide | |
| Zootopia
|Benjamin Clawhauser |Byron Howard |French dub |
| 2017
|Damien Carrot |Alexandre Laurent | rowspan="2" |Netflix Original Series |
| rowspan="3" |2025
|Asterix and Obelix: The Big Fight |Fastenfurius |Alain Chabat and Fabrice Joubert |
| Colours of Time
| |
| Scènes de ménages
|Damien | |1 special |
=Shows=
- 2006: Omar et Fred, le spectacle
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Fred Testot}}
- {{IMDb name|0856493}}
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Category:French male television actors
Category:French male film actors
Category:French male screenwriters
Category:20th-century French male actors
Category:21st-century French male actors
Category:French male comedians