Manu Payet

{{Short description|French comedian, actor, filmmaker and radio host}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Manu Payet

| image = Manu Payet Fete Musique 2008 n1.jpg

| caption = Manu Payet at the Fête de la Musique (Paris)

| birth_name = Emmanuel Xavier Payet

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1975|12|22|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Saint-Denis, Réunion, France

| nationality = French

| spouse = {{ubl

|{{marriage|Géraldine Nakache|2009|2011|reason=divorced}}

}}

| occupation = Actor, comedian, radio presenter, TV presenter, film director, screenwriter

| yearsactive = 2000–present

| website =

}}

Emmanuel "Manu" Payet ({{IPA|fr|emanɥɛl many pajɛt}}; born 22 December 1975) is a French comedian, actor, filmmaker and radio host.{{cite news |last1=Benleulmi |first1=Nadia |title=Manu Payet : Il va bientôt se relancer dans le one-man show ! |url=https://www.public.fr/manu-payet-il-va-bientot-se-relancer-dans-le-one-man-show |access-date=27 February 2025 |work=public.fr |date=2 November 2015 |language=fr}}

Filmography

=As actor=

class="wikitable sortable"

! Year

! Title

! Role

! Director

! class="unsortable" | Notes

2006

| Hey Good Looking !

| The Man at the synagogue

| Lisa Azuelos

rowspan=2|2008

| Hello Goodbye

| Shapiro

| Graham Guit

Kung Fu Panda

| Po (voice)

| John Stevenson and Mark Osborne

| French dub

2009

| Coco

| Steve

| Gad Elmaleh

2009

| Kaamelott

| Verinus

| Alexandre Astier

| TV series (7 episodes)

2010

| Tout ce qui brille

| Éric, Lila's fiancé

| Géraldine Nakache and Hervé Mimran

rowspan=2|2011

| The Day I Saw Your Heart

Kung Fu Panda 2

| Po (voice)

| Jennifer Yuh Nelson

| French dub

rowspan=2|2012

| The Players

| Simon

Radiostars

| Alex

2014

| {{ill|Relationship Status: It’s Complicated|fr|Situation amoureuse : C'est compliqué}}

| Ben

| Manu Payet et Rodolphe Lauga

| {{cite news |last1=Webster |first1=Andy |title='Relationship Status,' a French Comedy Starring Manu Payet |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/17/movies/relationship-status-a-french-comedy-starring-manu-payet.html |access-date=27 February 2025 |work=The New York Times |date=16 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141017201700/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/17/movies/relationship-status-a-french-comedy-starring-manu-payet.html |archive-date=17 October 2014 }}

rowspan=3|2015

| Blind Date

| The Picard cashier

| Clovis Cornillac

Dad in Training

| Antoine{{cite web |last1=Lemercier |first1=Fabien |title=Cyril Gelblat hits the nail on the head with Dad in Training |url=https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/307347/ |website=Cineuropa |access-date=27 February 2025 |language=en |date=13 April 2016}}

| Cyril Gelblat

| Cabourg Film Festival - Best Actor{{cite web |title=Le palmarès des Swann d'Or 2016 |url=http://www.festival-cabourg.com/editions/2016/palmares |website=festival-cabourg.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160615005542/http://www.festival-cabourg.com/editions/2016/palmares |archive-date=15 June 2016 |access-date=27 February 2025 }}

Les Gorilles

| Walter

| Tristan Aurouet

2016

| Kung Fu Panda 3

| Po (voice)

| Jennifer Yuh Nelson and Alessandro Carloni

| French dub

rowspan=2|2017

| Gangsterdam

| Mischka

| Romain Lévy