Malik Zidi
Actor
Born February 14, 1975 in Saint Maur des Fossés, France
Malik Zidi was born in Châtenay-Malabry to a Kabyle Algerian father and a Breton mother. 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: Zidi, Bernard Giraudeau, Ludivine Sagnier and American actress Anna Levine. Zidi's role in Water Drops on Burning Rocks garnered him his first of four César Award nominations.
Filmography
Le Rouge et le Noir
Abbé Pirard
When Fall Is Coming
Laurent
Flavors of Iraq
The Soul Eater
Fabrice Gonnet
Enquête parallèle
Remi
Sons of Ramses
Michaël
What's Wrong with My Family?
Mathieu
Oxygen
Léo Ferguson
Gloria
Denis Gauvin
The Color of Kings
Nadji
Towards the Battle
Louis
Play
Mathias Adler
Disturbing Disappearances
Ludovic Minghetti
Whatever Happened to My Revolution
Saïd
Nox
Raphaël Berger
Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti
Henri Vallin
The Sky of the Centaur
Marie Curie
André-Louis Debierne
Daguerrotype
Thomas
Made in France
Sam
The Assistant
Thomas
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Bertilak / Le Chevalier Vert
Wolfy: The Incredible Secret
Loulou
The Marchers
Philippe, le RG
Amaro amore
Andrè
You, Me and Us
Victor
Lines of Wellington
Octave Ségur
Berthe Morisot
Edouard Manet
The Gordji Affair
Luc Delair
Rebellion
JP Perrot
Mysteries of Lisbon
Visconde de Armagnac
Mysteries of Lisbon
Visconde de Armagnac
Après moi
Hugo
The Queen of Clubs
Aurélien
La mort n'oublie personne
Jean Ricouart
Pardon My French
Antoine
Ex
Marc
Clara
Johannes Brahms
Le baiser
Boy
Miroir, mon beau miroir
Lepic
Les Zygs, le Secret des Disparus
Jean / Béjean
Jacquou the Rebel
Touffu
The Great Meaulnes
Franz
Poison Friends
Eloi Duhaut
Beyond the Ocean
Bruno
The Accursed Kings
Philippe VI de Valois
Looking for Cheyenne
Pierre
Changing Times
Sami
Old Goriot
Eugène de Rastignac
Sissi, the Rebellious Empress
Rodolphe
Les Thibault
Jacques Thibault
My Children Are Different
Thomas
Almost Peaceful
Joseph
A Moment of Happiness
Philippe
Her Mother, the Whore
Bimbo
Water Drops on Burning Rocks
Franz
Place Vendôme
Sam's Son
Open Bodies
Classmate