Manu Payet French Actor Born 1975 in Saint-Denis

Manu Payet is a French actor and comedian born on 22 December 1975 in Saint-Denis. Audiences know him from Billy & Buddy (2013) and Nous York (2012).

Early life

Schooling on record includes University of La Réunion.

Career

His first listed screen credit dates to 2005, with Kaamelott, as Verinus. Work from the 2000s includes Hey Good Looking! (2006) and Hello Goodbye (2008). All That Glitters (2010) and The Players (2012) are among his 2010s credits. In the 2020s, he appeared in Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom (2023, as Ri Qi Qi) and Wahou! (2023).

The list below counts 21 films and 2 TV series from 2005 to 2024. Comedy is the most frequent genre among his listed titles (9), followed by adventure (2). His latest credit on record is Terminal (2024). Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom (2023) is recorded with a worldwide box office of $46.5 million. Manu Payet also worked as director on Relationship Status: It's Complicated and writer on Budapest and Relationship Status: It's Complicated.

Géraldine Nakache appears in seven of his listed titles, including R.T.T. (2009) and The Day I Saw Your Heart (2011). Other co-stars who recur in his credits are Alexandre Astier (three titles) and Gilles Lellouche (two titles). Géraldine Nakache directed two of his titles on record. Hervé Mimran is credited as director on two of them. He is listed as playing guitar.

Personal life

Former marriages on record are to Géraldine Nakache (2009 to 2011).