Fred Testot

Fred Testot
Testot in 2015
Born	Frédéric Giacomo Testo[1] (1977-02-20) 20 February 1977 (age 47) Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Nationality	French
Occupation(s)	Actor, screenwriter, producer
Years active	1996–present
Website	www.fredtestot.net

Frédéric Giacomo Testo (French: [fʁedeʁik dʒakɔmo tɛsto], Italian: [ˈdʒaːkomo ˈtɛsto]; born 20 February 1977), known as Fred Testot (French: [fʁɛd tɛsto]), 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.[2][3][4]

Life and career

Testot with Jonathan Lambert 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

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
2000	Old School	Steve	Kader Ayd
	Granturismo	Voice	Denis Thybaud	Short
2001	La Tour Montparnasse Infernale	Policeman	Charles Nemes
	La concierge est dans l'ascenseur		Olivier Coussemacq	Short
	Crimes et déguisements	Bob	Tristan Schulmann	Short
2002	Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra	Painter	Alain Chabat
	Ces jours heureux	Thomas	Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano	Short
	Caméra Café	Julien		TV series (1 episode)
	Ma Forever	Man R19	Ida Techer	Short
2004	Le carton	David	Charles Nemes (2)
2006	Les multiples	FJP	Julien David	TV mini-series
	Pigeon	Bus Driver	Benoît Gand	Short
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	Ramzy Bedia, Éric Judor
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	Philippe Lefebvre
	Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard	Replay	Luc Besson
	Logorama	Ronald McDonald, Big Boy	François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy	French version
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	Nicolas Boukhrief
	Allez raconte!	The host	Jean-Christophe Roger
	Histoires de vies	Stef	Akhenaton, Didier D. Daarwin	TV series (1 episode)
2011	Itinéraire bis	Jean	Jean-Luc Perréard
	Au bistro du coin	Manu	Charles Nemes (3)
	La guerre des boutons	Father Simon	Yann Samuell
	Voisin voisin	Xavier	Timothée Augendre, Geoffroy Degouy	Short
2005–2012	Service après-vente des émissions	Various		TV series
2011–2012	Fish'n Chips	Chips	Naga Christelle, Prakash Topsy	TV series (52 episodes)
2012	Sea, No Sex & Sun	Guillaume	Christophe Turpin
	Bref	Party Guest on Phone	Kyan Khojandi	TV series (1 episode)
	Sur la piste du Marsupilami	Hermoso	Alain Chabat (2)
	Dépression et des potes	Franck	Arnaud Lemort
2013	The Big Bad Wolf	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)
2014	Get Well Soon	Captain Maxime Leroy	Jean Becker
2015	Rose et le soldat	Jacques Meyer	Jean-Claude Barny, Jean-Claude Flamand	TV movie
	L'emprise	Marcello Guillemin	Claude-Michel Rome	TV movie
2016	Arrête ton cinéma	Adrien	Diane Kurys
	Pattaya	The pilot	Franck Gastambide
	Zootopia	Benjamin Clawhauser	Byron Howard	French dub
2017	La Mante	Damien Carrot	Alexandre Laurent	Netflix Original Series

Shows

• 2006: Omar et Fred, le spectacle

References

1. fredtestot.net
2. Biographie de Omar Sy & Fred Testot on Libération.fr, 6 February 2010.
3. "Fred Testot lance la Dim Sum Academy sur Dailymotion". 20 minutes (France). 19 January 2015. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
4. "Eddy Mitchell, Un Singe en hiver au théâtre". Le Figaro. 26 June 2013. Retrieved 14 September 2017.

External links

• Fred Testot at IMDb