Dany Boon

Dany Boon
Boon in 2018
Born
Daniel Farid Hamidou

(1966-06-26) 26 June 1966
OccupationsActor, film director, screenwriter, producer
Years active1992–present
Spouses
(m. 1998; div. 2002)
(m. 2003; div. 2018)
PartnerLaurence Arné (2018–2025)
Children5

Dany Boon (pronounced [dani bun]; born Daniel Farid Hamidou on 26 June 1966) is a French actor, film director, screenwriter and producer.

Starting as a comedian during the 1990s, he found success in 2008 as an actor and director in the comedy Welcome to the Sticks. Since then, he has been involved as a screenwriter, director or both in the films Nothing to Declare (2011), Supercondriaque (2014), Raid dingue (2017), La Ch'tite famille (2018), Stuck Together (2021) and Life for Real (2023).