A French screenwriter and actor of Algerian origin, born in Constantine, Algeria. He began working on stage in the early 1980s by presenting comic segments. He later went on to work on television and did one-man shows that he wrote himself and whose content always revolved around the situation of the Arab expatriate in France. He played some roles in cinema, and he also participated in group theatrical performances when he appeared in Molière's Les Fourberies de Scapin. He participated in the film Les 2 papas et la maman (1996).