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Stéphane De Groodt

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Born March 3, 1966 (58 years)
Stéphane De Groodt (born 3 March 1966) is a Belgian comedian, humorist and former racing driver.

Stéphane De Groodt is the son of an engineer at Texaco and a housewife who takes care of handicapped children in foundations. Dyslexic, he has a chaotic scholarity, which already translates his wills to play comedy. He did not obtain any graduation and decided to become a comedian as well as a racing driver. His parents offered him a racing driver suit and a helmet.

He then went through several small jobs, including barman, journalist, marketing assistant, editor and advertiser, while entering little by little the field of the competition. He learned to become a comedian in the evening on stage while dedicating the weekends to auto racing.

While cooking meal to sell it at restaurants, Stéphane De Groodt paid the auto racing school of La Châtre near Châteauroux where he met the Belgian racing driver Eric van de Poele. He was a professional racing driver from 1985 to 2000, and rose to fame especially with Formula Renault, Formula 3000, Porsche Supercup at the 2001 Spa 24 Hours, and even at the BMW M1 Procar Championship in which he received the title of Champion of Belgium in BMW Compact Cup. In 2000, he left the auto racing competition to become a full-time comedian.

Stéphane De Groodt created the series File dans ta chambre, broadcast since 14 January 2002 on channels RTBF, Canal+ Belgique and France 2, and in which the texts are co-written by his wife Odile d'Oultremont. The series are small episodes in which he portrays Lucien, a totally uncultivated father attempting to answer the questions asked by his 10-year-old son Clovis about a definition or an expression. At the end of every episode, his son answers that he thought it meant something else, which is in fact the real sense of the definition or meaning of the expression. After that, the father does not believe his son and orders him to go to his room, which is the reference to the title of the series.

In September 2012, Stéphane De Groodt features every Sunday on the program Le Supplément on Canal+ with Maïtena Biraben, in which he presents a column of a few minutes titled Retour vers le futur. This column functions the same way than the one he presented until 2012 on the program La Matinale on Canal+ and also with Maïtena Biraben and Caroline Roux, where he talked about his meeting with famous characters with a humoristic tune and a mixture of word plays and puns. He also presented a courrier des téléspectateurs (French for "mail of the viewers"), imaginary and funny. He pursued this column weekly on RTL with Stéphane Bern on the radio program À la bonne heure where he comments a fake mail of improbable auditors.

In September 2013, after having left RTL, he joined France Inter on the radio program Comme on nous parle with Pascale Clark every Thursday, where he presents a column of a few minutes titled Mes mails, in which he comments a number of fake E-mails of auditors addressed to France Inter and Pascale Clark. ...

Source: Article "Stéphane De Groodt" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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  • Baby Blues
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Filmography

2024
Terminal (TV Series) · as Samuel Ruet
2022
One Of Us (TV Series) · as M. Feuillate
2022
Champagne! · as Patrick
2022
Big Bug · as Max
2020
The Butcher's Daughter · as Miguel Amestoy
2020
Tout nous sourit · as Jérôme Pottier
2020
Chacun chez soi · as Yann
2020
Connectés · as Bruno
2019
Les Radoteurs (TV Series) · as Stéphane
2019
La vertu des impondérables · as Stéphane Simon
2018
Pauvre Georges! · as Zweig
2018
Nothing to Hide · as Vincent
2018
One Nation, One King · as Le Curé Norbert Pressac
2018
Gaston Lagaffe · as Pdg (voice)
2017
In and Out · as Pierre
2017
Corporate · as Vincent Philippon
2017
Everyone's Life · as Stéphane
2016
Fanny's Journey · as Jean
2015
Paris-Willouby · as Maurice Guilby
2014
Do Not Disturb · as Pavel
2014
My Old Lady · as Phillippe
2014
Barbecue · as Alexandre
2014
Les gazelles · as Mr Hublot
2014
Supercondriaque · as Romain's Lawyer
2013
2013
2013
Le Débarquement (TV Series)
2012
Astérix and Obélix: God Save Britannia · as Le Décurion Du Stade
2012
Kaboul Kitchen (TV Series) · as Michel Caulaincourt
2011
Blood of the Vine (TV Series) · as Cluzel
2010
Tombé sur la tête · as Bertrand
2010
Traceless · as Kazinski
2009
The Whistler · as Martial
2009
Mes amis, mes amours, mes emmerdes (TV Series) · as François Kleber
2008
2008
Baby Blues · as Sacha
2008
2007
Don't Do This, Don't Do That (TV Series) · as Delage
2007
Je hais les vacances · as Étienne
2005
La famille Zappon · as Stéphane
2005
Saint-Jacques... La Mecque · as Le Curé De Navarrenx
2005
2005
The Intruder · as Vader Paul Florent
2004
La Fuite de monsieur Monde · as Le Médecin
2004
Alive · as Le Lieutenant
2004
3 petites filles · as L'inspecteur
2004
2004
Everybody Is a Killer · as Le Patron De Café
2004
Casablanca Driver · as Le Patient
2004
3 Guys, 1 Girl, 2 Weddings · as Deputy Mayor
2004
25 Degrees in Winter · as Inspecteur Du Travail
2003
2001
Transfixed · as Pryzuski
1999
Boulevard du Palais (TV Series) · as Jagot
1997
Josephine, Guardian Angel (TV Series) · as Commandant Levasseur
1994
Mina Tannenbaum · as Cast

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