Acting
Mathieu Madénian
Born
1976-07-23 (50)
Place of birth
Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales, France
Known for
Acting
Credits
67 titles
Mathieu Madénian (born 23 July 1976) is a French comedian, actor and columnist. Madénian was born in Perpignan, southern France. He is of Armenian and German descent. He grew up in Saleilles, a town in the suburbs of Perpignan, where he earned his scientific baccalaureate with honours, then a university degree in criminology, then became a lawyer. When he was 25 he left the law profession to follow a career in comedy. He landed his first role in Un gars, une fille where he performed various voiceovers alongside Jean Dujardin and his wife Alexandra Lamy. He then wrote several one-man shows staged by Kader Aoun, many of which were performed at the théâtre du Point-Virgule. From September 20…
Known for
4.9Quotidien (nicknamed "The French Show with the Good Lighting" abroad) is a French daily infotainment television program broadcast in the early evening on TMC since September 12, 2016. The show is hosted by Yann Barthès and produced by Bangumi. It consists of segments and reports produced by the team of commentators and journalists surrounding Yann Barthès and features daily guests including newsmakers, intellectuals, politicians, and French and international celebrities.
Quotidien
2016
6.8No synopsis available yet.
Champs-Elysées
1982
7.3Murders in... is a collection of French-Belgian police TV movies taking place each time in a different French city and region.
Murders in...
2013
7.5A game show set and filmed on the real Fort Boyard in France. The contestants have to complete in physical and endurance challenges to win prize money.
Fort Boyard
1990
3.3No synopsis available yet.
Victoires de la musique
1985
4.4No synopsis available yet.
Vendredi, tout est permis
2011
Film credits
2020s · 14 titles
5.5Tridan Lagache has spent his whole life at Club Med, changing friends every 8 days. At 50, he resigns from the vacation spot where he was born, determined to track down his great mini-club childhood love, Violette. He shows up in Paris, naïve and lost but glad to be lodged by Louis, a half-brother he never knew he had. In order to be rid of the cumbersome Tridan, Louis passes one of his fling off as Violette, and Tridan, all emotional, thinks he recognizes her at first glance.
Life for Real
2023
6.3Two villages in the south of France have always been bitter rivals, but when a group of asylum seekers arrive in the community, the life of both villages is shaken up and age-old disagreements escalate. Their antagonism reaches its peak with the annual rugby derby played between the two village teams, but this time, with the new outsiders joining as unexpected recruits, the result of the 100th match will be more unpredictable than ever.
A Chance To Win
2023
3.4The three "Unknown" are back in this movie where they wake up in a world where they really are unknown! They'll eventually find out that their career, films, sketches & songs do exist but from someone else!
Tous Inconnus
2022
5.7Imagine a world where the worst behaviour you could ever have is to forget your store's loyalty card in your other trousers...that's what happens to Adrien. This serious misconduct forces him to go into hiding, as both police and media hunt him down.
Zaï Zaï Zaï Zaï
2022
6.7Julie would have given up all her dreams if she had listened to the doctors, her parents and others: the disease was threatening to suffocate her lungs. But the sixteen year old did as she pleased, devouring life to the fullest. Madly in love with her first flirt of the same age, she falls pregnant with him and decides to keep the baby. She hides her pregnancy from her parents, from the doctors, and come what may. Julie has defied the adult world, armed with a conviction in the form of a lesson for all: it is because life can be short that it must be intense.
Pulse of Life
2023
5.5No synopsis available yet.
Panique au grand magasin
2025
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Festival Meudon Rire de tout - 2ème édition
2023
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Cheveux
2024
NRWhen comedians draw on the family to make people laugh, everyone is concerned. This documentary looks at everything that is horrifying or hilarious in the family: from the "new generation" fathers to the dictates of the perfect mother, as well as the taboos of parenthood, unmanageable teenagers, and unbearable mothers-in-law.
Drôles de familles
2022
4.0No synopsis available yet.
Festival d'humour de Paris - Booder : en famille !
2023
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Drôles de couples
2022
7.5No synopsis available yet.
Montreux Comedy Festival 2023 - Dernière tournée
2023
7.8No synopsis available yet.
Candice Renoir - Chacun dirige l'eau vers son moulin
2022
5.6Maxime is a hardened bachelor who takes advantage of his freedom and assumes to live without ties or children. He has finally agreed to help a couple of friends who are trying to have a child by artificial insemination, by donating sperm to speed up the procedure. His life changes the day a rather invasive brother arrives at his home, accompanied by a rather hairy ferret, and when, in the middle of a torrid evening in gallant company, this ferret bites his private parts, making him permanently sterile. Realizing that he will never be able to have children, Maxime tries to get his gift back, only to learn that it has already been used for Lisa Barrot, a famous and seductive sports journalist. Aware that she will be the mother of his only child, he decides to do everything possible to meet her and get to know her.
Le furet
2021
2010s · 17 titles
4.2All girls volley ball team The Falcons end up stranded in the middle of nowhere after their mini-van breaks down. Little do they know they landed in degenerate hunters' territory and the hunt is on. Thus begins a very long night where they must run for their lives and test their team spirit. But the girls are more resourceful than it appears. In the heart of the forest, the tables are about to turn between hunter and hunted...
Girls with Balls
2019
6.2When recently widowed, it is difficult to get used to a new life ... This is the case for Hubert Jacquin, who spends most of his time in his huge apartment, depressed, in front of his TV. One day, after a misunderstanding, his life will change. Manuela, a young and bubbly adventurer in search of a dwelling calls his home! At first reluctant, Hubert will quickly get used to the presence of this energy storm, who even manages to convince him to allow two other people to stay. There are many surprises in store for Hubert ...
Roommates Wanted
2016
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Europe 1 fait Bobino - Saison 3
2013
4.9Faced with the insistence of his brother Joseph, whom he has not seen for 25 years, Paolo resolves to give up his calm and harmonious life in Canada, to return to Marseilles at the bedside of his rugged father. He left, therefore, with his son under his arm, determined not to linger in that city which he had fled years before, after a tragedy. He does not imagine that the affection of his newfound family, his love affair with a young woman and the joyful and simple solidarity of the Marseillais will reconcile him with this city he would never have wanted to leave...Marseillle.
Marseille
2016
7.5No synopsis available yet.
Montreux Comedy Festival 2016 - Best Of
2016
6.3No synopsis available yet.
Mathieu Madénian : un spectacle familial
2019
5.0Marie and Eric, a couple in their thirties who have been together since college, buy their first apartment when Marie is suddenly overcome by doubt. Her encounter with a handsome, dark-haired man forces her to make a decision...
Les Gazelles
2014
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Europe 1 fait Bobino - Saison 2
2011
NRNo synopsis available yet.
L'école des vampires
2019
NRNo synopsis available yet.
L'art d'être rigolo en 10 leçons
2013
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Europe 1 fait Bobino
2011
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Coluche : le bouffon devenu roi
2016
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Mathieu Madénian - One man show au Palace
2015
No synopsis available yet.
Juste pour rire 2016 - Rachid Badouri VS Éric Antoine
2016
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Montreux Comedy Festival 2016 - On va rire de tout !
2016
5.5Sarah Moreau is a brilliant lawyer who controls everything in her life. Her business woman life does not allow her to leave anything to chance, especially on holidays. And now it's Christmas. Everything seems to be under control. Anything but destiny - When Christmas became the longest day, how to keep the Christmas spirit?
Christmas at the Riviera
2012
6.9No synopsis available yet.
Mathieu Madénian - En état d'urgence
2017
Undated · 1 titles
Series credits
4.9Quotidien (nicknamed "The French Show with the Good Lighting" abroad) is a French daily infotainment television program broadcast in the early evening on TMC since September 12, 2016. The show is hosted by Yann Barthès and produced by Bangumi. It consists of segments and reports produced by the team of commentators and journalists surrounding Yann Barthès and features daily guests including newsmakers, intellectuals, politicians, and French and international celebrities.
Quotidien
2016
6.8No synopsis available yet.
Champs-Elysées
1982
7.3Murders in... is a collection of French-Belgian police TV movies taking place each time in a different French city and region.
Murders in...
2013
7.5A game show set and filmed on the real Fort Boyard in France. The contestants have to complete in physical and endurance challenges to win prize money.
Fort Boyard
1990
3.3No synopsis available yet.
Victoires de la musique
1985
4.4No synopsis available yet.
Vendredi, tout est permis
2011
7.4A French humorous game show taking place in a burger restaurant which is managed by the TV host.
Burger Quiz
2001
5.0Talk show hosted by Léa Salamé, featuring incisive, funny, and surprising personalities debating current events in culture, society, politics, and the media. The set is designed as an arena where artists, polemicists, intellectuals, politicians, top athletes, and powerful figures come together. Permanent guest Christophe Dechavanne can intervene at any time during the show. Comedian Philippe Caverivière is also present with a segment dedicated to the political week and another devoted to celebrity news and social media.
Quelle époque !
2022
6.7Fired for insubordination, PJ Antoine Verlay, good cop but a blood strand and having difficulty working as a team, is attached to the OCBC (Central Office for the fight against Traffic in Cultural Goods) thanks to the intervention of the commander Pardo, his friend who becomes, therefore, his new superior. A clever investigator, but a stranger to everything related to culture, Antoine will have to work with Florence Chassagne, renowned art historian, who lives, speaks and breathes culture, to the point that - fruit of her great imagination - it happens to her in the midst of daydreams, to see and talk to the great artists who have disappeared as if they were familiar to her.
The Art of Crime
2017
9.0In each episode, 3 celebrities who have never met go on a 24-hour break in the countryside. A moment out of time to meet and talk about love, friendship, life with its obstacles and surprises.
The Unexpected Getaway
2022
6.1Beneath her eccentric appearance, Captain Marleau is a formidable detective. Her Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap, her character, her unusual appearance, her humor, her unpredictable behavior--Captain Marleau is not your average gendarme. She never rushes an investigation; she becomes the investigation and relentlessly pursues the suspects.
Capitaine Marleau
2015
6.2No synopsis available yet.
Tous en cuisine avec Cyril Lignac
2020
6.7No synopsis available yet.
N'oubliez pas les paroles - Primes événementiels
2008
4.2Back in her hometown of La Ciotat, a singer who gave up the stage returns to music, and must navigate between family secrets and young talent at the Studio Lumière.
Tout pour la lumière
2025
No synopsis available yet.
Le Figaro La Nuit
2022
6.3Top Gear France is a french TV show on cars, based on the english original tv show Top Gear. IT is shwon on TNT RMC Découverte and will be hosted by the french actor Philippe Lellouche, the professional racing driver Bruce Jouanny and EDM musician and journalist Yann Larret-Menezo.
Top Gear France
2015
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Piquantes !
2020
3.5Olivier Minne and Willy Rovelli will continue the evening with the contestants on *Fort Boyard, toujours plus fort !*. Together, they’ll look back on the highlights of their adventure. During brand-new challenges, the contestants will also try to increase the winnings for their charity. It will also be a chance to revisit the iconic moments that made the show a hit!
Fort Boyard, toujours plus fort !
2018
6.6No synopsis available yet.
Mismatch
2022
NRIn each episode, two teams of 2 celebrities challenge each other in a game of Kemps. The goal is simple: assemble 4 identical cards and signal it to your partner without being noticed by the other team!
Kemps
2019
8.2No synopsis available yet.
Les Bracelets rouges
2018
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Camille & images en hebdo
2023
NRAccompanied by his friends, Bertrand Chameroy promises us evenings where anything is possible. It's all about surprises and unpredictable sequences that our guests and viewers don't expect... because, at night, anything can happen when you're not sleepy!
Up All Night
2024
10.0In Open Bar, we're at "Chez Lolo," and the boss is Laurent Baffie. Customers to serve, guests to welcome, and regulars to endure, including François Rollin, Pascal Sellem, Stella, Raphaël Mezrahi, Frédéric Martin, and Delphine Baril, all of whom will find their place between debates, music, rants, philosophical questions, and jokes galore. "Chez Lolo" is Open Bar and Laurent Baffie has no limits!
Open Bar
2014
5.3The new year's celebration will be the only hope to save Arnaud's bankrupt nightclub.
Panique au 31
2024
NRNo synopsis available yet.
acTualiTy
2016
NRDetermined to succeed, one in gastronomy, the other in business, Boriss and Samy open a kebab shop in their town. Despite their overwhelming desire to do well and endless ideas, their establishment does not achieve the expected success. Accompanied with sarcasm by PV, a long-time customer, they juggle between boldness and failure together.
Sur place ou à emporter ?
2023
7.4No synopsis available yet.
Rien ne t'efface
2025
6.7In a small Breton town, by the water, in a close-knit community where everyone knows each other, Gloria, a lawyer and mother of three on maternity leave, sees her daily life shattered when her husband disappears from overnight, without explanation.
Gloria
2021
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Cannes Comedy Show
2023
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Le Paname Comedy Club
2021
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Chez Lolo
2025
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Le message de Madénian et VDB
2017
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Top Comedy Club
2024