Gad Elmaleh (Arabic: جاد المالح, Gād el-Māleḥ; born 19 April 1971) is a Moroccan stand-up comedian and actor.

In 1992, Elmaleh moved to Paris to study drama at Cours Florent[8] under the tutelage of Isabelle Nanty.

[12] He came back to the stage with L'autre, c'est moi in September 2006 in Canada (Montreal) and in the U.S. (on Broadway, at the Beacon Theatre in front of 3000 spectators); it was performed also in Casablanca, Morocco.

On 15 July 2007, Elmaleh premiered his fifth one-man show, Papa est en haut, in Montreal as part of the Just for Laughs festival.

During the show, the two comedians performed a 10-minute sketch where they played Chinese men, which later received criticism for its racial portrayals.

[15] Elmaleh has performed in a mix of French and Arabic in Morocco and included some Hebrew in shows in Israel.

Elmaleh's French stand-up special Gad Gone Wild was filmed in Montreal, Canada, and was released on Netflix on 24 January 2017.

He later appeared in L'homme est une femme comme les autres and Train de Vie.

In 2005, he starred as François Pignon in La Doublure (English title "The Valet"), by Francis Veber.

In 2006, he appeared opposite Audrey Tautou in Priceless (French title "Hors de prix"), by Pierre Salvadori.

He played the voice of Barry B. Benson in the French version of the 2007 film Bee Movie, Drôle d'Abeille.

In 2010 he appeared in a dramatic role in Roselyne Bosch's The Round Up, which is based on the events surrounding the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup.

[19] He also appeared in the motion capture film The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, alongside Jamie Bell.

The film, which was directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Peter Jackson, was released on 26 October 2011 in Belgium and on 23 December 2011 in the United States.

Elmaleh sued the YouTube channel and asked for the videos to be removed from the website, on copyright infringement grounds.

[20][21] On 24 September 2019, Elmaleh admitted to have taken inspiration from other artists in some cases, although minimising the proportion of it in his works: "We hear things and it infuses you.

[24] The story of their relationship and break-up was told in Brochet's book Trajet d'une amoureuse éconduite.