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    Jacky Ido Biography

    Date of Birth:
    May 14, 1977Birth Place:
    Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

    Biography

    Whether he was playing the Massai krigare Lemalian in his first major rulle "Die Weisse Massai" (2005) or an executioner in Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" (2009), Jacky Ido had a presence few could match. Equally at home in europeisk and American films, he was an intriguing actor with international appeal. Jacky Ido was born in 1977 in the African nation of Burkina Faso. Although primarily known as an actor, he actually had his start in slam poetry in 2004 when he teamed up with the French slam poet Fabien Marsaud beneath the name John Pucc'Chocolat, doing a monthly feature at the Cafe Culturel de Saint-Denis in Paris. As an actor, his first big break came when he took on the role of Maasai warrior Lemalian in German director Hermine Huntgeburth's "Die Weisse Massai" in 2005. After a few small television roles, he landed a role in the 18th Century romance miniseries "
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    Jacky Ido

    Burkinabé-French actor

    Jacky Ido

    Born (1977-05-14) 14 May 1977 (age 47)

    Ouagadougou, Upper Volta

    OccupationActor
    Years active2004–present

    Jacky Ido (born 14 May 1977) is a Burkinabe-French actor. His first role was as Lemalian in the 2005 German film, The White Masai. He is best known to English-language audiences for his role as Marcel, the film projectionist in Quentin Tarantino's 2009 film, Inglourious Basterds.[1] Ido's brother Cédric Ido, who is also an actor, has directed him in the short Hasaki Ya Suda.[2] Ido works and resides in Paris, France and, as of 2010, is working on an album of slam poetry.[3]

    In 2014, Ido starred as Leo Romba in the short lived French-American television series Taxi Brooklyn. In 2015, he was cast opposite Mireille Enos in the ABC legal thriller, The Catch produced by Shonda Rhimes.[4][5]

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    “There was a casting audition in France and he had a shortlist of people he wanted to see and he organized a sit down for half an hour. That's the way he auditions people, chatting one-on-one before doing an audition. We start talking about his acting experience, the fact that he wanted to be an actor and he became a director, and he told me that at some point he realized he would never act for the directors he idolized because they were mostly dead. Then I talked about my story, wanting to be a director and ending up acting. Two hours passed by and we hadn't even done the audition together.”

    ―Jacky Ido on how he got the role[1]

    Jacky Ido (born 14 May 1977, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso) is a Burkinabe-born French film actor. His first role was as Lemalian in the 2005 German film, The White Masai. He is best known to English-language audiences for his role as Marcel, the film projectionist in Quentin Tarantino's 2009 film, Inglourious Basterds. He also