Tomer Sisley
Israeli-French actor and comedian
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- Tomer Sisley (born Tomer Gazit ; Hebrew: תומר סיסלי ; born 14 August 1974) is an Israeli and French actor and comedian.
- His mother is also a dermatologist.
- His father's family has roots in Lithuania and today's Belarus, while his mother is of Yemenite descent.
- At age nine, he left Berlin to live with his father Joseph Sisley in southern France, where his father was offered a position.
- He attended an English-speaking school, and then attended the bi-lingual Centre international de Valbonne in Sophia Antipolis near Nice, France.
Tomer Sisley (born Tomer Gazit; Hebrew: תומר סיסלי; born 14 August 1974) is an Israeli and French actor and comedian.
Early and personal life
Tomer was born in West Berlin, West Germany, to Israeli-born parents who had relocated because of his father's job as a research scientist in dermatology. His mother is also a dermatologist. His parents met as schoolmates in Ramat Gan, Israel, and were childhood sweethearts. His father's family has roots in Lithuania and today's Belarus, while his mother is of Yemenite descent.
His parents separated when he was five years old. At age nine, he left Berlin to live with his father Joseph Sisley in southern France, where his father was offered a position. He is fluent in German, Hebrew, French, and English. He attended an English-speaking school, and then attended the bi-lingual Centre international de Valbonne in Sophia Antipolis near Nice, France.
Sisley resides in Paris with his family. He is an avid horse rider, as well as practitioner of Krav Maga, jiujitsu and boxing. He is a licensed helicopter pilot, and has described himself as "skydiving, paragliding, and extreme skiing fan".
Career
Comedy
Sisley performed stand-up comedy for six years. In 2003 he was the first French stand-up comedian to win the Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montreal, Canada, the largest comedy festival in the world.
Plagiarism scandal
In 2019, it was brought to light that Tomer was using material taken from American comedians. He admitted "having copied between '20-30 per cent' of his gags."
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