Nora Hamzawi

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Nora Hamzawi
Born (1983-04-29) 29 April 1983 (age 41)
Cannes, France
Nationality French
Occupations
  • Humorist
  • actress
Website norahamzawi.fr

Nora Hamzawi (born 29 April 1983) [1] is a French humorist, comedian, and columnist.

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Biography

Nora Hamzawi is of Syrian origin by her mother. [2] She was born in Cannes and grew up in Paris. [3] After obtaining a baccalauréat, she enrolled in law school but gave up after three weeks. She then enrolled at IUT Paris Descartes in Infocom and completed her training at CELSA, section "marketing, advertising and communication". She follows in parallel with her studies Cours Florent [4] and Atelier Fanny Vallon. [5]

She goes on stage in 2009 with her first one-woman show. She was revealed to the public the same year by the festival Just for Laughs from Nantes. She is also writer for the series Scènes de ménages on M6.

She made a name for herself by appearing on Laurent Ruquier's On n'demande qu'à en rire on France 2 between 15 September 2011 and 19 March 2012, before being eliminated by an insufficient rating from the viewers (10/20). Jean Benguigui said of her: "She does not know how to move, she does not know how to play, she does not even know how to wear a dress!" [6]

Between 2013 and 2015, she played the main role of Oh-Oh de Nora, a small humorous sequence integrated into Le Before du Grand Journal on Canal+. As of 2014, she is also a columnist in Le Grand Journal . After being the guest on TMC's Quotidien in October to present her show, Nora Hamzawi joins Yann Barthès' team on 1 December 2016 and hosts a column entitled "Nora a la réponse" in which she answers children's questions in a humorous way.

She is a radio columnist on France Inter from 2013 to 2017, in the show On va tous y passer then in La Bande originale.

Career

Shows alone on stage

Filmography

Cinema

Short films

  • 2010: L'Antivirus of Benoît Forgeard, [9] broadcast on France 2 on 27 Jun 2010 [10]
  • 2011: Coloscopia of Benoît Forgeard, broadcast on France 2 [11]
  • 2011: Les Secrets de l'invisible of Antonin Peretjatko

Television

Radio

Bibliography

Books

  • "30 ans (10 ans de thérapie)", Mazarine, 2016, ( ISBN   978-2-86374-443-7)

Press

  • 2014–17: weekly column in Grazia : Dans la tête de Nora Hamzawi

Distinctions

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References

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