Nora Hamzawi Explained
Nora Hamzawi |
Native Name Lang: | fr |
Birth Date: | 29 April 1983 |
Birth Place: | Cannes, France |
Nationality: | French |
Nora Hamzawi (born 29 April 1983)[1] is a French humorist, comedian, and columnist.
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
- 2009: Nora One Woman Show, at the Théâtre Le Bout in Paris[7]
- 2010: Le Show Inutile, at the theatre of La Loge in Paris[8]
- 2012: Harmonie Hormonale, at La Comédie des Trois Bornes
- Since 2013: Nora Hamzawi, throughout France
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,
Press
- 2014–17: weekly column in Grazia: Dans la tête de Nora Hamzawi
Distinctions
- 2012: Public's favourite at La Fontaine d'Argent's festival du rire in Aix-en-Provence
- 2013: SACD Prize at the "L'Humour en Capitales" Festival
- 2017: SACEM Grand Prix of humour
Notes and References
- Web site: Nora HAMZAWI - Dirigeant de la société J'en Peux Plus Productions. fr. 29 April 2020.
- Web site: Portrait acide d'une femme d'aujourd'hui. fr. youhumour-blog.com. 10 Jan 2018.
- Web site: Lazimi. Charlotte. 12 Nov 2013. Nora Hamzawi rit juste. cheekmagazine.fr. fr. 10 Jan 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20131112153403/http://cheekmagazine.fr/culture/nora-hamzawi-rit-juste/. 12 November 2013. dead.
- Hamzawi. Nora. 29 Oct 2008. Interview : Nora Hamzawi, (one woman) show girl. fr. madmoizelle.com. 10 Jan 2018.
- Web site: Nora HAMZAWI. agencesartistiques.com. fr. 10 Jan 2018.
- Web site: Nora Hamzawi (Grand Journal) : Mon papa est mort quand j'avais un an. purepeople.com. fr. 22 Feb 2015. 10 Jan 2018.
- Web site: au Théâtre Le Bout. parisetudiant.com. fr. 10 Jan 2018.
- Web site: Papillard. Agnès. 28 Feb 2010. Nora à la Loge. savemybrain.net. fr. 10 Jan 2018.
- Web site: Fiche de L'antivirus (2010). https://archive.today/20130701172540/http://www.imdb.fr/title/tt1669651/. dead. 1 July 2013. IMDb. fr. 10 Jan 2018.
- Web site: L'antivirus. Site de Benoit Forgeard. fr. 10 Jan 2018.
- Web site: Fiche de Coloscopia (2011). https://archive.today/20130701170038/http://www.imdb.fr/title/tt2077729/. dead. 1 July 2013. IMDb. fr. 10 Jan 2018.
- Web site: Fiche de scènes de ménage. Groupe M6. fr. 10 Jan 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20111231021410/http://www.groupem6.fr/scenes-de-menages/contacts.html. 31 December 2011. dead.