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Birthday: Mar 03, 1966
Place of Birth: Bruxelles, Belgium

Stéphane De Groodt

Stéphane De Groodt (born 3 March 1966) is a Belgian comedian, humorist and former racing driver. Stéphane De Groodt is the son of an engineer at Texaco and a housewife who takes care of handicapped children in foundations. Dyslexic, he has a chaotic scholarity, which already translates his wills to play comedy. He did not obtain any graduation and decided to become a comedian as well as a racing driver. His parents offered him a racing driver suit and a helmet. He then went through several small jobs, including barman, journalist, marketing assistant, editor and advertiser, while entering little by little the field of the competition. He learned to become a comedian in the evening on stage while dedicating the weekends to auto racing. While cooking meal to sell it at restaurants, Stéphane De Groodt paid the auto racing school of La Châtre near Châteauroux where he met the Belgian racing driver Eric van de Poele. He was a professional racing driver from 1985 to 2000, and rose to fame especially with Formula Renault, Formula 3000, Porsche Supercup at the 2001 Spa 24 Hours, and even at the BMW M1 Procar Championship in which he received the title of Champion of Belgium in BMW Compact Cup. In 2000, he left the auto racing competition to become a full-time comedian. Stéphane De Groodt created the series File dans ta chambre, broadcast since 14 January 2002 on channels RTBF, Canal+ Belgique and France 2, and in which the texts are co-written by his wife Odile d'Oultremont. The series are small episodes in which he portrays Lucien, a totally uncultivated father attempting to answer the questions asked by his 10-year-old son Clovis about a definition or an expression. At the end of every episode, his son answers that he thought it meant something else, which is in fact the real sense of the definition or meaning of the expression. After that, the father does not believe his son and orders him to go to his room, which is the reference to the title of the series. In September 2012, Stéphane De Groodt features every Sunday on the program Le Supplément on Canal+ with Maïtena Biraben, in which he presents a column of a few minutes titled Retour vers le futur. This column functions the same way than the one he presented until 2012 on the program La Matinale on Canal+ and also with Maïtena Biraben and Caroline Roux, where he talked about his meeting with famous characters with a humoristic tune and a mixture of word plays and puns. He also presented a courrier des téléspectateurs (French for "mail of the viewers"), imaginary and funny. He pursued this column weekly on RTL with Stéphane Bern on the radio program À la bonne heure where he comments a fake mail of improbable auditors. In September 2013, after having left RTL, he joined France Inter on the radio program Comme on nous parle with Pascale Clark every Thursday, where he presents a column of a few minutes titled Mes mails, in which he comments a number of fake E-mails of auditors addressed to France Inter and Pascale Clark. ... Source: Article "Stéphane De Groodt" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Filmography
Movie Cast Year
In and Out Pierre 2017
The Belgian Road to Cannes Voiceover 2017
Formidable 2008
Un amour de jeunesse Antoine 2020
Les Belges ça ose tout Self 2017
Dance of Chance Stéphane Simon 2019
Connectés Bruno 2020
De la piste aux étoiles Self - Racer 2023
Meet the Guilbys Maurice Guilby 2016
Nothing to Hide Vincent 2018
Kids Are Back Yann 2021
Tout nous sourit Jérôme Pottier 2021
Qui est Monsieur Schmitt ? 2021
Tout ce que vous voulez Thomas 2017
TKT 1970
Chez nous c'est trois ! Gabriel 2013
Ma vie au grand air Lucas 2014
35 kilos d'espoir Marc 2010
I Hate Vacations Étienne 2007
Corporate Vincent Philippon 2017
Champagne ! Patrick 2022
Merci patron François 2011
The Butcher’s Daughter Miguel Amestoy 2022
Bigbug Max 2022
Do Not Disturb Pavel 2014
Fanny's Journey Jean 2016
Alive Le Lieutenant 2004
Baby Blues Sacha 2008
Poor Georges Zweig 2019
Le Choix de Macha Fanfan 2004
Le Voyage en pyjama 2024
Une chaîne pour deux le consultant 2008
Transfixed Pryzuski 2001
Pour le plaisir Le patron de café 2003
Mon voisin du dessus Rémi 2004
La fuite de Monsieur Monde Le médecin 2004
Traceless Kazinski 2010
Tombé sur la tête Bertrand 2010
My Old Lady Phillippe 2014
Casablanca Driver le patient 2004
The Whistler Martial 2010
My Very Own Santa Claus 2008
Barbecue Alexandre 2014
Les Gazelles Mr Hublot 2014
Saint-Jacques… La Mecque le curé de Navarrenx 2005
3 petites filles l'inspecteur 2004
3 Guys, 1 Girl, 2 Weddings Deputy Mayor 2004
Superchondriac Romain's Lawyer 2014
Everyone's Life Stéphane 2017
Canal+ Replay Les Deschiens 2021
Gaston Lagaffe PDG (voice) 2018
One Nation, One King 2018
25 Degrees in Winter Inspecteur du travail 2004
Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia Le décurion du stade 2012
Zapping Family Stéphane 2005
CANAL+'s 30th anniversary Self 2014
Astérix at the Olympic Games Numerix 2008
Le Débarquement 2013
Series Cast Year
Top Gear France Self 2015
Mes amis, mes amours, mes emmerdes... François Kleber 2009
Viva Vacations! Christophe 2009
Kaboul Kitchen Michel Caulaincourt 2012
We're Live Self 2020
Lycée Toulouse-Lautrec M. Feuillate 2023
Improbox Self - Guest 2023
C à vous Self - Guest 2009
Les Radoteurs Stéphane 2019
Le Débarquement 2013
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