1959-05-14 ( 65 years old ) in Tlemcen, Oran, France [now Algeria]
Patrick Maurice Benguigui (born 14 May 1959), better known by his stage name Patrick Bruel, is a French singer-songwriter, actor and professional poker player.
Patrick is the son of Pierre Benguigui and Augusta Kammoun, daughter of Elie and Céline ben Sidoun. He lived in the staff accommodation of the girls' school in Argenteuil where his mother was a teacher. In his youth, Bruel aspired to be a football player, but decided instead to pursue singing after seeing Michel Sardou in 1975.
His first success came as an actor, in 1979's Le Coup de sirocco. He continued acting in films, on television, and in the theater while pursuing his singing career. His first single, "Vide" ("Empty"), released in 1982, was not a success, but the follow-up, "Marre de cette nana-là" ("Fed up with that chick"), was a hit.
In 2003, just before his partner, the writer and playwright Amanda Sthers, gave birth to his first child, Oscar, on 19 August, he changed his name to Bruel-Benguigui, combining his stage name with his birth name. On 21 September 2004, he wed the then 26-year-old Sthers; it was his first marriage. His second child, Léon, was born on 28 September 2005. The couple separated in 2007.
As of 2004, Bruel has acted in more than forty television and film productions, and has made five studio albums and several live albums. In 2002, Bruel released Entre Deux, a double CD of classic chanson that features duets with Charles Aznavour, Jean-Louis Aubert, Jean-Jacques Goldman, Alain Souchon and Renaud, among others. It sold two million copies and made Bruel France's best paid singer of the year. At the beginning of 2005, in response to the South Asian tsunami of 26 December 2004, Bruel wrote the song "Et puis la terre" with Marie-Florence Gros, with whom he had begun a long-term collaboration in 1998, to benefit the Red Cross. His latest album, "Des souvenirs devant", was his fourth chart-topper in France.
Bruel is a world-class professional poker player. He won a World Series of Poker bracelet in 1998 for the $5,000 Limit Hold'em event. As of 2009. he has earned more than $900,000 in tournament play, of which his ten cash winnings at the WSOP account for $411,659. He also comments on the World Poker Tour in France.
In the 2010s, Bruel bought a house in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles. In January 2025, the house was destroyed by the Palisades Fire.
Bruel has been a member of the Les Enfoirés charity ensemble since 1993.
Source: Article "Patrick Bruel" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Taratata fête les 40 ans de Bercy
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Les Enfoirés 2024 - On a 35 ans !
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Tous avec le Maroc
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Florent Pagny : Le Phénix
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Florent Pagny : un homme libre
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Renaud, souvenirs, souvenirs
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2023-07-25
Michel Polnareff, la soirée événement
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Joyeux anniversaire Renaud
2022-05-10
Les Enfoirés 2022 - Un air d'Enfoirés
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L'Énigme Jean-Jacques Goldman
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Johnny Hallyday : Que je t'aime
2021-09-14
Villa Caprice
2021-06-02
Les Enfoirés 2020 - Le Pari(s) des Enfoirés
2020-03-06
Patrick Bruel: Itinéraire d'un surdoué
2019-12-30
Patrick Bruel, le concert événement
2019-12-07
Johnny Hallyday : Olympia 2000 - Les Duos
2019-12-06
Ce soir, on sort
2019-12-06
The Best Is Yet to Come
2019-12-04
Les Enfoirés jouent le jeu
2019-11-30
Les Enfoirés 2019 - Le Monde des Enfoirés
2019-03-08
Holy Lands
2019-01-16
L'Étrange Noël de Jeff Panacloc
2018-12-08
Johnny Hallyday - Stade de France 98
2018-11-23
Vianney en concert à l’AccorHotels Arena
2018-06-09
Les Enfoirés 2018 - Musique !
2018-03-09
A Family
2017-09-28
Les Enfoirés 2017 - Mission Enfoirés
2017-03-03
A Bag of Marbles
2017-01-18
Love at First Child
2015-11-11
Leurs voix pour l'espoir - 4ème édition
2015-09-17
M Pokora - Le concert événement au Châtelet
2015-05-01
Patrick Bruel - Le Concert Symphonique
2015-04-02
Les copains d'abord font du ski
2014-12-25
Johnny Hallyday la Soirée Evénement
2014-12-20
BRUEL 2014 Live
2014-12-08
Sex, Love & Therapy
2014-10-01
Il était une fois... Patrick Bruel
2014-07-04
The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles
2014-04-09
The Brats
2013-04-17
Céline Dion, le grand show
2012-11-24
Grégory Lemarchal - Cinq ans
2012-11-19
Le Prénom : la pièce de théâtre
2012-09-19
Paris-Manhattan
2012-07-18
What's in a Name
2012-04-25
D'un film à l'autre
2011-04-13
Les Enfoirés 2011 - Dans l'oeil des Enfoirés
2011-03-11
Comme les 5 doigts de la main
2010-04-28
Change of Plans
2009-02-18
Les Enfoirés 2008 - Les secrets des Enfoirés
2008-03-07
Poker Coach and Patrick Bruel
2007-11-27
A Secret
2007-10-03
Bruel Live Des souvenirs ... Ensemble
2007-05-26
O Jerusalem
2006-10-17
Comedy of Power
2006-02-22
Les Enfoirés, 15 ans d'Enfoirés
2005-11-25
Wolf
2004-11-05
Une vie à t'attendre
2004-03-10
Johnny Hallyday - Parc des Princes 2003
2003-06-15
Patrick Bruel - Entre deux, à l'Olympia
2002-11-19
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
2002-05-20
Les Enfoirés 2002 - Tous dans le même bateau
2002-02-22
Pretty Things
2001-11-14
The Milk of Human Kindness
2001-09-19
Les Enfoirés 2001 - L'odyssée des Enfoirés
2001-03-09
M6 awards 2000
2000-11-17
Les Enfoirés 2000 - Enfoirés en 2000
2000-02-26
Lost & Found
1999-04-23
The Misadventures of Margaret
1998-12-23
Foul Play
1998-11-25
Paparazzi
1998-04-29
Les Enfoirés 1998 - Enfoirés en cœur
1998-02-07
K
1997-08-27
Les Enfoirés 1997 - Le Zénith des Enfoirés
1997-02-08
Jaguar
1996-10-09
Men, Women: A User's Manual
1996-08-28
Les Enfoirés 1996 - La Soirée des Enfoirés
1996-02-10
Sabrina
1995-12-15
One Hundred and One Nights
1995-01-25
Michel Sardou - Show Sardou
1994-12-22
Low Profile
1993-12-08
Sweetheart
1992-04-07
Si ce soir... 1990
1990-10-01
Elsa sous la neige
1989-12-27
Uncontrollable Circumstances
1989-04-04
Brothers in Arms
1989-03-15
The Murdered House
1988-02-01
Bandits
1987-06-03
Follow My Gaze
1986-04-23
Bitter Champagne
1986-01-01
P.R.O.F.S.
1985-09-18
Led by the Nose
1984-10-31
Marche à l'ombre
1984-10-17
Le Grand Carnaval
1983-12-07
Tears like knives
1983-10-26
The Bastard
1983-06-15
The Graduates of the Last Row
1982-08-18
Singles
1982-01-27
La Mort en sautoir
1980-08-15
The Kick of Sirocco
1979-04-18
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