Éric Blanc

Éric Degbegni, better known as Éric Blanc (born October 10, 1965 in Cotonou, Benin) is a French impersonator and comedian.

His father was a professional magistrate and his mother a pediatric nurse, he lived in Cotonou until 1975 when his family have to exile to Paris after Général Kérékou's coup d'état. He discontinued his law courses for the stage. En 1986, he began in the Caveau de la République, a famous place for new humorists in Paris with imitations of President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, the TV host Frédéric Mitterrand or the French tennis player Yannick Noah and then played on different TV shows as "la Classe" on France 3.

He performed his first one-man show in the Bataclan then in Bobino. After legal trouble after a contested imitation of a French movie critic Henry Chapier in 1988, he became blacklisted on the French TV during many years but his career have kept going in movie and theater.

Filmography

* "Retour à la vie" (2000)
* "Que la lumière soit !" (1997)
* "L'un contre l'autre" (1995)
* "Thank You Satan" (1989)
* "L'Invité surprise" (1989)
* "À gauche en sortant de l'ascenseur" (1988)
* "Black mic-mac 2" (1988)
* "L'œil au beur(re) noir" (1987)

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