Jacky Ido
Encyclopedia
Jacky Ido is a Burkina Faso
-born French
film
actor
. He is best known to English-language audiences for his role as Marcel, the film projectionist
in Quentin Tarantino
's 2009 film, Inglourious Basterds.
Ido's other film credits include a role as Lemalian in the 2005 German
film, The White Masai
. Ido works and resides in Paris, France.
Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso – also known by its short-form name Burkina – is a landlocked country in west Africa. It is surrounded by six countries: Mali to the north, Niger to the east, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Côte d'Ivoire to the southwest.Its size is with an estimated...
-born French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
. He is best known to English-language audiences for his role as Marcel, the film projectionist
Projectionist
A Projectionist is a person who operates a movie projector. In the strict sense of the term this means any movie projector and therefore could include someone who operates the projector in a home video show or school. In common usage the term is generally understood to describe a paid employee of...
in Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. In the early 1990s, he began his career as an independent filmmaker with films employing nonlinear storylines and the aestheticization of violence...
's 2009 film, Inglourious Basterds.
Ido's other film credits include a role as Lemalian in the 2005 German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
film, The White Masai
The White Masai
The White Masai , directed by Hermine Huntgeburth, is a 2005 movie about Swiss woman Carola falling in love in Kenya with Maasai Lemalian . The film is based upon an autobiographical novel by Swiss writer Corinne Hofmann....
. Ido works and resides in Paris, France.