Karl Zéro

Biography

Karl Zéro is the stage name of Marc Tellenne (born August 6, 1961 in Aix-les-Bains, Savoie), is a French writer, actor and filmmaker. Zéro is also a political talk show host/personality (Le Vrai Journal) who has recorded albums of pop standards of the 1940s and 1950s. Karl Zéro is the youngest son of Gui Tellenne, a civil servant and poet, and Annick Tellenne, an author and talk-show host. He has three brothers: Éric, a writer under the name of Raoul Rabut, Bruno (aka Basile de Koch) and Olivier, a business executive. In the late 1970s Éric, Bruno and Marc founded the satirical comedy troupe Groupe d'Intervention culturelle Jalons. 1979 Zéro met his later wife and mother of their three children Anne-Laure Chaptel (today's stage name: Daisy d'Errata) in the lyceum both were attending. Anne-Laure as well as Bruno’s wife Virginie (Frigide Barjot) later on became members of the Jalons. Zéro's first publication was a comic entitled The Adventures of Edmond in the magazine Jalons in the early 1980s. Subsequently, he started to work for the publications Métal Hurlant, Charlie Hebdo, Zoulou, and L'Écho des savanes, first as an artist and then as a story writer. At the same time, in 1981,…

Directed

1. Being Jacques Chirac (2006) — Director
2. Le Tronc (1993) — Director
3. Kadyrov, The Dictator of Chechnya (2018) — Director
4. Ségo et Sarko sont dans un bateau... (2007) — Director
5. Being W (2008) — Director
6. Starko! (2008) — Director
7. 1 sur 5 (2021) — Director
8. Aloïs Brunner, de Drancy à Damas (2018) — Director
9. Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau (2019) — Director
10. Dans la peau de Vladimir Poutine (2012) — Director
11. Les faits Karl Zéro (2007) — Director
12. Un monstre nommé Josef Fritzl — Director
13. Dans la peau de Kim Jong-Un (2015) — Director
14. Yves Montand, l'ombre au tableau (2016) — Director
15. Me, Luka Magnotta (2013) — Director
16. Being Fidel Castro (2010) — Director
17. Claude François, l'ombre au tableau (2017) — Director
18. Alain Kan, The Accursed Son of Rock (2007) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Les Misérables (2000) — Procureur Cour Arras
2. Day and Night (1997) — Filippi
3. Nulle part ailleurs (1987) — Self - Co-Host
4. Tout le monde en parle (1998)
5. Le Furet (2003) — Tino
6. Mask Singer (2019) — Self
7. Le Tronc (1993) — Marguerite Duras / Jean-Luc Godard
8. Salut les Terriens ! (2006) — Self - Guest
9. Panique dans l'oreillette (2008) — Self
10. On n'est pas couché (2006) — Self - Guest
11. Ségo et Sarko sont dans un bateau... (2007) — Self
12. N'oubliez pas les paroles - Primes événementiels (2008) — Self
13. The Baudis affair, the murderous rumor (2021) — Self (archive footage)
14. Télématin (1985) — Self
15. Entretien politique : Histoire et mode d'emploi (2020) — Self
16. Plaisir a 20 ans (2004) — Self
17. Les faits Karl Zéro (2007) — Self - Host
18. Alain Kan, The Accursed Son of Rock (2007) — Self (host)