César Award

Movies & TV From Trappes to Lupin: Omar Sy, the first Black actor to win the César for Best Actor Omar Sy, born in Trappes, France, in 1978 to a Senegalese father and a Mauritanian mother, became famous in the 2011 comedy-drama The Intouchables, which won him the César for Best Actor, making him the first Black recipient. He went on to Hollywood films and the global Netflix hit Lupin.