in 2012 at the
37th César Awards for
The Intouchables Sy began his career after high school in 1996, He and co-star François Cluzet were jointly bestowed the Best Actor Award at the
Tokyo International Film Festival. Additionally, he won the
César Award for Best Actor in 2012 for the same film. On 30 December 2012, Sy was voted the favourite personality in France, based on a poll by
Le Journal du Dimanche, ahead of fellow actor
Gad Elmaleh. In 2014, Sy appeared in
X-Men: Days of Future Past, playing the character
Bishop. He also starred in
Samba, directed by
Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache. He co-starred in the fourth installment of the
Jurassic Park franchise,
Jurassic World, In 2015, alongside Bradley Cooper, he played a compromised chef in
Burnt. In 2017, he voiced the character Hot Rod in the film
Transformers: The Last Knight, the fifth installment in the
Transformers series. In 2021, he starred in Netflix's hit series
Lupin, a modern day retelling of
Arsène Lupin novels.
Lupin has become one of the most-watched non-English series on Netflix. More recently, Sy has signed a multi-year feature film deal with Netflix. In 2021, he was included on the
Time 100,
Times annual list of the most influential people in the world. Most recently, Sy signed a first-look deal with
HBO Max to develop a series for multiple markets, especially French-speaking ones. ==Personal life==