Gad Elmaleh
Gad Elmaleh (born April 19, 1971, Casablanca, Morocco), aged 55, is a Moroccan-Canadian comedian and actor. Notable films include Midnight in Paris, The Dictator and Jack and Jill. Elmaleh's honours include Knight of the National Order of Quebec and Officer of Arts and Letters.
Gad Elmaleh’s zodiac sign is Aries, and in the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Pig, with Life Path 5 in numerology.
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Gad Elmaleh’s AsterNym identity
The Evergreen Pioneer
Wood represents growth. Wood-led charts are associated with patience, adaptability and the drive to keep developing. Life Path 5 represents freedom: change, movement, variety and resistance to restrictive routines.
Wood Day Master (BaZi) × cardinal Sun × Life Path 5, on the physical plane.
How common is the name Gad in the U.S.?
#8474
US rank in 2025
~131
Americans share it since 1880
2016
its peak year
US Social Security Administration public records
Gad’s lucky numbers, colours and stones
Traditional correspondences calculated from AsterNym’s astrology, wuxing and numerology system.
Lucky numbers
5 · 2 · 8
Lucky colours
White & Gold
Lucky day
Tuesday
Direction
← West
Season
autumn
Stones
Diamond, Red Coral, Rutilated Quartz
Flower constellation
🌼 Daisy · 🌺 Red Dahlia · 🤍 White Magnolia
White · Crimson · Moonlight white
The same wuxing & numerology correspondences as your own print. One tradition, read for everyone
What the chart says
Gad, according to the stars
Core essence
Gad leads with the body. First in, first to speak, first to say the thing everyone was thinking, and honestly a little surprised when the room needed a second to catch up. The core of Gad is courage that does not look like courage from the inside, it just looks like Tuesday. They would rather be wrong fast than right slowly, and it is why people follow them.
The vibe
Underneath, Gad needs air. The Moon in Aquarius feels things at a slight distance, thinks them over, and comes back with an answer that is kinder than the reaction would have been. What Gad needs to feel safe is space, friendship first, and to be accepted as exactly the odd shape they are. Then they are the most loyal person you know.
How Gad wants to be loved
Gad wants to be loved tenderly. Venus in Pisces is the romantic of the zodiac: soft, giving, a little dreamy, and easily bruised. They love without keeping score and need a partner who will not take advantage of that. Be gentle with Gad, be honest, and they will make the ordinary feel enchanted.
How Gad creates
How Gad makes things happen: they grow upward. A Yang Wood day master is the tree, the one with a direction and the patience to keep at it through a bad season. Gad builds in the open, wants to be useful, and is at their most creative when there is something to reach for. Bend rather than break is the lesson they learn a few times.
Instinct
Instinct: Gad is warm and generous, a Pig year, and their gut reaction is to trust. Big-hearted, fun, sincere, a lover of good things, and deserving of people who are as honest as they are. The Metal year sharpens it: principled, determined, clear about what is right.
Purpose
Purpose: Life Path 5 is the free spirit. Gad is here to explore, to change, to taste everything and report back. Adventure, variety and freedom are not distractions from their purpose, they are it. The lesson is choosing, sometimes, and staying.
Triggers
Triggers: incompetence, and disrespect. Mars in Capricorn means Gad does not waste energy on anger; they use it. Controlled, strategic, relentless, the person who will outlast the problem. Cold when crossed, and quietly forgiving once you have earned it back.
Computed from Gad's birth date, not guessed. The full working is below.
Where Gad sits
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You may draw energy from a wide network, many doors, lightly held.
You may leap first and adjust as you go. Waiting can feel like losing momentum.
You likely share some feelings openly and keep others to yourself.
You may want to resolve tension the moment it appears, rather than let it sit.
You likely balance practical steps with room to imagine further.
You may feel connection fast. Chemistry can arrive before the details do.
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Aries Sun
Aries SunFirst through every door.
Gad Elmaleh's Sun was in Aries for the whole of April 19, 1971, so no birth time is needed to settle it. Traditional Aries readings associate the sign with initiative, directness and a preference for acting before the plan is finished. Astrologers describe it as the cardinal fire sign: the one that starts things. The corresponding tension is impatience, with the classical caution that what Aries begins quickly it may leave for someone else to complete.
Metal Pig
Metal PigAssumes the best. Usually right.
Gad Elmaleh was born on April 19, 1971, which falls in a Metal Pig year of the Chinese calendar. Traditional Pig readings emphasise generosity, sincerity and an appetite for the good things, shared. The Chinese almanacs describe the Pig as the most open-handed sign in the cycle, trusting and hard to anger. The corresponding caution in the tradition is naivety, and a difficulty believing that anyone would take advantage of that trust.
Life Path 5
Life Path 5Freedom over comfort, always.
Gad Elmaleh's birth date, April 19, 1971, reduces to Life Path 5 under the numerology method AsterNym uses. Traditional Life Path 5 readings associate the number with freedom, change and variety: movement, new experience and resistance to restrictive routine. Numerologists describe it as the path of the traveller, adaptable and restless. The corresponding tension is instability, with the caution that constant motion can become a way of avoiding commitment to any one direction.
What stands out in Gad’s chart
- The tightest major aspect in Gad Elmaleh's date-only chart is Mars trine Saturn, with an orb of under 1°.
- Five planets were retrograde on the birth date: Mercury, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
- Gad Elmaleh combines a Wood Day Master in BaZi with a cardinal Sun and a Life Path on the physical plane, the combination AsterNym calls The Evergreen Pioneer.
Gad’s birth chart
Reference chart · birth time unknown
No documented birth time exists for Gad Elmaleh, so the positions below are checked across the whole birth date, not fixed at noon. The Moon ranges from 4° to 18° Aquarius depending on the hour. The wheel's houses are a solar chart, counted from the Sun's sign, because the Ascendant needs a time.
No birth time, so the houses are a solar chart: the Sun’s sign counts as house 1. A documented time would place them from the Ascendant instead.
Placements
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The working: aspects, Chiron and the asteroids, dominant planets and configurationsshow
Aspects across every possible birth time
Stable aspects hold for any birth hour. Possible ones depend on the hour, so their orb is a range rather than a number. Orb policy western_v1.
stableSunconjunctionMercury0.0° to 1.6° orb
Gad’s core identity and mind act as one. Wherever one goes, the other is already there.
stableMarstrineSaturn0.0° to 0.3° orb
Gad’s drive flows straight into their discipline.
stableVenusoppositionPluto2.0° to 3.2° orb
Gad’s affections pull against their depths from across the wheel. A see-saw looking for balance, often played out through other people.
stableVenussextileSaturn2.1° to 3.2° orb
Gad’s affections open doors for their discipline. Nothing happens until someone makes the first move.
stableVenussextileMars2.4° to 3.1° orb
Gad’s affections open doors for their drive.
stableJupiterconjunctionNeptune2.8° orb
Gad’s growth and imagination act as one. Each makes the other louder.
stableMarstrinePluto5.0° to 5.6° orb
Gad’s drive flows straight into their depths. A talent so smooth it can go unnoticed.
stableNeptunesextilePluto5.0° orb
Gad’s imagination opens doors for their depths. An easy alliance, and it pays off when it is used.
stableSaturntrinePluto5.1° to 5.3° orb
Gad’s discipline flows straight into their depths. Effortless, which is exactly why it gets taken for granted.
stableSunsquareMars6.3° to 6.7° orb
Gad’s core identity grinds against their drive.
possibleMoontrineUranusorb from 0.0° to 7.3° depending on birth time
possibleMoonsextileJupiterorb from 0.1° to 12.7° depending on birth time
Chart signature
Elements
- Fire4 of 10
- Earth3 of 10
- Air2 of 10
- Water1 of 10
Modalities
- Cardinal4 of 10
- Fixed2 of 10
- Mutable4 of 10
Counted across the ten planets by sign: Fire leads this chart.
Gad’s Chiron, Ceres, Eros, Hygiea and Lilith
Four minor bodies and the mean lunar apogee, placed in the same tropical zodiac as the planets above. None of these feed the chart signature, the rarity score or any ranking on this site: they are listed for readers who use them. Chiron, Ceres, Eros and Hygiea positions come from JPL Horizons; Black Moon Lilith is the mean apogee, the point most published Lilith tables use. The readings are the modern tradition’s, not AsterNym’s. Without a birth time the degree is the noon value and the day's movement is shown alongside it.
⚷ ChironAries 10°55′ (moves 0.06° over the day)
centaur (2060) · the wound and what is learnt from it
Chiron in Aries is read as a sore spot around asserting oneself: Gad may have learnt early that going first costs something, and built a way of leading that does not need permission.
⚳ CeresTaurus 27°19′ (moves 0.40° over the day)
dwarf planet (1) · how a person nurtures and wants to be nurtured
Ceres in Taurus is read as nurture through the physical: food, comfort, a steady presence. Gad is read as someone who shows care by providing.
♡ ErosTaurus 10°15′ (moves 0.80° over the day)
near-Earth asteroid (433) · what draws them and how they desire
Eros in Taurus is read as desire through the senses and through time. The reading has Gad wanting what can be touched, kept and returned to.
⚕ HygieaLeo 5°41′ (moves 0.13° over the day)
main-belt asteroid (10) · health, routine and what keeps them well
Hygiea in Leo is read as vitality that runs on purpose and recognition. The reading has Gad at their best with something to be proud of.
⚸ Black Moon LilithVirgo 25°24′ (moves 0.11° over the day)
mean lunar apogee · the part that refuses to be tamed
Black Moon Lilith in Virgo is read as a refusal of the standard of good enough, turned both outward and inward. The modern reading has Gad exacting with themselves first.
Aspects to the asteroids and Lilith
Major aspects only, at a tight 3° orb. The Moon is left out because its position moves 13° across an untimed day.
- Chiron opposition Uranus 0.1°
- Ceres trine Pluto 0.3°
- Hygiea trine Jupiter 0.3°
- Black Moon Lilith opposition Venus 0.4°
- Black Moon Lilith conjunction Pluto 2.2°
- Ceres sextile Venus 2.3°
Method: JPL Horizons heliocentric vectors, 1700–2100, cubic Hermite interpolation; geocentric, true ecliptic of date, tropical; geometric (no light-time or aberration); Lilith = mean lunar apogee (Chapront/Meeus mean perigee + 180°).
Gad’s dominant planets
Scored from rulerships, dispositors and aspect count. Without a birth time there is no Ascendant or house to score, and the Moon's sign is left out where it could change with the hour.
1. ♂ Mars9 pts
rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects
2. ♀ Venus5 pts
disposes Saturn, Uranus; 3 major aspects
3. ♃ Jupiter4 pts
in its own sign, Sagittarius; disposes Neptune; 1 major aspect
A Mars-led chart is read as drive setting the pace: Gad is read as acting first and reflecting after.
How the score is built
- Rules the Sun sign, Moon sign or Ascendant sign: 3 points each (traditional co-rulers of Scorpio, Aquarius and Pisces score half).
- Sits in a sign it rules: 2 points.
- Disposes another planet (that planet sits in a sign it rules): 1 point each.
- Angular: 2 points in the first or tenth house, 1 point in the fourth or seventh (timed births only).
- Every major aspect it makes: 1 point.
Dominance scoring is an AsterNym method. Other sites weight differently and can name a different leader for the same chart.
Configurations in Gad’s chart
Closed shapes among the ten planets under the site’s one aspect-orb policy. The Moon is excluded without a birth time, so a shape that needs it is not claimed.
Kite · Mars, Saturn, Pluto, VenusA grand trine with a fourth planet opposing one corner and sextile the other two: the trine's ease with an outlet.
Minor aspects
semi-sextile 30° (orb 2°), semi-square 45° (orb 2°), quintile 72° (orb 1.5°), sesquiquadrate 135° (orb 2°), biquintile 144° (orb 1.5°), quincunx 150° (orb 2.5°). Pairs already in a major aspect are not repeated. Moon excluded without a birth time.
- Mercury biquintile Jupiter 0.2°
- Sun biquintile Jupiter 0.6°
- Sun quincunx Pluto 1.2°
- Mars semi-square Jupiter 1.9°
- Mercury quincunx Pluto 2.0°
Houses need a birth time. None is documented for Gad Elmaleh, so no house placements are claimed for the planets or the minor bodies above.
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Gad’s cards
Every card is computed from April 19, 1971, none chosen. Tap one to flip it.
♂ Ruled by Mars
Iron Fe
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The working: BaZi pillarsshow
BaZi pillars
Day Master: yang Wood.
Year
辛
yin Metal
亥
Pig
Water
roots & early life
Month
壬
yang Water
辰
Dragon
Earth
work & drive
Day
day master
甲
yang Wood
戌
Dog
Earth
you & partnership
No birth time is on public record for Gad Elmaleh, so this chart has three pillars rather than four. The hour pillar, the rising sign and the birth-sky star all need a time, and we would rather leave them out than invent one.
Where this data comes from
Gad’s birth date and birthplace come from Wikidata Q318991, released under CC0, as do the occupations, works, teams and awards in the biography above. No documented birth time is available, so this chart is rated X on the Rodden scale, the astrological convention for how well evidenced a birth time is. Time-dependent results use a clearly labelled reference time and should not be read as their exact birth chart. Entries are matched to Wikidata by entity id rather than by name, kept only at day precision, and dropped where sources disagree on the date.
Portrait by Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
The same Gad Elmaleh at Wikipedia, gadelmaleh.com, IMDb, Instagram, X and MusicBrainz.
Roster last reviewed September 10, 2026. Every entry is checked against its Wikidata record; where a person shares a name with someone else, the entity id is what settles which of them this is. What we will not tell you sets out the claims this site refuses to make.
These are traditional interpretations, not facts or predictions. AsterNym is not affiliated with or endorsed by Gad Elmaleh.
Quick answers about Gad Elmaleh’s chart
- How old is Gad Elmaleh?
- Gad Elmaleh is 55 years old, born April 19, 1971 in Casablanca, Morocco.
- What zodiac sign is Gad Elmaleh?
- Gad Elmaleh is an Aries: born April 19, 1971, which puts the Sun in Aries for the whole of that day. That is the Western star sign. In the Chinese zodiac they are a Metal Pig.
- What is Gad Elmaleh's Chinese zodiac animal?
- The Pig, with the Metal element, from the Chinese lunar year of the April 19, 1971 birth.
- What time was Gad Elmaleh born?
- No reliably documented birth time is public, so AsterNym does not calculate an Ascendant. This chart uses date-only positions: the wheel shows a reference solar chart (the Sun's sign as house 1), and the Ascendant is left uncomputed instead of guessed from an unverified time.
- What is Gad Elmaleh's Life Path number?
- Life Path 5, calculated in numerology from the April 19, 1971 birth date.
- What is Gad Elmaleh's Chiron sign?
- Chiron in Aries at 10°. Position from JPL Horizons for the April 19, 1971 birth date.
- Where is Gad Elmaleh's Black Moon Lilith?
- Mean Black Moon Lilith in Virgo at 25°. This is the mean lunar apogee; the osculating Lilith some tables use can sit up to 30° away.
- What is Gad Elmaleh's dominant planet?
- Mars, on AsterNym's dominance score (9 points: rules the Sun sign, Aries; disposes Sun, Mercury; 4 major aspects). Venus is second and Jupiter third. Other sites weight rulerships and aspects differently and can name a different leader.
