Omar Sy is a French actor, best known in his homeland for his sketches with Fred Testot on the Service après-vente des émissions television show on Canal+.
Yasuke was a retainer of African origin who served under the Sengoku Period Japanese daimyō Oda Nobunaga. In 1579 Yasuke arrived in Japan in the service of Italian Jesuit missionary Alessandro Valignano, Visitor of Missions in the Indies, in India.