Jamal El Walidi was born in France, where his parents studied, then moved to Marrakech. He played tennis from the age of five and achieved a Master of Sport degree. He then moved to St. Petersburg, where he studied at the Leningrad Institute of Sport and worked in films. Jamal El Walidi drowned in Lake Lembolovskoye at a recreation center in the Leningrad Region, Russia.
