David was born in Normandy, and his father and grandfather both served in the French Army Fire Department. Because of their influence, David loved sports very much since he was a child. He is an athlete, a mountaineer and a martial arts enthusiast. The process of his martial arts not only keeps his physical quality in the best condition at any time, but also develops his tenacious character of constantly exceeding his own limits.

David dropped out of high school at the age of 0/5 and moved to Paris to study first aid and gymnastics. There, he met a group of like-minded young people who loved sports as much as he did. David led these young people to form a small group and co-founded the sports "Parkour" with * *, which later became the "Shankasi" Parkour Team. "Parkour" is a kind of sports art, they regard the buildings in the city as obstacles to cross. Inspired by David's father's own physical training process, this sport is a street art that combines jumping, climbing and running.

David Bell joined the Paris Fire Brigade on 1993, but was forced to quit soon due to injury. Later, he served in the naval forces in Wana. Following in his father's footsteps, David also won the first place in the army rope climbing competition. However, this military career soon made David realize that military life was not suitable for his adventurous and free personality.

David launched a campaign to promote Parkour after his military service. He posted the video of himself engaged in the "Parkour" movement on the Internet, and through media publicity, let everyone gradually understand "Parkour". Because of the influence of these videos, in 1997, someone made a series of documentaries specially for him to record and introduce the sport. Because of this experience, David got to know the actor Hubert Koundé. Hubble began to guide David in some enlightenment training and helped him to study at the famous Pygmalion Performance School.

After successfully portraying some roles in music videos, micro-movies, TV and advertisements, David caught the attention of famous director luc besson. Luc took the initiative to contact David, hoping that he would participate in Enterprise Warrior, which is about Parkour. Although David couldn't attend the performance because of his relationship with his previous team, his relationship with director luc besson greatly promoted the progress of his acting career.

David made his debut in the movie Gear on May 4th, 38th+0, 2006, directed by Frank Ni Gautrat, and then he participated in The Beauty of Snakes and Scorpions directed by Bryan de Palma and Divine Interference directed by Arya Suleiman. Later, in 2004, he participated in Suburb 13 13, which was produced by luc besson and directed by Pierre Morey. The success of this film helped David gain the attention of France and even the whole world.

David's excellent physical condition made his video clip get more than 654.38+million hits on Youtube, a famous foreign video website. Sam Raimi once invited David to dress in Spider-Man's costume and play body double of Spider-Man in Spider-Man 3. Unfortunately, he was filming "banlieue 13 13: ultimatum" (2009) directed by Patrick Alesunderland, and missed the chance to play a superhero. At the same time, producer Jerry Bruckheimer also contacted David and hired him as the instructor of Jake Gyllenhaal. Jack is about to star in McNewell's Prince of Persia (20 10), and Jerry wants David to teach Jack parkour. David also successfully completed this task without affecting his own filming "Suburb 13 13: ultimatum".

The following year, David and zoe saldana starred in The Colombians directed by olivier megaton, and in 20 13, they starred in Hell in luc besson with the best actresses such as Robert De Niro, michelle pfeiffer and tommy lee jones.

David will star with Paul Walker in the American version of Suburb 13 13.