Zacharie Malek was born in Athens, Ohio in the U.S., son of a teacher-researcher father and a schoolteacher mother. He has a passion for film since childhood. After returning to France at the age of two his parents separated. He attended a school in Agneaux and became involved with the dramatic arts thanks to a director who organized plays with the students and a performance at the end of each year. He then starts to imagine himself acting in place of the children he sees in the films. In 2018 he obtained his economics and social sciences baccalaureate with honors and began studying psychology at the University of Caen. He directed many short films there, which he shoots with his friends. Tired of his studies, he leaves school his third year and returns to his main passion, film, and goes on many castings. He then joins the team of Mason Ewing Corporation.