Biography

July 4, 1981 · Belfort, Territoire de Belfort, France

5′ 9″ (1.75 m)

Often plays ambivalent characters, hesitating between good and evil.

Often plays characters of different ethnicities

He is of Algerian descent.

Has played characters from a wide ranger of ethnicities, such as North African, Indian, Middle Eastern and Celtic.

He speaks fluent English.

He attended the University Paul Valery of Montpellier, where he studied drama.

He's a fan of Breaking Bad (2008).

There's really nothing to do there. Some kids go walking in the mountains but I just went to the cinema. So when I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, even though this wasn't normal for Arab kids or anyone in the town, they were sort of expecting it and were very supportive.

I'm just a boy from the countryside. These awards ceremonies exist in another world, like myths. They're not something I ever thought about, so it's not a dream come true. It is the impossible made real.

I was watching three or four movies a week, every week. And after a while I was unselfconscious enough and pretentious enough to think that, yes, I could be up there on the screen too. That could be me.