Biographie

4 juillet 1981 · Belfort, Territoire de Belfort, France

1,71 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.