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Mehdi Nebbou

Actor
Born January 10, 1974 (50 years)
Mehdi Nebbou (born 10 January 1974) is a French actor.

Nebbou was born on 10 January 1974 in Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France, to a German mother and an Algerian father. His brother is the film director Safy Nebbou.

He started his career by appearing in the film My Sweet Home, directed by Filipos Tsitos.

In 2004, the director Samir Nasr offered him the leading role in the film Seeds of Doubt, which won the Golden Gate Award for best film at the San Francisco Film Festival. 2005 was a turning point in Nebbou's career thanks to the film Schläfer by German film director Benjamin Heisenberg. The film received excellent reviews and was selected for the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.

In 2006, he portrayed Ali Hassan Salameh in the Steven Spielberg blockbuster film Munich.

In 2007, for his performance in Teresas Zimmer, directed by German film director Constanze Knoche, he won the award for best actor at First Steps Awards.

In 2008, Nebbou worked in the Ridley Scott film Body of Lies with Leonardo DiCaprio. In it, he portrayed Nizar, an Iraqi linguistics doctorate turned Al-Qaeda operative who approaches CIA to defect after being enlisted by his jihadist superiors for suicide bombing. In addition, he played in several French TV series and films, among them as a disabled ex-middleweight boxing world champion in Douce France for which he won the award for best actor in 2009 at the Rochelle TV Festival. He played Mustafa Larbi, a sadistic and unpredictable drug dealer, in Season 2 of Spiral, the successful Canal+ TV series.

In 2010, he portrayed Bruno in the Salvatore Allocca Italian romantic comedy Come trovare nel modo giusto l'uomo sbagliato and in 2011, Amin in the French action film Forces spéciales with Diane Krüger.

In 2012, he had his breakthrough into the Indian film industry thanks to the film English Vinglish starring Sridevi.

He portrayed the lead in Les heures souterraines directed by Philippe Harel inspired by the novel of Delphine de Vigan in 2014.

In 2015 and 2016, he is Cyclone in 6 episodes of season 1 and 2 of Le Bureau des Légendes.

In 2016, he is the co-lead in the Romanian movie The Fixer directed by Adrian Sitaru about human traffic in Europe and under-age prostitution. The film is pre-selected for the Oscars 2018.

In 2017, he is one of the leads in the second seasons of the Norwegian cult series Occupied and in the German series Deutschland 86.

He will be one of the leads in the new Netflix series Baby directed by Andrea De Sica and Anna Negri.

In 2021, he is portraying a middile-east investor in the movie "House of Gucci" de Ridley Scott.

He is fluent in French, German, English and Italian.

Source: Article "Mehdi Nebbou" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Movies & Shows on Plex
  • Fay Grim
Known For
  • Body of Lies
  • English Vinglish
  • Special Forces
  • Switch
  • HIP - High Intellectual Potential
  • Joséphine
  • Mothers' Instinct
  • Secret Defense
  • We Monsters
  • Joséphine, Pregnant & Fabulous
  • Crime Insiders
  • Felicity Land
  • The Fixer
  • Big Is Beautiful
  • Sleeper
  • Rivals
  • Animals
  • The Coming Days
  • In Gold We Trust
  • Cookie
  • 12 Tage Sommer
  • Happy Hour
  • Rose
  • Tout va bien

Filmography

2023
Not a Word · as Alex Goff
2023
Tout va bien (TV Series) · as Louis
2023
2022
Doppelhaushälfte (TV Series) · as Oberkellner Abdellatif
2021
Rose · as Nicolas
2021
House of Gucci · as Saïd
2021
12 Tage Sommer · as Marcel
2021
HIP - High Intellectual Potential (TV Series) · as Adam Karadec
2020
The Last Word (TV Series) · as Konstantin Nowak
2019
Alive · as Mourad
2019
2019
Totgeschwiegen · as Jean
2018
Baby (TV Series) · as Khalid Younes
2018
Mothers' Instinct · as Simon Brunelle
2017
Blockage · as Abbas
2017
Animals · as Tarek
2016
The Fixer · as Axel
2016
Allmen (TV Series) · as Tino Rebler
2016
2015
Underground Time · as Thibault
2015
Occupied (TV Series) · as Jérôme Cohen
2015
Happy Hour · as Nic
2015
The Bureau (TV Series) · as Cyclone
2015
Couples (TV Series) · as Patient
2015
We Monsters · as Paul
2014
Witnesses (TV Series) · as Eric
2014
Sensitive Floor · as Malik
2013
Hasta mañana · as David
2013
Back on Track · as Gerome
2013
Mein Mann, ein Mörder · as Arie Van Doorn
2013
Joséphine · as Gilles
2013
11.6 · as Officier Police Monaco
2013
Iron Man · as Javad
2013
Cookie · as Mathieu
2012
Die Besucher · as Studienberater
2012
Rue Mandar · as Simon
2012
Zappelphilipp · as Sebastian Sander
2012
English Vinglish · as Laurent, A French Cook
2012
Big Is Beautiful · as Dr. Hachemi, Le Médecin Du Centre
2012
The Boss (DE) (TV Series) · as Cristian Farron
2011
Special Forces · as Amin, Elsa's Guide
2011
Felicity Land · as Mohammad Ali
2011
Homeland (TV Series) · as Hussein
2011
2011
Switch · as Stéphane Defer
2010
The Coming Days · as Vincent Sala
2010
8 Uhr 28 · as Alexander Frey
2010
In Gold We Trust · as Norris
2010
2009
Le choix de Myriam · as Kader Baccouche
2008
Secret Defense · as Ahmed
2008
Long Shadows · as Talat
2008
Body of Lies · as Nizar
2008
Berlin Calling · as Jamal "the Junk"
2008
Mark of an Angel · as Le Policier
2008
Hard (TV Series) · as Rémi Capelle
2008
Cash · as Vincent
2008
Rivals · as José
2007
GSG 9 (TV Series) · as Ishan Hamsa
2007
Crime Insiders · as Hitcham
2006
Running on Empty · as Rashid
2006
Fay Grim · as Islamic Cleric
2006
6 Weeks of Fear · as Tarik Al-Samirai
2005
Munich · as Ali Hassan Salameh
2005
Spiral (TV Series) · as Mustapha Larbi
2005
Sleeper · as Farid Atabay
2005
Vier Frauen und ein Todesfall (TV Series) · as Ahmet Reshani
2004
Seeds of Doubt · as Tariq Slimani
2004
Inga Lindstrom (TV Series) · as Paul Andersson
2002
Under Suspicion (2002) (TV Series) · as Hamid Sherzad
2001
My Sweet Home · as Hakim
1992
Roller Coaster (TV Series) · as Habib
1970
Tatort (TV Series) · as Hassan Adub

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