Mehdi Nebbou
French actor
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Key Takeaways
- Mehdi Nebbou (born 10 January 1971) is a French actor.
- His brother is the film director Safy Nebbou.
- 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.
- The film received excellent reviews and was selected for the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.
- 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.
Mehdi Nebbou (born 10 January 1971) is a French actor.
Early life and education
Mehdi 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.
Career
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.
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