Mehdi Dehbi (born 5 December 1985) is a Belgian actor and theatre director, known for his roles in ' (2009, English title: ''He is My Girl''), ' (2011), '' Le Fils de l'Autre'' (2012, English title: ''The Other Son''), ''

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'' (2013), and '' A Most Wanted Man'' (2014). In 2020, he played the title role in the

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Early life

Mehdi Dehbi was born on 5 December 1985 in the in Liège. From the age of ten, Dehbi attended the theater and music school, which had been established in the hospital building where he had been born. At the age of sixteen his first lead role in a feature film was in ', directed by Abdelkrim Bahloul and produced by the

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, for which he was nominated as Best Actor at the Joseph Plateau Awards. After studying drama and music at the

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, then at the CNSAD in Paris, and finally at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, he pursued his career in film and theater. In 2012 Mehdi directed his first play, '' Les Justes'' by

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. The show toured in France and Germany in 2013 and in 2014 Mehdi Dehbi was nominated for the (Discovery) Prize at the 2014 awards as a director.

Filmography

Theatre

Theatre directing

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dehbi, Mehdi 1985 births Living people Belgian people of Tunisian descent Belgian male film actors Belgian male television actors 21st-century Belgian male actors Belgian male stage actors Actors from Liège