Mehdi Nebbou (born 10 January 1974) is a French actor.

Biography

Nebbou was born on 10 January 1974 in

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, to a

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mother and an

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n father. His brother is the film director

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. 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 ''

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'', which won the Golden Gate Award for best film at the

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. 2005 was a turning point in Nebbou's career thanks to the film '' Schläfer'' by German film director

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. The film received excellent reviews and was selected for the 2005

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. In 2006, he portrayed

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in the

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blockbuster film ''

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''. 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

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film '' Body of Lies'' with Leonardo DiCaprio. In it, he portrayed Nizar, an Iraqi

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turned

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operative who approaches

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to defect after being enlisted by his

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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 ''

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'' 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 ''

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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 ''

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'' with Diane Krüger. In 2012, he had his breakthrough into the Indian film industry thanks to the film ''

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'' starring

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. He portrayed the lead in '' Les heures souterraines'' directed by

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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 ''

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.'' In 2016, he is the co-lead in the Romanian movie '' The Fixer'' directed by

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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 ''

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'' and in the German series ''

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''. He will be one of the leads in the new Netflix series ''

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'' directed by Andrea De Sica and

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. 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.

Filmography

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nebbou, Mehdi 1974 births Living people 20th-century French male actors 21st-century French male actors French male film actors French male television actors French people of Algerian descent French people of German descent People from Bayonne