Nouria Kazdarli, stage name of Khadidja Benaïda (1921 – 9 August 2020) was an Algerian actress. She was one of the largest names in theatre and small screen acting within

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Biography

Kazdarli was born in

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in 1921 to a family from

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. Shortly after her birth, the family moved to

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. Here, she met Mustapha Bouhrir, who went by the pseudonym of Mustapha Kazdarli, and the couple married in 1939 before settling in

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. Mustapha worked for Électricité et gaz d'Algérie while Nouria worked as a seamstress. Mustapha Kazdarli discovered theatre while in Algiers, where he was introduced to a theatre troupe. Nouria Kazdarli quickly followed him to the troupe, joining him in 1945 while on a tour in

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. She adopted her husband's pseudonym of Kazdarli and changed her first name to Nouria, and subsequently asserted herself as a highly important actress. Nouria Kazdarli died on 9 August 2020 at the age of 99.

References

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