Reda Kateb ( ar, رضا كاتب; born 27 July 1977) is a French
actor
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), lit ...
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Life and career
Kateb was born in
Ivry-sur-Seine, France, to an Algerian actor, Malek-Eddine Kateb, and a French nurse of Czech and Italian origin. He is a grandnephew of the Algerian writer
Kateb Yacine. He grew up in Ivry-sur-Seine, in the
Paris region
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, where he lived until 2011 before moving to
Montreuil.
His short film ''Pitchoune'' was presented in the
Directors' Fortnight
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section at the
2015 Cannes Film Festival
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Filmography
As actor
Film
Television series
As film director/screenwriter
Awards and nominations
See also
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Maghrebian community of Paris
The Paris metropolitan area has a large Maghrebi population, in part as a result of French North Africa, French colonial ties to that region. As of 2012 the majority of those of African origin living in Paris come from the Maghreb, including Alge ...
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External links
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1977 births
Living people
Male actors from Paris
French male film actors
French male television actors
French people of Algerian descent
French people of Czech descent
French people of Italian descent
People from Ivry-sur-Seine
21st-century French male actors
Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Best Supporting Actor César Award winners
French film directors
French male screenwriters
French screenwriters
Algerian people of Italian descent
Algerian people of Czech descent