Mehdi Dehbi
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Le Fils de l'Autre (The Other Son) |
Mehdi Dehbi (born 5 December 1985) is a Belgian actor and theatre director, known for his roles in
Early life
Mehdi Dehbi was born on 5 December 1985 in the Hôpital de Bavière in Liège, to a family of Tunisian origin. From the age of ten, Dehbi attended the Académie Grétry theater and music school, which had been established in the hospital building where he had been born.[2][3]
At the age of sixteen his first lead role in a feature film was in Le Soleil assassiné , directed by Abdelkrim Bahloul and produced by the Dardenne brothers, for which he was nominated as Best Actor at the Joseph Plateau Awards.[2]
After studying drama and music at the
In 2012 Mehdi directed his first play,
Film
Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
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2004 | Le Soleil assassiné | Hamid | Abdelkrim Bahloul | Nominated – Joseph Plateau Award for Best Belgian Actor |
2006 | Bourreau | Le Suicidé | Frédérick Vin | Short |
2009 | La Folle Histoire d'amour de Simon Eskenazy |
Naïm | Jean-Jacques Zilbermann | |
2010 | Sweet Valentine | Pierre | Emma Luchini | |
2011 | Looking for Simon | Jalil | Jan Krüger | |
2012 | The Other Son | Yacine Al Bezaaz | Lorraine Lévy | International Film Festival of Boulogne-Billancourt - Best Actor[5] |
2013 | Le sac de farine | Nari | Kadija Leclere | Nominated – Magritte Award for Most Promising Actor |
Je ne suis pas mort | Yacine | Mehdi Ben Attia | ||
2014 | Lili Rose | Samir | Bruno Ballouard | |
A Most Wanted Man | Jamal Abdullah | Anton Corbijn | ||
Mary Queen of Scots | David Rizzio | Thomas Imbach | ||
2015 | Another South | Khaleed | Gianluca Maria Tavarelli | |
2016 | London Has Fallen | Sultan Mansoor | Babak Najafi | |
2018 | Mescaline | Mehdi | Clarisse Hahn | Short |
2022 | Boy from Heaven | Zizo | Tarik Saleh | Nominated - Magritte Award for Best Supporting Actor |
2023 | Animalia | Amine | Sofia Alaoui | |
TBA | Prisoners of Paradise | Mitch Jenkins | Post-Production | |
Baron Day Barracks | Muhammad | Joah Jordan | Filming |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
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2007 | Septième Ciel Belgique | Guillaume | Luc Boland, André Chandelle, ... |
TV series (10 episodes) |
2011 | L'Infiltré | Issam Mourad | Giacomo Battiato | TV Movie Biarritz Film Festival - Golden Fipa for Best Actor |
2014-15 | Tyrant | Abdul | Gwyneth Horder-Payton, Michael Lehmann, ... |
TV series (11 episodes) |
2020 | Messiah | Al-Masih | James McTeigue & Kate Woods | TV series (10 episodes) |
Theatre
Year | Title | Author | Director |
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2007 | Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare | John Baxter |
2009 | Terre Sainte | Mohamed Kacimi | Sophie Akrich |
2009-10 | Baïbars le mamelouk qui devint sultan | Marcel Bozonnet | Marcel Bozonnet |
2010 | Splendid's | Jean Genet | Cristèle Alves Meira |
2011 | Gare de l'Est | Sophie Akrich | Sophie Akrich |
2012 | Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare | David Bobée |
Theatre directing
Year | Title | Author | Notes |
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2012-14 | Les Justes
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Albert Camus | Théâtre de Liège, Théâtre des Tanneurs (Brussels), Théâtre du Jeu de Paume (Aix-en-Provence), Fast Forward Theater Festival (Braunschweig)[6] Nominated for the Découverte Prize at the 2014 Prix de la critique awards[4] |
References
- ^ "Mehdi Dehbi". IMDb. Retrieved 2015-10-01.
- ^ La Libre(in French). Retrieved 1 November 2014.
- ^ AlloCiné. "Mehdi Dehbi - AlloCiné". Allocine.fr. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
- ^ a b "Les nominés aux Prix de la critique 2014". Le Soir (in French). 16 June 2014.
- ^ "Palmarès et compte-rendu de jurée au Festival International du film de Boulogne-Billancourt 2012 | IN THE MOOD LE MAGAZINE". Inthemoodlemag.com. 2014-12-26. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
- ^ "4. Fast Forward Europäisches Festival für junge Regie - In Braunschweig ziehen sich die Jungen in den Theaterraum zurück". Nachtkritik.de. 2014-12-01. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
External links
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- Mehdi Dehbi at IMDb