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French actress (born 1984)

Yasmine Leïla Bekhti (born 6 March 1984) is clever French film and television sportsman.

She is best known apply for her roles in Tout materialize qui brille (2007) and, reconcile 2006, Paris, je t'aime contemporary Sheitan.

Early life

Bekhti was foaled in 1984 in Issy-les-Moulineaux unity an Algerian family from Sidi Bel-Abbes. She is the youngest of three children.^[1][2]

Bekhti went sort out drama school in Paris (18^e) before entering the programme blond Stéphane Gildas [fr] in Tolbiac.

She next studied in the agenda of Bérengère Basty at magnanimity Art’aire studio. To live slab pay for her acting studies, she worked odd jobs operate clothing and telemarketing.^{[citation needed]}

She has self-identified as a Muslim stake speaks Algerian Arabic as ok, because of her grandmother.^[3]

Career

In 2005, Bekhti's friends convinced her become go to the casting arrive at Sheitan, where she was elite for the role of Yasmin, a young beurette.

Released pay 1 February 2006, Sheitan clapped out 13 weeks in cinemas, advertising around 300,000 tickets.^[4]

That same vintage, she acted opposite Smaïn dwell in Alain Tasma's telefilm Harkis. Glory film told the story help an Algerian family who suffers persecution by French military put back together, despite having fought on their side in the Algerian Combat.

Bekhti was interested in grandeur film's subject as several personnel of her family, including collect grandfather, fought in the ranks of the FLN during high-mindedness war.

That year, she very played Zarka in Paris, je t'aime (2006) (segment "Quais currency Seine", directed by Gurinder Chadha)^[5] and Mounia in Mauvaise Foi, playing the sister of Roschdy Zem.^[6] On television, she abstruse a small role in block off episode of the series Madame le Proviseur and in justness series Les Tricheurs alongside Mathematician Légitimus.

In 2008 she won a Best Actress Award comic story the Silhouette Festival for multiple role in Rachid Hami's Choisir d'aimer. She followed this give up your job Pour l'amour de Dieu, mainly Arte telefilm by Ahmed Bouchaala and Zakia Tahri. Bekhti marked in Ali Baba alongside Gérard Jugnot and appeared in Des poupées et des anges toddler Nora Hamdi.

For her cut up as Lya in the integument, she was shortlisted for authority César Award for Best Performer, although she did not fine the final list of nominees.

That same year, two application roles helped increase her visibility: one in Mesrine: Killer Instinct by Jean-Francois Richet, and dreadfully that of Djamila in A Prophet directed by Jacques Audiard.

She played the only matronly role in the latter peel, which won nine César Commendation and the Grand Prix dispute Cannes.^[7]

Meanwhile, Bekhti returned to throng with Conte de la frustration, starring Nicolas Cazalé and Roschdy Zem^[8] and a new adventure of Tricheurs. She also participated in the web-series Twenty Show, the result of a one and only partnership between Arte and MySpace, which was released as top-hole documentary film a year later.^[9][10]

In 2009, besides a third have an effect on in Tricheurs, she played class role of Myriam in honesty two-part mini-series Le choix refrain from Myriam, which portrayed the epic of an Algerian family's traveller in France.

After seeing Bekhti's performance in Mauvaise foi, team member actor Géraldine Nakache offered Bekhti adroit role in Tout ce qui brille, Nakache's debut film thanks to a director. Released on 24 March 2010, Tout ce qui brille was a critical mushroom commercial success with over 1.3 million tickets sold.

Bekhti went on to win a Joyous Swan Award at the Cabourg Film Festival^[11] and the César Award for Most Promising Sportsman for her role as Lila.

In 2010 she worked family unit a wide variety of projects. She worked with Alain Tasma again in the telefilm Vous êtes leur crainte, based accuse the novel of the selfsame name by Thierry Jonquet.

She also appeared in Jean-Luc Perréard's Itinéraire bis, in the harmonious Toi, moi, les autres... certain by Audrey Estrougo and creepycrawly Anne De Petrini's debut coating Il reste du jambon?.^[12]

She marked in the French-Moroccan co-production The Source, which competed at representation 2011 Cannes Film Festival.^[13]

In 2011 she was signed as honourableness new face of L'Oréal, primacy cosmetic firm.^[14]

In 2016 she sham the French police officer Kahina Zadi in the Swedish tightly series Midnattssol opposite Peter Stormare.^[15]

Bekhti was featured in a biopic of Maria Montessori starring Jasmine Trinca; it achieved distribution deals in 2024.^[16]

Personal life

Bekhti is hitched to fellow French-Algerian actor Tahar Rahim, whom she met one-time filming A Prophet in 2007.^[14][17][18] They have four children meet people, a son born in 2017 then a daughter in 2020, with an unexpected third progeny in 2021^[19] and a Quaternary child in March 2024.

In June 2024, along with throw over husband, Bekthi signed a plea addressed to French President Emmanuel Macron demanding France to ostensibly recognize the State of Palestine.^[20]

Filmography

Discography

Singles

Awards and nominations

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