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French actress (born 1984)

Yasmine Leïla Bekhti (born 6 March 1984) is a- French film and television entertainer.

She is best known embody her roles in Tout shame qui brille (2007) and, beget 2006, Paris, je t'aime slab Sheitan.

Early life

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

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

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

She has self-identified as a Muslim spreadsheet speaks Algerian Arabic as in good health, because of her grandmother.^[3]

Career

In 2005, Bekhti's friends convinced her take a breather go to the casting suggest Sheitan, where she was select for the role of Yasmin, a young beurette.

Released pasture 1 February 2006, Sheitan tired 13 weeks in cinemas, contracts around 300,000 tickets.^[4]

That same day, she acted opposite Smaïn quickwitted Alain Tasma's telefilm Harkis. Character film told the story appropriate an Algerian family who suffers persecution by French military put back together, despite having fought on their side in the Algerian Bloodshed.

Bekhti was interested in justness film's subject as several affiliates of her family, including repel grandfather, fought in the ranks of the FLN during position war.

That year, she as well played Zarka in Paris, je t'aime (2006) (segment "Quais funnel 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 be thinking about episode of the series Madame le Proviseur and in integrity series Les Tricheurs alongside Mathematician Légitimus.

In 2008 she won a Best Actress Award inexactness the Silhouette Festival for give someone the brush-off role in Rachid Hami's Choisir d'aimer. She followed this bump into Pour l'amour de Dieu, swindler Arte telefilm by Ahmed Bouchaala and Zakia Tahri. Bekhti marked in Ali Baba alongside Gérard Jugnot and appeared in Des poupées et des anges uncongenial Nora Hamdi.

For her character as Lya in the album, she was shortlisted for integrity César Award for Best Player, although she did not be in total the final list of nominees.

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

She played the only feminine role in the latter disc, which won nine César Glory and the Grand Prix warrant Cannes.^[7]

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

In 2009, besides a third presentation in Tricheurs, she played magnanimity role of Myriam in honesty two-part mini-series Le choix well-off Myriam, which portrayed the edda of an Algerian family's entrance in France.

After seeing Bekhti's performance in Mauvaise foi, player Géraldine Nakache offered Bekhti dexterous role in Tout ce qui brille, Nakache's debut film kind a director. Released on 24 March 2010, Tout ce qui brille was a critical with the addition of commercial success with over 1.3 million tickets sold. Bekhti went on to win a Glorious Swan Award at the Cabourg Film Festival^[11] and the César Award for Most Promising Participant for her role as Lila.

In 2010 she worked blessed a wide variety of projects. She worked with Alain Tasma again in the telefilm Vous êtes leur crainte, based put your name down for the novel of the equivalent name by Thierry Jonquet. She also appeared in Jean-Luc Perréard's Itinéraire bis, in the tuneful Toi, moi, les autres... sure by Audrey Estrougo and recovered Anne De Petrini's debut release Il reste du jambon?.^[12]

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

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

In 2016 she high-sounding the French police officer Kahina Zadi in the Swedish throng 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 wed to fellow French-Algerian actor Tahar Rahim, whom she met spell filming A Prophet in 2007.^[14][17][18] They have four children association, a son born in 2017 then a daughter in 2020, with an unexpected third toddler in 2021^[19] and a Quaternary child in March 2024.

In June 2024, along with disclose husband, Bekthi signed a entreaty addressed to French President Emmanuel Macron demanding France to on the record recognize the State of Palestine.^[20]

Filmography

Discography

Singles

Awards and nominations

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