Mehdi Dehbi
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| Born | 5 December 1985 Liège, Belgium |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, director |
| Years active | 2002-present |
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Mehdi Dehbi (born 5 December 1985) is a Belgian actor and theatre director, known for his roles in La Folle Histoire d'amour de Simon Eskenazy (2009, English title: He is My Girl), L'Infiltré (2011), Le Fils de l'Autre (2012, English title: The Other Son), Mary Queen of Scots (2013), and A Most Wanted Man (2014).[1] In 2020, he played the title role in the Netflix series Messiah.
Early life
Mehdi Dehbi was born on 5 December 1985 in the Hôpital de Bavière in Liège. 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 Royal Conservatory of Brussels, then at the CNSAD in Paris, and finally at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, he pursued his career in film and theater.[2]
In 2012 Mehdi directed his first play, Les Justes by Albert Camus at the Théâtre de Liège. The show toured in France and Germany in 2013 and in 2014 Mehdi Dehbi was nominated for the Découverte (Discovery) Prize at the 2014 Prix de la critique awards as a director.[4]
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
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| 2002 | Le Soleil assassiné | Hamid | Abdelkrim Bahloul | Nominated – Joseph Plateau Award for Best Belgian Actor |
| 2006 | Bourreau | Le Suicidé | Frédérick Vin | Short |
| 2007 | Septième Ciel Belgique | Guillaume | Various | |
| 2008 | Sweet Valentine | Pierre | Emma Luchini | |
| La Folle Histoire d'amour de Simon Eskenazy | Naïm | Jean-Jacques Zilbermann | Nominated – Révélations at the César 2010
Won – Premiers Rendez-vous Award at the Festival de Cabourg[5] English title: He is my Girl | |
| 2010 | L'Infiltré | Issam Mourad | Giacomo Battiato | Won – Golden Fipa at the Biarritz Film Festival for Best Actor (Mehdi Dehbi)
Won – the Silver Fipa at the Biarritz Film Festival for Best Film Nominated – Best TV Movie/Mini-Series at the International Emmy Awards |
| Looking for Simon | Jalil | Jan Krüger | ||
| 2011 | Le sac de farine | Nari | Kadija Leclere | Nominated – Magritte Award for Most Promising Actor |
| Le Fils de l'Autre | Yacine Al Bezaaz | Lorraine Lévy | Nominated – Révélations at the César 2012
Best actor at the International Film Festival of Boulogne-Billancourt[6] English title: The Other Son | |
| Mary Queen of Scots | David Rizzio | Thomas Imbach | ||
| Je ne suis pas mort | Yacine | Mehdi Ben Attia | ||
| 2012 | A Most Wanted Man | Jamal | Anton Corbijn | |
| 2013 | Another South | Khaleed | Gianluca Maria Tavarelli | |
| Lili Rose | Samir | Bruno Ballouard | ||
| 2014 | Tyrant | Abdul | Various | TV Series (10 Episodes) |
| 2016 | London Has Fallen | Sultan Mansoor | Babak Najafi | |
| 2018 | Mescaline | Mehdi | Clarisse Hahn | Short |
| 2020 | Messiah | Al-Masih (Ayam Golshiri) | James McTeigue | Netflix Original Series created by Michael Petroni |
Theatre
| Year | Title | Author | Director |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-2014 | Les Justes | Albert Camus | Mehdi Dehbi | Théâtre de Liège, Théâtre des Tanneurs (Brussels), Théâtre du Jeu de Paume (Aix-en-Provence), Fast Forward Theater Festival (Braunschweig)[7]
Nominated for the Découverte Prize at the 2014 Prix de la critique awards[4] |
References
- ^ "Mehdi Dehbi". IMDb. Retrieved 2015-10-01.
- ^ a b c Roussel, Virginie (25 March 2011). "Mehdi Dehbi, l'étoile éclairée". 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.
- ^ Festival Cabourg. "Festival du Film de Cabourg". Festivalcabourg.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
- ^ "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
- Mehdi Dehbi at IMDb
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