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Tahar Rahim (born 4 July 1981) is a Franco-Algerian actor. He is known for his starring role as Malik El Djebena in the 2009 award-winning French movie A Prophet by Jacques Audiard, FBI Agent Ali Soufan in The Looming Tower, Judas in the film Mary Magdalene, and Charles Sobhraj in The Serpent. Rahim garnered critical acclaim and nominations for the Golden Globe Award, and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.[1][2]

Tahar Rahim
Rahim in 2014
Born	(1981-07-04) 4 July 1981 (age 41) Belfort, France
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2005–present
Spouse	Leïla Bekhti ​ (m. 2010)​
Children	3

Early life

Rahim was born in Belfort, France, into a family that had immigrated from the region of Oran, Algeria.[3]

After earning a Baccalauréat at the Lycée Condorcet of Belfort, Rahim enrolled first in sports and then computer science programmes. After two subsequent years of boredom studying the subjects in Strasbourg and Marseille, Rahim decided to pursue his passion and began to study film at the Paul Valéry University of Montpellier. His life as a film student was chronicled in a documentary by fellow Belfortain Cyril Mennegun titled "Tahar, student", aired on French TV channel France 5 in 2006.

Following this, Rahim moved to Paris in 2005 and studied drama at the Laboratoire de l'Acteur under Hélène Zidi-Chéruy while working in a factory during the week, and in a nightclub at weekends, to make ends meet.

Career

In mid-2006, after signing with an agent, Rahim won a part in the hit Canal+ television series La Commune written by Abdel Raouf Dafri. Dafri penned the first draft of the script to A Prophet. Rahim then met Audiard when the two coincidentally shared a cab while leaving a set. Tahar introduced himself saying that "I knew it was Audiard and I said I was a fan but I think I was a bit silly" and was afterward very surprised that Audiard remembered him enough to contact him about A Prophet. After a two-line appearance in the 2008 horror movie Inside starring Béatrice Dalle, he went through a gruelling three months of auditioning. After eight callbacks, he landed his breakthrough role.[4][5]

Rahim also starred in controversial Chinese director Lou Ye's film Love and Bruises. The director, twice banned from making movies by the Chinese government, likely met Tahar at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival where they were each presenting Spring Fever and A Prophet respectively. Love and Bruises is the adaptation of the banned biography of Jie Liu Falin.

Another project he starred in was Free men, the biopic about Si Kaddour Benghabrit, founder of the Great Mosque of Paris, directed by Ismaël Ferroukhi of Le Grand Voyage fame.[6]

He was selected to be on the jury for the Un Certain Regard section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.[7]

He starred in the European crime drama television series The Last Panthers.

In 2018, he appeared as Judas in the film Mary Magdalene, written by Helen Edmundson.[8] In the U.S., he had a starring role as FBI agent Ali Soufan in The Looming Tower.

In 2021, he was nominated for a Golden Globe for portraying the role of Mohamedou Ould Salahi in The Mauritanian.[9] Rahim also served as a jury member at the 74th Cannes Film Festival.

In 2022, Deadline reported that he would play the role of Paul Barras in Ridley Scott's Napoleon portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix in 2023, for Apple TV+.[10]

He is due to appear with Anne Hathaway in Rebecca Miller's upcoming film She Came to Me.[11] and joined Sony's Spider-Man Universe film Madame Web [12]

Personal life

Rahim is married to fellow French-Algerian actress Leïla Bekhti, whom he met while filming A Prophet in 2007. Together they are parents to a son, Souleymane, born in July 2017 and a daughter, born in February 2020.[13][14][15][16]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
2006	Tahar l'étudiant	Tahar	Cyril Mennegun
2007	Inside	A policeman	Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury
2009	A Prophet	Malik El Djebena	Jacques Audiard
2011	The Eagle	Prince of the Seal People	Kevin Macdonald
2011	Les Hommes libres	Younes	Ismaël Ferroukhi
2011	Love and Bruises	Mathieu	Lou Ye
2011	Black Gold	Prince Auda	Jean-Jacques Annaud
2012	Our Children	Mounir	Joachim Lafosse
2013	The Past	Samir	Asghar Farhadi
2013	Grand Central	Gary	Rebecca Zlotowski
2013	The Informant	Redjani Belimane	Julien Leclercq
2014	The Cut	Nazaret Manoogian	Fatih Akın
2014	Samba	Wilson	Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano
2014	Le Père Noël	Le Père Noël	Alexandre Coffre
2015	The Anarchists	Jean Albertini	Elie Wajeman
2016	Daguerrotype	Jean	Kiyoshi Kurosawa	Also known as The Woman in the Silver Plate
2016	Heal the Living	Thomas Rémige	Katell Quillévéré
2017	The Price of Success	Brahim Mecheri	Teddy Lussi-Modeste
2018	Mary Magdalene	Judas	Garth Davis	Written by Helen Edmundson
2018	Treat Me Like Fire	Abel	Marie Monge
2019	The Kindness of Strangers	Marc	Lone Scherfig
2021	The Mauritanian	Mohamedou Ould Salahi	Kevin Macdonald
2023	Madame Web[17]	TBA	S.J. Clarkson	Filming
TBA	Napoleon	Paul Barras	Ridley Scott	Filming

Key

Denotes works that have not yet been released

Television

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
2007	La Commune	Yazid Fikry	Philippe Triboit	8 episodes
2015	The Last Panthers	Khalil	Johan Renck	6 episodes
2018	The Looming Tower	Ali Soufan	Various	10 episodes
2020	The Eddy	Farid	Various	3 episodes
2021	The Serpent	Charles Sobhraj	Various	Main role
TBA	Extrapolations	Ezra Haddad	Scott Z. Burns	Upcoming series

Theatre

• 2007 – 2008: Libres sont les papillons in the role of the blind character Benjamin. The play was written by Leonard Gershe, directed by Hélène Zidi-Chéruy and staged at the Côté Court Theater, 11th arrondissement of Paris.

Accolades

Year[lower-alpha 1]	Organization	Work(s)	Category	Result	Ref.
2009	European Film Awards	A Prophet	Best Actor	Won
2010	Lumières Awards		Best Actor	Won
2010	Globe de Cristal Awards		Best Actor	Won
2010	César Awards		Most Promising Actor	Won
			Best Actor	Won
2010	British Academy Film Awards		Rising Star Award	Nominated
2021	London Film Critics' Circle	The Mauritanian	Actor of the Year	Nominated
2021	Golden Globe Awards		Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama	Nominated
2021	British Academy Film Awards		Best Actor in a Leading Role	Nominated
2022	Golden Globe Awards	The Serpent	Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film	Nominated

Notes

References

External links

• Tahar Rahim at IMDb

На других языках

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[de] Tahar Rahim

Tahar Rahim (* 4. Juli 1981 in Belfort) ist ein französischer Theater- und Filmschauspieler. Bekanntheit erlangte er durch seine erste Hauptrolle in dem Spielfilm Ein Prophet (2009).

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- [en] Tahar Rahim

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[ru] Рахим, Тахар

Таха́р Рахи́м (фр. Tahar Rahim; род. 4 июля 1981 года, Бельфор, Франция) — французский актёр алжирского происхождения, лауреат премии «Сезар» 2010 года за лучшую мужскую роль в фильме «Пророк».

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