Mehdi Dehbi

Mehdi Dehbi

Birth : 1985-12-05, Liège, Belgium

History

Mehdi Dehbi (born December 5, 1985, Liège) is a Belgian actor, of Moroccan origin, most known for his roles in the 2012 film The Other Sonand the 2014 film A Most Wanted Man. Mehdi Dehbi was born in Liège in a family whose father, of Moroccan origin, is a worker and a homemaker mother. He showed an early inclination for the arts, takes acting classes, singing, music theory, of dance ... and at twelve years he began his secondary education at the Académie Grétry in Liege. He was recruited at a cast of the production house Dardenne Brothers (Les Films du Fleuve)in which his drama teacher has registered him, it was his first feature film, The murdered Sun directed by Abdelkrim Bahloul, where he shared the lead with Charles Berling, a feature that earned him a selection for the Joseph Plateau award for Best actor.

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Mehdi Dehbi

Movies

Animalia
Amine
Itto, a young woman from a modest rural background, is slowly adapting to the Moroccan privileged codes of her husband’s family. But when supernatural events put the country in a state of emergency, Itto finds herself separated from her husband and new family. Alone, pregnant and looking for her way back, she finds emancipation.
Cairo Conspiracy
Zizo
A fisherman's son is offered the ultimate privilege to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the epicenter of power of Sunni Islam. Shortly after his arrival, the university’s highest ranking religious leader, the Grand Imam, dies and the young student ecomes a pawn in a ruthless power struggle between Egypt's religious and political elite.
Mescaline
Mehdi
Under the influence of a hallucinogenic cactus, a couple of French comes to introduce, like a virus, into a Mexican landscape whose practices, codes and uses they do not know.
London Has Fallen
Sultan Mansoor
In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.
Una storia sbagliata
Stefania, a young Sicilian nurse, becomes part of a humanitarian mission committed to helping Iraqi children with a cleft lip, because she wants to meet the family of the man who devastated her life.
Lili Rose
Samir
Worker or poker player, Samir and Xavier live from day to day. Bright young woman and future bride, Liza has a future all traced. They and she find themselves by chance for a weekend for a stay as unlikely as initiative.
A Most Wanted Man
Jamal
A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg and becomes a person of interest for a covert government team which tracks the movements of potential terrorists.
I'm Not Dead
Yacine
Yacine lives with his brother Jamel in a cramped Parisian apartment. He works as a motorcycle courier, although he is also a brilliant political science student. When a delivery job takes him to the home of his professor Richard Artaud, his life is thrown off course. Both the professor and his wife, an actress, show an extraordinary, if disturbingly paternalistic interest in him. Shortly thereafter, the professor suddenly dies and Yacine makes a strange confession to Eléonore: "I am not dead"
Mary, Queen of Scots
Rizzio
The life and death of the Scottish monarch.
The Other Son
Yacine Al Bezaaz
Two young men, one Israeli and one Palestinian, discover they were accidentally switched at birth.
Le sac de farine
Nari
Based on a true story, this beautifully-shot epic traces the life of Sarah, from her early years in a Catholic orphanage in 1970s Belgium, through her rebellious, poverty-stricken teens in a village in the Atlas mountains of Morocco.
Looking for Simon
Jalil
Simon, a young German doctor who lives and works in Marseille, goes missing. His appartment is empty. His mother Valérie is desperate. She doesn't understand the reason of his disappearance. Therefore she asks Jens, Simon's former boyfriend, to come to Marseille and help her find him.
Sweet Valentine
Pierre, the jealous
Ivan, small-time bandit, crosses paths with Sonia, a young woman from the provinces who has recently come to Paris. He hates her from first sight. She falls madly in love with him right from first sight. It's settled: this cruel man will be her Prince Charming, her hero, the man of her life.
He's My Girl
Naïm
A clarinetist is trying to finish his record when his wife and ten year old son reappear in his life. His 10-year-old son whom he has never seen, and Naim, a young Muslim transvestite who will change his life ...
The Sun Assassinated
Hamid
The poet Jean Sénac is also a radio presenter. A Pied-noir, he opted to stay in Algeria after the country achieved independence in 1962. Ten years later he is monitored by the police of the present regime. His poems have a large public following and his radio show is a great success, especially with the young. The poet allies himself with two students, aspiring playwrights Hamid and Belkacem, to fight for the freedom and culture of Algerian youth.
Prisoners of Paradise
Krishna
In 1925, 17-year-old orphan Lucy Gladwell is sent from England to live under the guardianship of her uncle George Huyton. Initially seduced by the sumptuous beauty of her surroundings, Lucy finds herself at odds with her violent uncle who is not the benign influence he pretends to be, and she soon falls in love with Krishna, a laborer working on a nearby plantation.
The Godmother
The life story of former drug lord, Griselda Blanco.