Leila Bekhti Biography

MARITAL STATUS
Profession Actress
French nationality
Birth March 6, 1984 (Issy-les-Moulineaux, Hauts-de-Seine, France)
Age 39 years old

BIOGRAPHY
After studying theater in high school, Leïla Bekhti took on odd jobs while seeking to break into comedy. Encouraged by friends, she took part in the casting of Sheitan , a film by Kim Chapiron starring Vincent Cassel : she landed the role of Yasmine, a pretty, daring brunette. Noted for her performance, she obtained roles in the collective film Paris, je t’aime (2005) and in Roschdy Zem ‘s first production , Mauvaise Faith (2006). His career is launched. She alternates her performances between cinema and television, notably playing alongside Gérard Jugnot in Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves (TV) .

In 2008, the young woman distinguished herself in the two great French thrillers, Mesrine: The Death Instinct by Jean-Francois Richet where she reunited with Vincent Cassel and A Prophet by Jacques Audiard , Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. The only female role in the cast, the young lady climbs the Steps and becomes known to the public. Spotted by Géraldine Nakache . She burst onto the screen in All That Shines , a public and critical success which also won her the César for Best Young Actress in 2010 and the Swann d’Or for Female Revelation in 2010 at the Cabourg Film Festival. Then, the same year, Leïla Bekhti found her partner in the casting of Anne Depetrini

‘s first film , the comedy Il reste du ham? . She then tried her hand at musical comedy in Audrey Estrougo ‘s film Toi, moi, les autres , in which she sang and danced, and continued with the romantic comedy Itinerary bis , Jean-Luc Perreard ‘s first feature film and in which she gives the answer to Fred Testot . The actress also frequents more intimate sets, such as those of Radu Mihaileanu for La Source des femmes , a film set in the Maghreb, where she is from. At the beginning of 2012, she appeared in A Better Life , a drama by Cédric Kahn where she played the role of the companion of a Guillaume Canet who was up to his neck in debt. That same year, she played the police daughter of Roschdy Zem in the thriller Hands Armed and was then directed again by Nakache in Nous York . Active, Leïla Bekhti plays the main role of the drama

Now or Never , in theaters in September 2014, about a desperate mother who embarks on bank robberies. The following year, she accompanied the debut of Brigitte Sy with L’Astragale , a black and white drama where she shared the stage with the popular actor, Reda Kateb ; then in the first feature film by comedian Kheiron , We Three or Nothing , which tells the true story of his parents and their exile from Iran. Finally, the actress broadens her horizons in the Franco-Swedish series Jour Polaire , co-produced by Canal +, where she plays a police officer responsible for leading an investigation into a succession of violent murders, on the borders of Lapland.

In 2018, Leïla Bekhti played one of the two sisters in Jérémie and Yannick Renier ‘s thriller Carnivores , then helped Fabrice Luchini after a stroke in A Man in a Hurry . Definitely at ease in dramatic roles, she also plays a mother in Chanson Douce , adapted from a terrifying news story. The native of Issy-les-Moulineaux also tastes the joys of superhero films as evidenced by her performance in How I Became a Superhero in 2021. That same year, we see her as a soldier participating in Operation Sentinel in The Third War , and as the companion of a bipolar man in Les Intranquilles by Joachim Lafosse .