Tahar Rahim

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Tahar Rahim (born 4 July 1981) is a French actor. His breakthrough performance was in the 2009 French film A Prophet, for which he won the César Award for Best Actor and Most Promising Actor. He then starred as FBI agent Ali Soufan in the miniseries The Looming Tower and Judas in the film Mary Magdalene (both 2018).

Rahim garnered critical acclaim and nominations for the Golden Globe Award and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for portraying Mohamedou Ould Salahi in The Mauritanian (2021).[1][2] He received another Golden Globe Award nomination for portraying Charles Sobhraj in the miniseries The Serpent (2021). Rahim has since portrayed Paul Barras in the period film Napoleon (2023) and Ezekiel Sims in the Sony Spider-Man Universe film Madame Web (2024).

Early life

Rahim was born in Belfort, France, to a family from 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 docufiction 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.

After a two-line appearance in the 2007 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]

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Rahim in 2012

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

Rahim also starred in Free Men, the biopic about Si Kaddour Benghabrit, the French-Muslim founder of the Great Mosque of Paris, directed by Ismaël Ferroukhi of Le Grand Voyage fame.[6]

In 2015, Rahim was selected to be on the jury for the Un Certain Regard section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.[7] He later starred in the European crime drama television series The Last Panthers.[8]

In 2018, he appeared as Judas in the film Mary Magdalene, written by Helen Edmundson.[9] In the U.S. that year, he had a starring role as FBI agent Ali Soufan in The Looming Tower miniseries.

In 2021, he was nominated for a Golden Globe for portraying Mohamedou Ould Salahi in The Mauritanian, set among detainees at the US camp at Guantanamo.[10] Rahim also served as a jury member at the 74th Cannes Film Festival.

Rahim played Paul Barras in Ridley Scott's Napoleon (2023), starring Joaquin Phoenix, for Apple TV+.[11] He played the character Ezekiel Sims in the Sony's Spider-Man Universe film Madame Web.[12] In 2023, Rahim was announced to be playing French singer Charles Aznavour in the biopic film Monsieur Aznavour.[13]

Personal life

Rahim is married to fellow French actress Leïla Bekhti, whom he met while filming A Prophet in 2007. Together they have four children.[14][15][16][17][18]

In June 2024, Rahim signed a petition addressed to French President Emmanuel Macron demanding France to officially recognize the State of Palestine.[19]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2006 Tahar l'étudiant Tahar Docufiction
2007 Inside A policeman
2009 A Prophet Malik El Djebena
2011 The Eagle Prince of the Seal People Lines in Pictish language
2011 Les Hommes libres Younes
2011 Love and Bruises Mathieu
2011 Black Gold Prince Auda
2012 Our Children Mounir
2013 The Past Samir
2013 Grand Central Gary
2013 The Informant Redjani Belimane
2014 The Cut Nazaret Manoogian
2014 Samba Wilson
2014 Le Père Noël Le Père Noël
2015 The Anarchists Jean Albertini
2016 Daguerrotype Jean Also known as The Woman in the Silver Plate
2016 Heal the Living Thomas Rémige
2017 The Price of Success Brahim Mecheri
2018 Mary Magdalene Judas
2018 Treat Me Like Fire Abel
2019 The Kindness of Strangers Marc
2021 The Mauritanian Mohamedou Ould Salahi
2023 Napoleon Paul Barras
2024 Madame Web Ezekiel Sims
2024 Monsieur Aznavour Charles Aznavour [20][21]
2024 Smiling Hacker Hamza Bendelladj
2025 Alpha Template:Dagger Amin
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Television

Year Title Role Notes
2007 La Commune Yazid Fikry 8 episodes
2015 The Last Panthers Khalil 6 episodes
2018 The Looming Tower Ali Soufan Míniseries; 10 episodes
2020 The Eddy Farid 3 episodes
2021 The Serpent Charles Sobhraj Miniseries; 8 episodes
2023 Extrapolations Omar Haddad; Ezra Haddad 3 episodes

Theatre

  • 2007 – 2008: Libres sont les papillons in the role of the blind character Benjamin. The play was an adaption from its original English into French of Butterflies are free written by Leonard Gershe by Hélène Zidi-Chéruy who also directed and staged it at the Côté Court Theater, 11th arrondissement of Paris.

Accolades

Award Year Nominated work Category Result Ref.
British Academy Film Awards 2010 Template:Sdash BAFTA Rising Star Award Nominated [22]
2021 Script error: No such module "sort". Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominated [23]
César Awards 2010 Script error: No such module "sort". Best Actor Won [24]
Most Promising Actor Won
2025 Monsieur Aznavour Best Actor Nominated [25]
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2010 Script error: No such module "sort". Most Promising Performer Nominated [26]
Chlotrudis Awards 2014 Script error: No such module "sort". Best Supporting Actor Nominated [27]
Dublin Film Critics' Circle Awards 2010 Script error: No such module "sort". Best Actor Won [28]
European Film Awards 2009 Script error: No such module "sort". European Actor Won [29]
2021 Script error: No such module "sort". Nominated [30]
Globe de Cristal Awards 2010 Script error: No such module "sort". Best Actor Won [31]
Golden Globe Awards 2021 Script error: No such module "sort". Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama Nominated [32]
2022 Script error: No such module "sort". Best Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or Television Film Nominated
IFTA Film & Drama Awards 2011 Script error: No such module "sort". Best International Actor Nominated [33]
International Cinephile Society Awards 2011 Script error: No such module "sort". Best Actor Template:Runner-up [34]
London Film Critics' Circle Awards 2010 Script error: No such module "sort". Actor of the Year Nominated [35]
2021 Script error: No such module "sort". Nominated [36]
Lumière Awards 2010 Script error: No such module "sort". Best Actor Won [37]
2014 Grand Central Nominated [38]
Prix Patrick Dewaere 2010 Template:Sdash Honoree Won [39]
Royal Television Society Programme Awards 2022 Script error: No such module "sort". Best Male Actor Nominated [40]
Santa Barbara International Film Festival Awards 2021 Script error: No such module "sort". Virtuosos Award Won [41]

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