
Mehdi Dehbi
Known For
Acting
Born
1985-12-05 in Liège, Belgium
Biography
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.
Most Known For

Messiah
as al-Masih

London Has Fallen
as Sultan Mansoor

Animalia
as Amine

A Most Wanted Man
as Jamal

Sweet Valentine
as Pierre, the jealous

Looking for Simon
as Jalil

Cairo Conspiracy
as Zizo

Mary, Queen of Scots
as Rizzio

The Other Son
as Yacine Al Bezaaz

L'Infiltré
as Issam Mourad

Ambleside
as Krishna

The Sun Assassinated
as Hamid

Prisoners of Paradise
as Krishna

He's My Girl
as Naïm

The Bag of Flour
as Nari

Una storia sbagliata

I'm Not Dead
as Yacine

Lili Rose
as Samir

Mescaline
as Mehdi