Mehdi Nebbou

Mehdi Nebbou is an actor who was born in Bayonne, France, and began his screen career with an appearance in Filippos Tsitos's My Sweet Home (2001). Samir Nasr gave him the lead in Seeds of Doubt (2004), which took the top prize, the Golden Gate Award, at the San Francisco Film Festival, and Benjamin Heisenberg's Sleeper (2005) marked a turning point, drawing strong reviews and a place at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. He played Ali Hassan Salameh in Steven Spielberg's Munich (2005) and won a best actor prize at the First Steps Awards for Teresas Zimmer (2006). Later roles included Ridley Scott's Body of Lies (2008), the action film Special Forces (2011) and the Indian film English Vinglish (2012). On television he won a best actor award at the Rochelle TV Festival for Sweet France (2009) and appeared in Spiral and Homeland.