Mehdi Nebbou born 10 January 1974 is a French actor Nebbou was born on 10 January 1974 in Bayonne PyrénéesAtlantiques France to a German mother and an Algerian father His brother is the film director Safy Nebbou He started his career by appearing in the film My Sweet Home directed by Filipos Tsitos In 2004 the director Samir Nasr offered him the leading role in the film Seeds of Doubt which won the Golden Gate Award for best film at the San Francisco Film Festival 2005 was a turning point in Nebbous career thanks to the film Schläfer by German film director Benjamin Heisenberg The film received excellent reviews and was selected for the 2005 Cannes Film Festival In 2006 he portrayed Ali Hassan Salameh in the Steven Spielberg blockbuster film Munich In 2007 for his performance in Teresas Zimmer directed by German film director Constanze Knoche he won the award for best actor at First Steps Awards In 2008 Nebbou worked in the Ridley Scott film Body of Lies with Leonardo DiCaprio In it he portrayed Nizar an Iraqi linguistics doctorate turned AlQaeda operative who approaches CIA to defect after being enlisted by his jihadist superiors for suicide bombing In addition he played in several French TV series and films among them as a disabled exmiddleweight boxing world champion in Douce France for which he won the award for best actor in 2009 at the Rochelle TV Festival He played Mustafa Larbi a sadistic and unpredictable drug dealer in Season 2 of Spiral the successful Canal TV series In 2010 he portrayed Bruno in the Salvatore Allocca Italian romantic comedy Come trovare nel modo giusto luomo sbagliato and in 2011 Amin in the French action film Forces spéciales with Diane Krüger In 2012 he had his breakthrough into the Indian film industry thanks to the film English Vinglish starring Sridevi He portrayed the lead in Les heures souterraines directed by Philippe Harel inspired by the novel of Delphine de Vigan in 2014 In 2015 and 2016 he is Cyclone in 6 episodes of season 1 and 2 of Le Bureau des Légendes In 2016 he is the colead in the Romanian movie The Fixer directed by Adrian Sitaru about human traffic in Europe and underage prostitution The film is preselected for the Oscars 2018 In 2017 he is one of the leads in the second seasons of the Norwegian cult series Occupied and in the German series Deutschland 86 He will be one of the leads in the new Netflix series Baby directed by Andrea De Sica and Anna Negri In 2021 he is portraying a middileeast investor in the movie House of Gucci de Ridley Scott He is fluent in French German English and Italian Source Article Mehdi Nebbou from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30