Tahar Rahim

Tahar Rahim is a French actor of Algerian descent. He is known for his starring role as Malik El Djebena in the 2009 award-winning French movie A Prophet by Jacques Audiard. Rahim was selected to be on the jury for the Un Certain Regard section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.

About Tahar Rahim in brief

Summary Tahar RahimTahar Rahim is a French actor of Algerian descent. He is known for his starring role as Malik El Djebena in the 2009 award-winning French movie A Prophet by Jacques Audiard. He also starred as FBI Agent Ali Soufan in The Looming Tower. In 2018, he appeared as Judas in the film Mary Magdalene, written by Helen Edmundson. Rahim was selected to be on the jury for the Un Certain Regard section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.

He was born in Belfort, France, into a family that had immigrated from the region of Oran, Algeria. He has demonstrated multilingual skills and an ear for accents, having acted in Corsican and Arabic in addition to French in A Prophet.