Tahar Rahim

Tahar Rahim

Birthday: 1981-07-04

Place of Birth: Belfort, Territoire de Belfort, France

Biography: 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 has since starred as FBI agent Ali Soufan in the miniseries The Looming Tower and Judas in the film Mary Magdalene (both 2018). 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). He received another Golden Globe Award nomination for portraying Charles Sobhraj in the miniseries The Serpent (2021).

Movies

A Prophet
A Prophet

Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor wr...

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Smiling Hacker
Smiling Hacker

Loosely inspired by Algerian hacker Hamza Bendelladj, who made headlines for stealing from U.S. bank...

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Monsieur Aznavour
Monsieur Aznavour

From his poor childhood to his rise to fame, from his triumphs to his failures, from Paris to New Yo...

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Inside
Inside

Scarred for life after a harrowing near-death experience, emotionally fragile mother-to-be Sarah is ...

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Love and Bruises
Love and Bruises

Hua, a woman in her late twenties, goes against her family to become a teacher in Paris. She falls i...

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Free Men
Free Men

In Paris during WWII, an Algerian immigrant is inspired to join the resistance by his unexpected fri...

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Black Gold
Black Gold

On the Arabian Peninsula in the 1930s, two warring leaders come face to face. The victorious Nesib, ...

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Our Children
Our Children

Young and full of life, Murielle has a promising future ahead of her when she meets and falls head o...

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The Past
The Past

After four years apart, Ahmad returns to his wife Marie in Paris in order to progress their divorce....

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Grand Central
Grand Central

A young unemployed man finds work at a nuclear power plant and begins an illicit affair with the fia...

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The Informant
The Informant

A story centered on a man who works as an informant for the French border patrol....

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The Cut
The Cut

In 1915 a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and...

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Madame Web
Madame Web

Forced to confront revelations about her past, paramedic Cassandra Webb forges a relationship with t...

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The Eagle
The Eagle

In 140 AD, twenty years after the unexplained disappearance of the entire Ninth Legion in the mounta...

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Samba
Samba

Samba migrated to France 10 years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowl...

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Omar Sy, c'est ta chance
Omar Sy, c'est ta chance

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Tahar l’étudiant
Tahar l’étudiant

Tahar is just over twenty years old, with a youthful face and a tender voice. But the carelessness o...

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Santa Claus
Santa Claus

One night, a burglar in a Santa Claus costume is surprised by Victor, a young boy who believes he is...

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Napoleon
Napoleon

An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relent...

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The Anarchists
The Anarchists

Set in 1899 Paris, a young police sergeant is chosen to infiltrate a group of anarchists, an opportu...

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Daguerrotype
Daguerrotype

An aging photographer's obsession with an early form of photography draws his assistant and daughter...

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Alpha
Alpha

Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns f...

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Heal the Living
Heal the Living

The intersecting lives of teens on a surfing trip, a woman with a weak heart and two teams of doctor...

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Mary Magdalene
Mary Magdalene

In the first century, free-spirited Mary Magdalene flees the marriage her family has arranged for he...

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The Price of Success
The Price of Success

A comedian's relationship with his family crumbles when his career begins to take off....

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Treat Me Like Fire
Treat Me Like Fire

Revolves around the relationship between a gambling addict and a young woman who falls madly in love...

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The Kindness of Strangers
The Kindness of Strangers

Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to s...

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The Mauritanian
The Mauritanian

The true story of the Mauritanian Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who was held at the U.S military's Guantanam...

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You Never Left
You Never Left

Set in an allegorical "other place" that is a metaphor of a lost Egypt. Sketching a parallel between...

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I Saved My Belly Dancer
I Saved My Belly Dancer

A poetic depiction of belly dancers and anxiety over the disappearance of this art form that is uniq...

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Behind Bars
Behind Bars

A documentary that chronicles how ‘A Prophet’ came to exist....

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Jacques Audiard, le cinéma à cœur
Jacques Audiard, le cinéma à cœur

In eight films, Jacques Audiard has renewed French cinema, without alienating either the critics or ...

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Gloomy Eyes
Gloomy Eyes

Poor Gloomy. It’s 1983, and the fact that he’s a zombie makes him an outcast. Hiding out in the fore...

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Don Juan
Don Juan

Jilted on his wedding day, Laurent, a stage actor playing the role of the famous seducer Don Juan, c...

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Les Misérables
Les Misérables

After enduring 19 years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread, Jean Valjean emerges a hardened man....

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Grand Corps Malade au Zénith de Lille
Grand Corps Malade au Zénith de Lille

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