Mehdi Dehbi
Mehdi Dehbi is a Belgian actor and theatre director, known for his roles in ', ', Le Fils de l'Autre, Mary Queen of Scots, and A Most Wanted Man. In 2020, he played the titular character in the Netflix series Messiah.
Early life
Mehdi Dehbi was born on 5 December 1985 in the in Liège. From the age of ten, Dehbi attended the theater and music school, which had been established in the hospital building where he had been born.At the age of sixteen his first lead role in a feature film was in , directed by Abdelkrim Bahloul and produced by the Dardenne brothers, for which he was nominated as Best Actor at the Joseph Plateau Awards.
After studying drama and music at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, then at the CNSAD in Paris, and finally at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, he pursued his career in film and theater.
In 2012 Mehdi directed his first play, Les Justes by Albert Camus at the Théâtre de Liège. The show toured in France and Germany in 2013 and in 2014 Mehdi Dehbi was nominated for the Découverte Prize at the 2014 awards as a director.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
| 2002 | Hamid | Abdelkrim Bahloul | Nominated – Joseph Plateau Award for Best Belgian Actor | |
| 2006 | Bourreau | Le Suicidé | Frédérick Vin | Short |
| 2007 | ' | Guillaume | Various | |
| 2008 | Sweet Valentine | Pierre | Emma Luchini | |
| 2008 | ' | Naïm | Jean-Jacques Zilbermann | Nominated – Révélations at the César 2010 Won – Premiers Rendez-vous Award at the Festival de Cabourg English title: He is my Girl |
| 2010 | Issam Mourad | Giacomo Battiato | Won – Golden Fipa at the Biarritz Film Festival for Best Actor Won – the Silver Fipa at the Biarritz Film Festival for Best Film Nominated – Best TV Movie/Mini-Series at the International Emmy Awards | |
| 2010 | Looking for Simon | Jalil | Jan Krüger | |
| 2011 | Le sac de farine | Nari | Kadija Leclere | Nominated – Magritte Award for Most Promising Actor |
| 2011 | Le Fils de l'Autre | Yacine Al Bezaaz | Lorraine Lévy | Nominated – Révélations at the César 2012 Best actor at the International Film Festival of Boulogne-Billancourt English title: The Other Son |
| 2011 | Mary Queen of Scots | David Rizzio | Thomas Imbach | |
| 2011 | Je ne suis pas mort | Yacine | Mehdi Ben Attia | |
| 2012 | A Most Wanted Man | Jamal | Anton Corbijn | |
| 2013 | Another South | Khaleed | Gianluca Maria Tavarelli | |
| 2013 | Lili Rose | Samir | Bruno Ballouard | |
| 2014 | Tyrant | Abdul | Various | TV Series |
| 2016 | London Has Fallen | Sultan Mansoor | Babak Najafi | |
| 2018 | Mescaline | Mehdi | Short | |
| 2020 | Messiah | Al-Masih | James McTeigue Kate Woods | Netflix Original Series created by Michael Petroni |