Hafsia Herzi

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Hafsia Herzi at the Crossing Europe Film Festival in Linz (2008)

Hafsia Herzi (born January 25, 1987 in Manosque , Alpes-de-Haute-Provence ) is a French actress .

biography

Herzi was born in 1987 as the youngest of six children of an Algerian - Tunisian family. She grew up in simple circumstances in the north of Marseille . Her father died when she was two years old, her mother was a housewife. Herzi gained her first acting experience at the age of twelve when she stood in front of the camera as an extra in a television film on the public television broadcaster France 3 . However, she was unable to attend acting classes because her family did not have sufficient financial means.

After finishing school, Herzi began studying law before she was discovered by the French director Abdellatif Kechiche at a casting in her hometown in 2005 . Kechiche, also of North African descent, was preparing his third feature film, Couscous with Fish , in Marseille at the time , after having received praise from critics and the most important for his previous work L'Esquive , a milieu study on a group of adolescents in the Parisian suburbs French film award that César had received. Like L'Esquive , couscous with fish once again focuses on the life of the North African minority in France and was also almost exclusively cast with amateur actors. The film tells the story of a 60-year-old unemployed shipyard worker (played by Habib Boufares ) who is divorced from his family. Meanwhile unemployed, he takes refuge in his dreams and tries to open a restaurant boat for couscous and fish with his new partner and her daughter .

Couscous with Fish celebrated its world premiere at the 64th Venice Film Festival , where it was represented in the competition for the Golden Lion . Praised for its pictures and its artfully arranged narrative rhythm, the film became one of the favorites for the main prize, while Herzi also received recognition for her portrait of the young and energetic stepdaughter Rym and, together with the Australian Oscar winner Cate Blanchett ( I'm Not There ) , the British Kierston Wareing (It's a Free World…) and the Chinese Tang Wei ( Danger and Desire ) were among the favorites for the Coppa Volpi , the award for the best actress at the film festival. Although the actor 's award went to Blanchett, Herzi received the Marcello Mastroianni award for best young actress and in 2008 the César in the same category. The amateur actress had interrupted her studies from September to December 2005 for her film debut, gained fifteen kilograms for a belly dance scene and completed four hours of muscle training and six hours of dance per week.

After working with Kechiche, Herzi lost the increased weight and the distinctive Marseille accent. She broke off her law studies and now lives in the 19th arrondissement of Paris , where she is training to be an actor. Other film and television roles followed, including Française , Souad El-Bouhati's debut film, the ARTE production Out of Control by Christophe Lamotte and Abbas Fahdel's Arabic-language drama Dawn of the World . In 2009 she starred in Francis Huster's drama Un homme et son chien at the side of such well-known actors as Jean-Paul Belmondo and Max von Sydow . The comedy Le roi de l'évasion (Alain Guiraudie) was also released in 2009 ; Raja Amari's drama Anonymes was released in May 2010 .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Nord, Christina: In love with colors . In: the daily newspaper , September 4, 2007
  2. ↑ cf. Feldvoss, Marli: All chains broken . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , September 6, 2007
  3. ↑ cf. Koppold, Rupert: group picture with murderer . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung, September 8, 2007, Culture, p. 33
  4. ↑ cf. Suspense avant la remise du 64e Lion d'or à Venise, Kechiche grand favori (PAPIER GENERAL) , Agence France-Presse, 8 September 2007
personal data
SURNAME Herzi, Hafsia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Manosque , Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department , France