Lyna Khoudri

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Lyna Khoudri (born October 3, 1992 in Algiers ) is a Franco - Algerian film actress .

Life

Khoudri was born in Algeria as the daughter of a journalist and the violinist Radia Sidoum. When Khoudri was a toddler, the family fled to France due to the Algerian civil war and settled in Aubervilliers . At school, Khoudri chose the specialization art history and theater and received the License des arts du spectacle at the University of Paris VIII . Khoudri worked briefly as a supervisor at the Lycée de Drancy, completed an internship at the Paris Théâtre de la Colline and finally won the admission competition for the Schools of Dramatic Arts: She was accepted as an actress at the Théâtre national de Strasbourg in 2016 .

In addition to smaller roles in television films and series, Khoudri took on a role in 2016 in Les bienheureux , which was released in 2017 and first drew the attention of critics. For her portrayal of the Algerian Feriel, who, like other young people of her generation in a country shortly after the end of the war, had to reorient herself, Khoudri was awarded the Prix Orizzonti for Best Actress at the 2017 Venice Film Festival . Also Mounia Meddours 2019 published movie Papicha is based in Algeria: Khoudri took over in the lead role of young Nedjma, organized a fashion show during the Civil War 1997th For her performance, Khoudri was awarded the César for Best Young Actress in 2020 .

Khoudri switches between the big screen and television and, after Papicha, appeared in Rebecca Zlotowski's television series Les sauvages , in which she played the daughter of an Algerian immigrant. In Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch , shot in 2019, Khoudri starred alongside Tilda Swinton , Adrien Brody and Timothée Chalamet .

Filmography (selection)

  • 2016: Polina, danser sa vie
  • 2017: Les bienheureux
  • 2017: La fête est finie
  • 2017: Luna
  • 2019: Papicha
  • 2019: Anything but Ordinary (Hors normes)
  • 2019: Les sauvages (TV series, 6 episodes)
  • 2019: Qu'un sang impur ...
  • 2019: La beauté du geste

Awards

  • 2017: Prix Orizzonti for Best Actress, Venice International Film Festival, for Les bienheureux
  • 2020: César, Best Young Actress, for Papicha

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Anne Diatkine: Cinema: Lyna Khoudri, une est fougue born . grazia.fr, February 1, 2020.
  2. ^ A b Nesrine Slaoui: Lyna Khoudri, destin d'actrice, mémoires d'Algérie . bondyblog.fr, October 8, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Khoudri, Lyna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-Algerian actress
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd October 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Algiers