Samy Naceri

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Samy Naceri at the Cannes Film Festival , 2000

Saïd "Samy" Naceri (born July 2, 1961 in Paris ) is a French actor and film producer of Algerian descent. He gained fame primarily through his leading roles in the taxi series (1998–2007) and in the film Days of Fame (2006).

biography

Samy Naceri was born in 1961 as Saïd Naceri in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, the son of the painter Djilali Naceri. His mother Jacqueline was a housewife and came from Normandy . He grew up in modest circumstances with seven siblings in the north of Paris on Rue Saint-Martin . The family later moved to a residential complex in Fontenay-sous-Bois . An older brother died as a result of drug use. Naceri's father left the family when he was 16 years old. At the same time he left school and began training as a mechanic, which he dropped out. He then made a living doing odd jobs. He was involved in a traffic accident in his early twenties, which left permanent scars on the left side of his face.

Naceri began his acting career in the late 1980s by taking part in theater workshops and extras in French film and television. He appeared in Robert Enricos and Richard T. Heffron's historical drama The French Revolution - Years of Hope / Years of Wrath (1989) and Luc Besson's Léon - The Professional (1994). During this time he changed his first name from Saïd to Samy. After a guest appearance in the French crime series Nestor Burma (1995), Naceri first attracted more attention in the same year through his participation in Thomas Gilou's feature film Raï . In the immigrant drama about two dissimilar brothers, he was seen as a criminal junkie, for whose portrayal he received special prizes at the Locarno and Paris film festivals .

After further supporting and extras roles, Naceri made his breakthrough in France by working with the French director Gérard Pirès . His action film Taxi (1998), written and produced by Luc Besson, is set in Marseille and is about the adventures of a taxi driver who drives his tuned company vehicle through the streets of the southern French port city. Taxi , in other roles with Frédéric Diefenthal and Marion Cotillard , became the most successful comedy of the summer in France, and Naceri in the leading role was known to a wide audience. For the part of Daniel Morales, he was nominated for the first time for the César , France's national film award, for best young actor . In 2000, 2003 and 2007, the films Taxi Taxi , Taxi 3 and Taxi 4 , directed by Gérard Krawczyk, were followed by three sequels in which Naceri again played the leading role alongside Frédéric Diefenthal, but in the fifth sequel from 2018 Naceri was not given a role . He repeatedly slipped into the role of the villain in action and gangster films, including in Florent Emilio Siri's Das tödliche Wespennest (2001), which he co-produced, and in Manuel Boursinhac's The Codex (2002), based on a script by his brother Bibi Naceri .

Naceri's greatest artistic success to date was Rachid Bouchareb's 2006 war drama Days of Fame , set in France during World War II . The film, starring Bernard Blancan , Sami Bouajila , Jamel Debbouze and Roschdy Zem in the other leading roles , tells of four French soldiers of Maghrebian descent who fight the German Armed Forces in the Free French Armed Forces , but are disadvantaged and indigenous in their own ranks to be discriminated. The film was in competition at the 59th Cannes International Film Festival and brought Naceri, together with his co- actors, the Actor Award of the film festival. The five actors prevailed against such well-known professional colleagues as Gérard Depardieu ( Chanson d'Amour ), Sergi López ( Pan's Labyrinth ) and Brad Pitt ( Babel ). Days of Fame has been nominated several times for a César and an Oscar in the Best Foreign Language Film category. The French government was also concerned about the film and, in response, adjusted the pensions for the veterans depicted in the film to those for French soldiers.

Since the early 1980s, the former drug addict came into conflict with the law on several occasions, including because of insults, drug possession, extortion, assault and drunk driving, and he never gave up his friendship with former criminal childhood friends. In 2007, Naceri was sentenced to six months in prison for assault. A year later, he was sentenced to another six months in prison and a fine for driving without a license. Since 2007 he has denied media reports about severe liver disease. At the end of November 2009, the documentary Entre deux vies was broadcast in France , in which Naceri talked about the ups and downs of his career and the stays in prison. Another assault trial is pending.

Filmography (selection)

Naceri at the 2011 Cannes International Film Festival
  • 1989: The French Revolution - Years of Hope / Years of Anger (La Révolution française)
  • 1994: Léon - The Professional (Léon)
  • 1994: Brothers (Frères)
  • 1995: Raï
  • 1996: Coup de vice
  • 1997: Another Nine & a Half Weeks
  • 1997: Autre chose à foutre qu'aimer
  • 1997: Bouge!
  • 1998: taxi
  • 1998: Cantique de la racaille
  • 1999: Un pur moment de rock'n'roll
  • 1999: Une pour toutes
  • 2000: Taxi Taxi (Taxi 2)
  • 2000: Là-bas, mon pays
  • 2001: Le Petit Poucet
  • 2002: The Deadly Wasp's Nest (Nid de guêpes)
  • 2002: La Repentie
  • 2002: Féroce
  • 2002: The Code (La Mentale)
  • 2003: Taxi 3
  • 2005: Bab el web
  • 2006: Days of Fame (Indigènes)
  • 2007: T4xi
  • 2008: Des poupées et des Genealogie

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. Décugis, Jean-Michel: Samy Naceri, le mauvais garçon du cinéma . In: Le Point , January 11, 2007 (accessed on February 27, 2010 via LexisNexis Wirtschaft )
  2. ↑ cf. Pelletier, Eric: Les dérapages de Samy Naceri . In: L'Express , June 14, 2001, No. 2606, p. 102
  3. ↑ cf. AFP : "Indigènes" and "Lady Chatterley" under César favorites , February 23, 2007, Paris (accessed on March 1, 2007 via LexisNexis Wirtschaft )
  4. ↑ cf. Carrière, Christophe; Ceaux, Pascal: Le bon et la bête . In: L'Express, January 11, 2007, No. 2897, p. 78
  5. ↑ cf. Champenois, Sabrina: à la relance . In: Liberation , November 23, 2009, p. 40
personal data
SURNAME Naceri, Samy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Naceri, Saïd; Nacéri, Sami; Nacéri, Samy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actor and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH July 2nd, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris