Yasin Houicha

Yasin Houicha (born in Grigny ) is a French actor .

Life

Houicha, who came from the Paris suburb of Grigny, grew up in the newly built district of La Grande Borne . There he first attended the elementary school (École élémentaire publique) Le Belier and then switched to the Cóllège Jean Vilar . He completed his school education with a professional baccalaureate in sales. Houicha was already interested in the theater during school and joined 1000 visages in 2013 , an association that promotes young talents from the banlieues in particular . In 2014 he received his first film role in the short film Règlement de conte by Fatma Benyoub . This was followed by other roles in short films such as Caramel surprise by Fairouz M'silti or F430 by Yassine Qnia .

He achieved great fame through his role as Samir in the 2015 film Divines by Houda Benyamina . At the Cannes Festival 2016 , Divines was awarded the Caméra d'Or for best debut film . Houicha became known to the television audience through the lead role of Sham in the mini-series Cannabis by Lucie Borleteau, which was broadcast on Arte in 2016 . In May 2017 he was on stage in the La Loge theater in Paris in the play #JeSuisLeProchain by Mickaël Délis . The play was then performed in the Grand Parquet theater in Paris .

Filmography (selection)

• 2014: Règlement de conte (short film)
• 2015: Cannabis (TV miniseries)
• 2015: Caramel surprise (short film)
• 2015: Poivrons rouges (short film)
• 2015: Marianne (medium length film)
• 2015: Bleu PD (short film)
• 2015: Divines
• 2015: F430 (short film)
• 2016: Le princes de la ville
• 2017: Djenn Yema (short film)
• 2017: The brilliant Mademoiselle Neïla (Le brio)
• 2017: Alex Hugo episode celle qui pardonne
• 2017: Tout ce qu'il me reste de la revolution
• 2017: Sauver ou perir
• 2017: Le dernier vide grenier de claire darling
• 2018: Madame Claire's flea market (La dernière folie de Claire Darling)
• 2018: Sauver ou périr

literature

• Florian Garcia: Avec Divines, l'Essonne s'invite sur la scène des César. Le Parisien, February 23, 2017.

Web links

• Yasin Houicha in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Portrait of Yasin Houicha on grigny91.fr
• Yasin Houicha on agencesartistiques.com
• Yasin Houicha at his agency Brigitte Descormiers