Tahar Rahim
Tahar Rahim (born 4 July 1981 in Belfort ) is a French stage and film actor. He achieved fame by his first starring role in the feature film A Prophet ( 2009).
Biography
Tahar Rahim, of Algerian descent, began to study film at the Université Paul Valéry in Montpellier. The director Cyril Mennegun there gave him his first role in 2005 étudiant in the semi- documentary autiobiografischen Tahar l'. In the work which had its performance on several film festivals, Rahim was introduced as the son of a single mother of ten children from Belfort, who has to decide between work and study. After the first experience in front of the camera, he joined the drama workshop by Hélène Zidi - Chéruy and was represented with a small supporting role in Alexandre and Julien Maury's Bustillos horror film Inside 2007. When growing notoriety in France by the recurring role of Yazid Fikry in the broadcast on Canal Plus television series La commune, which plays in a market characterized by unemployment and organized crime French suburb. In the series, which came from the pen of screenwriter Abdel Raouf Dafri, the 26- year-old actor took the part of an impressionable 15 -year-old graduate student who, frustrated drifts through the tutelage of his mother and sister, in the crime.
His breakthrough as an actor paved Rahim 2009, the title role in Jacques Audiard's A Prophet, Abdel Raouf for Dafri wrote the movie script. Audiard, Rahim had met at a common drive from another film set. " I looked at him and that was it, although I let my instincts audition unfamiliar and 40 other actors for the role before I chose him ," says Audiard. "When I looked into his eyes, I realized no melancholy, no tragedy, only someone very upright, [ ... ] full of life ," says the director. In the crime drama Rahim took over on the side of Niels Arestrup the main role of a young Arab- prison inmate who rises with the Corsican Mafia influential criminals. A prophet celebrated its premiere in 2009 at the 62nd International Film Festival of Cannes, where the film underwent great praise from critics and was awarded the Grand Jury Prize. Was also praised for his acting performance of the unknown Tahar Rahim in the role of Malik, the "breathtaking" described the French daily newspaper Le Monde, Libération, while a " startling revelation" spoke. Rahim was then touted as favorites for the Best Actor award, but at the Austrian Christoph Waltz ( Inglourious Basterds ) has been awarded. Months later, the European Film Award for Best Actor and two César Awards were given to him. It was the first time in the history of French film awards that the awards were for Best Actor and Best Young Actor in a person.
After the great success of A Prophet Rahim appeared again until 2011 on the big screen. In Kevin Macdonald's historical drama The Eagle of the Ninth Legion, he took the supporting role of the barbaric tribal prince Liathan and were thus also made his debut in the English-language film. In the same year a starring role in Jean -Jacques Annaud's period film Black Gold followed alongside Antonio Banderas and Freida Pinto.
Parallel to his career in film and television Rahim appeared on the stage. In January 2008, he slipped under the direction of Hélène Zidi - Chéruy with success in the play Libres sont les papillons in the humorous role of a blind man, who plans to leave his mother.
Filmography
- 2005: Tahar l' étudiant
- 2007: La commune ( TV series)
- 2007: Inside (A l' intérieur )
- 2009: A Prophet ( Un prophète )
- 2010: You Never Left ( Short Film)
- 2011: The Eagle of the Ninth Legion ( The Eagle)
- 2011: The free people (Les hommes libres )
- 2011: Love and Bruises
- 2011: Black Gold
- 2012: Bref (TV series, episode: Y'a des gens qui m'énervent. )
- 2012: à perdre la raison
- 2013: Le Passé
Awards
- 2009: European Film Award for A Prophet (Category: Best Actor )
- 2010: Prix Lumière for A Prophet ( Best Actor )
- 2010: Étoile d'Or for A Prophet ( Best Newcomer )
- 2010: nominated for the Orange Rising Star Award for A Prophet ( Best Newcomer )
- 2010: nominated for a Chicago Film Critics Association Award for A Prophet ( Best Newcomer )
- 2010: nominated for the London Critics Circle Film Award for A Prophet ( Best Actor of the Year)
- 2010: winner of two César Awards for A Prophet ( Best Actor and Best Newcomer )
- 2010: Patrick Dewaere price
- 2011: nominated for an Irish Film and Television Award for A Prophet ( Best International Actor )