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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 6, 1984
Place of Birth
Issy-les-Moulineaux, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Also Known As
- Leila Bekhti
- ليلى بختي
- Лейла Бехти
- 蕾拉班克堤
Leïla Bekhti
0.8 Popularity
Biography
Leïla Bekhti (ليلى بختي) is a French-Algerian actress, born on March 6, 1984, in Issy-les-Moulineaux. She notably received the César Award for Most Promising Actress in 2011 for her role in Tout Ce Qui Brille. In 2010, Leïla Bekhti married actor Tahar Rahim, whom she met in 2007 on the set of the film A Prophet. Leïla Bekhti was born into an Algerian family from Sidi Bel Abbès in western Algeria, who settled in the Paris region. Born in Issy-les-Moulineaux, Leïla Bekhti grew up in Bagneux. She is the youngest of three children. While a high school student, she regularly bought Casting magazine, with the sole intention of having fun looking for ads that might be of interest to her, without taking any action each time they did. After obtaining a literary baccalaureate (with a theater option) from the Maurice-Genevoix high school in Montrouge, she reluctantly enrolled in a university and took an art therapy course there.[4] She also attended a theater school in Paris for six months, without much regular attendance. While working various odd jobs—including as a saleswoman in a clothing store owned by her brother in Orléans—to pay for her classes, she then enrolled at the Stéphane-Gildas school in Paris, then Bérengère Basty's class at the Art'aire Studio. In 2005, encouraged by friends, she went to the casting of Sheitan, a film by Kim Chapiron with Vincent Cassel (also the film's producer), and obtained one of the main roles, that of Yasmine, a young woman with no fears. Leïla Bekhti then played in the TV film Harkis with Smaïn and rediscovered the history of Algeria, the country where her family comes from. We find Leïla Bekhti in Paris, Je T’Aime then in Roschdy Zem's first film Mauvaise Foi. Then, her friend Géraldine Nakache offered her the main role alongside her in Tout Ce Qui Brille, a real box-office success, which earned her a César for Most Promising Actress. In 2011, she played in Toi, Moi, Les autres and Itinéraire Bis. After La Source Des Femmes, Leïla Bekhti returned to the screen in A Better Life with Guillaume Canet in January 2012. This was followed by more than fifty films and as many notable roles, in both drama and comedy, for film and television (see filmography). In her private life, Leila Bekhti met actor Tahar Rahim on the set of Jacques Audiard's film A Prophet, released in 2009. They married discreetly in 2010 and went on to have five children.
Known For
6.9
Esther Perez
Once Upon My Mother
2025
8.0
La voix qui annonce le césar (elle est pas au courant)
L'Ordre des Mots
2025
0.0
Self
Grand Corps Malade au Zénith de Lille
2024
0.0
Self - Guest
Loris Giuliano en balade
2024
7.0
Lili d’Alengy
Maria Montessori
2023
5.9
Julie Delaunay
Loving Memories
2023
7.9
Nawelle
All Your Faces
2023
1.0
Self
Beau geste
2023
7.0
Alexandra
The Torch
2022
7.8
Self - Guest
Hot Ones
2022
Credits
Once Upon My Mother
as Esther Perez
2025
6.9
L'Ordre des Mots
as La voix qui annonce le césar (elle est pas au courant)
2025
8.0
Grand Corps Malade au Zénith de Lille
as Self
2024
0.0
Loris Giuliano en balade
as Self - Guest
2024
0.0
Maria Montessori
as Lili d’Alengy
2023
7.0
Loving Memories
as Julie Delaunay
2023
5.9
All Your Faces
as Nawelle
2023
7.9
Beau geste
as Self
2023
1.0
The Torch
as Alexandra
2022
7.0
Hot Ones
as Self - Guest
2022
7.8
Saddle Up For Revenge
as Crystal Clear
2021
5.1
The Restless
as Leïla
2021
6.8
The Third War
as Yasmine
2021
5.9
LOL : Qui rit, sort !
as Self
2021
6.5
How I Became a Superhero
as Callista
2020
6.1
La Flamme
as Alexandra
2020
7.4
The Eddy
as Amira
2020
6.5
Perfect Nanny
as Myriam
2019
6.0
I'll Go Where You Go
as Mina
2019
5.6
Battle of the Classes
as Sofia
2019
5.8
Omar Sy, c'est ta chance
as Self
2018
6.0
A Man in a Hurry
as Jeanne
2018
6.5
Sink or Swim
as Amanda
2018
6.9
Bonsoir !
as Self - Guest
2018
0.0
Beirut
as Nadia Skiles
2018
6.3
Carnivores
as Mona Barni
2018
5.5
The View from Up Here
as Lila
2017
6.0
Speak Up
as Guest of Honour
2017
7.8
Midnight Sun
as Kahina Zadi
2016
7.2
Serge le Mytho
as Nina
2016
6.9
Quotidien
as Self - Guest
2016
5.4
All Three of Us
as Fereshteh Tabib
2015
7.5
Polonium
as Self - Guest
2015
0.0
Astragal
as Albertine
2015
5.5
Now or Never
as Juliette Lesage
2014
6.1
🎬
Le Débarquement 2
as Various Characters
2013
5.5
Before the Winter Chill
as Lou
2013
6.0
Casting(s)
as Self / Silverwoman
2013
6.4
... à la française !
as Sofia
2013
6.0
Le Débarquement
2013
0.0
Le Débarquement
2013
5.1
Nous York
as Samia
2012
4.7
Armed Hands
as Maya Dervin
2012
5.8
A Better Life
as Nadia
2011
6.3
The Source
as Leila
2011
6.6
Bref
as Leïla Bekhti
2011
8.1
Itinéraire bis
as Nora
2011
5.5
Leila
as Leïla
2011
6.0
Longlasting Youth
as Alina
2010
4.0
Fracture
as Zora
2010
6.6
Bacon on the Side
as Anissa
2010
4.9
Conte de la frustration
as Safia
2010
6.9
All That Glitters
as Lila
2010
6.3
A Prophet
as Djamila
2009
7.6
Twenty Show: The Film
as Yasmine
2009
0.0
Myriam's choice
as Myriam
2009
8.3
Mesrine: Killer Instinct
as Fellaga's daughter
2008
7.3
Dolls and Angels
as Lya
2008
6.4
Harkis
as Leila
2008
7.1
Choosing Love
as Sarah
2008
7.1
Ali Baba and the 40 thieves
as Morgiane
2007
5.4
Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves
as Morgane
2007
5.0
Bad Faith
as Mounia
2006
5.9
For the Love of God
as Meriem
2006
0.0
Les Tricheurs
as Vally Devailly
2006
0.0
Paris Je T'aime
as Zarka (segment "Quais de Seine")
2006
6.8
🎬
Quais de Seine
as Zarka
2006
5.0
Satan
as Yasmine
2006
5.8
Burger Quiz
as Self
2001
7.3
🎬
Violette
as Violette Toussaint
N/A
0.0
🎬
Untitled movie with Leila Bekhti
N/A
0.0