Tahar Rahim Biography
Tahar Rahim is a French-Algerian actor. The actor’s breakthrough was in the 2009 French film A Prophet, for which he won the Cesar Award for Best Actor and Most promising Actor. Rahim gained critical acclaim and nominations for the Golden Globe Award and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for portraying Mohamedou Ould Salahi in The Mauritanian 2021.
How old is Tahar Rahim? – Age
As of 4 July, 2023, he is 42 years old. The actor was born on 4 July, 1981, in Belfort France.
Tahar Rahim Height
Tahar stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches tall.
Tahar Rahim parents – Childhood
Born in France, Rahim was born to parents who had immigrated from Oran, Algeria. According to sources, the actor hasn’t revealed much about his parents, nor their names. He was raised in Belfort alongside nine older siblings, the oldest one being 20 years his senior. After earning a Baccalaureat at the Lycee Condorcet of Belfort, Rahim enrolled first in sports and then computer science programs. After two year subsequent years of boredom studying the subjects in Strasbourg and Marseille, Rahim decided to pursue his passion and began to study film at the Paul Valery University of Montpellier.
His life as a film student was chronicled in a documentary by fellow Belfortain Cyril Mennegun titled “Tahar, student”, aired on French TV channel France 5 iin 2006.
Is Tahar Rahim married? – Wife
Tahar is married to fellow French actress Leila Bekhti, who he met while filming A Prophet in 2007. Together they have three children.
Tahar Rahim Career
Rahim singed with an agent during the mid-2006, where he went on and won a part in the hit Canal + television series La Commune written by Abdel Raouf Dafri. He also starred in controversial Chinese director Lou Ye’s film Love and Bruises. Another project he starred in was Free Men, the biopic about Si Kaddour Benghabrit, founder of the Great Mosque of Paris, directed by Isabel Ferroukhi of Le Grand Voyage fame.
In 2015, Tahar was selected to be on the jury for the Un Certain Regard section of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival and later starred in the European crime drama television series The Last Panthers. In 2018, he appeared as Judas in the film Mary Magdalene, written by Helen Edmundson. In the U.S., he had a starring role as FBI agent Ali Soufan in The Looming Tower. In 2021, the French-Algerian actor was nominated for a Golden Globe for portraying the role of Mohamedou Ould Salahi in The Mauritanian.
Rahim player Paul in Ridley Scott’s Napoleon, starring Joaquin Phoenix, in 2023 for Apple TV+. He will appear in the Sony’s Spider-Man Universe film Madame Web. In 2023, Rahim was nominated to be playing French singer Charles Aznavour.
Tahar Rahim Net Worth
As of 2023, the star has a net worth of $4 Million.
Tahar Rahim Movie
2007 – Inside
2009 – A Prophet
2011 – The Eagle
2011 – Love and Bruises
2012 – Our Children
2013 – Grand Central
2014 – Samba
2015 – The Anarchists
2016 – Daguerrotype
2017 – The Price of Success
2018 – Mary Magdalene
2019 – The Kindness of Strangers
2021 – The Mauritian
2023 – Napoleon
2024 – Madame Web
2024 – Smiling Hacker
Tahar Rahim TV Shows
2007 – La Commune
2015 – The Last Panthers
2018 – The Looming Tower
2020 – The Eddy
2021 – The Serpent
2023 – Extrapolations