
Acting
Dec 4, 1985
Liège, Belgium
Mehdi Dehbi
Acting
Biography
Mehdi Dehbi (born December 5, 1985, Liège) is a Belgian actor, of Moroccan origin, most known for his roles in the 2012 film The Other Sonand the 2014 film A Most Wanted Man. Mehdi Dehbi was born in Liège in a family whose father, of Moroccan origin, is a worker and a homemaker mother. He showed an early inclination for the arts, takes acting classes, singing, music theory, of dance ... and at twelve years he began his secondary education at the Académie Grétry in Liege. He was recruited at a cast of the production house Dardenne Brothers (Les Films du Fleuve)in which his drama teacher has registered him, it was his first feature film, The murdered Sun directed by Abdelkrim Bahloul, where he shared the lead with Charles Berling, a feature that earned him a selection for the Joseph Plateau award for Best actor.
Feature Films (17)

A fisherman's son is offered the ultimate privilege to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the epicenter of power of Sunni Islam. Shortly after his arrival, the university’s highest ranking religious leader, the Grand Imam, dies and the young student becomes a pawn in a ruthless power struggle between Egypt's religious and political elite.
Cairo Conspiracy

A notorious French ex-felon becomes an informant and infiltrates a Mexican drug cartel.
L'Infiltré

A clarinetist is trying to finish his record when his wife and ten year old son reappear in his life. His 10-year-old son whom he has never seen, and Naim, a young Muslim transvestite who will change his life ...
He's My Girl

Itto, a young woman from a modest rural background, is slowly adapting to the Moroccan privileged codes of her husband’s family. But when supernatural events put the country in a state of emergency, Itto finds herself separated from her husband and new family. Alone, pregnant and looking for her way back, she finds emancipation.
Animalia

Ivan, small-time bandit, crosses paths with Sonia, a young woman from the provinces who has recently come to Paris. He hates her from first sight. She falls madly in love with him right from first sight. It's settled: this cruel man will be her Prince Charming, her hero, the man of her life.
Sweet Valentine

The poet Jean Sénac, also a radio host, chose to stay in Algeria after his country's independence in 1962. Ten years later, a protester and libertarian, he was monitored by the regime's police. His poems attract a popular audience and his show is a real success with young people. Also, when Hamid and Belkacem, two students, learn that the play they wrote and presented at the first national Algerian theater festival is downgraded under the pretext that they performed it in French, their pain will be alleviated by the presence behind the scenes by Jean Sénac who congratulates them. The latter will become close friends of the poet and witness his fight for the freedom and culture of Algerian youth. A fight which would lead Sénac to martyrdom: one night in August 1973, he was assassinated in the cellar which served as his apartment. Hamid is accused of the murder.
The Sun Assassinated

Two young men, one Israeli and one Palestinian, discover they were accidentally switched at birth.
The Other Son

Simon, a young German doctor who lives and works in Marseille, goes missing. His appartment is empty. His mother Valérie is desperate. She doesn't understand the reason of his disappearance. Therefore she asks Jens, Simon's former boyfriend, to come to Marseille and help her find him.
Looking for Simon

Based on a true story, this beautifully-shot epic traces the life of Sarah, from her early years in a Catholic orphanage in 1970s Belgium, through her rebellious, poverty-stricken teens in a village in the Atlas mountains of Morocco.
The Bag of Flour

Worker or poker player, Samir and Xavier live from day to day. Bright young woman and future bride, Liza has a future all traced. They and she find themselves by chance for a weekend for a stay as unlikely as initiative.
Lili Rose

A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg and becomes a person of interest for a covert government team tracking the movements of potential terrorists.
A Most Wanted Man
Television & Series (1)

A wary CIA officer investigates a charismatic man who sparks a spiritual movement and stirs political unrest. Who exactly is he? And what does he want?

