Mehdi Nebbou

Mehdi Nebbou was born in Bayonne, France, to a German nurse and an Algerian self made man. While Nebbou was studying filmmaking at the Berlin Film School in the early 2000s, the young director Filippos Tsitos asked him for help in finding non-professional actors for his first film My Sweet Home (2001). Tsitos ended up offering Nebbou one of the main roles in it. The film was selected in the Official selection at the Berlin Film Festival in 2001, as only film representing Germany. And so began Nebbou's career as an actor. In 2004, the director Samir Nasr offered him his leading role in the film Seeds of Doubt (2004), which won the Golden Gate Award for best film at the San Francisco Film Festival. 2005 was a turning point in Nebbou's career thanks to the film Sleeper (2005) by German film director Benjamin Heisenberg. The film received excellent reviews and was selected for the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. In 2006 he then played Ali Hassan Salameh in the Steven Spielberg blockbuster f