Reda Kateb
Appearance
Reda Kateb | |
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![]() Kateb at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival | |
Born | Ivry-sur-Seine, France | 27 July 1977
Nationality | French Algerian |
Occupation(s) | Actor, film director, screenwriter |
Years active | 2003–present |
Reda Kateb (French: [ʁeda katɛb]; Arabic: رضا كاتب; born 27 July 1977) is a French actor.
Life and career
[edit]Kateb was born in Ivry-sur-Seine, France, to an Algerian actor, Malek-Eddine Kateb, and a French nurse of Czech and Italian origin.[1] He is a grandnephew of the Algerian writer Kateb Yacine. He grew up in Ivry-sur-Seine, in the Paris region, where he lived until 2011 before moving to Montreuil.
His short film Pitchoune was presented in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.[2]
Political views
[edit]In June 2024, Katab signed a petition addressed to French President Emmanuel Macron demanding France to officially recognize the State of Palestine.[3]
Filmography
[edit]As actor
[edit]Film
[edit]Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2003 | Nif | Short film | |
2009 | A Prophet | Jordi | |
2009 | Silent Voice | Stéphane | |
2010 | Pieds nus sur les limaces | Seb | |
2010 | Sur la tête de Bertha Boxcar | Short film | |
2011 | Tenir les murs | ||
2011 | 1, 2, 3, voleurs | Le Capitaine Martin | |
2012 | Coming Home | Vincent Maillard | |
2012 | Ce chemin devant moi | ||
2012 | Three Worlds | Doak | |
2012 | Chroniques d'une cour de récré | ||
2012 | Le Monde nous appartient | Zoltan | |
2012 | Zero Dark Thirty | Ammar | |
2013 | Me, Myself and Mum | Karim | |
2013 | Paris Countdown | Wilfried | |
2013 | The Dream Kids | Reza | |
2013 | Gare du Nord | Ismaël | |
2013 | La Fin du début | Atreyu | Short film |
2014 | Les Fantômes de l'usine | Narrator | Short film |
2014 | Fishing Without Nets | Victor | |
2014 | Lost River | Driver | |
2014 | Hippocrate | Abdel | |
2014 | Insecure | Chérif Arezki | |
2014 | Far from Men | Mohamed | |
2015 | L'Astragale | Julien | |
2015 | Pitchoune | Karim | Short film |
2015 | Through the Air | Vincent Cavelle | |
2015 | The White Knights | Xavier | |
2015 | Stop Me Here | Samson Cazalet | |
2016 | The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez | The man | |
2016 | Sarah Winchester, Phantom Opera | Director | Short film |
2016 | Paris Prestige | Nasser | |
2017 | Django | Django Reinhardt | |
2017 | Submergence | Saif | |
2018 | Close Enemies | Driss | |
2019 | The Wolf's Call | Grandchamp | |
2019 | The Specials | Malik |
Television series
[edit]Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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2008 | Spiral | Mr. Aziz | |
2010 | Mafiosa | Nader | |
2011 | De l'encre | Romuald | |
2012 | Treasure Island | David Dujon | |
2021 | In Therapy | Adel |
As film director/screenwriter
[edit]Year | Title | Notes |
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2015 | Pitchoune | Short film |
Awards and nominations
[edit]Year | Nominated work | Award | Category | Result |
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2015 | Hippocrate | 40th César Awards | Best Supporting Actor | Won |
Globes de Cristal Award | Best Actor | Nominated | ||
Prix Patrick Dewaere | — | Won | ||
2017 | Django | Cabourg Film Festival | Swann d'Or for Best Actor | Won |
2018 | Lumières Award | Lumières Award for Best Actor | Nominated | |
César Award | César Award for Best Actor | Nominated |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Reda Kateb: Tchoutchouka". Libération.fr (in French). Retrieved 2018-02-08.
- ^ "Cannes: Directors' Fortnight 2015 line-up". Screendaily.
- ^ "Reconnaissance de l'Etat palestinien : qu'attendez-vous monsieur Macron ? 230 artistes lancent un appel". Libération (in French). 4 June 2024.
External links
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Categories:
- 1977 births
- Living people
- Male actors from Paris
- French male film actors
- French male television actors
- French people of Algerian descent
- French people of Czech descent
- French people of Italian descent
- People from Ivry-sur-Seine
- Male actors from Île-de-France
- 21st-century French male actors
- Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
- Best Supporting Actor César Award winners
- French film directors
- French male screenwriters
- French screenwriters
- Algerian people of Italian descent
- Algerian people of Czech descent