---
name: "Adel Bencherif"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/adel-bencherif"
fi1m_id: "adel-bencherif"
imdb_id: "nm1513288"
tmdb_id: 89624
wikidata_id: "Q2824177"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "30 May 1975"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 68
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-10-05T14:07:17.879171+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Adel Bencherif

## Identity

Adel Bencherif

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/adel-bencherif
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** adel-bencherif
- **IMDb ID:** nm1513288
- **TMDB ID:** 89624
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2824177
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adel_Bencherif, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2824177, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1513288/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/89624

Actor. Born 30 May 1975 in Saint-Maurice, Val-de-Marne, France.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 30 May 1975, Saint-Maurice, Val-de-Marne, France
- **Active:** 2009–2018
- **Average Fi1m score:** 68, as actor, over 5 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 86 (1), 2010s 64 (4)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 68 to 66 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 2 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Action 2, Adventure 2, Thriller 2, Crime 1, History 1
- **Screen time:** 9 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,146m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adel_Bencherif, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2824177, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1513288/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/89624

## Biography

Adel Bencherif is a French actor born on 30 May 1975 in Saint-Maurice, Val-de-Marne. He trained as an actor in Paris at the atelier of Damien Acoca after moving there at the age of twenty.

His early career included small roles in television and film, beginning with a short film for the Kourtrajmé collective. He gained wider recognition for his performance as Ryad in Jacques Audiard's *A Prophet* (2009), for which he received a César Award nomination for Most Promising Actor.

Bencherif has appeared in films including *Frontier(s)* (2007), *Of Gods and Men* (2010), *Spectre* (2015) and *London Has Fallen* (2016), as well as television series such as *War of the Worlds* (2019–2022) and *Validé* (2020–2021).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, fr.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *The Little Drummer Girl* (2018), Fi1m 76, as Tayeh — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-little-drummer-girl.md)
- *London Has Fallen* (2016), Fi1m 38, as Raza Mansoor — [page](https://film.one/film/london-has-fallen.md)
- *Spectre* (2015), Fi1m 58, as Abrika — [page](https://film.one/film/spectre.md)
- *Of Gods and Men* (2010), Fi1m 84, as The Terrorist — [page](https://film.one/film/of-gods-and-men.md)
- *A Prophet* (2009), Fi1m 86, as Ryad — [page](https://film.one/film/a-prophet.md)

## Complete filmography (40)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Cage* (2024), series, as Ibrahim
- *The Two of Them* (2024), as Samir
- *Bisons* (2024), as Fredo
- *Numéro 10* (2024), as Sati
- *Croisement Gaza - Boulevard Saint-Germain* (2023), series, as Amine Badjelal
- *Dark Satellites* (2022), as Hamed
- *Heartbeast* (2022), as Karim
- *Black Gold* (2021), series, as Ilyès
- *Flash* (2020), as Adel
- *All the Way Up* (2020), series, as Mounir
- *War of the Worlds* (2019), series, as Colonel Mustafa Mokrani
- *Ad Vitam* (2018), series, as Elias Azuelo
- *The Little Drummer Girl* (2018), series, as Tayeh — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-little-drummer-girl.md)
- *Close Enemies* (2018), as Imrane Mogalia, aka 'Tonton'
- *In the Shadow of Iris* (2016), as Capitaine Malek Ziani
- *London Has Fallen* (2016), as Raza Mansoor — Fi1m 38, [page](https://film.one/film/london-has-fallen.md)
- *Spectre* (2015), as Abrika — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/spectre.md)
- *The Man of My Life* (2015), as The Coach
- *Anna e Yusef* (2015), as Yusef
- *Les Gorilles* (2015), as Felon
- *Samba* (2014), as The seller of residence cards
- *Bodybuilder* (2014), as Luigi
- *Rock the Casbah* (2013), as Zakaria
- *Les Petits Princes* (2013), as Sofiane
- *The Runaway* (2013), as Lakdar
- *Christmas at the Riviera* (2012), as Hedi
- *Sleepless Night* (2011), as Abel
- *Point Blank* (2010), as Luc Sartet
- *Of Gods and Men* (2010), as The Terrorist — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/of-gods-and-men.md)
- *A Prophet* (2009), as Ryad — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/a-prophet.md)
- *Go Fast* (2008), as Sed
- *Andalucia* (2008), as Farid
- *Frontier(s)* (2007), as Sami
- *Cages* (2007), as Rabbah
- *Djihad!* (2006), as Karim
- *Paris Je T'aime* (2006), as Le voleur de guitare (segment "Place des Fetes")
- *Dark Night, October 17, 1961* (2005), as Le collecteur
- *Ze Film* (2005), as Aziz
- *Le Chat d'la grand mère d'Abdel Krim* (2003), Actor
- *Déjà loin*, as Rody

## Gallery

- ![Adel Bencherif](https://film.one/media/person/100264/gallery-a10e53267d9b.jpg) Adel Bencherif — Sebb-fr, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Equipe_film_frontieres.jpg/1280px-Equipe_film_frontieres.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Adel Bencherif](https://film.one/media/person/100264/gallery-c1fed34000cd.jpg) Adel Bencherif — Image via TMDB

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