---
name: "Mehdi Nebbou"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mehdi-nebbou"
fi1m_id: "mehdi-nebbou"
imdb_id: "nm0623854"
tmdb_id: 43436
wikidata_id: "Q304707"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "10 January 1974"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 71
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-10-05T05:51:26.920432+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."
---

# Mehdi Nebbou

## Identity

Mehdi Nebbou

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mehdi-nebbou
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** mehdi-nebbou
- **IMDb ID:** nm0623854
- **TMDB ID:** 43436
- **Wikidata ID:** Q304707
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Nebbou, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q304707, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0623854/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/43436

Actor. Born 10 January 1974 in Bayonne, France.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 10 January 1974, Bayonne, France
- **Active:** 2005–present
- **Also known as:** Méhdi Nebbou,  Jérémie Nebbou, Мехди Неббу
- **Average Fi1m score:** 71, as actor, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 75 (3), 2020s 58 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 66 to 64 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 4, Crime 2, History 2, Thriller 2, Action 1, Action & Adventure 1
- **Screen time:** 8 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $397m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehdi_Nebbou, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q304707, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0623854/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/43436

## Biography

Mehdi Nebbou is a French actor. He was born in Bayonne, France, to a German mother and an Algerian father, and is the brother of film director Safy Nebbou. He moved to Berlin at the age of 18 and studied directing at the German Film and Television Academy (dffb) from 1995 to 2003 before focusing on acting.

Nebbou's breakthrough came with leading roles in German films including *Schläfer* (2005) and *Teresas Zimmer* (2007), for which he won the First Steps Award for Best Actor. He appeared as Ali Hassan Salameh in Steven Spielberg's *Munich* (2005) and as Nizar in Ridley Scott's *Body of Lies* (2008). Other credits include *Berlin Calling* (2008), *English Vinglish* (2012), *House of Gucci* (2021) and the series *Homeland* (2011) and *HPI* (2021–).

He is fluent in French, German, English and Italian, and has also worked as a voice actor.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, filmportal.de.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *House of Gucci* (2021), Fi1m 58, as Saïd — [page](https://film.one/film/house-of-gucci.md)
- *Body of Lies* (2008), Fi1m 60, as Nizar — [page](https://film.one/film/body-of-lies.md)
- *Munich* (2005), Fi1m 80, as Ali Hassan Salameh — [page](https://film.one/film/munich.md)
- *Spiral* (2005), Fi1m 86, as Mustapha Larbi — [page](https://film.one/tv/spiral.md)

## Complete filmography (71)

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

- *No Beast. So Fierce.* (2025), as Imad York
- *The Prank* (2025), as Lutz Roosen
- *Not a Word* (2024), as Alex Goff
- *Everything Is Fine* (2023), series, as Louis
- *More Than Strangers* (2023), as Mehdi
- *Doppelhaushälfte* (2022), series, as Oberkellner Abdellatif
- *Rose* (2021), as Nicolas
- *House of Gucci* (2021), as Saïd — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/house-of-gucci.md)
- *12 Tage Sommer* (2021), as Marcel
- *HIP - High Intellectual Potential* (2021), series, as Adam Karadec
- *The Last Word* (2020), series, as Konstantin Nowak
- *Allmen and the Mystery of the Dahlias* (2019), as Nebler
- *Totgeschwiegen* (2019), as Jean
- *Mothers' Instinct* (2019), as Simon Brunelle
- *Baby* (2018), series, as Khalid Younes
- *Animals* (2017), as Tarek
- *The Fixer* (2017), as Axel
- *Josephine, Pregnant & Fabulous* (2016), as Gilles
- *Underground Time* (2015), as Thibault
- *Happy Hour* (2015), as Nic
- *Witnesses* (2015), series, as Eric
- *Paare* (2015), series, as Patient
- *We Monsters* (2015), as Paul
- *Back on Track* (2013), as Gerome
- *My Husband, An Assassin* (2013), as Arie van Doorn
- *Josephine* (2013), as Gilles
- *11.6* (2013), as Officier police Monaco
- *Our Little Differences* (2013), as Herr Thalberg
- *Cookie* (2013), as Mathieu
- *Rue Mandar* (2013), as Simon
- *Visitors* (2013), as Studienberater
- *English Vinglish* (2012), as Laurent
- *Zappelphilipp* (2012), as Sebastian Sander
- *Big is Beautiful* (2012), as Dr. Hachemi, le médecin du centre
- *Die Chefin* (2012), series, as Cristian Farron
- *Special Forces* (2011), as Amin, Elsa's guide
- *Homeland* (2011), series, as Hussein — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/homeland.md)
- *Switch* (2011), as Stéphane Defer
- *Come trovare nel modo giusto l'uomo sbagliato* (2011), as Bruno
- *The Coming Days* (2010), as Vincent Sala
- *8:28 AM* (2010), as Alexander Frey
- *In Gold We Trust* (2010), as Norris
- *Times Change You* (2010), Actor
- *Myriam's choice* (2009), as Kader Baccouche
- *Secrets of State* (2008), as Ahmed
- *Long Shadows* (2008), as Talat
- *Body of Lies* (2008), as Nizar — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/body-of-lies.md)
- *Berlin Calling* (2008), as Jamal "The Junk"
- *Mark of an Angel* (2008), as Le policier
- *Hard* (2008), series, as Rémi Capelle
- *Ca$h* (2008), as Vincent
- *Rivals* (2008), as José
- *Fay Grim* (2007), as Islamic Cleric
- *GSG 9 - Ihr Einsatz ist ihr Leben* (2007), series, as Ishan Hamsa
- *Crime Insiders* (2007), as Hitcham
- *Verschleppt - Kein Weg zurück* (2006), as Tarik Al-Samirai
- *Running on Empty* (2006), as Rashid
- *Munich* (2005), as Ali Hassan Salameh — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/munich.md)
- *Spiral* (2005), series, as Mustapha Larbi — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/spiral.md)
- *Sleeper* (2005), as Farid Atabay
- *Vier Frauen und ein Todesfall* (2005), series, as Ahmet Reshani
- *Folgeschäden* (2004), as Tariq Slimani
- *Inga Lindström* (2004), series, as Paul Andersson
- *The miracle of Kaufbeuren* (2003), Editor
- *Under Suspicion* (2002), series, as Hamid Sherzad
- *The Making of Resident Evil* (2002), Editor
- *My Sweet Home* (2001), as Hakim
- *Roller Coaster* (1992), series, as Habib
- *Scene of the Crime* (1970), series, as Hassan Adub, Ali
- *North Pole*, Actor
- *Les Disparus des Argonnes*, series, as Jean Casanova

## Gallery

- ![Mehdi Nebbou](https://film.one/media/person/436146/gallery-b4cd346e5103.jpg) Mehdi Nebbou — Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d8/Mehdi_Nebbou_Cabourg_2013.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Mehdi Nebbou](https://film.one/media/person/436146/gallery-9263e2c152f3.jpg) Mehdi Nebbou — Image via TMDB
- ![Mehdi Nebbou](https://film.one/media/person/436146/gallery-e63cb87a462c.jpg) Mehdi Nebbou — Image via TMDB

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