---
name: "Nahel Tzegai"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/nahel-tzegai"
fi1m_id: "nahel-tzegai"
imdb_id: "nm9057222"
tmdb_id: 3063992
wikidata_id: "Q120088780"
roles: ["Actor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T03:09:55.252057+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."
---

# Nahel Tzegai

## Identity

Nahel Tzegai

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/nahel-tzegai
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** nahel-tzegai
- **IMDb ID:** nm9057222
- **TMDB ID:** 3063992
- **Wikidata ID:** Q120088780
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q120088780, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9057222/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3063992

Actor. Born in Saudi Arabia.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q120088780, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9057222/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3063992

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*The Swimmers*](https://film.one/film/the-swimmers.md) (66)

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## Biography

Nahel Tzegai is a British actor born in Saudi Arabia. She trained at the Identity School of Acting and began her career in community theatre before joining the Roundhouse Theatre Company. She has also performed stand-up comedy.

Her stage credits include original cast roles in *The Jungle* (Young Vic, West End, St Ann’s Warehouse New York) and *Grenfell: In the Words of Survivors*. Screen work includes Shada in *The Swimmers* (2022) and Cuba in the forthcoming *Cold Storage* (2026).

Tzegai received the Norman Beaton Fellowship Prize and was selected for BAFTA Elevate. She was also chosen for the Royal Court Theatre’s New Writers Programme.

*Sources: imdb.com, curtisbrown.co.uk, broadwayworld.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Swimmers* (2022), Fi1m 66, as Shada — [page](https://film.one/film/the-swimmers.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

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

- *Cold Storage* (2026), as Cuba
- *Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes* (2025), series, as Yeshi Girma
- *The Calm* (2025), as Riley
- *National Theatre at Home: Grenfell: In the Words of Survivors* (2023), as Turuft Yilma
- *Fine Dining* (2023), as Fatima
- *Silo* (2023), series, as Randy — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/tv/silo.md)
- *The Swimmers* (2022), as Shada — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/the-swimmers.md)
- *A Birthday Party* (2022), as Aisha
- *Miracle Workers* (2019), series, as Marla

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