--- name: "Reda Kateb" canonical: "https://film.one/person/reda-kateb" fi1m_id: "reda-kateb" imdb_id: "nm3024530" tmdb_id: 89626 wikidata_id: "Q3422822" roles: ["Actor"] born: "15 January 1977" reviewed_on_fi1m: 3 average_fi1m_score: 84 average_as: "actor" average_over: 3 updated: "2026-09-17T18:18:01.292667+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." --- # Reda Kateb ## Identity Reda Kateb - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/reda-kateb - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** reda-kateb - **IMDb ID:** nm3024530 - **TMDB ID:** 89626 - **Wikidata ID:** Q3422822 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reda_Kateb, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3422822, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3024530/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/89626 Actor. Born 15 January 1977 in Ivry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne, France. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 15 January 1977, Ivry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne, France - **Active:** 2005–2012 - **Average Fi1m score:** 84, as actor, over 3 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 86 (2), 2010s 80 (1) - **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 0 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 0 of 2 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Drama 3, Crime 2, Action & Adventure 1, Mystery 1, Thriller 1 - **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $151m across 2 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reda_Kateb, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3422822, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3024530/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/89626 ## Coming up - *Jupiter* (2026-11-18) ## Streaming the US now - **Apple TV:** [*Zero Dark Thirty*](https://film.one/film/zero-dark-thirty.md) (80) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Reda Kateb > Reda Kateb gives supporting characters a humanity that difficult films need. We value his quiet intensity, especially in *Zero Dark Thirty*, though the repeated outsider roles can make his work look narrower than the doctor and musician parts suggest. As Ammar in Kathryn Bigelow’s *Zero Dark Thirty* (2012), Reda Kateb plays a tortured detainee in a film largely occupied with the people pursuing Osama bin Laden. He gives the supporting part a humanity that the account of the hunt needs. We were troubled by the torture scenes, because their matter-of-fact staging makes suffering seem like routine work. Kateb keeps the person being hurt from becoming merely another stage in the investigation. *A Prophet* (2009) gave him his breakthrough as Jordi, working with Jacques Audiard. It is a prison drama we rate highly for its attention to power, despite plotting that sometimes grows too tidy. Tahar Rahim makes Malik’s education convincing; Kateb’s supporting presence belongs within that larger account of how people survive among those who control them. These early parts suit his quiet intensity, but they also explain the danger of being cast repeatedly as the outsider whose life the film only partly allows us to know. The move into *Hippocrates* (2014), as the doctor Abdel Rezzak, and then the lead in *Django* (2017), as Django Reinhardt, broadens that impression. A doctor and a jazz musician take him beyond the tough figures with whom he was first associated. *Django* also puts his physical and musical acting to use, giving us something to appreciate beyond the mystery that his quieter roles can suggest. Kateb is an actor we would watch for the supporting work before the leading roles. He gives damaged or marginalised people substance without insisting that every film stop to explain them, and that is particularly valuable in Bigelow’s tense, patient thriller. The caveat is that casting him repeatedly for toughness or mystery risks making the performances seem interchangeable before he has had a chance to do anything. Start with *A Prophet*, and pay attention to the people around Malik. ## Biography Reda Kateb is a French actor, director and screenwriter. He made his feature film debut as Jordi in *A Prophet* (2009), directed by Jacques Audiard. He has appeared in films including *Zero Dark Thirty* (2012), *Me, Myself and Mum* (2013), *Hippocrates* (2014), *Far from Men* (2015), *The Specials* (2019) and *The Wolf's Call* (2019). Kateb won the César Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in *Hippocrates*. He directed the short film *Pitchoune*, which screened in the Directors' Fortnight at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, and later directed the feature *Sur un fil* (2024). Kateb is the son of Algerian actor Malek-Eddine Kateb and a grandnephew of writer Kateb Yacine. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, allocine.fr.* ## On Fi1m (3) - *Zero Dark Thirty* (2012), Fi1m 80, as Ammar — [page](https://film.one/film/zero-dark-thirty.md) - *A Prophet* (2009), Fi1m 86, as Jordi — [page](https://film.one/film/a-prophet.md) - *Spiral* (2005), Fi1m 86, as Aziz — [page](https://film.one/tv/spiral.md) ## Complete filmography (57) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Jupiter* (2026), Actor - *The Money Maker* (2026), as Jan Bojarski - *Ticaret* (2025), series, as Narrator (voice over) - *Black to the Future* (2025), as Abdel Souya - *The Quiet Ones* (2024), as Slimani - *Sur un fil* (2024), Director, Screenplay - *The King of Algiers* (2023), as Omar - *Our Brothers* (2022), as Mohamed - *Promises* (2022), as Yazid Jabbi - *L'Amour flou* (2021), series, as Reda - *In Treatment* (2021), series, as Adel Chibane - *Possessions* (2020), series, as Karim - *The Specials* (2019), as Malik - *The Wolf's Call* (2019), as Grandchamp - *The Great Darkened Days* (2019), as Hector - *L'Amour flou* (2018), as Reda - *Close Enemies* (2018), as Driss, captain of the narcotics squad - *Submergence* (2018), as Saif - *Django* (2017), as Django Reinhardt - *Paris Prestige* (2017), as Nas - *The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez* (2016), as Man - *Sarah Winchester: Ghost Opera* (2016), as The stage director - *Stop Me Here* (2016), as Samson Cazalet - *The White Knights* (2015), as Xavier Libert - *Through the Air* (2015), as Vincent Cavelle - *Pitchoune* (2015), as Karim · Director - *Lost River* (2015), as Cab Driver - *Astragal* (2015), as Julien - *Far from Men* (2015), as Mohamed, prisoner - *Insecure* (2014), as Chérif - *Hippocrates* (2014), as Abdel Rezzak - *Ghosts in the Factory* (2014), as Narrator (voice) - *Fishing Without Nets* (2014), as Victor - *Kairos* (2014), as Atreyu - *Me, Myself and Mum* (2013), as Karim - *Gare du Nord* (2013), as Ismaël - *Paris Countdown* (2013), as Wilfried - *Les Petits Princes* (2013), as Reza - *Tied* (2013), as Le voisin dans l'avion - *Zero Dark Thirty* (2012), as Ammar — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/zero-dark-thirty.md) - *Three Worlds* (2012), as Franck - *The World Belongs to Us* (2012), as Zoltan - *This Path Ahead* (2012), as Le fils aîné - *Coming Home* (2012), as Vincent Maillard - *Treasure Island* (2012), series, as Dujon - *Treasure Island* (2012), as David Dujon - *Chase* (2011), as Le capitaine Martin - *Ink* (2010), as Romuald - *Lily Sometimes* (2010), as Seb - *Silent Voice* (2009), as Stéphane / Joseph - *A Prophet* (2009), as Jordi — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/a-prophet.md) - *Mafiosa* (2006), series, as Nader - *Spiral* (2005), series, as Aziz — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/spiral.md) - *Trouble-fête* (1964), Actor - *Check Me in Another Place*, Actor - *Si je tombe, tu tombes*, Actor - *Il registro*, Actor ## Gallery - ![Reda Kateb](https://film.one/media/person/100265/gallery-e714164373d6.jpg) Reda Kateb — Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Reda_Kateb-3271.jpg/1280px-Reda_Kateb-3271.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Beáta Palya, Cécile de France, Étienne Comar und Reda Kateb beim Photo Call zu Django bei der Berlinale 2017](https://film.one/media/person/100265/gallery-2d734c84b6ea.jpg) Beáta Palya, Cécile de France, Étienne Comar und Reda Kateb beim Photo Call zu Django bei der Berlinale 2017 — Maximilian Bühn, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Be%C3%A1ta_Palya%2C_C%C3%A9cile_de_France%2C_%C3%89tienne_Comar_und_Reda_Kateb_Photo_Call_Django_Berlinale_2017.jpg/1280px-Be%C3%A1ta_Palya%2C_C%C3%A9cile_de_France%2C_%C3%89tienne_Comar_und_Reda_Kateb_Photo_Call_Django_Berlinale_2017.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Cécile de France, Étienne Comar und Reda Kateb beim Photo Call zu Django bei der Berlinale 2017](https://film.one/media/person/100265/gallery-aba2336759fe.jpg) Cécile de France, Étienne Comar und Reda Kateb beim Photo Call zu Django bei der Berlinale 2017 — Maximilian Bühn, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/C%C3%A9cile_de_France%2C_%C3%89tienne_Comar_und_Reda_Kateb_Photo_Call_Django_Berlinale_2017_01.jpg/1280px-C%C3%A9cile_de_France%2C_%C3%89tienne_Comar_und_Reda_Kateb_Photo_Call_Django_Berlinale_2017_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Cécile de France, Étienne Comar und Reda Kateb beim Photo Call zu Django bei der Berlinale 2017](https://film.one/media/person/100265/gallery-811aa4ad46c2.jpg) Cécile de France, Étienne Comar und Reda Kateb beim Photo Call zu Django bei der Berlinale 2017 — Maximilian Bühn, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/C%C3%A9cile_de_France%2C_%C3%89tienne_Comar_und_Reda_Kateb_Photo_Call_Django_Berlinale_2017_02.jpg/1280px-C%C3%A9cile_de_France%2C_%C3%89tienne_Comar_und_Reda_Kateb_Photo_Call_Django_Berlinale_2017_02.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Pressekonferenz zu Django bei der Berlinale 2017](https://film.one/media/person/100265/gallery-c3cd1b609490.jpg) Pressekonferenz zu Django bei der Berlinale 2017 — Maximilian Bühn, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Pressekonferenz_Django_Berlinale_2017.jpg/1280px-Pressekonferenz_Django_Berlinale_2017.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Reda Kateb, Étienne Comar und Cécile de France bei der Pressekonferenz zu Django bei der Berlinale 2017](https://film.one/media/person/100265/gallery-0112317af356.jpg) Reda Kateb, Étienne Comar und Cécile de France bei der Pressekonferenz zu Django bei der Berlinale 2017 — Maximilian Bühn, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Reda_Kateb%2C_%C3%89tienne_Comar_und_C%C3%A9cile_de_France_Pressekonferenz_Django_Berlinale_2017_01.jpg/1280px-Reda_Kateb%2C_%C3%89tienne_Comar_und_C%C3%A9cile_de_France_Pressekonferenz_Django_Berlinale_2017_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) ## Awards ### Other awards — 1 won, 2 nominated - César Award for Best Actor 2020: César Award for Best Actor (nominated), for *The Specials* - César Award for Best Actor 2018: César Award for Best Actor (nominated), for *Django* - César Award for Best Supporting Actor 2015: César Award for Best Supporting Actor (won), for *Hippocrate* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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