
Tahar Rahim
Department: Acting
Biography
Tahar Rahim (born 4 July 1981) is a French actor. His breakthrough performance was in the 2009 French film A Prophet, for which he won the César Award for Best Actor and Most Promising Actor. He has since starred as FBI agent Ali Soufan in the miniseries The Looming Tower and Judas in the film Mary Magdalene (both 2018). garnered critical acclaim and nominations for the Golden Globe Award and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for portraying Mohamedou Ould Salahi in The Mauritanian (2021). He received another Golden Globe Award nomination for portraying Charles Sobhraj in the miniseries The Serpent (2021).
Known For

A Prophet
2009

Smiling Hacker
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Monsieur Aznavour
2024

Inside
2007

Love and Bruises
2011

Free Men
2011

Black Gold
2011

Our Children
2012

The Past
2013

Grand Central
2013

The Informant
2013

The Cut
2014

Madame Web
2024

The Eagle
2011

Samba
2014

Omar Sy, c'est ta chance
2018

Tahar l’étudiant
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Santa Claus
2014

Napoleon
2023

The Anarchists
2015

Daguerrotype
2016

Alpha
2025

Heal the Living
2016

Mary Magdalene
2018

The Price of Success
2017

Treat Me Like Fire
2018

The Kindness of Strangers
2019

The Mauritanian
2021

You Never Left
2010

I Saved My Belly Dancer
2016

Behind Bars
2010

Jacques Audiard, le cinéma à cœur
2021

Gloomy Eyes
2019

Don Juan
2022

Les Misérables
2026

Grand Corps Malade au Zénith de Lille
2024

L'incident
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The Original+
2025

The Graham Norton Show
2007

Extrapolations
2023

Extrapolations
2023

Bref
2011

The Last Panthers
2015

The Looming Tower
2018

La Commune
2007

Cérémonie des César
1976

Beau geste
2023

The Serpent
2021

Burger Quiz
2001

The Eddy
2020

Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma
2023

Quotidien
2016

C à vous
2009

The Eddy
2020

Prisoner
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