Mehdi Dehbi

Mehdi Dehbi (born 5 December 1985) is a Belgian actor and theatre director, known for his roles in (2009, English title: He is My Girl),, Le Fils de l'Autre (2012, English title: The Other Son), Mary Queen of Scots (2013), and A Most Wanted Man (2014). In 2020, he played the title role in the Netflix series Messiah.

Early life Mehdi Dehbi was born on 5 December 1985 in the in Liège, to a family of Tunisian origin. From the age of ten, Dehbi attended the theater and music school, which had been established in the hospital building where he had been born.

At the age of sixteen his first lead role in a feature film was in The Assassinated Sun, directed by Abdelkrim Bahloul and produced by the Dardenne brothers, for which he was nominated as Best Actor at the Joseph Plateau Awards.

Film

Television Year Title Role Director Notes 2007 Guillaume Luc Boland, André Chandelle... TV series (10 episodes) 2011 Issam Mourad Giacomo Battiato TV Movie Biarritz Film Festival - Golden Fipa for Best Actor 2014-15 Tyrant Abdul Gwyneth Horder-Payton, Michael Lehmann... TV series (11 episodes) 2020 Messiah Al-Masih James McTeigue & Kate Woods TV series (10 episodes)

Theatre Year Title Author Director 2007 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare John Baxter 2009 Terre Sainte Mohamed Kacimi Sophie Akrich 2009-10 Baïbars le mamelouk qui devint sultan Marcel Bozonnet Marcel Bozonnet 2010 Splendid's Jean Genet Cristèle Alves Meira 2011 Gare de l'Est Sophie Akrich Sophie Akrich 2012 Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare

Theatre directing