Tahar Rahim

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).

Filmography (52 Appearances)

Les Misérables

Upcoming (2026)

L'incident

Prisoner

Smiling Hacker

Tahar l’étudiant

The Original+

Alpha

Grand Corps Malade au Zénith de Lille

Monsieur Aznavour

Madame Web

Napoleon

Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma

Extrapolations

Beau geste

Don Juan

Jacques Audiard, le cinéma à cœur

The Mauritanian

The Serpent

The Eddy

The Kindness of Strangers

Gloomy Eyes

Omar Sy, c'est ta chance

Treat Me Like Fire

Mary Magdalene

The Looming Tower

The Price of Success

Heal the Living

Daguerrotype

Quotidien

I Saved My Belly Dancer

The Last Panthers

The Anarchists

Santa Claus

The Cut

Samba

The Informant

Grand Central

The Past

Our Children

Black Gold

Free Men

Love and Bruises

Bref

The Eagle

You Never Left

Behind Bars

C à vous

A Prophet

La Commune

Inside

The Graham Norton Show

Burger Quiz

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