Nadia Benzakour

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Nadia Benzakour

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Nadia Benzakour is a French actress and screenwriter based in Paris. She is trilingual in French, English, and Arabic with an excellent practice of Spanish (no foreign accent).


She worked on many Hollywood/international projects such as Deep State, the Tyrant, No Man's Land, and Killing Jesus... 

She is in the second season of the HULU/ Arte TV series NO MAN'S LAND as a leading character for which she had to learn and play in Kurdish.

In 2023, she was in 2 feature films in Europe: a French epic movie named Princes of the Desert, (Lead role) directed by Eric Barbier (The Promise of the Dawn). 

She is the historical figure Poppea, in the movie Seneca starring John Malkovich, and directed by Robert Schwentke (Red film).

Seneca had its world premiere at the Berlinale- Special screenings. This movie has an ensemble cast: Andrew Koji (Bullet Train, Peaky Blinders),  Louis Hoffman (Dark), and the famous Geraldine Chaplin...

Between 2011 and 2022, she acted in Hollywood and European productions, such as the following series:
 'Deep State' with Mark Strong; 'the Tyrant'; 'Les Hommes de l'ombre' with Carole Bouquet; the French success The Bureau ('Le Bureau des Légendes'); Exit (Hit Norvegian tv series); Colosseum (History Channel tv series)
- and the feature films:
 'the Covenant' directed by David Batty; Sofia, Looking for Um Kulthum directed by Shirin Neshat, You kiss like a Devil...


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Nadia Benzakour
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Actor•French •
Place of residence Paris (FR), Casablanca (MA)
Genderfemale
Place of birthParis
Working permitsEuropean Union (EU-27)
Housing optionsTanger (MA), Casablanca (MA), Geneva (CH), Barcelona (ES)
Driver's licensesCar class
Eye colorhazel
Hair colordark brown
Height (cm)173
Weight (in kg)67
Ethnicity and heritageBlack, African American or Caribbean, Middle Eastern or North African, East or Southeast Asian, Mixed, White or Caucasian, South Asian or Central Asian, Hispanic, Latino/a/e or Latinex
Statureathletic-muscular, female, normal, athletic / training
LanguagesFrench(native)ArabicEnglishSpanish
DialectsMaghrebi Arabic(native dialect)
AccentsAfricanAmericanArabicAsianBelgianCorsicaEnglishFrenchIndianItalianPersian (Farsi/Dari)PortugueseSoutheastSpanishSwissWest Indies
InstrumentsPiano
SportBalletChinese martial artsKung fuMartial artsMountain bikePilatesQigongSwimmingTai chiWing chunYogaAerial yogaHorse riding
DanceAfro danceBachataBelly danceContact improvisationDiscoExpressionist danceFolk danceImprovisation danceLatin American dancesOriental danceSolo danceTechnoVideo clip dancingBollywood danceClassic danceModern dance
PitchMezzo-soprano
SingingChoirGospelA cappellaArabian singingBacking vocalsBalladBluesChoraleClassicFunkImprovisationJazzOldiesOpera singingOrientalPop songsSongSoul/RnBSprechgesangfolk song
Special skillsImprovisationSinger-songwriter
Training

Acting education and training in Paris, NYC, and L.A.

PARIS
"Enfants terribles" - Jean-Bernard Feitoussi (professor of Lea Seydoux) and François Tardieu /
- Scene Watteau with Nicolas Liautard
- Burlesque comedy and masks workshops at the Jacques Lecoq International School ( October 2018).

NEW YORK
Mary Boyer Studio (2006_2008): camera and on-stage work

LOS ANGELES
Richard Lawson Studios- Professional Development Programs 1 and 2 (2018 until 2021).