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Walid Afkir

Acting Born Sep 2, 1982 Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, France 24 credits

Biography

Walid Afkir born September 2, 1982 in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis is a Franco-Moroccan actor and screenwriter.

His father, Brahim Foudili, arrived in France in the 1960s. Very involved in the FLN, he owned and managed a hotel in Montreuil where he welcomed the newly arrived Algerian diaspora. His mother, Fattouma Afkir, meanwhile, from a family from the city of Ouarzazate was born in Mohammedia in Morocco, she arrived in France in August 1963 at the age of 17. She does odd jobs as a nanny, a cleaning lady or even an usher at the Kinopanorama cinema in the 15th arrondissement of Paris. His talents as a cook allow him to work with great celebrities of French fashion and cinema such as designer Hilton McConnico, decorator Carlos Conti or even the director of Pédale Douce Gabriel Aghion. She ended her career as sous-chef at the Concorde Lafayette Hotel where she retired in 2006.

Walid Afkir is the youngest of a family made up of two brothers and a sister. He grew up in the Boissière district of Montreuil where he spent his childhood there. At the age of 15, after the death of his father, he decides to stop his schooling and enters the world of work by becoming a pizza delivery boy.

At 17, he was spotted during a wild casting by Elsa Pharaon for a feature film project. Very quickly his profile seduces other professionals like Kris de Bellair, casting director who will offer him his first role in "Unknown Code" by Michael Haneke. Film in which Walid performs a scene alongside Juliette Binoche. This sequence shot even becomes the trailer for the film presented in the Official Selection of the 2000 Cannes Film Festival; this is moreover what reveals it to the general public.

He will be nominated for the César in 2006 in the Best Male Newcomer category, for the film "Hidden" by Michael Haneke.

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Known for

Lupin

as Kad

Sons and Daughters

as Le mauvais garçon (segment "Place des Fetes")
Film

Amour

as Paramedic #2
Film

Street Flow

as Young man on the bus
Film

Caché

as Majid's Son

Full filmography

  • Lupin (2021) as Kad
  • The Brigade (2023) as Rachid El Hassani
  • Paris Je T'aime (2006) as Le mauvais garçon (segment "Place des Fetes")
  • Amour (2012) as Paramedic #2
  • Street Flow (2019) as Young man on the bus
  • Caché (2005) as Majid's Son
  • They Were Ten (2021) as Sammy
  • Burn Out (2018) as Farid
  • Code Unknown (2000) as The Young Arab
  • Thicker Than Water (2023) as Mayo
  • Let the Sunshine In (2017) as Taxi Driver
  • Fahim (2019) as Hotel manager
  • Kandisha (2022) as Rector
  • The Three Kings (2001) as Jo
  • Neuilly-Poissy (2024) as Razis
  • The Good Teacher (2024) as Omar
  • A Short Trip (2023)
  • Stand Up Girl (2017) as Brams
  • The Price of Success (2017) as Le Fâcheux
  • Promises (2022) as Kamel
  • On the Sly (2018) as Younes
  • A Son (2004) as Aggressor
  • The Faithful Son (2017) as Mustapha
  • La chute des hommes (2016) as Ammar