Nadia Benzakour

Nadia Benzakour

Born and raised in Paris, Nadia Benzakour is an international French actress with North African roots, known for her work in Hollywood and international productions. Her ability to work in several languages including French, English, Spanish, and Arabic led her to build an international career. Recently she had to learn Kurdish for one of the leading characters in the second season of No Man's Land. Nadia is an international actress capable of playing lead roles in big-budget productions, TV productions, and Auteur films. She worked on French productions and international ones: the big-budget French production, "Zodi et Tehu, Frères du désert" / "Princes of the Desert" directed by Eric Barbier, and shared the lead with Alexandra Lamy and Youssef Hajdi on this French adventure movie. She interpreted the historical figure Poppea in the feature film "Seneca" directed by Robert Scwhentke, as part of an ensemble cast composed of John Malkovich, Mary Louise Parker, Geraldine Chaplin, Andrew Koji, and Louis Hoffman. Before, she was seen in the Cannes Film Festival sensation, "Sofia", the tv productions "The Tyrant", "Deep State" with Mark Strong, "Killing Jesus", "Open Desert", the History Channel TV Series "the Colosseum", " Covenant" directed by David Batty to name a few. Nadia Benzakour received her acting training in L.A., New York City and Paris. She studied at the prestigious Richard Lawson Studio in Los Angeles and Mary T.Boyer in New York City. In France, she studied Masks and Burlesque at the eminent Jacques Lecoq School. Nadia Benzakour studied also at "Les Enfants Terribles". This theater school is known for having as its members, the French superstar, Lea Seydoux. Nadia was also part of Nicolas Liautard's Theater company, based in Paris between 2005 and 2006 in la Scène Watteau. Nadia as a soprano, sang at the McDonald's Gospel Choir leading Cissy Houston (Witney Houston's mother) in New York City, and remains attached to Jazz standards as a singer. Very much interested in physicality, she learned Belly Dancing and Wing Shun with Mohamed Targuisti, the former World Champion in Martial Arts (JuJi Tsu), a Kung Fu expert trained at the Shaolin temple.

  • Title: Nadia Benzakour
  • Popularity: 1.27
  • Known For: Acting
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Nadia Benzakour Movies

  • 2023
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    Seneca: On the Creation of Earthquakes

    Seneca: On the Creation of Earthquakes

    5 2023 HD

    Rome in 65 AD, Emperor Nero's tyrannical regime has reached its zenith, Nero's self-indulgence and excessiveness brings up the opposition against...

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  • 2013
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    Open Desert

    Open Desert

    4.3 2013 HD

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  • 2023
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    Princes of the Desert

    Princes of the Desert

    7.1 2023 HD

    Zodi, a 12 years old nomad, find an orphan baby dromedary in the desert. He takes in the animal, feeds it, calls it Téhu and becomes its best...

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  • 2018
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    Sofia

    Sofia

    6.257 2018 HD

    Sofia, 20, lives with her parents in Casablanca. Suffering from pregnancy denial, she finds herself breaking the law by giving birth to a baby out of...

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  • 2012
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    Líbáš jako ďábel

    Líbáš jako ďábel

    4.9 2012 HD

    The ambulance doctor František moves away from his wife Bohuna to his new love Helena. She has been married for several years to the...

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  • 2004
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    Das Traumhotel

    Das Traumhotel

    6.2 2004 HD

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  • 2018
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    Deep State

    Deep State

    6.8 2018 HD

    What happens when a man who believes he has retired from MI6 is called back to do one more job to regain his life, only to discover that this job may...

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  • 2022
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    Colosseum

    Colosseum

    5.2 2022 HD

    This series brings the rise and fall of the Roman Empire to life through the lens of one of the most exhilarating and brutal arenas in the history of...

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  • 2022
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    Colisée, une histoire monumentale

    Colisée, une histoire monumentale

    1 2022 HD

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  • 2019
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    Exit

    Exit

    7.472 2019 HD

    Exit is based on the true stories of four men in their mid-30s, who all became multi-millionaires before the age of thirty. Attempting to escape from...

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  • 2020
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    No Man's Land

    No Man's Land

    6.8 2020 HD

    Dive into the depths of the Syrian civil war through the eyes of Antoine, a young French man, in search for his estranged, presumed to be dead...

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