Samir Guesmi Biography

Fast Facts

• In 2007, he won the Golden Bayard award at the Namur International Festival of French-Speaking Film
• In 2013, he was nominated for the César award for Best Supporting Actor
• Received the 2008 Grand Prix Award at the Grenoble Short Film Festival
• Best known for performing the character of Thomas Mézache in the television series “The Returned” from 2012 to 2015
• Won second place at the Chicago International Film Festival for his work on "C'est dimanche!"
• In 2008, he received the Audience Award at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
• He studied acting at the Studio Pygmalion, at the theater school Tania Balachova et at the theater school of Belle de mai in Marseille
• He grew up in an Algerian immigrant family of eight children, with a construction worker father and a childminder mother
• He performed the character of José Géraud in the French-Portuguese drama “The Young One” in 2016