Samy Naceri

Samy Naceri was born on Jul 02, 1961 in France. Samy Naceri's big-screen debut came with The French Revolution directed by Robert Enrico in 1989, strarring Extra (segment "Années Lumière, Les") (uncredited). Samy Naceri is known for Léon: The Professional directed by Luc Besson, Jean Reno stars as Leon and Gary Oldman as Stansfield. Samy Naceri has got 3 awards and 1 nominations so far. The most recent award Samy Naceri achieved is Cannes Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Samy Naceri plays is Redemption Day which will be released on Jan 08, 2021.

Samy Naceri is born in Paris from an Algerian father and a French mother. He grew up in the suburbs of Paris in a modest family of seven siblings.Since his youngest age, Samy dreamt about making movies. After many years of struggling and hard work, he will finally have a chance to meet a famous casting director (Bruno Delahaye) who will offer him is first big role (Nordine) in the movie « Rai » by Thomas Gilou.He won the awards of « Léopard de Bronze » in Locarno international film festival (Switzerland) for his interpretation in 1995, and the special mention for that same movie at the Paris Film Festival.From that moment, his career started.He won the Palm d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his performance in the movie « Indigènes » by Rachid Bouchareb in 2006.Samy Naceri is now based in Paris, Moscow and Los Angeles.