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'''Adam Bessa''' (born 1992) is a French-Tunisian actor,<ref name="sd51222">{{Cite web |last=Aftab |first=Kaleem |date=5 December 2022 |title=Arab Stars of Tomorrow 2022: Adam Bessa, actor (Tunisia) |url=https://www.screendaily.com/features/arab-stars-of-tomorrow-2022-adam-bessa-actor-tunisia/5177130.article |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221205134521/https://www.screendaily.com/features/arab-stars-of-tomorrow-2022-adam-bessa-actor-tunisia/5177130.article |archive-date=5 December 2022 |website=[[Screen Daily]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://alternative-agency.com/talent/adambessa/adambessa-fr.html |title=Adam Bessa |access-date=6 December 2022 |website=Alternative Agency |language=French}}</ref> known for his roles in French and Hollywood productions such as Reda in ''[[The Blessed (2017 film)|The Blessed]]'' (2017), Kawa in ''[[Mosul (2019 action film)|Mosul]]'' (2019), soldier Yaz Kahn in [[Extraction (2020 film)|Extraction]] (2020), and Abbas Naziri in the [[Amazon Prime Video]] series ''[[Hanna (TV series)|Hanna]]''. For his performance in ''[[Harka (film)|Harka]]'' (2022), he won the [[Un Certain Regard|Un Certain Regard Award for Best Performance]] at the [[2022 Cannes Film Festival]].
'''Adam Bessa''' (born 1992) is a French-Tunisian actor,<ref name="sd51222">{{Cite web |last=Aftab |first=Kaleem |date=5 December 2022 |title=Arab Stars of Tomorrow 2022: Adam Bessa, actor (Tunisia) |url=https://www.screendaily.com/features/arab-stars-of-tomorrow-2022-adam-bessa-actor-tunisia/5177130.article |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221205134521/https://www.screendaily.com/features/arab-stars-of-tomorrow-2022-adam-bessa-actor-tunisia/5177130.article |archive-date=5 December 2022 |website=[[Screen Daily]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://alternative-agency.com/talent/adambessa/adambessa-fr.html |title=Adam Bessa |access-date=6 December 2022 |website=Alternative Agency |language=French}}</ref> known for his roles in French and Hollywood productions such as Reda in ''[[The Blessed (2017 film)|The Blessed]]'' (2017), Kawa in ''[[Mosul (2019 action film)|Mosul]]'' (2019), soldier Yaz Kahn in ''[[Extraction (2020 film)|Extraction]]'' (2020) and its [[Extraction 2|2023 sequel]], and Abbas Naziri in the [[Amazon Prime Video]] series ''[[Hanna (TV series)|Hanna]]''. For his performance in ''[[Harka (film)|Harka]]'' (2022), he won the [[Un Certain Regard|Un Certain Regard Award for Best Performance]] at the [[2022 Cannes Film Festival]].


==Biography==
==Biography==
Bessa was born in [[Grasse]],<ref name="grasse"/> France in 1992,<ref name="sd51222" /> to an Italian-Tunisian mother and a Tunisian father.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Adam Bessa, star of Harka, is building a diverse career |url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/film/adam-bessa-star-of-harka-is-building-a-diverse-career/news-story/7171335920b37847eb0bf0d3d16104e1 |website=[[The Australian]] |date=14 July 2022}}</ref> Bessa speaks French, Arab, English and Italian.<ref name="africine">{{Cite web |title=Adam Bessa |url=http://www.africine.org/personne/adam-bessa/51590 |access-date=6 December 2022 |website=Africiné |language=French}}</ref>
Bessa was born in [[Grasse]],<ref name="grasse"/> France in 1992,<ref name="sd51222" /> to an Italian-Tunisian mother and a Tunisian father.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Adam Bessa, star of Harka, is building a diverse career |url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/film/adam-bessa-star-of-harka-is-building-a-diverse-career/news-story/7171335920b37847eb0bf0d3d16104e1 |website=[[The Australian]] |date=14 July 2022}}</ref> Bessa speaks French, Arabic, English and Italian.<ref name="africine">{{Cite web |title=Adam Bessa |url=http://www.africine.org/personne/adam-bessa/51590 |access-date=6 December 2022 |website=Africiné |language=French}}</ref>


Bessa decided to quit law school and pursue his long-standing passion for cinema. He bought a few books on acting and started to teach himself.<ref name="sd51222" /> He studied at Jean Périmony,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Leroy |first=Joséphine |date=27 October 2022 |title=[LE NOUVEAU] Adam Bessa, intense révélation de « Harka » |url=https://www.troiscouleurs.fr/article/le-nouveau-adam-bessa |website=Trois Couleurs |language=French}}</ref> a theatre school in Paris from 2011 to 2012,<ref name="africine"/> but he didn't like the experience.<ref name="premiere">{{Cite web |first=Thierry |last=Cheze |title=Adam Bessa : « Harka m’a reconnecté à la Tunisie » |url=https://www.premiere.fr/Cinema/News-Cinema/Adam-Bessa--Harka-m-a-reconnecte-a-la-Tunisie- |website=[[Première (magazine)|Première]] |date=5 November 2022 |language=French}}</ref> What he proposed in the exercises was too "cinematic", and he was told that he showed too little and wasn't expressive enough, so he quit and went back to [[Marseille]] to work as a [[real estate agent]] and then as a [[fishmonger]], his other passion.<ref name="premiere"/> Some time later, a friend asked him to star in a short film.<ref name="premiere"/> He made his film debut in 2010 in ''Le Rapport Homme Femme'', directed by Olivier André.<ref name="africine"/> In 2013, he appeared in ''Les Mouettes'' by Claire Fontecave.<ref>{{Cite web |date=27 November 2017 |title=30es Rencontres Cinématographiques de Cannes |url=https://www.cannes-cinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/programme-RCC-2017.pdf |website=cannes-cinema.com |page=46 |language=French}}</ref> In 2015, he played Jason in the romantic thriller ''Of Sound Mind'', directed by Simon G. Mueller.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Of Sound Mind |url=https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/of-sound-mind-2015 |access-date=6 December 2022 |website=[[The A.V. Club]]}}</ref>
Bessa decided to quit law school and pursue his long-standing passion for cinema. He bought a few books on acting and started to teach himself.<ref name="sd51222" /> He studied at Jean Périmony,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Leroy |first=Joséphine |date=27 October 2022 |title=[LE NOUVEAU] Adam Bessa, intense révélation de " Harka " |url=https://www.troiscouleurs.fr/article/le-nouveau-adam-bessa |website=Trois Couleurs |language=French}}</ref> a theatre school in Paris from 2011 to 2012,<ref name="africine"/> but he didn't like the experience.<ref name="premiere">{{Cite web |first=Thierry |last=Cheze |title=Adam Bessa : " Harka m'a reconnecté à la Tunisie " |url=https://www.premiere.fr/Cinema/News-Cinema/Adam-Bessa--Harka-m-a-reconnecte-a-la-Tunisie- |website=[[Première (magazine)|Première]] |date=5 November 2022 |language=French}}</ref> What he proposed in the exercises was too "cinematic", and he was told that he showed too little and wasn't expressive enough, so he quit and went back to [[Marseille]] to work as a [[real estate agent]] and then as a [[fishmonger]], his other passion.<ref name="premiere"/> Some time later, a friend asked him to star in a short film.<ref name="premiere"/> He made his film debut in 2010 in ''Le Rapport Homme Femme'', directed by Olivier André.<ref name="africine"/> In 2013, he appeared in ''Les Mouettes'' by Claire Fontecave.<ref>{{Cite web |date=27 November 2017 |title=30es Rencontres Cinématographiques de Cannes |url=https://www.cannes-cinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/programme-RCC-2017.pdf |website=cannes-cinema.com |page=46 |language=French}}</ref> In 2015, he played Jason in the romantic thriller ''Of Sound Mind'', directed by Simon G. Mueller.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Of Sound Mind |url=https://www.avclub.com/film/reviews/of-sound-mind-2015 |access-date=6 December 2022 |website=[[The A.V. Club]]}}</ref>


In 2017, he starred as Reda in [[Sofia Djama]]'s ''[[The Blessed (2017 film)|The Blessed]]''. For his performance in the film, he was one of the young actors shortlisted to compete for the [[César Award for Most Promising Actor]], but he did not get the nomination.<ref>{{Cite web |date=15 November 2017 |title=Nekfeu présélectionné dans la catégorie "Meilleur espoir masculin" des César 2018 |url=https://www.radiofrance.fr/mouv/nekfeu-preselectionne-dans-la-categorie-meilleur-espoir-masculin-des-cesar-2018-5451990 |website=[[Radio France]] |language=French}}</ref> Bessa kept working as a fishmonger in Marseille even after starring in ''The Blessed'' because he did not want to settle in Paris, where he didn't feel good and was wasting away.<ref name="premiere"/> In 2019, he played police officer Kawa in the Arabic-language American war film ''[[Mosul (2019 action film)|Mosul]]'', directed by [[Matthew Michael Carnahan]] and based on the [[Battle of Mosul (2016–2017)|2016 Battle of Mosul]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.screendaily.com/reviews/mosul-venice-review/5142537.article |title='Mosul': Venice Review |work=[[Screen Daily]] |first=Lee |last=Marshall |date=4 September 2019}}</ref>
In 2017, he starred as Reda in [[Sofia Djama]]'s ''[[The Blessed (2017 film)|The Blessed]]''. For his performance in the film, he was one of the young actors shortlisted to compete for the [[César Award for Most Promising Actor]], but he did not get the nomination.<ref>{{Cite web |date=15 November 2017 |title=Nekfeu présélectionné dans la catégorie "Meilleur espoir masculin" des César 2018 |url=https://www.radiofrance.fr/mouv/nekfeu-preselectionne-dans-la-categorie-meilleur-espoir-masculin-des-cesar-2018-5451990 |website=[[Radio France]] |language=French}}</ref> Bessa kept working as a fishmonger in Marseille even after starring in ''The Blessed'' because he did not want to settle in Paris, where he didn't feel good and was wasting away.<ref name="premiere"/> In 2019, he played police officer Kawa in the Arabic-language American war film ''[[Mosul (2019 action film)|Mosul]]'', directed by [[Matthew Michael Carnahan]] and based on the [[Battle of Mosul (2016–2017)|2016 Battle of Mosul]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.screendaily.com/reviews/mosul-venice-review/5142537.article |title='Mosul': Venice Review |work=[[Screen Daily]] |first=Lee |last=Marshall |date=4 September 2019}}</ref>


In 2020, he played soldier Yaz Kahn in the American war film ''[[Extraction (2020 film)|Extraction]]'', directed by [[Sam Hargrave]].<ref name="sd51222" /> He will reprise his role in the upcoming sequel, ''[[Extraction 2|Extraction 2]]''.<ref name="sd51222" /> In 2021, he appeared as Abbas Naziri in 5 episodes of season 3 of the [[Amazon Prime Video]] series ''[[Hanna (TV series)|Hanna]]''.<ref name="africine"/>
In 2020, he played mercenary Yaz Kahn in the American war film ''[[Extraction (2020 film)|Extraction]]'', directed by [[Sam Hargrave]].<ref name="sd51222" /> He reprised his role in the 2023 sequel, ''[[Extraction 2]]''.<ref name="sd51222" /> In 2021, he appeared as Abbas Naziri in 5 episodes of season 3 of the [[Amazon Prime Video]] series ''[[Hanna (TV series)|Hanna]]''.<ref name="africine"/>


In 2022, he starred in three films: ''Azuro'' directed by Matthieu Rozé;<ref name="africine"/> ''Le Prix du passage'' directed by Thierry Binisti;<ref>{{Cite web |title=Le Prix du passage |url=https://filmfrancophone.fr/fr/programmation/les-avant-premieres/le-prix-du-passage |access-date=5 December 2022 |website=[[Angoulême Film Festival|Film Francophone d’Angoulême]]}}</ref> and the drama ''[[Harka (film)|Harka]]'' directed by Lotfy Nathan, for which he won the [[Un Certain Regard|Un Certain Regard Award for Best Performance]] at the [[2022 Cannes Film Festival]] for his performance as Ali Hamdi,<ref name="cannes2022">{{Cite web |date=28 May 2022 |title=Adam Bessa awarded Best Performance Prize at Cannes' Un Certain Regard |url=https://www.tap.info.tn/en/Portal-Culture-and-Media/15239128-adam-bessa-awarded |website=[[Tunis Afrique Presse|Agence Tunis Afrique Presse]]}}</ref> and was named as one of the Revelations of 2022 and pre-selected to compete for the [[César Award for Most Promising Actor]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Leffler |first=Rebecca |date=17 November 2022 |title=France’s Cesars reveals Revelations line-up of rising stars |url=https://www.screendaily.com/news/frances-cesars-reveals-revelations-line-up-of-rising-stars/5176604.article |website=[[Screen Daily]]}}</ref>
In 2022, he starred in three films: ''Azuro'' directed by Matthieu Rozé;<ref name="africine"/> ''Le Prix du passage'' directed by Thierry Binisti;<ref>{{Cite web |title=Le Prix du passage |url=https://filmfrancophone.fr/fr/programmation/les-avant-premieres/le-prix-du-passage |access-date=5 December 2022 |website=[[Angoulême Francophone Film Festival|Film Francophone d’Angoulême]]|date=13 June 2018 }}</ref> and the drama ''[[Harka (film)|Harka]]'' directed by Lotfy Nathan, for which he won the [[Un Certain Regard|Un Certain Regard Award for Best Performance]] at the [[2022 Cannes Film Festival]] for his performance as Ali Hamdi,<ref name="cannes2022">{{Cite web |date=28 May 2022 |title=Adam Bessa awarded Best Performance Prize at Cannes' Un Certain Regard |url=https://www.tap.info.tn/en/Portal-Culture-and-Media/15239128-adam-bessa-awarded |website=[[Tunis Afrique Presse|Agence Tunis Afrique Presse]]}}</ref> and was named as one of the Revelations of 2022 and pre-selected to compete for the [[César Award for Most Promising Actor]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Leffler |first=Rebecca |date=17 November 2022 |title=France's Cesars reveals Revelations line-up of rising stars |url=https://www.screendaily.com/news/frances-cesars-reveals-revelations-line-up-of-rising-stars/5176604.article |website=[[Screen Daily]]}}</ref>


Bessa will next star in [[Meryam Joobeur]]'s ''Motherhood'', a film about a mother and daughter in an isolated Tunisian village.<ref name="sd51222" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Lavallée |first=Eric |date=20 June 2022 |title=A Bond That Breaks: Meryam Joobeur’s “Motherhood” Readying For Festival Launch in ’23 |url=https://www.ioncinema.com/news/foreign-film-news/meryam-joobeur-motherhood-2023 |website=Ioncinema}}</ref>
Bessa will next star in [[Meryam Joobeur]]'s ''[[Who Do I Belong To]] (Mé el Aïn)'', a film about a mother and daughter in an isolated Tunisian village.<ref name="sd51222" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Lavallée |first=Eric |date=20 June 2022 |title=A Bond That Breaks: Meryam Joobeur's "Motherhood" Readying For Festival Launch in '23 |url=https://www.ioncinema.com/news/foreign-film-news/meryam-joobeur-motherhood-2023 |website=Ioncinema}}</ref>


==Filmography==
==Filmography==
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| <ref>{{Cite web |last=Ntim |first=Zac |date=8 December 2022 |title=Red Sea Film Festival Winners: ‘Hanging Gardens’ By Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji Takes Best Film Award |url=https://deadline.com/2022/12/red-sea-film-festival-winners-hanging-gardens-wins-best-film-1235193710/ |website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]}}</ref>
| <ref>{{Cite web |last=Ntim |first=Zac |date=8 December 2022 |title=Red Sea Film Festival Winners: 'Hanging Gardens' By Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji Takes Best Film Award |url=https://deadline.com/2022/12/red-sea-film-festival-winners-hanging-gardens-wins-best-film-1235193710/ |website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]}}</ref>
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| <ref>{{Cite web |title=Nominations 2023 {{!}} Paris Film Critics Association |url=https://www.parisfilmcritics.com/%C3%A0-propos-de-nous |access-date=10 February 2023 |website=Paris Film Critics Association}}</ref>
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Latest revision as of 19:18, 6 April 2024

Adam Bessa
Bessa at the 2024 Berlinale
Born1992 (age 31–32)
Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes, France[1]
Nationality
  • French
  • Tunisian
OccupationActor
Years active2010–present

Adam Bessa (born 1992) is a French-Tunisian actor,[2][3] known for his roles in French and Hollywood productions such as Reda in The Blessed (2017), Kawa in Mosul (2019), soldier Yaz Kahn in Extraction (2020) and its 2023 sequel, and Abbas Naziri in the Amazon Prime Video series Hanna. For his performance in Harka (2022), he won the Un Certain Regard Award for Best Performance at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.

Biography

[edit]

Bessa was born in Grasse,[1] France in 1992,[2] to an Italian-Tunisian mother and a Tunisian father.[4] Bessa speaks French, Arabic, English and Italian.[5]

Bessa decided to quit law school and pursue his long-standing passion for cinema. He bought a few books on acting and started to teach himself.[2] He studied at Jean Périmony,[6] a theatre school in Paris from 2011 to 2012,[5] but he didn't like the experience.[7] What he proposed in the exercises was too "cinematic", and he was told that he showed too little and wasn't expressive enough, so he quit and went back to Marseille to work as a real estate agent and then as a fishmonger, his other passion.[7] Some time later, a friend asked him to star in a short film.[7] He made his film debut in 2010 in Le Rapport Homme Femme, directed by Olivier André.[5] In 2013, he appeared in Les Mouettes by Claire Fontecave.[8] In 2015, he played Jason in the romantic thriller Of Sound Mind, directed by Simon G. Mueller.[9]

In 2017, he starred as Reda in Sofia Djama's The Blessed. For his performance in the film, he was one of the young actors shortlisted to compete for the César Award for Most Promising Actor, but he did not get the nomination.[10] Bessa kept working as a fishmonger in Marseille even after starring in The Blessed because he did not want to settle in Paris, where he didn't feel good and was wasting away.[7] In 2019, he played police officer Kawa in the Arabic-language American war film Mosul, directed by Matthew Michael Carnahan and based on the 2016 Battle of Mosul.[11]

In 2020, he played mercenary Yaz Kahn in the American war film Extraction, directed by Sam Hargrave.[2] He reprised his role in the 2023 sequel, Extraction 2.[2] In 2021, he appeared as Abbas Naziri in 5 episodes of season 3 of the Amazon Prime Video series Hanna.[5]

In 2022, he starred in three films: Azuro directed by Matthieu Rozé;[5] Le Prix du passage directed by Thierry Binisti;[12] and the drama Harka directed by Lotfy Nathan, for which he won the Un Certain Regard Award for Best Performance at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival for his performance as Ali Hamdi,[13] and was named as one of the Revelations of 2022 and pre-selected to compete for the César Award for Most Promising Actor.[14]

Bessa will next star in Meryam Joobeur's Who Do I Belong To (Mé el Aïn), a film about a mother and daughter in an isolated Tunisian village.[2][15]

Filmography

[edit]

Feature films

[edit]
Year Title Role Director
2010 Le Rapport Homme Femme Olivier André
2013 Les Mouettes Claire Fontecave
2015 Of Sound Mind Jason Simon G. Mueller
2017 The Blessed Reda Sofia Djama
2019 Mosul Kawa Matthew Michael Carnahan
2020 Extraction Yaz Kahn Sam Hargrave
2021 Haute Couture Abdel Sylvie Ohayon
2022 Azuro Kosta Matthieu Rozé
Harka Ali Hamdi Lotfy Nathan
Le Prix du passage Walid Thierry Binisti
2023 Extraction 2 Yaz Kahn Sam Hargrave
2024 Who Do I Belong To (Mé el Aïn) Bilal Meryam Joobeur

Short films

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Year Title Role Director
2014 La Stravaganza Louis Vanya Chokrollahi
2015 Elles s'appellent toutes Marie The musician James Down

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
2011 Josephine, Guardian Angel Bilal Bouazid TV series; 1 episode
2020 Amours solitaires Simon Web-series, 1 episode
2021 Hanna Abbas Naziri TV series, season 3, 5 episodes

Theatre

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Year Title Director Notes Ref.
2014 César et Rosalie Anne-Marie Philippe Théâtre des déchargeurs [5]
2016 Requiem Pour de Faux Claire Fontecave [5]

Awards and nominations

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Year Award / Festival Category Work Result Ref(s)
2022 Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard Award for Best Performance Harka Won [13]
Saint-Jean-de-Luz Film Festival Best Male Performance Won [16]
Red Sea International Film Festival Best Actor Won [17]
2023 Lumières Award Best Male Revelation Nominated [18]
Paris Film Critics Association Best Young Actor Nominated [19]

References

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  1. ^ a b Duponchel, Marilou (4 November 2022). "La trajectoire tourmentée d'Adam Bessa, l'acteur lumineux de "Harka"". Les Inrockuptibles (in French).
  2. ^ a b c d e f Aftab, Kaleem (5 December 2022). "Arab Stars of Tomorrow 2022: Adam Bessa, actor (Tunisia)". Screen Daily. Archived from the original on 5 December 2022.
  3. ^ "Adam Bessa". Alternative Agency (in French). Retrieved 6 December 2022.
  4. ^ "Adam Bessa, star of Harka, is building a diverse career". The Australian. 14 July 2022.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g "Adam Bessa". Africiné (in French). Retrieved 6 December 2022.
  6. ^ Leroy, Joséphine (27 October 2022). "[LE NOUVEAU] Adam Bessa, intense révélation de " Harka "". Trois Couleurs (in French).
  7. ^ a b c d Cheze, Thierry (5 November 2022). "Adam Bessa : " Harka m'a reconnecté à la Tunisie "". Première (in French).
  8. ^ "30es Rencontres Cinématographiques de Cannes" (PDF). cannes-cinema.com (in French). 27 November 2017. p. 46.
  9. ^ "Of Sound Mind". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 6 December 2022.
  10. ^ "Nekfeu présélectionné dans la catégorie "Meilleur espoir masculin" des César 2018". Radio France (in French). 15 November 2017.
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