Brice Bexter

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Brice Bexter
Born (1990-07-25) 25 July 1990 (age 33)
Lausanne, Switzerland
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Years active2017–present
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Brice Bexter (born 25 July 1990) is an actor. His films include Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears (2020) and Redemption Day (2021). He was named a 2020 Screen International Arab Star of Tomorrow. [1]

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Early life and education

Bexter was born in Lausanne, Switzerland to a French-Moroccan mother and a British father with paternal Czech-Jewish roots. [1] He is the grandson of painter Hassan El Glaoui, and the great grandson of Pasha Thami El Glaoui. [2] Bexter and his brother grew up in Rabat with their grandparents. [3] He attended the French school Lycée Descartes, where he participated in theatre. [4]

In 2007, at the age of 17, Bexter worked as stand-in on the set of Ridley Scott's Body of Lies . The following year, he worked as an extra on the set of the film Green Zone . After completing his baccalaureate, [5] Bexter took acting courses at the New York Film Academy and the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. He later graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Regent's University London in 2013 and a Master of Science from University College London (UCL) in 2016, both in Management. [6]

Career

In 2018, Bexter was cast as Captain Templeton in the 1920s-set Australian mystery film Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears , a spinoff of the ABC series Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries and adaptation of the novels by Kerry Greenwood. The film premiered at the 2020 Palm Springs International Film Festival and had a theatrical release later that year. Bexter also appeared in the independent film Greetings from ISIS opposite Ouidad Elma. [7]

Bexter went on to star as ambassador and counter-terrorism agent Younes Laalej in the 2021 action thriller film Redemption Day alongside Gary Dourdan, Serinda Swan, and Andy Garcia. [8] [9] This was followed by further film roles in the biopic Fatema, La Sultane Inoubliable as well as The Moderator in 2022. [10]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2017Carlos GustavoJustin
Leaving LegacyKaissShort film
2018L'effort d'AimerJéamShort film
2019Greetings from ISISAbu Youssef
2020 Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears Captain Templeton
2021 Redemption Day Younes Laalej
2022Fatema, La Sultane InoubliableMohamed
The ModeratorJawad
2023 Seneca – On the Creation of Earthquakes
TBAAtomanMokhtar
Dancing in the WindOliver Miller
The Lost PrincessOmar
A Song for JulietteMephistopheles

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
2019 Good Omens Secret Service AgentEpisode: "In the Beginning"
2022The EightMillerEpisode: "Adnan Al Kayal"
2023 Ghosts of Beirut TopherMiniseries
TBAGlow & DarknessHumphrey of ToronSeries

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