Salim Kechiouche

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Salim Kechiouche
Salim Kechiouche at the 2025 Locarno Film Festival 02.jpg
Kechiouche in 2025
Born (1979-04-02) 2 April 1979 (age 46)
Lyon, France
OccupationActor
Years active1996–present
Website www.salimkechiouche.com

Salim Kechiouche (born 2 April 1979) is a French actor.

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Early life

Kechiouche was born to Algerian parents in Lyon, France. At the age of 15, he was discovered by French actor and director Gaël Morel. Morel gave him his first role in a feature film, À Toute Vitesse (Full Speed), released in 1996. Kechiouche has acted in most of Morel's works, including Premières Neiges in 1999, 3 Dancing Slaves (Le Clan) in 2004 and After Him (Après lui) in 2007. He entered acting school and graduated in 2002.

Kechiouche now lives in Paris, dividing his time between cinema and the stage.

Career

Film and stage

In addition to Morel, Kechiouche has worked with other French directors such as François Ozon, as well as with non-French directors.

In 2003, Kechiouche played the role of Karim in Gigolo, directed by German director Bastian Schweitzer, opposite Amanda Lear. Kechiouche played a self-destructive gigolo trying to get his life back on track in the jet-set world of Paris. The film was nominated for a Golden Bear Award in the Best Short Film category at the 2005 Berlin International Film Festival.

Kechiouche has acted in short and feature films, plays and TV series. His movies include Grande École (2004), playing Mécir, and Le Clan (2004), released as Three Dancing Slaves in the U.S.. On stage in Paris, he played the role of Giuseppe Pelosi, the killer and lover of Pier Paolo Pasolini in Vie et Mort de Pier Paolo Pasolini , written by Michel Azama.

Kechiouche was kick boxing champion of France in 1998 and first runner-up in Thai boxing in 1999 and in 2002. His boxing skills were used in some of his films where he played a boxer, such as Les Amants Criminels , Archives De Nuit , Le Clan , Nos Retrouvailles , and when playing himself in the experimental film Cinématon .

He has appeared in full-frontal nude scenes in at least two films: in Francois Ozon's 1999 film, Les Amants Criminels , released as Criminal Lovers in the U.S. and a few years later, in Grande École . [1]

Modeling

Pierre et Gilles produced photographs and paintings related to Les Amants Criminels and for the play Vie et Mort de Pier Paolo Pasolini in 2003. Youssef Nabil and Michel Giliberti also created a dozen paintings in 2005 and 2006. Kechiouche appeared with French actress Julie-Marie Parmentier in the photo series Doppelgänger (2007) by French photographer Raphaël Neal.

Filmography

Feature film

YearFilmRoleNotes
1996 À Toute Vitesse JamelReleased as "Full Speed" in the USA
1999 Premières Neiges KacemDirected by Gaël Morel
1999 Les Amants Criminels SaïdReleased as "Criminal Lovers" in the USA
2004 Grande École Mécir
2004 Le Clan HichamReleased as Three Dancing Slaves in the USA
2007 L'Année Suivante NayibBy Isabelle Czajka
2007 Nos Retrouvailles KarimBy David Oelhoffen
2007 After Him (Après lui)SalimDirected by Gaël Morel
2009 The String BilalDirected by Mehdi Ben Attia
2013 Blue Is the Warmest Colour SamirDirected by Abdellatif Kechiche
2014ÊtreMohamedDirected by Fara Sene
2015 Noir KadhafiDirected by Yves Christian Fournier
2015VoyoucratieSamDirected by Fabrice Garçon and Kevin Ossona
2015Foreign BodyImedDirected by Raja Amari
2017 Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno TonyDirected by Abdellatif Kechiche
2019 Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo TonyDirected by Abdellatif Kechiche
2025 Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due TonyDirected by Abdellatif Kechiche
Qu'un sang impurpost-production

Short film

YearFilmRoleNotes
2004 Couscous Pour Tout Le Monde LucBy Vincent Pesci
2004 Pas Sans Moi Golden BoyExperimental short by Sandra Dalle
2005Gigolo (color version)
Archives De Nuit (black-and-white version)
KarimNominated for a Golden Bear Award at the 2005 Berlin International Film Festival
2005 Temps Morts or A Summer Afternoon SaïdBy Éléonore Weber
2005 Cinematon HimselfExperimental film by Gérard Courant - #2,102 in the collection
2006 Yasmina SofianeBy Vincent Pesci
2006 Er-radja, Le Retour HimselfDocumentary with the actor going back to his roots in Algeria

TV series

YearTitleEpisodeRole
2003MaloneLa Promesse de l'Ours
2004 Le Grand Patron En QuarantaineSami
2006 Préjudices Balle Perdue
2006Docudrama French and English La Grande Inondation Malik

Theatre

YearTitleDirectorNotes
2001A l'Ombre d'AmbreEdmonde FranchiRadio play for Radio France Lyon
2002Le Piqueur de MacadamEdmonde FranchiRadio play for Radio France Lyon
2002Lumières - Une TuerieJulien ColletRadio play for France Culture
2002Les Derniers Jours de l'Humanité Salvadora Parras By Karl Kraus
2003Vie et Mort de Pier Paolo Pasolini Jean Menaud Playing Giuseppe Pelosi
2005–2006 Le Centième Nom Stéphane Aucante By Michel Giliberti
2006 Les Grecs Gilbert Désveaux By Jean-Marie Besset
2006 Un Petit Pull Over Angora David Haddad David Haddad
2007 Rupture Entre Amis Frédéric Rondot Also written by Frédéric Rondot

References

  1. Nick Rees-Roberts French Queer Cinema , p. 28, at Google Books