Dali Benssalah

ActivitiesActor

SecteurCinema

Biography

In 2012, Dali Benssalah left college and moved to Paris to focus on his acting career. In 2017, he revealed his talent in The Blaze’s clip, Territory. He then worked with Mabrouk El Mechri (Nox), Louis Garrel (A Faithful Man), Kery James and Leïla Sy (Street Flow) and Rebecca Zlotowski (the series Savages).
In 2021, he was among the cast of the latest James Bond, No Time to Die. He was next seen in 2022 in Yohan Manca’s My Brothers and I, selected for Un Certain Regard, Manuel Schapira’s Tropic of Violence and Romain Gavras’ Athena, in the Venice Film Festival selection.
In 2023, he will be seen in Ursula Meier’s The Line (Berlinale 2022), Jeanne Herry’s Je verrai toujours vos visages and The Last Queen by Damien Ounouri and Adila Bendimerad (presented in the Giornate degli Autori section of the Venice Film Festival).

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11 JANUARY 2023

10 to Watch 2023 : 10 new French talents to discover

They have been grabbing attention in recent months at the festivals of Berlin, Cannes, Venice, Toronto, New York, San Sebastián... They’ll be seen on screens around the world in 2023. They are the new faces of French cinema, and they are UniFrance's 10 to Watch 2023.

Unifrance is proud to to focus the spotlight on this new generation of directors, actors, and actresses, who contribute so fully to the effervescence of French cinematographic creation, and to encourage the distribution of their films beyond France’s borders.
Unifrance 10 to Watch 2022

Dali Benssalah, actor
Bastien Bouillon, actor
Davy Chou, director
Céline Devaux, director
Lyna Khoudri, actress
Paul Kircher, actor
Charlotte Le Bon, director
Annabelle Lengronne, actress
Rebecca Marder, actress
Nadia Tereszkiewicz, actress