Lyna Khoudri facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Lyna Khoudri
Khoudri in 2020
Born	(1992-10-03) 3 October 1992 (age 31) Algiers, Algeria
Nationality	Algerian-French
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2014–present

Lyna Khoudri (Arabic: لينا خضري, born 3 October 1992) is an Algerian-French actress. In 2017, she won the Orizzonti Award for Best Actress at the 74th Venice International Film Festival for The Blessed. In 2020, she won the César Award for Most Promising Actress for her performance in Papicha. In 2021, she portrayed a student activist in Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch. In 2023, Khoudri portrayed Constance Bonacieux in The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan and The Three Musketeers: Milady.

Early life

Khoudri was born in 1992 in Algiers, Algeria, to a journalist father and a violinist mother. When Khoudri was 2 years old, the family moved to Aubervilliers, France, as exiles following death threats due to the danger of her father's profession during the Algerian Civil War. At the age of 18, Khoudri acquired French citizenship.

Khoudri received her professional training at Théâtre national de la Colline.

Career

In 2014, Khoudri had her first acting role in the French television series Josephine, Guardian Angel.

In 2017, she won the Orizzonti Award for Best Actress at the 74th Venice International Film Festival for her performance in Sofia Djama's film The Blessed.

In 2019, she played Louna in six episodes of the Canal+ miniseries Savages, directed by Rebecca Zlotowski. That year, she also played Nedjma in Mounia Meddour's film Papicha, about a young Algerian woman who uses fashion as cultural resistance during the Algerian Civil War. Khoudri had Marion Cotillard as her Godmother for the César Awards Revelations dinner in January 2020. For her role in Papicha, she won the César Award for Most Promising Actress in February 2020.

In 2021, Khoudri played Juliette, a student activist and the girlfriend of Timothée Chalamet's character in Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch. Their storyline centers on a student riot. Khoudri attended the film's premiere at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival where it competed for the Palme d'Or.

In 2022, Khoudri played Samia in Cédric Jimenez's November, for which she was nominated for the César Award for Best Supporting Actress.

In 2023, Khoudri portrayed Constance Bonacieux, the love interest of D'Artagnan (portrayed by François Civil) in two French film adaptations of Alexandre Dumas' 1844 novel The Three Musketeers directed by Martin Bourboulon; The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan and The Three Musketeers: Milady. The same year, she co-starred with François Civil again in Romain Cogitore's romantic thriller A Place to Fight For (Une zone à défendre), the first French original film from Disney+, in which she played an environmental activist who falls in love with Civil's character, an undercover police officer.

Filmography

Feature films

Key

Denotes films that have not yet been released

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
2016	Polina	Elève Karl	Valérie Müller, Angelin Preljocaj
	Rageuses	Khalissa	Kahina Asnoun	Short film
2017	Les Roméos et Juliettes	Lyna	Baya Belal, Elyssa Smiri	Short film
	The Blessed (Les Bienheureux)	Feriel	Sofia Djama
	The Party's Over (La Fête est Finie)	Amel	Marie Garel-Weiss
	Luna	Chloé	Elsa Diringer
	Avaler des couleuvres	Souad	Jan Sitta	Short film
2018	Albertine a disparu	Albertine	Véronique Aubouy	Short film
2019	Fatiya	Fatiya	Marion Desseigne-Ravel	Short film
	Papicha	Nedjma	Mounia Meddour
	The Specials (Hors normes)	Ludivine	Nakache, OlivierOlivier Nakache, Toledano, ÉricÉric Toledano
	Republique: The Interactive	Lucie	Simon Bouisson
	The Breitner Commando (Qu'un sang impur…)	Assia Bent Aouda	Abdel Raouf Dafri
2020	The Spark (Brûle)	Maya	Elvire Munoz	Short film
	Gagarine	Diana	Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh
2021	Haute Couture	Jade	Sylvie Ohayon
	The French Dispatch	Juliette	Anderson, WesWes Anderson
	Secret Name	Nélie Laborde	Aurélia Georges
2022	Houria	Houria	Mounia Meddour
	November (Novembre)	Samia	Jimenez, CédricCédric Jimenez
2023	The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan	Constance Bonacieux	Martin Bourboulon
	A Place to Fight For (Une zone à défendre)	Myriam	Romain Cogitore
	The Three Musketeers: Milady	Constance Bonacieux	Martin Bourboulon
2024	The Empire (L'Empire)		Bruno Dumont
TBA	Roll	Farah	Loris Lai	Completed

Television

Awards and nominations

See also

In Spanish: Lyna Khoudri para niños