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Salim Kechiouche Profile |
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Birth Date: April 2, 1979
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Birth Place: Lyon, France
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Birth Name: Salim Kechiouche
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Biography |
Salim Kechiouche is a young French actor. He was born in
Lyon (France), on April 2, 1979.
While only 15 years old, he is first discovered by French
actor/director Gaël Morel. Morel gave him his first role in
a feature film in the movie À Toute Vitesse (Full Speed).
This movie was released in 1996. Since then, Salim
Kechiouche has played in most of Morel's works including
Premières Neiges in 1999, Le Clan (Three Dancing Slaves) in
2004 and, more recently in Après Lui. For his first movies,
while still a teenager, making movies is more or less just a
game. His experiences with Gaël Morel will gradually develop
his passion for acting and will push him to make it a
career. This is how he decides to enter theater school that
he will complete by 2002.
Over the years, he also worked under other directors such as
François Ozon, and with other new French directors.
In 2003, he plays Karim in Gigolo, directed by German
director Bastian Schweitzer, with Amanda Lear who plays a
star of the past having an affair with Karim, a gigolo
trying to get his life back on track, trapped into a spiral
of self-destruction in the artificial jet-set world in
Paris. This film was nominated in official competition for
the Golden Bear Award in the Best Short Film category at the
2005 Berlin International Film Festival.
Although he has played a few gay or bisexual characters
since he started his acting career, his portfolio of roles
now encompass a wide spectrum of characters in short and
feature films, plays and TV series. Among his movies, he was
particularly noticed in Grande École playing Mécir and also
in his role of Hicham in the movie Le Clan, released as
"Three Dancing Slaves" in the U.S. Both movies were released
in 2004. On stage, in Paris, he also 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.
He was once a boxing athlete and champion. He was kick
boxing champion in France in 1998 and also vice-champion in
thai boxing in 1999 and in 2002. His boxing talents were
used on a few occasions in some of his films where he played
a boxing athlete, notably in Les Amants Criminels, Archives
De Nuit, Le Clan, Nos Retrouvailles and when playing himself
in the Cinematon experiment.
Some artists - painters and photographs - have shown
interest and inspiration in exploiting his look and his
physiognomy since the beginning of his career. Among these
artists, Pierre et Gilles, for photographs and paintings
related to the movie Les Amants Criminels, released as
"Criminal Lovers" in the U.S. and for the play "Vie et Mort
de Pier Paolo Pasolini" in 2003. We can also name Youssef
Nabil in 2005 as well as Michel Giliberti - a French painter
and author - in 2006 who exploited the dark side of his
physiognomy through a dozen of paintings.
Salim Kechiouche now lives in Paris sharing his time between
cinema and theater. |
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