Nassim Lyes

Born June 3, 1988 in Nîmes, France, Nassim Lyes is a French actor of Algerian heritage who can most recently be seen starring in Xavier Gens' multi-lingual action thriller for StudioCanal, Farang (2023). Nassim can also recently be seen in Olivier Marchal's action feature Overdose (2022), Amazon's most viewed non-English language original content worldwide, and in the action-comedy En Passant Pécho (2021) from his original screenplay for Netflix. In television, Nassim starred alongside Sasha Baron Cohen in Gideon Raff's mini-series The Spy (2019) for Netflix and will next be seen in the upcoming season of HBO's Julia (2022).

Other notable credits include appearing in Philippe Lioret's Sixteen (2022), Sarah Adina Smith's English-language drama for Amazon, Birds of Paradise (2021), and The Last Mercenary (2021) alongside Jean-Claude Van Damme.

Next, Nassim will be seen teaming up with Xavier Gens again as the lead opposite Bérénice Bejo in Sharks, an event film for Netflix set around the 2024 Paris Olympics and revolving around sharks invading the Seine river. He is also the star and co-writer of the upcoming Netflix original comedy Cryptoshlag (2023).

Outside of film, Nassim has an extensive background in MMA/fighting and won a French national kick-boxing championship in the welterweight division.