Reda Kateb | |
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Kateb at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival
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Born |
Ivry-sur-Seine, France |
27 July 1977
Nationality | French Algerian |
Occupation | Actor, Film director, Screenwriter |
Years active | 2003–present |
Reda Kateb (Arabic: رضا كاتب; born 27 July 1977) is a French actor.
Kateb was born in Ivry-sur-Seine, France, to an Algerian actor, Malek-Eddine Kateb, and a French nurse of Czech and Italian origin. He is a grandnephew of the Algerian writer Kateb Yacine. He grew up in Ivry-sur-Seine, in the Paris region, where he lived until 2011 before moving to Montreuil.
His short film Pitchoune was presented in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.