Hafsia Herzi (born 25 January 1987) is a Tunisian/French actress and film director of Tunisian and Algerian descent. She is best known for her debut role in the award-winning Franco-Tunisian feature The Secret of the Grain for which she won the award for most promising actress at the César Awards 2008, and the Marcello Mastroianni award, for best emerging actor/actress at the 64th Venice International Film Festival.

Contents

• 1 Life
• 2 Selected filmography
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Life

Herzi is of Tunisian descent from her father and Algerian from her mother, and is the youngest of a family of four children (two brothers and a sister, Dalila). After her parents' divorce, her father remarried in Algeria. Her mother lives in Marseille, where Herzi grew up.

On 29 November 2017, a driver with a private car transport company sued Herzi after receiving a series of SMS insults, including "dirty Arab", for events occurring during a trip. She pleaded not guilty as she claimed she used 'dirty Arab' as a tone of ironic meaning, however she has been known for acting hostile against Arabs. On 13 November 2019, she was found guilty of racial insults by the Paris Court of Appeal.

Selected filmography

References

External links

• Hafsia Herzi at IMDb
• 2009 Interview with Hafsia Herzi at Cineuropa.org
• Hafsia Herzi Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine Shooting Stars profile