Born in January 1987 in the south of France, Hafsia Herzi is one of cinema’s rising stars. Having always dreamed of becoming an actress, she landed her first role alongside Thomas Jouannet in Notes sur le rire, a television film broadcast on France 3. Despite several unsuccessful auditions, she persevered and achieved her breakthrough in 2005 with her role in Abdellatif Kechiche’s La Graine et le Mulet. Her performance, which required a demanding physical transformation and intensive dance training, earned her the Marcello Mastroianni Award at the 64th Venice Film Festival, followed by the César Award for Most Promising Actress in 2008. After this early success, she moved to Paris, where her career truly took off. In 2025, Herzi won the César Award for Best Actress for her role in Stéphane Demoustier’s Borgo. That same year, she presented La Petite dernière in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival, a film she directed and adapted from Fatima Daas’s autobiographical novel, leaving audiences eager to see what she does next.
