Zineb Triki (; born 1980) is a French-Moroccan actress. She is known for her role as
Nadia El Mansour in the French television series ''
The Bureau''.
Zineb Triki was born in 1980 in
Casablanca
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, Morocco. She attended a French school, where she took up theatre and classical dance. She moved to
Paris
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at the age of 15 to attend high school.
She obtained a degree in political science from
McGill University
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in
Canada
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. She did an internship in UN headquarters in NY in 2003.
She obtained a master's degree in political science from the
Sorbonne University
Sorbonne University () is a public research university located in Paris, France. The institution's legacy reaches back to the Middle Ages in 1257 when Sorbonne College was established by Robert de Sorbon as a constituent college of the Unive ...
in Paris, then obtained another master's degree in audio-visual production in Paris.
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Zineb Triki began her acting career in earnest from 2009, with short roles in ''14h05'' and ''The Misadventures of Franck and Martha''. Her first film roles were in ''Deux fenêtres'' in 2013 and ''La Marche verte'' (2016).][ It was the TV series '' The Bureau'' that brought her to prominence with her role of Nadia El Mansour, who plays the love interest of the intelligence agent Guillaume Debailly (]Mathieu Kassovitz
Mathieu Kassovitz () is a French actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter. He has won three César Awards: Most Promising Actor for '' See How They Fall'' (1994), and Best Film and Best Editing for '' La Haine'' (1995). He also re ...
).
Her performance as Nassim's mother in the 2017 film ''De toutes mes forces
''De toutes mes forces'' is a 2017 French drama film directed by Chad Chenouga.
Plot
Nassim, a 16-year-old boy who is placed with a family in the suburbs following the death of his drug addict mother. But he refuses to integrate into the social ...
'' was described as "luminous, in this short and difficult role".
Filmography
Triki has performed in the following television series and films:Les grands esprits
''The Teacher'' (French: ''Les Grands Esprits'') is a 2017 French film written and directed by Olivier Ayache-Vidal in his feature-length directorial debut. It stars Denis Podalydès.
Synopsis
One day, when he declares that only an experienc ...
'' (Film) - Agathe
* 2019 : Attachè (Tv Series) - raåna
* 2020 : ''Homeland (TV series)
''Homeland'' (stylized as ''HOMƎLAND'') is an American espionage thriller television series developed by Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa. Based on the Israeli series '' Prisoners of War'' (, literally "Abductees"), it was created by Gideon Raf ...
'' - Judge Haziq Qadir
References
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1980 births
Living people
French actresses
Moroccan film actresses
Actresses from Casablanca
21st-century Moroccan actresses