Nassim Lyes

Born June 3, 1988, in Nîmes, France, Nassim Lyes is one of those actors who just keeps popping up in the coolest projects. Algerian roots, French swagger, and honestly, the guy’s everywhere right now. If you caught Farang (2023)—that wild, multi-lingual action flick by Xavier Gens for StudioCanal—you’ve seen him do his thing. Or maybe you binged Overdose (2022), the high-octane ride from Olivier Marchal that blew up on Amazon, topping their charts as the most-watched non-English original. Not bad, huh? And then there’s En Passant Pécho (2021), an action-comedy for Netflix, based on his own screenplay. Like, he literally wrote himself into the madness. On the TV side, Nassim showed up alongside Sacha Baron Cohen in The Spy (2019), that tense Netflix mini-series from Gideon Raff—definitely worth a watch if you dig espionage drama. He’s also set to pop up in HBO’s Julia, which, let’s be real, is already getting buzz. But wait, there’s more: He had roles in Philippe Lioret’s Sixteen (2022), Sarah Adina Smith’s birds-of-a-feather drama Birds of Paradise (2021) on Amazon, and even got to trade quips with Jean-Claude Van Damme in The Last Mercenary (2021). Dude’s got range. Coming up, he’s re-teaming with Xavier Gens for Sharks, a Netflix event film about, well, sharks in the Seine during the Paris Olympics. Wild, right? Plus, he’s starring and co-writing Cryptoshlag (2023), a Netflix comedy. Oh, and outside the acting world? Former national kickboxing champ. This guy’s seriously got hands.