Youssef Hajdi

Youssef Hajdi

Born: June 8, 1979
in Tarascon, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Youssef Hajdi, born June 8, 1979 in Tarascon, is a French actor.

Born in Tarascon in Bouches-du-Rhône to Moroccan parents, he grew up in Beaucaire. He went to Paris at age 20, where he worked in cafe-theatre and at the théâtre de l’Avancée. Then from 2002 to 2005, he studied acting with Jack Waltzer, a lifetime member of the Actors Studio.

His first film role was in 13 m² by Barthélémy Grossmann, which earned him a 2008 nomination for the Césars award in 2008. He acted in Les Aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec by Luc Besson and in Micmacs à tire-larigot by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. In 2012, he joined Omar Sy and Laurent Lafitte in De l'autre côté du périph, a film by David Charhon. As well, he appeared with Éric Judor in the film Mohamed Dubois by Ernesto Ona in 2013.

In 2014, he acted in La Dernière Échappée, a film by Fabien Onteniente, in which Hajdi played Eddy Clavel, a doctor who treated Laurent Fignon (Samuel Le Bihan). In 2015, he did voice acting for the animated film Pourquoi j'ai pas mangé mon pèreby Jamel Debbouze.

Source: Article "Youssef Hajdi" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Like a Prince
Title: Like a Prince
Released: January 17, 2024
Type: Movie
Souleyman, 27, a boxing champion in full preparation for the Olympic Games with the French team, sees his future crumble when he cracks the bones of his hand, following a fight in a bar. Souleyman is excluded from the team and is sent to the Château de Chambord, where he must perform his 400 hours of community service (TIG) collecting waste in the gardens.
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New Beginnings
Title: New Beginnings
Character: Erwan
Released: September 27, 2023
Type: Movie
Alain and Diane have been together for 30 years. In his mind, Alain is still 30 years old. But the equation 30 years of routine feelings, empty nest (and incidentally a job where being 50 is like an incurable disease) creates a much less euphoric effect for Diane. She oscillates between depression and free fall - and the first one who says "hormonal" she smokes. Alain loves Diane like crazy and love is proof. He's going to do something crazy for her, something to make her feel vital again, to make her heart beat and youthfulness pulsate. The crazy thing? Leave her. The risk with electroshock ? Unknown: either it wakes up or it burns. They will take it, with their eyes closed.
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Title: Rictus
Released: September 14, 2023
Type: TV
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Title: Kôkôrikô !
Character: Journaliste Auto
Released: July 19, 2023
Type: TV
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Petit Jésus
Title: Petit Jésus
Character: Hakim
Released: July 12, 2023
Type: Movie
Jean, a father recently separated, is facing a lot of difficulties. But his life may will change because he thinks his 10 years old son Loulou, do wonders. With a bit of luck... he could be a new messiah ! Jean has just to convince everybody else.
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Gold Brick
Title: Gold Brick
Character: Ange
Released: July 6, 2023
Type: Movie
Determined to even the scales and profit from his thankless job, a factory worker schemes to traffic luxury perfumes from under his employer's nose.
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Title: L'Incroyable Embouteillage
Character: Grégoire/Dj Putsch
Released: July 4, 2023
Type: TV
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Princes of the Desert
Title: Princes of the Desert
Character: Tarek
Released: February 8, 2023
Type: Movie
Zodi, a 12 years old nomad, find an orphan baby dromedary in the desert. He takes in the animal, feeds it, calls it Téhu and becomes its best friend.
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Bam’s
Title: Bam’s
Character: Hakim
Released: November 14, 2022
Type: Movie
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Tous Inconnus
Title: Tous Inconnus
Character: ("Télémagouilles" segment)
Released: November 14, 2022
Type: Movie
The three "Unknown" are back in this movie where they wake up in a world where they really are unknown! They'll eventually find out that their career, films, sketches & songs do exist but from someone else!
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Bigbug
Title: Bigbug
Character: Victor Barelli
Released: February 11, 2022
Type: Movie
Set in the world of 2045, where communities have robotic helpers, a group of suburbanites are locked in for their protection by their household robots, while a rogue, self-aware AI android revolt uprising takes place outside.
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C'est la vie
Title: C'est la vie
Character: Nathan Laval
Released: December 30, 2020
Type: Movie
Five women are about to give birth. They do not know each other, are not alike, but will find themselves in the same maternity to live the best day of their lives. The first contractions at birth, the film traces their journey, between laughter and tears.
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Title: La Flamme
Character: Orchidée
Released: October 12, 2020
Type: TV
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Brutus vs Cesar
Title: Brutus vs Cesar
Character: Vercingétorix
Released: September 18, 2020
Type: Movie
Faced with the tyranny of Caesar who acts as absolute master over Rome, Senators Rufus and Cassius form a plot to assassinate him.
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Apprendre à t'aimer
Title: Apprendre à t'aimer
Character: Zack
Released: September 8, 2020
Type: Movie
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Divorce Club
Title: Divorce Club
Character: Helmut
Released: July 14, 2020
Type: Movie
After 5 years of marriage, Ben is still madly in love. Until the day he discovers in public that his wife is cheating on him: humiliated and dumped in the process.
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Title: All the Way Up
Character: Nabil
Released: March 20, 2020
Type: TV
A talented young rapper, supported by his two childhood friends, finds himself overnight "validated" by one of the stars in the business. Only, this alliance quickly turns into a dangerous rivalry ...
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Ne demande pas ton chemin
Title: Ne demande pas ton chemin
Character: Dr. Demay
Released: October 12, 2019
Type: Movie
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Peplum: la folle histoire du mariage de Cléopâtre
Title: Peplum: la folle histoire du mariage de Cléopâtre
Character: Mato
Released: July 30, 2019
Type: Movie
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Deerskin
Title: Deerskin
Character: Olaf
Released: June 19, 2019
Type: Movie
A man's obsession with owning the designer deerskin jacket of his dreams leads him to turn his back on his humdrum life in the suburbs, blow his life savings, and even turn him to crime.
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Title: Mouche
Character: Conseiller bancaire
Released: June 3, 2019
Type: TV
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Adopt a Daddy
Title: Adopt a Daddy
Character: Marco
Released: March 6, 2019
Type: Movie
Damien is a pawn in a primary school, and leads a quiet life. To rescue one of his young students, Bahzad, and his mother from imminent expulsion from the land, Damien reconnects with his parents' militant past and convinces his sister Mélanie, who has become a formidable business lawyer, her best friend Rudy and a bunch of unlikely pals to accompany him in his new fight. Together, they will break the law by solidarity. And very quickly to be completely exceeded.
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Title: Disturbing Disappearances
Character: Alaoui
Released: February 27, 2019
Type: TV
A school excursion to Strasbourg Cathedral turns into a tragedy when a teacher is murdered in the cathedral square and nine children disappear.
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Title: Pitch
Character: La mort
Released: February 17, 2019
Type: TV
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Les Justes
Title: Les Justes
Released: January 1, 2019
Type: Movie
Today, immense confusion reigns over the quest for the absolute, revolt and fury, violence and its appendages. And many people plunge back in Albert Camus' work to find answers. In the foreword to his play, the philosopher and writer summarizes the intrigue as follows: "In February 1905, in Moscow, a group of terrorists, belonging to the Socialist Revolutionary Party, organized a bomb attack against the Grand Duke Serge, Tsar's uncle ”. The rapper and slammer Abd Al Malik offers with this "musical tragedy" a contemporary staging of "The Just", a complete creation, faithful to the text of Camus, but reinventing a scenic and musical language resolutely inscribed in our time.
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Title: Croc Love
Released: December 17, 2018
Type: TV
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In Safe Hands
Title: In Safe Hands
Character: Ahmed
Released: December 5, 2018
Type: Movie
Théo is given up for adoption by his biological mother on the very day he is born. After this anonymous birth, the mother has two months to change her mind… Or not. The child welfare services and adoption service spring into action… The former have to take care of the baby and support it during this limbo-like time, this period of uncertainty, while the latter must find a woman to become his adoptive mother. She is called Alice, and she has spent the last ten years fighting to have a child.
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Beautiful Loser
Title: Beautiful Loser
Character: Houcine
Released: September 30, 2018
Type: Movie
Michel, a former junkie weaning himself off drugs, raises hell with his seventeen-year-old son, Léo, while also trying to manage as best he can the baby that he's just had with his ex, Hélène. But the years of dope have taken their toll.
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Dumped
Title: Dumped
Character: Charlemagne
Released: April 18, 2018
Type: Movie
Françoise has just been dumped by her husband for a much younger woman. In order to cheer her up, and to celebrate her 60th birthday, sisters Rose and Alice decide to take their mother to a resort on the tropical island of Reunion so they can relax, work on their tans, and have too many margaritas. But when Rose pays a one-night stand, Thierry, to show her mother a good time, their holiday plans start to unravel.
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Title: An interview
Character: Rachid
Released: March 31, 2018
Type: TV
A director of human resources conducts job interviews. As the episodes unfold, the candidates introduce themselves. Annoying, too sure of themselves or frankly confusing, they trigger internal thoughts that distract him and disrupt his exchanges with the candidates.
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Two Snails Set Off
Title: Two Snails Set Off
Character: (voice)
Released: June 8, 2017
Type: Movie
A forest full of animated animals encourage a pair of snails, who are fully clad in black because they are in mourning for a dead leaf, to celebrate the new spring and reclaim the colors of life. Based on the children's poem by Jacques Prévert entitled "Chanson des escargots qui font à l'enterrement" ("Song of the snails who are on their way to a funeral").
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Problemos
Title: Problemos
Character: Simon
Released: May 10, 2017
Type: Movie
When a pandemic strikes the world, Victor and his family get stuck within a hippie community.
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Title: Serge le Mytho
Character: Un boucher
Released: October 7, 2016
Type: TV
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The Crew
Title: The Crew
Character: Nasser
Released: May 4, 2016
Type: Movie
One of the members of a gang of thieves commits a serious mistake that force them to work for a ruthless gang of drug dealers, endangering the future of the team, their lives and those of their families.
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Face Down
Title: Face Down
Character: Driss
Released: October 14, 2015
Type: Movie
Samy is a Frenchman accused of smuggling counterfeit money from Bulgaria to France. To avoid jail, he becomes an informer for the French police, joining under cover a Bulgarian channel for human trafficking. Gradually, he falls in love with Elka, an underage gypsy prostitute. Torn by the pressure from all sides, he almost turns into an unscrupulous pimp. His feelings for the girl will help him keep the last thing he has – his dignity.
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The New Adventures of Aladdin
Title: The New Adventures of Aladdin
Character: Cheik Loukoums
Released: October 14, 2015
Type: Movie
A pair of losers working at department store plan to rob the place after it closes. When a bunch of kids show up begging for a story, the men launch into an improvised version of Aladdin.
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Animal Kingdom: Let's Go Ape
Title: Animal Kingdom: Let's Go Ape
Character: Marcel (voice)
Released: April 8, 2015
Type: Movie
Based on the novel 'Evolution Man' by Roy Lewis, this tells the story about the first man - young Edward - to descend from apes. Edward is ejected by his tribe, but is very resourceful. He learns to walk, discovers fire, manages to hunt - and we follow him as he evolves. He has a generous nature, and search for true humanity - a world where we don't eat our fathers.
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Vincent
Title: Vincent
Character: Driss
Released: October 15, 2014
Type: Movie
Vincent has an extraordinary ability: his strength and reflexes increase tenfold when in contact with water. To make full use of this gift, he settles in a region with many lakes and rivers, which is isolated enough to allow him to live a peaceful life. Then, one day, during an aquatic escapade, he encounters Lucie.
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La dernière échappée
Title: La dernière échappée
Character: Eddy Clavel
Released: June 27, 2014
Type: Movie
In July 2010, Laurent Fignon, the great cycling legend, commented on the Tour de France. Although the two-time tour winner of the 80s has incurable cancer, he follows as a reporter day by day the entire race. His doctor should treat him medically during the tour. After facing each other in disgust, the two men develop more understanding for each other from stage to stage. For Laurent, ending this tour means upholding life, even though broadcasting efforts are reducing the chances of a successful life-prolonging therapy.
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The Revelations 2014
Title: The Revelations 2014
Released: January 8, 2014
Type: Movie
Every year since 2007, the Academy of Cinema Arts and Techniques highlights thirty-two young talents through the “Révélations” project, directed this year by Antoine Carlier. This talented and visionary photographer was able to magnify each of them by offering an elegant and very cinematic staging, through the lens of his camera.
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Mohamed Dubois
Title: Mohamed Dubois
Character: Mustafa
Released: May 1, 2013
Type: Movie
Arnaud Dubois may be the heir to a bank, but he prefers to call himself Mohamed. Having fallen out with his father, he turns his back on the family residence. On his travels, he meets Mustafa, who introduces him to his sister Sabrina. Having fallen in love with the attractive young woman, Arnaud decides to pass himself off as an ordinary street guy named...Mohamed.
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On the Other Side of the Tracks
Title: On the Other Side of the Tracks
Character: Giovanni / Nabil
Released: December 15, 2012
Type: Movie
Two mismatched cops team up to investigate the murder of a business mogul's wife.
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Title: No Limit
Character: Choulken
Released: November 15, 2012
Type: TV
A terminally ill French secret service agent is hired by Hydra, a mysterious black ops organization set up by the government, to fight crime by any means necessary and receive experimental treatment in return. Also, his daughter hates him.
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Médecin-chef à la Santé
Title: Médecin-chef à la Santé
Character: Driss Chahidi
Released: May 4, 2012
Type: Movie
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Title: Platane
Character: Steve
Released: September 5, 2011
Type: TV
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Title: Platane
Character: Claudio
Released: September 5, 2011
Type: TV
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Low Cost
Title: Low Cost
Character: Nadir
Released: June 8, 2011
Type: Movie
Passengers on a low cost flight from Djerba to Beauvais have their patience tested to destruction when their departure is delayed for eight hours because of a fault with the plane's air-conditioning. In the end, they are so fed up that they will do almost anything to get back home.
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Halal State Security
Title: Halal State Security
Character: Farid
Released: February 16, 2011
Type: Movie
Someone is killing Parisians of Arab ethnicity. When an Algerian diplomat is murdered by the same assailant, two Algerian detectives are sent to help the French with the investigation and they have their own ways of doing things.
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Lignes
Title: Lignes
Character: Majid
Released: December 11, 2010
Type: Movie
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec
Title: The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec
Character: Aziz
Released: April 9, 2010
Type: Movie
An adventure set in the early part of the 20th century, focused on a popular novelist and her dealings with would-be suitors, the cops, monsters, and other distractions.
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Black
Title: Black
Character: Al Kayd
Released: February 14, 2009
Type: Movie
A Senegalese bank-robber born and raised in France is getting over a disastrous heist. As he considers going straight, his cousin calls him from Dakar with an easy opportunity.
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13 m²
Title: 13 m²
Character: Reza
Released: June 20, 2007
Type: Movie
Jose is looking for a way out of his small time banlieue deals. When he overhears a conversation between his girlfriend and his step-brother,he might just have found a very lucrative way.Together with his two best friends,he decides to attack an armored vehicle, full of cash. But everything goes wrong and they're forced into hiding,in a 13 square meters bunker. There, they will have to test their friendship, their motivations, as every move outside triggers even more, paranoia.
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Comme des riches
Title: Comme des riches
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie