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CANNES, FRANCE – 16 MAY: Herzi attends the ‘L’Apollonide’ photocall during the 64th Annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on 16 May, 2011 in Cannes, France. Denis Makarenko /Bigstock.com
Place of Birth: Manosque, France
Date of Birth: 25 January, 1987
Ethnicity: * father – Tunisian * mother – Algerian
Hafsia Herzi is a French actress, screenwriter, and director. She is 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. She has directed and written the films Good Mother (2021) and The Little Sister .
She is the youngest of a family of four children, of Tunisian origin on her father’s side and Algerian on her mother’s side. Hafsia has a son with her partner, cyclist Nacer Bouhanni. Nacer is also of Algerian heritage.