Adam Bessa

Adam Bessa
Bessa at the 2024 Berlinale
Born1992 (age 31–32)
Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes, France[1]
Nationality
  • French
  • Tunisian
OccupationActor
Years active2010–present

Adam Bessa (born 1992) is a French-Tunisian actor,[2][3] known for his roles in French and Hollywood productions such as Reda in The Blessed (2017), Kawa in Mosul (2019), soldier Yaz Kahn in Extraction (2020) and its 2023 sequel, and Abbas Naziri in the Amazon Prime Video series Hanna. For his performance in Harka (2022), he won the Un Certain Regard Award for Best Performance at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.

  1. ^ Duponchel, Marilou (4 November 2022). "La trajectoire tourmentée d'Adam Bessa, l'acteur lumineux de "Harka"". Les Inrockuptibles (in French).
  2. ^ Aftab, Kaleem (5 December 2022). "Arab Stars of Tomorrow 2022: Adam Bessa, actor (Tunisia)". Screen Daily. Archived from the original on 5 December 2022.
  3. ^ "Adam Bessa". Alternative Agency (in French). Retrieved 6 December 2022.