Lyna Khoudri (, born 3 October 1992) is an Algerian-French actress. In 2017, she won the Orizzonti Award for Best Actress at the 74th Venice International Film Festival for The Blessed. In 2020, she won the César Award for Most Promising Actress for her performance in Papicha. In 2021, she portrayed a student activist in Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch. In 2023, Khoudri portrayed Constance Bonacieux in The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan and The Three Musketeers: Milady.
Early life
Khoudri was born in 1992 in Algiers, Algeria, to a journalist father and a violinist mother. When Khoudri was 2 years old, the family moved to Aubervilliers, France, as exiles following death threats due to the danger of her father's profession during the Algerian Civil War. At the age of 18, Khoudri acquired French citizenship.
Khoudri received her professional training at Théâtre national de la Colline.
Career
In 2014, Khoudri had her first acting role in the French television series Josephine, Guardian Angel.
In 2017, she won the Orizzonti Award for Best Actress at the 74th Venice International Film Festival for her performance in Sofia Djama's film The Blessed.
In 2019, she played Louna in six episodes of the Canal+ miniseries Savages, directed by Rebecca Zlotowski. That year, she also played Nedjma in Mounia Meddour's film Papicha, about a young Algerian woman who uses fashion as cultural resistance during the Algerian Civil War. Khoudri had Marion Cotillard as her Godmother for the César Awards Revelations dinner in January 2020. For her role in Papicha, she won the César Award for Most Promising Actress in February 2020.
In 2021, Khoudri played Juliette, a student activist and the girlfriend of Timothée Chalamet's character in Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch. Their storyline centers on a student riot. Khoudri attended the film's premiere at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival where it competed for the Palme d'Or.
In 2022, Khoudri played Samia in Cédric Jimenez's November, for which she was nominated for the César Award for Best Supporting Actress.
In 2023, Khoudri portrayed Constance Bonacieux, the love interest of D'Artagnan (portrayed by François Civil) in two French film adaptations of Alexandre Dumas' 1844 novel The Three Musketeers directed by Martin Bourboulon; The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan and The Three Musketeers: Milady. The same year, she co-starred with François Civil again in Romain Cogitore's romantic thriller A Place to Fight For (), the first French original film from Disney+, in which she played an environmental activist who falls in love with Civil's character, an undercover police officer.