Known for Acting
Suliane Brahim (born 1 April 1978) is a French actress. With a background in theatre, she has also performed in film and on television, most recently in a lead role in the series Zone Blanche (Black Spot). Brahim was born the eldest of three children in Chartres, France, to a father of Moroccan descent and a Breton mother. She was raised in Bourges. She studied the Swahili language at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, planning on a humanitarian career, as well as theatre at École nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre. In 1996, Brahim performed in her first play and continued into the next decade, becoming a boarder and, later, member of Comédie-Française. Her performances onstage include Peer Gynt, Dom Juan, Lucrezia Borgia and Romeo and Juliet. Since 2013, Brahim has been in several films and television shows, leading to her being cast as Major Laurène Weiss in the France 2 thriller Zone Blanche in 2017 and Virginie in The Swarm (French: La Nuée) in 2020. She is also a recipient of the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti, given to the most promising young French actress. Source: Article "Suliane Brahim" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Born
April 1, 1978 (age 48)
Birthplace
Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, France
Filmography
28 films, 4 shows


You+Me - Against the World
2026 · 1h 34m
country: France
Alma Lancaster, 18, appears to lead a perfect life within a wealthy family who believes she is studying law. In secret, she pursues her true dream: filmmaking. On campus, she meets Vadim Arcadi, 20, a magnetic and solitary rebel with a troubled past. Forced to collaborate on a student film, they clash, grow closer and fall in love — despite themselves. But someone is watching them, determined to tear them apart and expose secrets that could destroy both Alma and Vadim.


Comédie-Française
2026 · 1h 15m
country: France
At the Comédie-Française, there is one golden rule: the play is never canceled. Unfortunately for Nina, everything else is—just three hours before the premiere of her first staging. An actor is stuck on a train, tensions explode, equipment breaks down, egos clash, and panic sets in. With no way out and time slipping away, Nina must hold the show together at all costs. Will she make it until the curtain rises?


Le Cid
2026
country: Unknown
A stage performance of the tragicomedy broadcasted live in theaters.


Le Soulier de Satin
2025 · 6h 11m
country: France
Video recording of the stage play "Le Soulier de Satin", played by La Comédie-Française at Paris during the 2024-2025 season, and directed for the stage by Eric Ruf. The play was recorded by Arnaud Desplechin.


Anne Frank, journal d'une adolescente
2025
country: France


An Ordinary Case
2024 · 1h 55m
country: France
Jean Monier is a disillusioned lawyer, appointed to defend Nicolas Milik, a man accused of murdering his wife. While everything points to his guilt, Monier takes up the case, convinced of his innocence.


Macbeth
2024
country: France
Three witches predict that Macbeth will ascend to the throne of Scotland. To fulfill this prophecy, Lady Macbeth convinces her husband to murder King Duncan, who has come to spend the night at their home. This crime plunges the new ruler into a macabre spiral that will lead him to sink into guilt and madness... The "Scottish play" is being shown live from the Comédie-Française theater in cinemas for the first time.


No One and Nothing
2024 · 1h 22m
country: France
At the dawn of a fatherhood that is refused to him, Jean, an orphan who has been involved in delinquency and is now repentant, decides to leave everything behind by stealing from the godfather who had protected him until then.


La Reine des neiges, l'histoire oubliée de Kay et Gerda
2023
country: France


Acid
2023 · 1h 40m
country: France
During a heat wave, strange clouds start pouring down acid rain, wreaking devastation and panic throughout France. In a world teetering on the edge, a girl and her divorced parents must join forces to confront and try to escape this climate catastrophe.


All Your Faces
2023 · 1h 55m
country: France
Since 2014, France's restorative justice programmes have offered a safe space for supervised dialogue between offenders and victims. Grégoire, Nawelle, and Sabine, victims of heists and violent robberies, agree to join one of these discussion groups alongside offenders Nassim, Issa, and Thomas, all convicted of violent robberies. Meanwhile Chloé, a victim of childhood sexual abuse, prepares for dialogue with her own agressor after learning he has moved back into town.


Banc de touche
2023 · 25m
country: Unknown
39-year-old Marjorie is doctor of a football team. Tonight's game is decisive: if the team wins, they qualify for the national championships.


The Swarm
2021 · 1h 41m
country: France
A single mother breeds locusts as high-protein foods but has trouble getting them to reproduce until she finds they have a taste for blood.


The Specials
2019 · 1h 54m
country: Belgium
For twenty years, Bruno and Malik have lived in a different world—the world of autistic children and teens. In charge of two separate nonprofit organizations (The Hatch & The Shelter), they train young people from underprivileged areas to be caregivers for extreme cases that have been refused by all other institutions. It’s an exceptional partnership, outside of traditional settings, for some quite extraordinary characters.


Électre / Oreste
2019
country: France


Roméo et Juliette
2018 · 4h 3m
country: France
An adaptation of William Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet", staged by Éric Ruf.


Dom Juan & Sganarelle
2015 · 1h 48m
country: France
Woman hero Dom Juan lives a life full of excesses and love affairs. When he seduces the nun Elvire, but shows no interest in her a short time later, he gets to deal with her vengeful brothers. Dom Juan and his assistant Sganarelle have to flee and set out on a journey full of strange encounters.


The Testicle
2015
country: France
Laurent is a thirty year old dreamer. The day he gets dumped by his girlfriend, he has to go back to his parents and discovers he has testicle cancer. His whole vision of life and priorities are then going to change.


Divine Comédie, des planches à l'écran
2015
country: France


Nice and Easy
2014 · 1h 33m
country: France
Sebastian has one ambition in life: to do nothing. His horizon is his couch. His life he does not want to live but contemplate. But today, if you do nothing - You are nothing. So driven by his two roommates, that chain internships and odd jobs, decided to Anna and not quite decided Bruno, Sebastien will have to - A little.


Left Over - Intimate Politics
2013 · 1h 22m
country: France
Two couples, Chris Bailey and Judith Lazard, along with Paul Adler and Albertine Langlois, meet for dinner on the 9th of July 2006, the night of the Football World Cup Final between France and Italy. Their conversations wander from intimate subjects to substantial political comments in such an intricate manner that their personal lives and their perception of the ideological struggle, the battle for the leadership of the french left, are more and more difficult to differenciate. For six years, their political attitudes evolve with the changing image of themselves and each other.


Just Love!
2013 · 1h 30m
country: France
Silvia’s father grants her permission to meet Dorante, the man she’s promised to in marriage, by pretending to be her servant Lisette, who in turn will play the role of her mistress.


Meurtre en trois actes
2013 · 1h 29m
country: France
With the ghost of Delphine, a sociétaire who committed suicide several months earlier, still hanging over the place, an unexplained series of backstage murders occurs at the Comédie-Française. Domont and his associate Strozzi investigate at this famous institution, where power plays and rivalries are the norm.


Nuts
2013 · 1h 21m
country: France
François has everything he could ever want, until he is kicked out of the house by his wife after his umpteenth slip up; after moving back in with his parents, he vows to win her back.


Ça ne peut pas continuer comme ça!
2013 · 1h 27m
country: France
With the President of the Republic very ill, an advisor offers an unusual suggestion: hire a double to replace him during his convalescence. The lucky chosen one is a member of the Comédie-Française but he is also shy, unexciting and often consigned to the supporting role...But a seismic change is about to happen in the Republic.


Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard
2012 · 2h 13m
country: France
A staging of Marivaux's play "The Game of Love and Chance" by Galin Stoev.


The Screen Illusion
2010 · 1h 28m
country: France
In this contemporary adaptation of Pierre Corneille’s brilliant, eponymous 17th century play, the enigmatic Alcandre is now a hotel concierge who uses the myriad in-house high-tech security cameras to show worried father Pridamant the whereabouts and travails of his son, Clindor. As Pridamant witnesses the conflicting romances involving his estranged son, Corneille’s modernist meta-narrative is transposed to contemporary Paris, underscoring the ambiguous nature of love, wealth and desire in an age of consumerism. (Chicago International Film Festival)


L'Avare
2009 · 2h 15m
country: France
A staging of Molière's play "The Miser" by Catherine Hiegel.