Soufiane Guerrab is a French actor best known to international audiences for his role as police detective Youssef Guédira in the Netflix crime thriller series Lupin.
Born to a Moroccan father and a mother of Italian and German descent, Guerrab grew up in Rosny-sous-Bois, in the eastern suburbs of Paris. Before getting into acting at the age of 18, he composed music.
Guerrab received his first major role in the series Les Beaux Mecs, followed by several supporting roles in the films The Measure of a Man, Dheepan, and Two Birds, One Stone. In 2017, he received the Rendez-vous Award at the Cabourg Film Festival for his role as Farid in the film Patients. In 2018, Guerrab created the Tapis Bleu film festival, based in Rosny-sous-Bois and sponsored by poet and filmmaker Grand Corps Malade.
Since 2021, Guerrab has appeared in the Netflix thriller series Lupin as Youssef Guédira, a detective attempting to track down the show's protagonist Assane Diop, played by Omar Sy.
He played a major role in the 2022 TF1 TV series Visions, which premiered at Canneseries that year. The show, directed by Akim Isker, also stars Louane Emera, Jean-Hugues Anglade, and Julien Boisselier.
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