Reda Kateb began his acting career in theatre, performing in both classic and contemporary plays. After appearing in the television series Spiral in 2008, Jacques Audiard oered him a role in A Prophet in 2009.
In 2010, he changed register with the comedy Pieds nus sur les limaces (Barefoot on Slugs). In 2013, he starred in seven feature films, including Zero Dark Thirty, Gare du Nord and Me, Myself and Mum. The following year, Reda Kateb entered the hospital environment in Hippocrate.
He continues his career in Hollywood in Ryan Gosling’s first film, Lost River, while continuing to act in French cinema in the drama L’Astragale and the crime thriller La Résistance de l’air. He went on to star in Les Chevaliers blancs and Arrêtez- moi là, and in 2016 he played the lead role in Les Beaux Jours d’Aranjuez. In 2017, he starred in Les Derniers Parisiens. That same year, he played Django Reinhardt in the film Django.
The actor also played a police inspector in Frères ennemis in 2018. In early 2019, he joined the cast of Le Chant du loup and Hors Normes.
On television, he plays a diplomat who falls in love with a woman accused of killing her husband in Possessions, and a BRI agent traumatised by his intervention at the Bataclan in En thérapie.
He plays a chief of sta in Les Promesses, portrays a hilarious gangster in Omar la fraise, and plays the villain in the Danish heist film L’Ultime braquage.
