Malou Khebizi is a French actress, most known for her debut performance in Wild Diamond (2024). For A Place to Heal (2026), she won the Marcello Mastroianni Award at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival.
Early life Born in Marseille in 2003, she grew up in Trets, where she attended school up to the end of middle school and practiced gymnastics at a UFOLEP club between the ages of 4 and 16; she later moved back to Marseille, living under a shared custody arrangement with her parents following their separation..
Career Her debut performance came as the 19-year-old Liane in Wild Diamond (2024) directed by Agathe Riedinger, the film premiered in the main competition of the 77th Cannes Film Festival, and explores beauty and fame standards in contemporary France. For her performance, she was nominated for the César Award for Best Female Revelation.
Khebizi followed with small roles in Robin Campillo's Enzo and Anna Cazenave Cambet's Love Me Tender (both in 2025), alongside Hélène Rosselet-Ruiz's Le Triangle d'Or and Christophe Honoré's Orange-Flavoured Wedding (both in 2026).
For her performance as Lucia in A Place to Heal (2026), directed by Cédric Kahn, about two French teenage girls admitted into the adolescent psychiatric ward of a public hospital, she won the Marcello Mastroianni Award at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival.
Filmography
Feature films YearEnglish titleOriginal titleRoleNotes2024Wild DiamondDiamant brutLiane Pougy2025EnzoAminaLove Me TenderThe Girls We WantLes Filles désirRanya2026Golden TriangleLe Triangle d'orLaura SanchezOrange-Flavoured WeddingMariage au goût d'orangeMartineA Place to Heal15/18LuciaTBAL'art et la manièreMadoPost-production
Television
2025: Young Millionaires as Samia
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