Nahéma Ricci
Canadian actress
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Early life
Career
Ricci appeared in the 2017 film Ailleurs.[3] Ricci said she won the title role of the 2019 film Antigone after participating in a long series of auditions held to fill all the film's roles.[4] In La Presse, Marc-André Lussier praised Ricci's acting in Antigone.[5] She was named one of the "rising stars" at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival,[2][6] and won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Actress at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards.[7] She also won the Prix Iris for Revelation of the Year at the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards.[8]
In 2020 she starred in the short film Girls Shouldn't Walk Alone at Night (Les filles ne marchent pas seules la nuit).[9] In 2022, she portrayed Sophia in the film Montreal Girls. Nahéma made her English language feature debut in 2022 portraying Alix, a troubled teenager, in Under Spanish Skies, directed by Nathan Buck.[10] She took the lead role of Jen Paradis in television crime drama, Motel Paradis (2022).
In 2023, she joined the cast of Aller Simple. [11] In 2024 she starred in the film Hunting Daze (Jour de chasse).[12]
