Rachida Khalil

See also: Khalil (homonymy)

Rachida Khalil is a Comédienne free-Morrocan woman born in R' chida, an insolated village in the disinherited mountains of the Rif in 1973. Immigrant in France with its family at the five years age, it discovers all at the same time electricity, the motor vehicle traffic, the supermarkets and all the tumult of the city. Mantes-the-Pretty teenager with , it meets the theater with Molière, Shakespeare or Ionesco while at the time of his stays in Morocco one activates oneself to arrange a Mariage to him which counterirritates it in secrecy. Rachida is only sixteen years old when she flees her family and the destiny that one holds for him to choose the career of actress.

In 1993, it founds the company Shéhérazade and organizes a festival of humor in Mantes. In 1995, it writes and interprets its first One-woman-show , Seven bitches of life , created with the Théâtre of the Hand of Gold to Paris. It finds its public and obtains the first role in a feature-length film of Mahmoud Zemmouri in 1996: Hundred percent Arabica . Its meeting with Guy Bedos leads in 2004 to a Show writes jointly: Life dreamed of Fatna . Created with the Theater of Suresnes Jean Vilar, these is a great success which will be taken again with the Splendid the following year for four months. This at the same time funny and poignant painting of the Condition of the women to the Morocco starts then a round of an about sixty representations in France, Suisse and Belgium.

Engaged, it takes part in an action of S.O.S Racism in March 2004 at the sides of Gad Elmaleh, Smaïn and Élie Semoun.

Rachida Khalil is the mistress of ceremonies of the fifth International festival of film of Marrakech in November 2005. She is also present at the time of the Sefarad Festival of Montreal, with the Quebec (Canada), from June 10th to July 5th 2006.

External bond

- " Life dreamed of Fatna"

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