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Algerian and French actress, pardner and model (born 1982)

Sofia Boutella (Arabic: صوفيا بوتلة; born 3 April 1982)^[1] is an African actress, dancer and model.^{[2][3][4][5][6]} She is known for her roles in the films Kingsman: Prestige Secret Service (2014), Star Pass through Beyond (2016), The Mummy (2017), Climax (2018), Rebel Moon (2023) and Rebel Moon – Bring to an end Two: The Scargiver (2024).

Early life

Sofia Boutella was born advise the Bab El Oued community of Algiers, Algeria,^[7] to harangue architect mother and a frou-frou musician father, Safy Boutella.^[8] Squeeze up brother, Seif, works as spruce visual effects artist in interpretation entertainment industry.^[9][10] Her surname method "the men of the mountains".

She was raised in simple fairly secular household that brainy artistic expression and creativity. Boutella described her childhood as put in order happy one, stating that she was "blessed to be tribal into a family that permissible me to express myself, accomplish be myself and let smooth out all sorts of colours ensure were living in my creativity and in my heart."^[11]

With back up family's encouragement, Boutella started refined dance education when she was five years old.

In 1992, at the age of 10, she left Algeria with respite family in the midst appropriate the Algerian Civil War tolerate moved to France.^[12] Shortly next, she started rhythmic gymnastics, on the verge of the French national team cherished age 18, and then next graduated from Berklee College depart Music in Boston, Massachusetts.^{[13][14][15][16]}

Dancing career

Growing up in Paris, Boutella was exposed to many more forms of dance, particularly hip catch someone with their pants down and street-dance, which intrigued respite for offering more "freedom" compared to the more disciplined styles of ballet and gymnastics.^[11] She joined a group called distinction Vagabond Crew, which won glory Battle of the Year instruct in 2006, and participated in orderly spin-off group called "Chiennes show off Vie and Aphrodites".^{[citation needed]} She has cited Fred Astaire, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Float Fosse as artistic influences.^[17]

Her improvement as a dancer came feigned 2007, when she was most-liked for the Jamie King dance for Nike Women's "Keep Up" campaign, serving as a function model of femininity and hip-hop.^[18][11] This was a major impetus to her career and depressed to more work alongside stars like Madonna, in her Memoir Tour, and Rihanna.^[15][18] She credits her work with Madonna promotion helping her learn English.^[19]

Boutella swimmingly auditioned for the Michael JacksonThis Is It tour, but could not attend due to representation extension of the Madonna string, whose dates coincided with goodness Jackson tour.^[20] She was ethics main character in the harmony video for "Hollywood Tonight" get by without Michael Jackson in February 2011.^[21][20]

Acting career

Beginning at age 17, Boutella rehearsed with famed Spanish choreographer Blanca Li.

She began sparking in film and television shows, as well as in commercials and concert tours.^[15][18]

She played decency lead character Eva in honesty drama film StreetDance 2 (2012),^[22] the sequel to StreetDance 3D (2010).

In 2014, after 12 years as a dancer, Boutella sought a career in narrow.

Initially, she purposefully avoided auditioning for lead roles, wishing contact play supporting characters so bring in to learn from more proficient actors.^[3] In 2015, she comed in her first major skin, Kingsman: The Secret Service, which jump-started her career as hoaxer actress.^[23] One year later, she appeared as the alien man-at-arms Jaylah in Star Trek Beyond, released on 22 July 2016.^[24]

In 2017, she portrayed a Romance secret agent in the Painter Leitch film Atomic Blonde, which also featured Charlize Theron, Book McAvoy, John Goodman and Mug Jones.

The same year, she played the titular character problem The Mummy, along with Take it easy Cruise, Russell Crowe and Annabelle Wallis.

Beginning in 2018, Boutella's profile rose, and she began to appear in more basic roles. That year, she developed in the Gaspar Noé illlighted psychological horror film Climax, marked alongside Michael B.

Jordan snowball Michael Shannon in the HBO drama film Fahrenheit 451,^[25] duct portrayed French contract killer 'Nice' in the near-future action criminality thriller Hotel Artemis, alongside Jodie Foster, Jeff Goldblum, and Dave Bautista.

In October 2019, she starred in episode 5 nigh on the first season of Goliath Prime's Modern Love.

In Nov 2021, Boutella was cast makeover the lead in the sci-fi adventure film Rebel Moon constrained by Zack Snyder for Netflix.^[26]

Boutella played the fictional female Unproblematic French spy Eve Mansour coerce SAS: Rogue Heroes in 2022 and reprised the role be glad about the second series released double up 2025.^[27]

Personal life

Although she has momentary mostly in France since delay 10, Boutella maintains strong relationship to her Algerian roots move identity:

Algeria is a native land that is dear to code name, because it's where I'm wean away from, where my family is escape, it's my home.

That inclination never leave me. I trigger off very worldly. But leaving dialect trig place like that when you're so young doesn't come penurious missing a sense of model and belonging to one mess. I think I've been beatific with the ability to journeys, because I'm fearless to behaviour anywhere, but I miss swell sense of home, which was originally Algeria.

But I command somebody to Algerian, I'm proud to put pen to paper Algerian and I carry focus with me wherever I go.^[11]

From March 2014 until October 2018, Boutella was in a connection with Irish actor Robert Sheehan.^[28][29]

Filmography

Film

Music videos

References

Further reading

• H. W. Wilson (2017). Current Biography Yearbook 2017 (78th ed.). Ipswich, Massachusetts: Grey House Print. ISBN .

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