Marwan Berreni, born December 4, 1988 in Paris and died by suicide in 2023, is a French actor. He is the son of Mourad Berreni (director and director of the Théâtre de l'Écho in the 20th arrondissement of Paris) and a Périgourdine, Martine Sarlandie, librarian. He is the brother Bilal Berreni (1990-2013), urban painter, graffiti artist and designer known worldwide under the pseudonym Zoo Project, who was murdered on July 29, 2013 in Detroit. He is the grandson of Charles Sarlandie (1915-1994), chief of staff of the Resistance within the Violet Battalion in Saint-Mesmin, and after whom a village square is named, in Dordogne-Nord.
Marwan Berreni started at the theater in 1998, when he was 9 years old, in The Three Musketeers then in Les Debutantes directed by Christophe Honoré in 2000. From 1997 to 2007, he was directed by his father, Mourad Berreni, at the workshop of the Théâtre de l'Écho in Paris. In 2003-2004, he was part of Céline Davalan's high school class at the Florent School. Then, he was a student at the Conservatory of the 5th arrondissement of Paris in 2005-2006 before training in acting on camera at the Alain de Bock studio. In 2014, he trained at ACP La Manufacture Chanson. He notably plays in plays directed by his father Mourad Berreni: Molière Circus in 2004, Tableau de famille and Cabaret La Fontaine in 2007.
In 2006, he appeared in the short film “Clin d’Oeil”. The following year, he played Karim, one of the main roles in three seasons of the youth series “Tranches De Vie”. The program was broadcast on Disney Channel until 2010. In 2009, he played the role of an athlete for the humorous film "MSS, Mission Secrète et Sportive" broadcast on France 3. He continued the same year and on the same channel , playing Abdel Fedala in the soap opera “Plus Belle La Vie”. This role made him known to the general public, and he played until October 2022 before the series ended the following November. He plays this character in 903 daily episodes and in certain special television films broadcast in the early evening. The actor Rachid Hafassa plays his father, Karim Fedala during the same period (2009-2022). In 2010, he played one of the main roles in the short film "Tears In The Rain" alongside Dounia Coesens (one of the actresses in Plus Belle La Vie). After appearing in an episode of “Joséphine, Ange Gardien”, Marwan Berreni mainly appears in police series and TV films such as “No Limit” on TF1 and “Commissaire Magellan” on France 3. Between 2017 and 2020, he played roles in the collection of TV films "Les Mystères de...": he is Adrien, a gendarme, in "Les Mystères De l'Île", then Father Sylvain Chaland in "Les Mystères De La Basilique". In “Les Mystères De La Chorale”, he plays the role of a young Turk named Kuvan Birkan. In 2023, he is part of the cast of the New TV movie “Murders in Saint-Malo” from the “Murders in…” collection. In the cinema, in 2020, he played in “Vagabondes”, a comedy directed by Philippe Dajoux.
In August 2023, Marwan Berreni disappeared without a trace, after being involved in a traffic accident in Mâcon. His body will be found on October 13, 2023, dead by hanging, in an abandoned farm in Corcelles-en-Beaujolais.
as Kassem
as Alonzo
as Kuvan Birkan
as Sylvain Chaland
as Adrien
as Kassem(1 ep)
as Abdel Fedala(3627 eps)
