The actor first became known in Tunisia in the 1980s in the detective series Ebhath Meaning, died on Sunday evening.
Tunisian actor Mohamed Dhrif, who had received awards abroad, notably at Cannes for the role of the father in My dear child, died at the age of 72, the Ministry of Cultural Affairs announced on Monday. Mohamed Dhrif, who first became known in Tunisia on television in the 1980s, notably in the police series Ebhath Meaning, died on Sunday evening, according to the ministry, which offered its condolences to his loved ones and “to the whole creative and cultural family».
He had acted in several Tunisian films including The man from the ashes by Nouri Bouzid in 1986, and had masterfully embodied the father in Weldi, My dear child by Mohamed Ben Attia in 2018. For this role of a Tunisian middle-class father whose only son disappears to wage jihad in Syria, Mohamed Dhrif received the best actor award at the El Gouna festival in Egypt (2018) and at the Tarifa African Film Festival in Spain. He had obtained a similar consecration from the Arab Cinema Center on the sidelines of the Cannes Film Festival in 2019.
Mohamed Dhrif had also left his mark on national radio, particularly radio Monastir, where he had gained experience in writing radio plays.