Ahmed Benaissa

An haife shi a Aljeriya a cikin iyali mai mata biyar da maza huɗu. Mahaifinsa dan gwagwarmaya ne wanda aka kama aka ɗaure shi a Aljeriya. Sai dai kuma an sake shi bayan samun yancin kai na Aljeriya. Daga baya ya koma Paris, Faransa.^[2] Ya rayu kusan shekaru 18 a Faransa. A wannan lokacin, ya sami horo a makarantar wasan kwaikwayo ta ƙasa.

Yayi aure kuma ya kasance uba ga yara maza biyu.^[2]

A cikin shekarar 1971, Benaïssa ya fara aikinsa na cinema da fim ɗin Étoile aux dents ou Poulou le magnifique wanda Derri Berkani ya jagoranta. Ya taka rawar 'Jibé' a waccan fim ɗin. Da nasarar fim ɗin, ya sami fina-finai da dama a cikin shekaru masu zuwa kamar fina-finan Algeria na Leïla et les autres a 1977 wanda Sid Ali Mazif ya ba da umarni, Buamama a 1985 wanda Benamar Bakhti ya ba da umarni da kuma mashahurin wasan barkwanci Le Clandestin a 1989 wanda Bakhti ya ba da umarni.^[3]

Ya taka muhimmiyar rawa na 'Haroun', a cikin fim din L'Etranger de Camus. Ya yi wasa kuma ya ba da umarni a gidan wasan kwaikwayo na kasa na Algiers, da kuma gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Yanki na Oran. Ya kuma jagoranci gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Yanki na Sidi-Bel-Abbès. A cikin 2013, ya sami lambar yabo don Mafi kyawun Jagora don fim ɗin Nedjma . Benaïssa ta taka rawar 'Rida' a cikin fim ɗin fasalin farko na Ramzi Ben Sliman, My Revolution. An sake shi a Faransa a watan Agustan 2015. A gidan wasan kwaikwayo, yawon shakatawa tare da Meursaults ya ci gaba a Faransa a cikin shekarar 2017.^[2]

Fim ɗinsa na ƙarshe, Sons of Ramses, ya fara a shekarar 2022 Cannes Film Festival kuma an sadaukar da shi gare shi.^[4]