Marwan Berreni

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.