Tahar Rahim is one of Hollywood’s biggest breakout stars of 2021. After first appearing in streaming shows like and, the 39-year-old French Algerian actor first has emerged as a leading man with opposite Jodie Foster and the true-crime drama, .In the latter, which is now streaming on Netflix, Rahim portrays the 1970s “Bikini Killer” and fraudster, Charles Sobhraj, who was responsible for murdering over a dozen of Western tourists along the Hippie Trail of Southeast Asia.
As depicted on the show, he eventually gets into a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a junior Dutch diplomat (Billy Howle), who sets off a chain of events that eventually leads to the capture of Interpol’s most wanted man at the time. “I’ve always wanted to explore.
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