Dali Benssalah (born January 8, 1992 in Rennes, France) is a French-Algerian actor and former Muay Thai athlete.
He became national champion of France of Muay Thai in 2011, but had to stop his career in that field after a serious injury. He then took acting lessons at the Cours Florent and the National Theatre of Strasbourg.
He had his first film role in Louis Garrel's A Faithful Man in 2018, and he's since become best known internationally for playing the one-eyed henchman Primo in the 25th James Bond film, No Time to Die. He got the latter role after the director, Cary Fukunaga, noticed him in the music video of "Territory" by the French electronic band The Blaze.
Selected filmography:
- No Time to Die (2021) as Primo (or Cyclops)
- Athena (2022) as Abdel
- Batman Unburied (2022) as Bruce Wayne/Batman (French dub)
- The Last Queen (2023) as Aruj "Barbarossa"
