Lyna Khoudri is an Algerian actress, known for her roles in The Blessed (2017), Papicha (2019) and The French Dispatch (2020).

Her father is a journalist, her mother is a violinist. Her family moved to France when she was two years old. She also lived in Germany for a year.

Living the life of an Algerian exile helped her with depicting her role as Nedjma in Papicha.