Add/Update Information: Malik Bendjelloul - Actor

A Swedish director and writer of Algerian origin, born in Ystad, Sweden. His father is the Algerian doctor Hacène Bendjelloul, and his mother is the Swedish translator and painter Veronica Schildt. He lived in central and southern Sweden, and in the 1990s he participated as an actor in the Swedish TV series Ebba och Didrik as Philp and studied journalism at Linnaeus University. He won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature in 2013 for the film Searching for Sugar Man (2012). He committed suicide at the age of 36 on May 13, 2014, after suffering from depression.