Chérif is from Flemish and Tunesian origin was born in Ghent, Belgium in 1977.

His youth was fillied with practicing a large variety of sports which he also started teaching at the early age of 16. In 1996 he began his professional dance career with a dance production by Emilie De Vlam, performing at the Ghent International Theatre Festival. After being asked to do more theater work in 1999, Cherif moved to Amsterdam, where he has been based ever since.

Chérif is an all-round performer, from acting for film and theatre to dancing on roller skates, to dance-improvisation and contemporary dance.  He also became  involved in commercial projects and developed himself further as a dancer, learning from people such as David Zambrano, Paola Bartoletti,  Andre Gingras ect. In dance-improvisation he  worked with, amongst others, Vincent Verburg, Kenzo Kusuda, Dayna Martinez Moralez, Katie Duck and Simon Rowe...

Cherif has performed in several dance-theatre companies in Belgium and the Netherlands and worked with such choreographers/dance makers as Johan Desmet (Speeltheater de Kopergietery ), Wies Bloemen (Danstheater Aya), Abdelaziz Sarrokh (hush hush hush, les ballets c de la b), Marco Gerris (Ish), Vincent Verburg (Movementalist),

André Gingras (Dance Works Rotterdam /André Gingras), and Flora Verbrugge (Theater Sonnevanck).

Furthermore, Cherif has been active as an actor in various theatre productions (Muz Theater, Sonnevanck, Danstheater Aya) as well as in films ('Down' by Dick Maas), television ( Parels en Zwijnen, Onderweg naar Morgen) and commercials for Nike, Coca-Cola (by Misha Klein), CAZ, Abn-Amro.

He has also been involved as choreographer and performer for big dance-events such as Tomorrowland, Tomorrowworld (USA) and Sensation White and Sensation Black by ID-T (Europe).

Currently Cherif works as a freelance artist, involved in film and theatre productions and is remains as always  in search of different ways of artistic expression...

On the side of his acting training at Act2Act and the acting Year-program at

Kemna-training he spends the rest of his time in Yoga, Skating,

Argentine Tango and Reiki...