With a background in theatre, she has also performed in film and on television, most recently in a lead role in the series Zone Blanche (Black Spot).
Brahim was born the eldest of three children in Chartres, France, to a father of Moroccan descent and a Breton mother.
She studied the Swahili language at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, planning on a humanitarian career, as well as theatre at École nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre.
Her performances onstage include Peer Gynt, Dom Juan, Lucrezia Borgia and Romeo and Juliet.
[1][2] Since 2013, Brahim has been in several films and television shows, leading to her being cast as Major Laurène Weiss in the France 2 thriller Zone Blanche in 2017[1] and Virginie in The Swarm (French: La Nuée) in 2020.