Simon Abkarian (born 5 March 1962) is a French-Armenian actor.Born in Gonesse, Val dOise, of Armenian descent, Abkarian spent his childhood in Lebanon. He moved to Los Angeles, where he joined an Armenian theater company managed by Gerald Papazian. He returned to France in 1985, settling in Paris. He took classes at the Acting International school, then he joined Ariane Mnouchkines Théâtre du Soleil.Abkarian left the Théâtre du Soleil in 1993 and played in 2001 Beast on the Moon by Richard Kalinoski, directed by Irina Brook, a play about the life of a survivor of the Genocide of the Armenians, a role which won him critical acclaims and the Molière of the best comedian.His first roles in cinema were proposed by French filmaker Cédric Klapisch, who asked him to play in several of his movies, notably in Chacun cherche son chat (When the Cat is Away (1996) and in Ni pour, ni contre (bien au contraire) en 2003.He was featured in Sally Potters Yes (2004), in which he played the lead role.Abkarian then played Mehdi Ben Barka in the thriller Jai vu tuer Ben Barka by Serge Le Péron, about the kidnapping and the murder of the leader of the Moroccan opposition. He then played in Prendre Femme by Ronit Elkabetz which won him several interpretation prizes. Playing different roles and in different genres, he was featured in the adventure Zaïna, cavalière de lAtlas by Bourlem Guerdjou, in the comedy Le Démon de midi by Marie-Pascale Osterriet. He has also appeared in Atom Egoyans Ararat (2002), he was Albert in Almost Peaceful (2004) by French Director Michel Deville a film about Holocaust survivors, he was featured in Your Dreams (2005) by Denis Thybaud. He played the role of villain Alex Dimitrios in the James Bond film, Casino Royale. The character is a Government contractor and arms dealer working against Bond.He was featured as Sahak in the thriller Les Mauvais Joueurs (The Gamblers) (2007) by Frédéric Balekdjian. He has also been the voice of Ebi in the French version of the animated feature Persepolis. Abkarian played the role of the eminent Armenian poet Missak Manouchianin in Army of Crime (2010) by Robert Guédiguian, a French filmaker based in Marseilles, who is also of Armenian parentage.He has also played Dariush Bakhshi, the Iranian Special Consul, in the BBC drama Spooks MI-5.Abkarian is known for his intensity in acting and for his ecclectism in the roles he choses.Description above from the Wikipedia article Simon Abkarian, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia .

Κινηματογράφος μη διαθέσιμο από Simon Abkarian

Trivial

Pierre

Ταινία 2007

Persepolis

Marjane's Father (voice)

Ταινία 2007

The Snake

Sam

Ταινία 2006

Army of Crime

Missak Manouchian

Ταινία 2009

To Take A Wife

Eliyahoo

Ταινία 2004

Not For, or Against (Quite the Contrary)

Freddy

Ταινία 2003

The Seven Days

Eliyau

Ταινία 2008

Permis de construire

Müller

Ταινία 2021

Overdose

Daniel Prat

Ταινία 2022

Off-Season

Anthony

Ταινία 2021

Almost Peaceful

Albert

Ταινία 2002

Turk's Head

Le veuf

Ταινία 2010

Black Notebooks

Ταινία 2021

Ararat

Arshile Gorky

Ταινία 2002

Secrets of State

Al Barad

Ταινία 2008

The Wedding Song

Raoul

Ταινία 2008

Restless

Antoine Marelli

Ταινία 2022

Armenia

Sarkis Arabian

Ταινία 2006

Les mauvais joueurs

Sahak

Ταινία 2005

Zarafa

Hassan (voice)

Ταινία 2012

The Demon Stirs

Julien Cestac

Ταινία 2005

Force

Jimi Weiss

Ταινία 2011

The Way to Happiness

Saül Birnbaum

Ταινία 2022

Aram

Aram

Ταινία 2002

Les Amants naufragés

Milo Garavan

Ταινία 2011

De Gaulle – Partie 1 : La France Libre

Charles De Gaulle

Ταινία

De Gaulle – Partie 2

Charles De Gaulle

Ταινία

The Silence of Rak

Customer

Ταινία 1997

Angelique

L'avocat François Desgrez

Ταινία 2013

Lila Lili

Simon

Ταινία 1999

Qu'est-ce qu'on va faire de toi?

Abraham Drucker

Ταινία 2012

Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem

Elisha

Ταινία 2014

Ana El Awan

Ταινία 1994

The 4th Wall

Marwan

Ταινία 2025

Zaina: Rider of the Atlas

Omar

Ταινία 2005

God Will Know His Own

Ταινία

Colt 45

Commander Luc Denard

Ταινία 2014

Mémoires de Palestine

Narrator (voice)

Ταινία 2023

1915

Simon

Ταινία 2015

Don't Tell Me the Boy Was Mad

Hovannès Alexandrian

Ταινία 2015

Comme une ombre

Vincent

Ταινία 2010

S.A.C. : Des hommes dans l'ombre

Cesari

Ταινία 2005

New Délire

Gunter (voice)

Ταινία 2007

The Legend of Princess Parva

Swami (voice)

Ταινία 2003

Comme des riches

Ταινία

A World of Ours

L'oncle de Noé (voice)

Ταινία 2008

Il était une fois... « Le procès de Viviane Amsalem »

Self

Ταινία 2016

Indic

Lakhdar

Ταινία

Minor Revelations

Ταινία 2008

J'ai tué ma femme

Le patron du café

Ταινία 2017

Journey from Greece

Kakourgos

Ταινία 2017

In Your Dreams

Wilson

Ταινία 2005

Chouf

Le libanais

Ταινία 2016

The Sonata

Charles Vernais

Ταινία 2018

Cyrano, My Love

Ange Fleury

Ταινία 2018

Rebels

Simon Bénéké, Sandra's father

Ταινία 2019

The Audition

Philippe

Ταινία 2019

Someone, Somewhere

Mansour

Ταινία 2019

The Swallows of Kabul

Atiq (voice)

Ταινία 2019

Ce soir-là et les jours d'après

Karan

Ταινία 2019

Le Menteur : La Pièce !

Lelio

Ταινία 2008

L'Affaire Ben Barka

le général Oufkir, ministre marocain de l'intérieur

Ταινία 2008

Tempest in a Teapot

Ταινία 1997

The Marchers

Le père de Farid

Ταινία 2013

Le dernier jour du jeûne

Ταινία 2020

Le Poisson rouge

Customer

Ταινία 1994

Tehlirian on Trial: Armenia's Avenger

Narrator

Ταινία 2015

Khamsa

Khamsa's Father

Ταινία 2008

Cop Goes Missing

Tristan

Ταινία 2022

Electre des bas-fonds

Ταινία 2022

Τηλεοπτική σειρά μη διαθέσιμο από Simon Abkarian

Notre-Dame

Max

Tv 2022

Tony's Revenge

Tony Roucas

Tv 2011

Kaboul Kitchen

Colonel Amanullah

Tv 2012

Malaterra

Thomas Rotman

Tv 2015

Playground

The Father

Tv 2017

Spooks

Dariush Bakhshi

Tv 2002

Pigalle, la nuit

Nadir Zainoun

Tv 2009

Wonderland

Tony

Tv 2020