Simon Abkarian actor
- All known tv series 8
- Total known movies 83
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 .
Pierre
Movie 2007
Marjane's Father (voice)
Movie 2007
Sam
Movie 2006
Missak Manouchian
Movie 2009
Eliyahoo
Movie 2004
Freddy
Movie 2003
Eliyau
Movie 2008
Müller
Movie 2021
Daniel Prat
Movie 2022
Anthony
Movie 2021
Albert
Movie 2002
Le veuf
Movie 2010
Movie 2021
Arshile Gorky
Movie 2002
Al Barad
Movie 2008
Raoul
Movie 2008
Antoine Marelli
Movie 2022
Sarkis Arabian
Movie 2006
Sahak
Movie 2005
Hassan (voice)
Movie 2012
Julien Cestac
Movie 2005
Jimi Weiss
Movie 2011
Saül Birnbaum
Movie 2022
Aram
Movie 2002
Milo Garavan
Movie 2011
Charles De Gaulle
Movie
Charles De Gaulle
Movie
Customer
Movie 1997
L'avocat François Desgrez
Movie 2013
Simon
Movie 1999
Abraham Drucker
Movie 2012
Elisha
Movie 2014
Movie 1994
Marwan
Movie 2025
Omar
Movie 2005
Movie
Commander Luc Denard
Movie 2014
Narrator (voice)
Movie 2023
Simon
Movie 2015
Hovannès Alexandrian
Movie 2015
Vincent
Movie 2010
Cesari
Movie 2005
Gunter (voice)
Movie 2007
Swami (voice)
Movie 2003
Movie
L'oncle de Noé (voice)
Movie 2008
Self
Movie 2016
Lakhdar
Movie
Movie 2008
Le patron du café
Movie 2017
Kakourgos
Movie 2017
Wilson
Movie 2005
Le libanais
Movie 2016
Charles Vernais
Movie 2018
Ange Fleury
Movie 2018
Simon Bénéké, Sandra's father
Movie 2019
Philippe
Movie 2019
Mansour
Movie 2019
Atiq (voice)
Movie 2019
Karan
Movie 2019
Lelio
Movie 2008
le général Oufkir, ministre marocain de l'intérieur
Movie 2008
Movie 1997
Le père de Farid
Movie 2013
Movie 2020
Customer
Movie 1994
Narrator
Movie 2015
Khamsa's Father
Movie 2008
Tristan
Movie 2022
Movie 2022
Max
Tv 2022
Tony Roucas
Tv 2011
Colonel Amanullah
Tv 2012
Thomas Rotman
Tv 2015
The Father
Tv 2017
Dariush Bakhshi
Tv 2002
Nadir Zainoun
Tv 2009
Tony
Tv 2020
