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 .

Filmek -tól nem elérhető Simon Abkarian

Trivial

Pierre

Film 2007

Persepolis

Marjane's Father (voice)

Film 2007

The Snake

Sam

Film 2006

Army of Crime

Missak Manouchian

Film 2009

To Take A Wife

Eliyahoo

Film 2004

Not For, or Against (Quite the Contrary)

Freddy

Film 2003

The Seven Days

Eliyau

Film 2008

Permis de construire

Müller

Film 2021

Overdose

Daniel Prat

Film 2022

Off-Season

Anthony

Film 2021

Almost Peaceful

Albert

Film 2002

Turk's Head

Le veuf

Film 2010

Black Notebooks

Film 2021

Ararat

Arshile Gorky

Film 2002

Secrets of State

Al Barad

Film 2008

The Wedding Song

Raoul

Film 2008

Restless

Antoine Marelli

Film 2022

Armenia

Sarkis Arabian

Film 2006

Les mauvais joueurs

Sahak

Film 2005

Zarafa

Hassan (voice)

Film 2012

The Demon Stirs

Julien Cestac

Film 2005

Force

Jimi Weiss

Film 2011

The Way to Happiness

Saül Birnbaum

Film 2022

Aram

Aram

Film 2002

Les Amants naufragés

Milo Garavan

Film 2011

De Gaulle – Partie 1 : La France Libre

Charles De Gaulle

Film

De Gaulle – Partie 2

Charles De Gaulle

Film

The Silence of Rak

Customer

Film 1997

Angelique

L'avocat François Desgrez

Film 2013

Lila Lili

Simon

Film 1999

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

Abraham Drucker

Film 2012

Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem

Elisha

Film 2014

Ana El Awan

Film 1994

The 4th Wall

Marwan

Film 2025

Zaina: Rider of the Atlas

Omar

Film 2005

God Will Know His Own

Film

Colt 45

Commander Luc Denard

Film 2014

Mémoires de Palestine

Narrator (voice)

Film 2023

1915

Simon

Film 2015

Don't Tell Me the Boy Was Mad

Hovannès Alexandrian

Film 2015

Comme une ombre

Vincent

Film 2010

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

Cesari

Film 2005

New Délire

Gunter (voice)

Film 2007

The Legend of Princess Parva

Swami (voice)

Film 2003

Comme des riches

Film

A World of Ours

L'oncle de Noé (voice)

Film 2008

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

Self

Film 2016

Indic

Lakhdar

Film

Minor Revelations

Film 2008

J'ai tué ma femme

Le patron du café

Film 2017

Journey from Greece

Kakourgos

Film 2017

In Your Dreams

Wilson

Film 2005

Chouf

Le libanais

Film 2016

The Sonata

Charles Vernais

Film 2018

Cyrano, My Love

Ange Fleury

Film 2018

Rebels

Simon Bénéké, Sandra's father

Film 2019

The Audition

Philippe

Film 2019

Someone, Somewhere

Mansour

Film 2019

The Swallows of Kabul

Atiq (voice)

Film 2019

Ce soir-là et les jours d'après

Karan

Film 2019

Le Menteur : La Pièce !

Lelio

Film 2008

L'Affaire Ben Barka

le général Oufkir, ministre marocain de l'intérieur

Film 2008

Tempest in a Teapot

Film 1997

The Marchers

Le père de Farid

Film 2013

Le dernier jour du jeûne

Film 2020

Le Poisson rouge

Customer

Film 1994

Tehlirian on Trial: Armenia's Avenger

Narrator

Film 2015

Khamsa

Khamsa's Father

Film 2008

Cop Goes Missing

Tristan

Film 2022

Electre des bas-fonds

Film 2022

Serie televisive -tól nem elérhető 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