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