Saïd Taghmaoui | |
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سعيد التغماوي | |
Born |
Villepinte, Seine-Saint-Denis, France | 19 July 1973
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Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1994–present |
Saïd Taghmaoui ( Arabic: سعيد التغماوي; born 19 July 1973) is a French actor. One of his major screen roles was that of Saïd in the 1995 French film La Haine, directed by Mathieu Kassovitz. Taghmaoui has also appeared in a number of English-language films, with roles such as Captain Said in Three Kings (1999), Breaker in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009), Sameer in Wonder Woman (2017), and The Elder in John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019).
Saïd Taghmaoui was born in Villepinte, Seine-Saint-Denis, into a large family comprising eight children; he had four brothers and three sisters. [1] [2] His parents were Moroccan immigrants of Berber ancestry from Essaouira. [2] Taghmaoui grew up in the Rose des Vents quartier of the Aulnay-sous-Bois commune. [3] He dropped out of school to become a boxer, rising as high as No. 2 in his weight class in France. [4]
He later met actor and director Mathieu Kassovitz; together, they appeared in Kassovitz's film La Haine (1995), whose plot concerns race and violence in the ghettoized banlieues of Paris. The following year, Taghmaoui was nominated for a César Award (in the Most Promising Actor category) for his performance.
He has since pursued an international career, appearing in films in Germany, Italy, Morocco and the United States ( Three Kings, 1999). Taghmaoui starred in Vantage Point (2008) as the leader of a terrorist group plotting to kidnap the U.S. president. In Morocco, he appeared in Djinns (2010), a film about the Algerian War, alongside Thierry Fremont. [3] Taghmaoui's television work includes Lost, House of Saddam and Touch. He appeared in the British film My Brother the Devil, which was released globally in 2013.
Taghmaoui is a practising Muslim. [5] He moved to the United States in 1999, and in 2008, obtained American citizenship. [1]
Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
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1994 | Putain de porte | Jean-Claude Flamand & Delphine Quentin | Short | |
Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge... | Paul | Olivier Dahan | TV series (1 episode) | |
1995 | La Haine | Saïd | Mathieu Kassovitz | Nominated - César Award for Most Promising Actor |
J'aime beaucoup ce que vous faites | Xavier Giannoli | Short | ||
C'est mon histoire | Dominique Tabuteau | TV series (1 episode) | ||
L'éducateur | 'Momo' | Dominique Tabuteau (2) | TV series (1 episode) | |
1996 | La bougeotte | Jean-Claude Morin | TV movie | |
Elvis Aziz | Elvis Aziz | Frédéric Compain | TV movie | |
1997 | Go for Gold ! | Moussa | Lucian Segura | |
Héroïnes | J.P. | Gérard Krawczyk | ||
Les fantômes du samedi soir | Olivier Dahan (2) | Short | ||
L'albero dei destini sospesi | Samir | Rachid Benhadj | TV movie | |
1998 | Onorevoli detenuti | Omar | Giancarlo Planta | |
The Garden of Eden | Aziz | Alessandro D'Alatri | ||
Hideous Kinky | Bilal | Gillies MacKinnon | ||
Lascars | Voice | Laurent Nicolas | TV series (1 episode) | |
1999 | Prima del tramonto | Alì Ben Sellam | Stefano Incerti | |
Three Kings | Captain Said | David O. Russell | ||
Urlaub im Orient | Raschid | Michael Wenning | TV movie | |
2000 | La taule | The Innocent | Alain Robak | |
Nationale 7 | Rabah | Jean-Pierre Sinapi | ||
Ali Zaoua | Dib | Nabil Ayouch | ||
Room to Rent | Ali | Khalid Al-Haggar | ||
2001 | Gamer | Tony | Patrick Levy | |
Confession d'un dragueur | Fabio | Alain Soral | ||
Absolument fabuleux | Manu | Gabriel Aghion | ||
Le petit poucet | The Chief | Olivier Dahan (3) | ||
2002 | Vivante | D.J. | Sandrine Ray | |
The Good Thief | Paulo | Neil Jordan | ||
Entre chiens et loups | Werner | Alexandre Arcady | ||
2003 | Crime Spree | Sami | Brad Mirman | |
The West Wing | Ambassador Umar Usef | Christopher Misiano | TV series (1 episode) | |
2004 | Spartan | Tariq Asani | David Mamet | |
Hidalgo | Prince Bin Al Reeh | Joe Johnston | ||
I Heart Huckabees | The Translator | David O. Russell (2) | Central Ohio Film Critics Association - Best Ensemble | |
2005 | El khoubz el hafi | Rachid Benhadj (2) | ||
2006 | Five Fingers | Dark Eyes | Laurence Malkin | |
O Jerusalem | Saïd Chahine | Élie Chouraqui | ||
Djihad ! | Youssef | Felix Olivier | TV movie | |
Sleeper Cell | Hamid | Charles S. Dutton, Nick Gomez & Leslie Libman | TV series (3 episodes) | |
2007 | The Kite Runner | Farid | Marc Forster | |
Suspectes | Stanislas Lamérat | Laurent Dussaux | TV miniseries | |
2008 | Vantage Point | Suarez | Pete Travis | |
Traitor | Omar | Jeffrey Nachmanoff | Nominated - Black Reel Award for Best Breakthrough Performance | |
Kandisha | Dakir Nesri | Jerome Cohen-Olivar | ||
Mogadischu | Kapitän Mahmud | Roland Suso Richter | TV movie | |
House of Saddam | Barzan Ibrahim | Alex Holmes | TV miniseries | |
Duval et Moretti | Tarek | Dominique Guillo | TV series (1 episode) | |
2009 | G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra | Abel Shaz / Breaker | Stephen Sommers | |
Linear | Biker | Anton Corbijn | ||
Lost | Caesar | Stephen Williams & Jack Bender | TV series (4 episodes) | |
2010 | Djinns | Aroui | Hugues & Sandra Martin | |
The Killers | Abazar Khayami | Short | ||
2011 | Conan the Barbarian | Ela-Shan | Marcus Nispel | |
2012 | My Brother the Devil | Sayyid | Sally El Hosaini | |
Strike Back | Othmani | Paul Wilmshurst | TV series (2 episodes) | |
2013 | American Hustle | Irv's Sheik Plant | David O. Russell (3) | |
Touch | Guillermo Ortiz | Various | TV series (10 episodes) | |
2014 | The Missing | Khalid Ziane | Tom Shankland | TV series (8 episodes) |
2015 | For All Eyes Always | Iskandar Yasin | Rob Gordon Bralver | |
La nuit est faite pour dormir | Hassan | Adrien Costello | Short | |
2016 | The Infiltrator | Amjad Awan | Brad Furman | |
2017 | Wonder Woman | Sameer [6] | Patty Jenkins | |
2018 | At First Light | Cal | Jason Stone | |
2019 | John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum | The Elder | Chad Stahelski | |
2020 | Embattled | Claude Yaurek | Nick Sarkisov | |
2021 | The Forgiven | Anouar | John Michael McDonagh | |
2023 | The Family Plan | Augie | Simon Cellan Jones | |
TBA | Tin Soldier | TBA | Brad Furman | Post-production |