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Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 5, 1962
Place of Birth
Gonesse, Val d'Oise, France
Also Known As
- Simone Abkarian
Simon Abkarian
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Biography
Simon Abkarian (born 5 March 1962) is a French-Armenian actor. Born in Gonesse, Val d'Oise, 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 Mnouchkine's 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 Potter's Yes (2004), in which he played the lead role. Abkarian then played Mehdi Ben Barka in the thriller "J'ai 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 l'Atlas" by Bourlem Guerdjou, in the comedy "Le Démon de midi" by Marie-Pascale Osterriet. He has also appeared in Atom Egoyan's 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 .
Known For
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Charles De Gaulle
La Bataille De Gaulle, film 2 : J'écris ton nom
2026
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Charles De Gaulle
La Bataille De Gaulle, film 1 : L'âge de fer
2026
0.0
Vanished
2026
0.0
Lakhdar
Chroniques d'un indic
2025
7.3
Marwan
The 4th Wall
2025
0.0
Narrator (voice)
Mémoires de Palestine
2023
6.5
Daniel Prat
Overdose
2022
5.8
Max
Notre-Dame
2022
5.9
Saül Birnbaum
The Way to Happiness
2022
0.0
Electre des bas-fonds
2022
Credits
La Bataille De Gaulle, film 2 : J'écris ton nom
as Charles De Gaulle
2026
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La Bataille De Gaulle, film 1 : L'âge de fer
as Charles De Gaulle
2026
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Vanished
2026
0.0
Chroniques d'un indic
as Lakhdar
2025
0.0
The 4th Wall
as Marwan
2025
7.3
Mémoires de Palestine
as Narrator (voice)
2023
0.0
Overdose
as Daniel Prat
2022
6.5
Notre-Dame
as Max
2022
5.8
The Way to Happiness
as Saül Birnbaum
2022
5.9
Electre des bas-fonds
2022
0.0
Restless
as Antoine Marelli
2022
6.1
Cop Goes Missing
as Tristan
2022
4.6
Off-Season
as Anthony
2021
5.3
Permis de construire
as Müller
2021
5.5
Black Notebooks
2021
6.4
Les Damnés de la Commune
as Narrateur (voice)
2021
7.1
Le dernier jour du jeûne
2020
7.5
Wonderland
as Tony
2020
6.8
The Audition
as Philippe
2019
5.9
Someone, Somewhere
as Mansour
2019
6.4
The Swallows of Kabul
as Atiq (voice)
2019
7.7
Ce soir-là et les jours d'après
as Karan
2019
5.0
Rebels
as Simon Bénéké, Sandra's father
2019
6.1
The Sonata
as Charles Vernais
2018
4.8
Cyrano, My Love
as Ange Fleury
2018
7.5
Journey from Greece
as Kakourgos
2017
6.2
Overdrive
as Jacomo Morier
2017
6.1
Playground
as The Father
2017
7.1
J'ai tué ma femme
as Le patron du café
2017
0.0
Il était une fois... « Le procès de Viviane Amsalem »
as Self
2016
0.0
Scribe
as Gerfaut
2016
5.9
Chouf
as Le libanais
2016
6.2
Malaterra
as Thomas Rotman
2015
7.0
Don't Tell Me the Boy Was Mad
as Hovannès Alexandrian
2015
6.5
🎬
Tehlirian on Trial: Armenia's Avenger
as Narrator
2015
8.0
1915
as Simon
2015
3.5
The Cut
as Krikor
2014
5.9
Colt 45
as Commander Luc Denard
2014
5.7
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
as Elisha
2014
7.5
Angélique
as L'avocat François Desgrez
2013
6.5
The Marchers
as Le père de Farid
2013
6.3
Qu'est-ce qu'on va faire de toi?
as Abraham Drucker
2012
7.0
Kaboul Kitchen
as Colonel Amanullah
2012
5.8
Zarafa
as Hassan (voice)
2012
6.8
Force
as Jimi Weiss
2011
4.6
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Les Amants naufragés
as Milo Garavan
2011
4.1
Tony's Revenge
as Tony Roucas
2011
5.8
Comme une ombre
as Vincent
2010
0.0
Turk's Head
as Le veuf
2010
5.7
Pigalle, la nuit
as Nadir Zainoun
2009
6.3
Rage
as Merlin
2009
3.5
Army of Crime
as Missak Manouchian
2009
6.4
Secrets of State
as Al Barad
2008
5.8
The Wedding Song
as Raoul
2008
5.0
Le Menteur : La Pièce !
as Lelio
2008
0.0
A Day at the Museum
as Gilles Paulin
2008
4.5
Khamsa
as Khamsa's Father
2008
5.8
House of Saddam
as Qais
2008
6.8
A World of Ours
as L'oncle de Noé (voice)
2008
6.2
The Seven Days
as Eliyau
2008
6.4
Minor Revelations
2008
0.0
L'Affaire Ben Barka
as le général Oufkir, ministre marocain de l'intérieur
2008
1.0
Rendition
as Said Abdel Aziz
2007
6.4
New Délire
as Gunter (voice)
2007
1.0
Persepolis
as Marjane's Father (voice)
2007
7.9
Trivial
as Pierre
2007
4.2
Casino Royale
as Alex Dimitrios
2006
7.6
The Snake
as Sam
2006
6.1
Armenia
as Sarkis Arabian
2006
5.6
S.A.C. : Des hommes dans l'ombre
as Cesari
2005
7.5
I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed
as Mehdi Ben Barka
2005
5.4
Zaina: Rider of the Atlas
as Omar
2005
6.9
Yes
as He
2005
5.7
The Demon Stirs
as Julien Cestac
2005
3.0
Les mauvais joueurs
as Sahak
2005
4.6
In Your Dreams
as Wilson
2005
5.2
To Take A Wife
as Eliyahoo
2004
5.7
Not For, or Against (Quite the Contrary)
as Freddy
2003
5.9
The Legend of Princess Parva
as Swami (voice)
2003
6.5
Almost Peaceful
as Albert
2002
5.4
Aram
as Aram
2002
5.4
The Truth About Charlie
as Lieutenant Dessalines
2002
4.8
Ararat
as Arshile Gorky
2002
6.1
Spooks
as Dariush Bakhshi
2002
7.7
Lila Lili
as Simon
1999
0.0
Tempest in a Teapot
1997
6.0
J'irai au paradis car l'enfer est ici
as Simon
1997
6.0
The Silence of Rak
as Customer
1997
6.0
When the Cat's Away
as Carlos
1996
6.2
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Ana El Awan
1994
5.4
Le Poisson rouge
as Customer
1994
2.0
La nuit miraculeuse
1989
0.0
🎬
Le lièvre
N/A
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Playground
as The Father
N/A
0.0
🎬
Malin Fors
N/A
0.0
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God Will Know His Own
N/A
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