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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 3, 1967
Place of Birth
Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France
Also Known As
- Eriq Ebouanet
- Eriq Ebouanay
- Eriq Ebouaney
- Eriq Ebouney
Ériq Ebouaney
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Biography
Eriq Ebouaney (born 3 October 1967) is a French actor. He is best known for his portrayal as the Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba in the 2000 film Lumumba, as "Blacktie" in Brian De Palma's Femme Fatale and as "Ice" in the 2008 action film Transporter 3 in which he starred opposite Jason Statham. Recently, Eriq appeared in the 2025 Indian-Malayalam film L2: Empuraan, playing the role of Kabuga. Ebouaney was born in Angers, France, the son of Cameroonian immigrants. As a child he didn't show any interest in acting and was set on becoming a businessman. However, at the age of 30, he joined a theatre company and left his job as a sales manager to become a professional actor. He made his film debut in 1996 in the Cédric Klapisch directed film Chacun cherche son chat. He landed a leading role in the 2000 film Lumumba in which he portrayed Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba. The film was shot in Beira, Mozambique. In 2002, he starred in Brian De Palma's Femme Fatale alongside Antonio Banderas. In 2004, he played the character of Jean Claude in Mark Bamford's debut feature Cape of Good Hope. In 2005 he starred in the award-winning Ridley Scott film, Kingdom of Heaven, in which he starred alongside Michael Sheen, Liam Neeson, Orlando Bloom, David Thewlis, Martin Hancock and Nathalie Cox. In 2006, he starred in The Front Line and La piste. In 2008, he played a supporting role in the critically acclaimed Australian film Disgrace featuring American actor John Malkovich, a small role in the Italian film Bianco e nero and later was cast as "Ice" in Transporter 3, featuring British actor Jason Statham. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eriq Ebouaney, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
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Soumsoum, la nuit des astres
2026
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Césaire
Hyacinthe
2025
6.2
Kabuga
L2: Empuraan
2025
9.0
Racine Malik Niang
Lex Africana
2024
5.9
Professeur Ibrahima
Here and There
2024
8.0
Fallou Boukar
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon
2023
6.3
Bob Foret
Liaison
2023
6.5
Cézaire Nduka
Ritual
2022
7.0
Narrator (voice)
De Charles de Gaulle à Emmanuel Macron, les gardiens de l'empire
2022
7.4
Self
Exterminate All the Brutes
2021
Credits
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Soumsoum, la nuit des astres
2026
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Hyacinthe
as Césaire
2025
0.0
L2: Empuraan
as Kabuga
2025
6.2
Lex Africana
as Racine Malik Niang
2024
9.0
Here and There
as Professeur Ibrahima
2024
5.9
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon
as Fallou Boukar
2023
8.0
Liaison
as Bob Foret
2023
6.3
Ritual
as Cézaire Nduka
2022
6.5
De Charles de Gaulle à Emmanuel Macron, les gardiens de l'empire
as Narrator (voice)
2022
7.0
Exterminate All the Brutes
as Self
2021
7.4
Rogue City
as Stephan Jankovic
2020
5.9
Earth and Blood
as Adama
2020
6.1
I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere
as Doctor
2020
6.2
Domino
as Ezra Tarzi
2019
4.6
Kaniama Show
2018
4.0
Belleville Cop
as Ladji Touré
2018
5.0
A Season in France
as Abbas Mahadjir
2018
5.5
China Salesman
as Sheik Asaid
2017
5.4
African Storm: A Continent Under Influence
as Dolomey
2017
6.2
Past Imperfect
as Michel
2017
5.8
Gang of the Caribbean
as Politik
2016
5.2
Bastille Day
as Baba
2016
6.3
All Three of Us
as Adama
2015
7.5
Capitaine Marleau
as Colonel Douala
2015
6.0
Mother(s)
as Alioune
2015
4.4
SMS
as Le grand flic
2014
4.6
Le Crocodile du Botswanga
as Lieutenant Yaya
2014
5.2
3 Days to Kill
as Jules
2014
6.1
Stalingrad Lovers
as Jupiter
2013
0.0
Aya of Yop City
as Hyacinthe
2013
7.2
Italian Movies
as Zahur
2013
4.7
Falco
as Père de Simon
2013
7.1
Jo
as Amadou
2013
6.3
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Dakar Trottoirs
as Maitre
2013
0.0
Metal Hurlant Chronicles
as Kaskoff
2012
6.0
Clash
as Abel Diop, père d'Hugo
2012
5.0
Henry
as Karanja
2012
4.4
Black Gold
as Hassan Dakhil
2011
6.5
Death in Paradise
as Theo Frazier
2011
7.5
Case départ
as Isidore
2011
6.0
Implosion
as Wilhelm
2011
4.5
The White Line
as François
2010
5.0
In Gold We Trust
as Melchior
2010
5.2
Carlos
as Hassan al-Tourabi
2010
7.0
Blackout
as Monsieur-la-Bête
2010
4.2
Le temps de la kermesse est terminé
as Lieutenant Bado
2010
0.0
Thelma, Louise et Chantal
as Agent immobilier
2010
5.6
The Horde
as Adewale
2010
6.0
Fais danser la poussière
as Suleyman
2010
7.4
Omar
as Le père d'Omar
2009
5.0
Thirst
as Immanuel
2009
7.1
35 Shots of Rum
as Blanchard
2009
6.8
King Guillaume
as Le curé
2009
4.5
Baby Love
as l'assistant social
2008
5.5
Transporter 3
as Ice
2008
6.2
Disgrace
as Petrus
2008
6.2
Ca$h
as Letallec
2008
5.7
Black and White
as Bertrand
2008
5.3
Hitman
as Bwana Ovie
2007
6.2
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Magic Paris
2007
4.3
Africa Paradise
as M'Doula
2007
4.7
The Nativity Story
as Balthasar
2006
6.9
The Front Line
as Joe Yumba
2006
6.3
The Trail
as Kadjiro
2006
6.6
Kingdom of Heaven
as Firuz
2005
7.0
San Antonio
as Jérémie Blanc
2004
3.4
Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse
as Policier
2004
6.1
The Silence of the Forest
as Gonaba
2003
6.0
French Wedding, Caribbean Style
2002
9.0
Femme Fatale
as Black Tie
2002
6.1
The Three Kings
as Babar le videur
2001
5.7
My Wife Is an Actress
as Le videur de la boite
2001
6.1
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Villa mon rêve
as Touré Dialo
2001
0.0
Bàttu
2000
1.0
Lumumba
as Patrice Émery Lumumba
2000
6.7
The Children of the Marshland
as 'Banania'
1999
7.1
Vivement dimanche
as Self
1998
3.0
La Mort du Chinois
as Bekate, nurse
1998
6.0
XXL
as Omar
1997
4.0
When the Cat's Away
as Ouvrier ébéniste
1996
6.2