Simon Abkarian

ActorWriterCrew Mar 5 (age 64) Gonesse, Val d'Oise, France 1989–2026 (37 year career)

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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 Richa…

Known For

Film

Casino Royale

Alex Dimitrios

Film

Persepolis

Marjane's Father (voice)

Film

Dead Man Walking

Thanks

Film

Cyrano, My Love

Ange Fleury

Film

Rendition

Said Abdel Aziz

Film

Overdrive

Jacomo Morier

Film

Someone, Somewhere

Mansour

Film

The Swallows of Kabul

Atiq (voice)

Filmography

Acting (96)

Movies (85)

De Gaulle: Tilting Iron (Film 1)

2026 Upcoming

as Charles De Gaulle

Jun 3

De Gaulle: The Sovereign Edge (Film 2)

2026 Upcoming

as Charles De Gaulle

Jul 3

The 4th Wall

2025

as Marwan

7.3

Chroniques d'un indic

2025

as Lakhdar

Mémoires de Palestine

2023

as Narrator (voice)

Cop Goes Missing

as Tristan

Restless

as Antoine Marelli

Overdose

as Daniel Prat

The Way to Happiness

as Saül Birnbaum

Electre des bas-fonds

Off-Season

as Anthony

Permis de construire

as Müller

Black Notebooks

Les Damnés de la Commune

2021

as Narrateur (voice)

7.1

Le dernier jour du jeûne

2020

7.5

Ce soir-là et les jours d'après

as Karan

The Audition

as Philippe

Someone, Somewhere

as Mansour

The Swallows of Kabul

2019

as Atiq (voice)

7.7

Rebels

2019

as Simon Bénéké, Sandra's father

Cyrano, My Love

as Ange Fleury

The Sonata

as Charles Vernais

Overdrive

as Jacomo Morier

Journey from Greece

as Kakourgos

J'ai tué ma femme

as Le patron du café

Scribe

as Gerfaut

Chouf

as Le libanais

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

2016

as Self

Tehlirian on Trial: Armenia's Avenger

as Narrator

1915

as Simon

Don't Tell Me the Boy Was Mad

2015

as Hovannès Alexandrian

6.5

Colt 45

2014

as Commander Luc Denard

5.6

The Cut

2014

as Krikor

5.9

Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem

2014

as Elisha

7.5

Angélique

2013

as L'avocat François Desgrez

The Marchers

as Le père de Farid

Zarafa

as Hassan (voice)

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

as Abraham Drucker

Les Amants naufragés

as Milo Garavan

Force

as Jimi Weiss

Turk's Head

as Le veuf

Comme une ombre

as Vincent

Army of Crime

as Missak Manouchian

Rage

as Merlin

Khamsa

as Khamsa's Father

The Wedding Song

as Raoul

The Seven Days

as Eliyau

A Day at the Museum

as Gilles Paulin

L'Affaire Ben Barka

as le général Oufkir, ministre marocain de l'intérieur

1.0

Secrets of State

2008

as Al Barad

5.8

Le Menteur : La Pièce !

2008

as Lelio

Minor Revelations

2008

A World of Ours

2008

as L'oncle de Noé (voice)

6.2

Persepolis

2007

as Marjane's Father (voice)

Rendition

as Said Abdel Aziz

New Délire

as Gunter (voice)

Trivial

as Pierre

Casino Royale

as Alex Dimitrios

The Snake

as Sam

Armenia

as Sarkis Arabian

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

as Cesari

Yes

as He

Zaina: Rider of the Atlas

as Omar

In Your Dreams

as Wilson

I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed

as Mehdi Ben Barka

Les mauvais joueurs

as Sahak

The Demon Stirs

as Julien Cestac

To Take A Wife

as Eliyahoo

The Legend of Princess Parva

2003

as Swami (voice)

6.5

Not For, or Against (Quite the Contrary)

as Freddy

Ararat

as Arshile Gorky

The Truth About Charlie

2002

as Lieutenant Dessalines

Aram

as Aram

Almost Peaceful

as Albert

Lila Lili

as Simon

Tempest in a Teapot

1997

6.0

J'irai au paradis car l'enfer est ici

as Simon

The Silence of Rak

as Customer

When the Cat's Away

as Carlos

Le Poisson rouge

as Customer

Ana El Awan

La nuit miraculeuse

Le lièvre

Playground

as The Father

God Will Know His Own

Television (11)

Vanished

as Gaspard Drax

Notre-Dame

as Max

Wonderland

as Tony

Playground

as The Father

Malaterra

as Thomas Rotman

Kaboul Kitchen

as Colonel Amanullah

Tony's Revenge

as Tony Roucas

Pigalle, la nuit

as Nadir Zainoun

House of Saddam

as Qais

Spooks

as Dariush Bakhshi

Malin Fors

Crew (3)

Movies (3)

Electre des bas-fonds

2022

Scenario Writer

Le dernier jour du jeûne

Writer

Dead Man Walking

Thanks