Simon Abkarian

Personal Info

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Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1962-03-05 (63 years old)

Place of Birth

Gonesse, Val d'Oise, France

Simon Abkarian

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 an...

Acting

2007

Trivial

as Pierre

2007

Persepolis

as Marjane's Father (voice)

2006

The Snake

as Sam

2009

Army of Crime

as Missak Manouchian

2004

To Take A Wife

as Eliyahoo

1996

2005

Yes

as He

2008

2021

2009

Rage

as Merlin

2022

Overdose

as Daniel Prat

2021

Off-Season

as Anthony

2006

Casino Royale

as Alex Dimitrios

2002

2010

Turk's Head

as Le veuf

2002

Ararat

as Arshile Gorky

2008

Secrets of State

as Al Barad

2008

2022

Restless

as Antoine Marelli

2006

Armenia

as Sarkis Arabian

2012

Zarafa

as Hassan (voice)

2005

The Demon Stirs

as Julien Cestac

2011

Force

as Jimi Weiss

2022

The Way to Happiness

as Saül Birnbaum

2002

Aram

as Aram

2011

Les Amants naufragés

as Milo Garavan

-

De Gaulle – Partie 2

as Charles De Gaulle

1997

2013

Angelique

as L'avocat François Desgrez

1999

Lila Lili

as Simon

2012

2025

The 4th Wall

as Marwan

2014

The Cut

as Krikor

2014

Colt 45

as Commander Luc Denard

2005

I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed

as Mehdi Ben Barka

2023

Mémoires de Palestine

as Narrator (voice)

2015

1915

as Simon

2015

Don't Tell Me the Boy Was Mad

as Hovannès Alexandrian

2010

Comme une ombre

as Vincent

2007

New Délire

as Gunter (voice)

2003

2008

A World of Ours

as L'oncle de Noé (voice)

2017

Overdrive

as Jacomo Morier

2017

J'ai tué ma femme

as Le patron du café

2017

2005

2016

Chouf

as Le libanais

2018

The Sonata

as Charles Vernais

2016

Scribe

as Gerfaut

2018

Cyrano, My Love

as Ange Fleury

2019

Rebels

as Simon Bénéké, Sandra's father

2019

The Audition

as Philippe

2019

2019

The Swallows of Kabul

as Atiq (voice)

2002

The Truth About Charlie

as Lieutenant Dessalines

2008

L'Affaire Ben Barka

as le général Oufkir, ministre marocain de l'intérieur

2007

Rendition

as Said Abdel Aziz

2013

The Marchers

as Le père de Farid

2021

Les Damnés de la Commune

as Narrateur (voice)

1994

Le Poisson rouge

as Customer

2008

Khamsa

as Khamsa's Father

2008

A Day at the Museum

as Gilles Paulin

2022

-

Playground

as The Father

Production

1995

2022

Electre des bas-fonds

as Scenario Writer

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