Saïd Taghmaoui

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1973-07-19 (52 years old)

Place of Birth

Villepinte, Seine-Saint-Denis, France

Saïd Taghmaoui

Biography

Saïd Taghmaoui (born July 19, 1973) is a French actor and screenwriter of Moroccan background. One of his defining screen roles was that of Saïd in the award winning 1995 French film La Haine directed by Mathieu Kassovitz.However, Saïd has also appeared in a number of more recent English Language films, with roles such as the U.S.-trained philosophical Iraqi interrogator Captain 'My Main Man' Saïd in Three Kings, and as "Omar", the close radical Islamic associate of Don Cheadle (Samir), in the 2008 thriller Traitor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Saïd Taghmaoui, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

1995

La Haine

as Saïd

1999

2004

Hidalgo

as Prince Bin Al Reeh

2002

2008

Mogadischu

as Captain Mahmud

2008

Vantage Point

as Suarez

2003

2008

Traitor

as Omar

2011

2002

Break of Dawn

as Werner

2000

The Slammer

as L'innocent

1997

2022

The Forgiven

as Anouar

2006

O Jerusalem

as Saïd Chahine

2000

Nationale 7

as Rabah

2001

Gamer

as Tony

2010

Stranded

as Aroui

2013

American Hustle

as Irv's Sheik Plant

1999

Before the Sunset

as Alì Ben Sellam

2025

Tin Soldier

as Shinja Atlas

2024

The Killer

as Prince Majeb Bin Faheem

2004

I ♥ Huckabees

as Translator

2023

2017

2008

Kandisha

as Dakir Nesri

2017

Wonder Woman

as Sameer

2001

1999

Three Kings

as Captain Said

2009

Linear

as Cop/Biker

2006

Djihad!

as Youssef

2016

The Infiltrator

as Amjad Awan

2004

Spartan

as Tariq Asani

2001

Tom Thumb

as le chef de troupe

1999

2006

Five Fingers

as Dark Eyes

2007

2002

Alive

as The DJ Box

2018

2017

Espionage Tonight

as Iskandar Yasin

2020

Embattled

as Claude

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