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Saïd Taghmaoui

Saïd Taghmaoui

Birthday: 1973-07-19 | Place of Birth: Villepite, Seine-Saint-Denis, France

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
The Forgiven

as    Anouar

2020
Embattled

as    Claude

2019
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum

as    The Elder

2018
At First Light

as    Cal

2017
Espionage Tonight

as    Iskandar Yasin

2017
Wonder Woman

as    Sameer

2012
My Brother the Devil

as    Sayyid

2009
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

as    Breaker

2009
Linear

as    Cop/Biker

2008
House of Saddam

as    Barzan Ibrahim

2008
House of Saddam

as    Barzan Ibrahim

2008
Mogadischu

as    Captain Mahmud

2008
Kandisha

as    Dakir Nesri

2008
Traitor

as    Omar

2008
Vantage Point

as    Suarez

2007
The Kite Runner

as    Farid

2007
O Jerusalem

as    Saïd Chahine

2006
Five Fingers

as    Dark Eyes

2003
Crime Spree

as    Sami

1999
Hideous Kinky

as    Bilal

1999
Three Kings

as    Captain Said

1997
Heroines

as    JP