Actor
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 Richa ...

Known For
Acting
2025 -- Comme des riches |
2025 -- The 4th Wall | Marwan
2023 -- Mémoires de Palestine | Narrator (voice)
2022 -- Overdose | Daniel Prat
2022 -- The Way to Happiness | Saül Birnbaum
2022 -- Electre des bas-fonds |
2022 -- Restless | Antoine Marelli
2022 -- Cop Goes Missing | Tristan
2021 -- Off-Season | Anthony
2021 -- Permis de construire | Müller
2021 -- Black Notebooks |
2021 -- The Damned of the Paris Commune | Narrateur (voice)
2020 -- Le dernier jour du jeûne |
2019 -- The Audition | Philippe
2019 -- Someone, Somewhere | Mansour
2019 -- The Swallows of Kabul | Atiq (voice)
2019 -- Ce soir-là et les jours d'après | Karan
2019 -- Rebels | Simon Bénéké, Sandra's father
2018 -- The Sonata | Charles Vernais
2018 -- Cyrano, My Love | Ange Fleury
2017 -- Journey from Greece | Kakourgos
2017 -- Overdrive | Jacomo Morier
2017 -- J'ai tué ma femme | Le patron du café
2016 -- Il était une fois... « Le procès de Viviane Amsalem » | Self
2016 -- Scribe | Gerfaut
2016 -- Chouf | Le libanais
2015 -- Don't Tell Me the Boy Was Mad | Hovannès Alexandrian
2015 -- Tehlirian on Trial: Armenia's Avenger | Narrator
2015 -- 1915 | Simon
2014 -- The Cut | Krikor
2014 -- Colt 45 | Commander Luc Denard
2014 -- Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem | Elisha
2013 -- Angelique | L'avocat François Desgrez
2013 -- The Marchers | Le père de Farid
2012 -- Qu'est-ce qu'on va faire de toi? | Abraham Drucker
2012 -- Zarafa | Hassan (voice)
2011 -- Force | Jimi Weiss
2011 -- Les Amants naufragés | Milo Garavan
2010 -- Comme une ombre | Vincent
2010 -- Turk's Head | Le veuf
2009 -- Rage | Merlin
2009 -- Army of Crime | Missak Manouchian
2008 -- Secrets of State | Al Barad
2008 -- The Wedding Song | Raoul
2008 -- Le Menteur : La Pièce ! | Lelio
2008 -- A Day at the Museum | Gilles Paulin
2008 -- Khamsa | Khamsa's Father
2008 -- A World of Ours | L'oncle de Noé (voice)
2008 -- The Seven Days | Eliyau
2008 -- Minor Revelations |
2008 -- L'Affaire Ben Barka | le général Oufkir, ministre marocain de l'intérieur
2007 -- Rendition | Said Abdel Aziz
2007 -- New Délire | Gunter (voice)
2007 -- Persepolis | Marjane's Father (voice)
2007 -- Trivial | Pierre
2006 -- Casino Royale | Alex Dimitrios
2006 -- The Snake | Sam
2006 -- Armenia | Sarkis Arabian
2005 -- S.A.C. : Des hommes dans l'ombre | Cesari
2005 -- I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed | Mehdi Ben Barka
2005 -- Zaina: Rider of the Atlas | Omar
2005 -- Yes | He
2005 -- The Demon Stirs | Julien Cestac
2005 -- Les mauvais joueurs | Sahak
2005 -- In Your Dreams | Wilson
2004 -- To Take A Wife | Eliyahoo
2003 -- Not For, or Against (Quite the Contrary) | Freddy
2003 -- The Legend of Princess Parva | Swami (voice)
2002 -- Almost Peaceful | Albert
2002 -- Aram | Aram
2002 -- The Truth About Charlie | Lieutenant Dessalines
2002 -- Ararat | Arshile Gorky
1999 -- Lila Lili | Simon
1997 -- Tempest in a Teapot |
1997 -- J'irai au paradis car l'enfer est ici | Simon
1997 -- The Silence of Rak | Customer
1996 -- When the Cat's Away | Carlos
1994 -- Ana El Awan |
1994 -- Le Poisson rouge | Customer
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