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Saïd Taghmaoui

Acting

Born July 19, 1973 · Villepinte, Seine-Saint-Denis, France

Also known as Said Taghmaoui · سعيد تغماوي · سعيد التغماوي

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.

Filmography36 titles

The West Wing

1999as Umar Usef

La haine

1995as Saïd

Lost

2004as Caesar

John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum

2019as The Elder

Sleeper Cell

2005

The Kite Runner

2007as Farid

The Family Plan

2023as Augie

Wonder Woman

2017as Sameer

The Missing

2014as Khalid Ziane

American Hustle

2013as Irv's Sheik Plant

House of Saddam

2008as Barzan Ibrahim

Hidalgo

2004as Prince Bin Al Reeh

Ballers

2015as Psychiatrist

Embattled

2020as Claude

The Infiltrator

2016as Amjad Awan

Touch

2012as Guillermo Ortiz

Traitor

2008as Omar

Three Kings

1999as Captain Said

My Brother the Devil

2012as Sayyid

Vantage Point

2008as Suarez

The Killer

2024as Prince Majeb Bin Faheem

I Heart Huckabees

2004as Translator

Spartan

2004as Tariq Asani

Professionals

2020as Tariq Basari

O Jerusalem

2006as Saïd Chahine

The Good Thief

2002as Paulo

Five Fingers

2006as Dark Eyes

Hideous Kinky

1998as Bilal

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

2009as Breaker

The Forgiven

2021as Anouar

At First Light

2018as Cal

Crime Spree

2003as Sami

Conan the Barbarian

2011as Ela-Shan

Heroines

1997as JP

Tin Soldier

2025as Shinja Atlas

Espionage Tonight

2017as Iskandar Yasin