Assaad Bouab
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Assaad Bouab | |
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| Born | 31 July 1980 |
| Education | CNSAD |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1997–present |
Assaad Bouab (born July 31, 1980) is a French actor whose first co-starring role was in Whatever Lola Wants, directed by Nabil Ayouch and co-starring Laura Ramsey as Lola. The film premiered on 11 December 2007 at the Dubai International Film Festival. Bouab attended Cours Florent from 1999 to 2002, and graduated from CNSAD in Paris in 2006. He has had a regular role in the awarded and popular French television series Call My Agent!.
Career[edit]
From 2017 to 2020, Bouab starred as Hicham Janowski in the French comedy-drama series Call My Agent!.[1] He also played CIA operative Qamar Maloof in the Netflix series Messiah.[1]
In 2021, Bouab starred in the romantic drama television miniseries written and directed by Emily Mortimer, The Pursuit of Love alongside Lily James and Andrew Scott.[2] Bouab joined the cast for the sixth and final season of Peaky Blinders in 2022.[3]
Theatre[edit]
| Year | Title | Author | Director |
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| 1997 | The Italian Straw Hat | Eugène Marin Labiche | Jacques Mandréa |
| 1998 | Zadig | Voltaire | Jacques Mandréa (2) |
| 2002 | Spring Awakening | Frank Wedekind | Jean-Pierre Garnier |
| 2003 | Twelfth Night | William Shakespeare | Andrzej Seweryn |
| La Reine écartelée | Christian Siméon | Julien Girardet | |
| 2004 | Phèdre | Jean Racine | Nada Strancar |
| Hippolyte | Robert Garnier | Nada Strancar (2) | |
| 2005 | I pettegolezzi delle donne | Carlo Goldoni | Muriel Mayette-Holtz |
| 2009 | The Plough and the Stars | Sean O'Casey | Irène Bonnaud |
| 2011 | One Thousand and One Nights | Tim Supple & Hanan El-Cheikh | Tim Supple |
| 2023 | Phaedra | Simon Stone after Euripides, Seneca and Racine | Simon Stone |
Filmography[edit]
| Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
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| 2002 | Seventeen Times Cecile Cassard | The waiter | Christophe Honoré | |
| Close to Leo | Aymeric | Christophe Honoré (2) | TV movie | |
| 2003 | Phares dans la nuit | The stranger | Laurence Côte | Short |
| 2005 | Marock | Mao | Laïla Marrakchi | |
| Zaïna, cavalière de l'Atlas | Kadour | Bourlem Guerdjou | ||
| 2006 | Days of Glory | Larbi | Rachid Bouchareb | |
| 2007 | Whatever Lola Wants | Zack | Nabil Ayouch | |
| Une famille formidable | Walid | Joël Santoni | TV series (1 episode) | |
| 2008 | Kandisha | The Cabalist | Jérôme Cohen-Olivar | |
| 2009 | Rose et noir | Flocon | Gérard Jugnot | |
| 2010 | Outside the Law | Ali | Rachid Bouchareb (2) | |
| 2012 | Road Nine | Yanis | Sebastien Rossi | |
| 2013 | Le clan des Lanzac | Brahim Hassani | Josée Dayan | TV movie |
| 2014 | Fadhma N'Soumer | Boubaghla | Belkacem Hadjadj | |
| Terra X | Nina Koshofer & Judith Voelker | TV series (1 episode) | ||
| 2015 | Queen of the Desert | Sheik | Werner Herzog | |
| Made in France | The imam | Nicolas Boukhrief | ||
| Le chant des hommes | H | Bénédicte Liénard & Mary Jimenez | ||
| Homeland | Waleed | Lesli Linka Glatter | TV series (1 episode) | |
| Tyrant | Commander Naga | Ciaran Donnelly | TV series (1 episode) | |
| Le Princess | Jalil Djebli | Lucie Borleteau | TV series (1 episode) | |
| 2016 | Ali and Nino | Ilyas | Asif Kapadia | |
| Braquo | Redouane Buzoni | Xavier Palud | TV series (6 episodes) | |
| Ghoul | Jad | Jean Luc Herbulot, Mehdi El Azam, ... | TV series (8 episodes) | |
| 2017-2020 | Call My Agent! | Hicham Janowski | Laurent Tirard | TV series (12 episodes) |
| 2020 | Messiah | Qamar Maalof | Michael Petroni | TV series, 10 episodes |
| 2021 | The Pursuit of Love | Fabrice de Sauveterre | Emily Mortimer | Miniseries, 3 episodes |
| 2022 | Peaky Blinders | Henri | Anthony Byrne | (TV Series, 2 episodes) |
| 2022 | Bad Sisters | Gabriel | Dearbhla Walsh, Josephine Bornebusch, Rebecca Gatward | (TV Series, 10 episodes) |
| 2024 | Franklin | Pierre Beaumarchais | Tim Van Patten | Upcoming miniseries |
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Call My Agent!'s Assaad Bouab on The Pursuit of Love: 'Being a heartthrob is pleasant'". inews.co.uk. May 4, 2022.
- ^ Cope, Rebecca (21 May 2021). "Meet Assaad Bouab: The actor playing Linda Radlett's sexy French paramour in 'The Pursuit of Love'". tatler.com.
- ^ "Moroccan actor Assaad Bouab Joins Peaky Blinders' Final Season". moroccanladies.com. 2022.
External links[edit]
- Assaad Bouab at IMDb
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