Saïd Taghmaoui

Saïd Taghmaoui


  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 19-07-1973
  • Gender: Male
  • Place of Birth: Villepinte, Seine-Saint-Denis, France
  • Also Known As:

    Said Taghmaoui
    سعيد تغماوي

  • Popularity: 15.12
  • Homepage: N/A


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.




Year Movie Character
2001 Gamer as Tony
2001 Room to Rent as Ali
2009 Linear as Cop/Biker
2006 Djihad! as Youssef
1999 Before the Sunset as Alì Ben Sellam
2004 For Bread Alone
2010 La Blessure, la tragédie des harkis as Narrator (voice)
1998 Hideous Kinky as Bilal
2002 Break of Dawn as Werner
2006 Ô Jerusalem as Saïd Chahine
2010 Stranded as Aroui
2001 Confession of a Dredger as Fabio
2008 Kandisha as Dakir Nesri
1995 La Haine as Saïd
2003 The Good Thief as Paulo
2008 Mogadischu as Captain Mahmud
2000 Nationale 7 as Rabah
2016 Money Man
1999 Last Minute Kasbah as Raschid
2018 At First Light as Cal
2012 Il était une fois... La Haine
2012 My Brother the Devil as Sayyid
1970 The Family Plan
2008 Traitor as Omar
2000 The Slammer as L'innocent
1997 Heroines as JP
1998 The Garden of Eden as Aziz
2017 Espionage Tonight as Iskandar Yasin
2003 Crime Spree as Sami
1995 Brothers: Red Roulette as Paul
2000 Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets as Dib
2009 G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra as Breaker
2007 The Kite Runner as Farid
2006 Five Fingers as Dark Eyes
1970 Tin Soldier as Shinja Atlas
2001 Absolutely Fabulous as Manu
1995 J'aime beaucoup ce que vous faites as Maxime
2017 Wonder Woman as Sameer
1994 Putain de porte
1999 Three Kings as Captain Said
2008 Vantage Point as Suarez
2022 The Forgiven as Anouar
2019 John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum as Elder
2020 Embattled as Claude
2004 Spartan as Tariq Asani
2011 Conan the Barbarian as Ela-Shan
2013 American Hustle as Irv's Sheik Plant
2002 Alive as The DJ Box
2001 Tom Thumb as The Troop Leader
2004 Hidalgo as Prince Bin Al Reeh
2016 The Infiltrator as Amjad Awan
2004 I ♥ Huckabees as Translator
2020 Wonder Woman 1984 as Sameer (Photograph)
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2004 Lost (4 episode) as Caesar
2008 House of Saddam (4 episode) as Barzan Ibrahim
2012 Touch (13 episode) as Guillermo Ortiz
2020 All the Way Up (9 episode) as Nasser Berou
2020 Professionals (4 episode) as Tariq Basari
2007 Suspectes (8 episode) as Stan Lamérat
2005 Sleeper Cell (3 episode)

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