Biography
Jacky Nercessian (or Nersessian (Armenian: Ժաքի Ներսեսյան), born November 16, 1950) is a French actor who is ethnically Armenian. One of his most known roles is Apkar in Mayrig by Henri Verneuil. Nercessian was born in 1950 in Saint-Etienne. He graduated from the Department of Theology to become a Pastor in England. He has played both in cinema and TV – including the role of Mustafa Ismael Faruki in Long Journey (Golden Lion for the Best Feature Film, Venice IFF, 2004). Nercessian played in the...
Known For
Complete Filmography

God Save the Tuche
2025
as Vieux Lord
When Jeff and Cathy’s grandson Jiji is selected for a training camp with Arsenal, it’s a dream opportunity for the whole family to head over to Englan...

Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin
2024
as Pastor
As the world teeters on the brink of annihilation, Dietrich Bonhoeffer joins a deadly plot to assassinate Hitler, risking his faith and fate to save m...

The President's Wife
2023
as Father Mouret
When she arrived at the Elysée Palace, Bernadette Chirac expected to finally get the place she deserved, she who had always worked in the shadow of he...

Les Vengeances de Maître Poutifard
2023
as Mr. Pascal
The tasty story of a retired teacher who decides to make his former students pay for years of heckling and humiliation.

Sarcelles, Nord
2023

Simone: Woman of the Century
2022
as Président Edgar Faure
Simone Veil's life story through the pivotal events of Twentieth Century. Her childhood, her political battles, her tragedies. An intimate and epic po...

Hear Me Out
2021
as Monsieur Molina
Antoine, a history teacher in his early 50s, learns that he has become very hard of hearing. Unable to own up to his handicap, he resigns himself to l...

Voyeur(s)
2020
as Voyeur
The story of a man who has decided to turn his hotel into a laboratory for personal fantasies. Behind each door, in the intimacy of crossed paths in t...

Golden Youth
2019
as Aziz
Paris, France, 1979. Rose, a rebellious orphaned teenager, and Michel, a young aspiring painter, enjoy their crazy love under the neon lights of the d...

The Nansen Passport
2016
as Self
On July 5th, 1922, Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat Fridtjof Nansen creates a passport with which, between 1922 and 1945, he managed to prot...

Pitchipoï
2015
as Le rabbin
Julien Schulmann is a comedian. He has just lost his father, a Polish Jew and extermination camp survivor. Before he died, his father left a "will" in...

In the Name of the Son
2012
as Bishop
When Elisabeth, a woman of faith, host of a radio show on a Catholic radio station, devoted to her family and the suffering of the world, is confronte...

Do Not Forget Me Istanbul
2012
Several directors from countries of the region were invited to create stories taking place in and around the beautiful city of Istanbul, in the vein o...

Elsewhere
2010
as Boss of the Hôtel du Palais
Patrick Perrin is a dealer in a small seaside casino. His dream? To leave. To leave everything for an unknown destination. But a trip such as this doe...

The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec
2010
as Marie-Joseph Espérandieu
An adventure set in the early part of the 20th century, focused on a popular novelist and her dealings with would-be suitors, the cops, monsters, and ...

Legal Aid
2009
as La seconde présidente du tribunal (as Jackie Nercessian)
At the age of forty, Antoine Lahoud is still defending petty criminals who are entitled only to legal aid. He still has a quixotic notion of his missi...

Capitaine Casta : Amélie a disparu
2007
as Brickman

Let's Dance
2007
as Mayor
In the Bellinsky family: there is Solomon the father, 80 years old, brimming with life. He is fighting not to be buried too quickly, between tap dance...

Jean-Philippe
2006
as Teacher
A bourgeois office drone whose raison d'être is the music of French rocker Johnny Hallyday awakens one day in an alternate universe where the famed mu...

Le Procès de Bobigny
2006
In 1972 16-year-old Marie-Claire became pregnant after a rape. With help from her mother Michelle and three other women, she underwent a clandestine a...

Comedy of Power
2006
as Le maître d'hôtel du club
Magistrate Jeanne Charmant-Killman doggedly investigates CEO Michel Humeau, who is accused of participating in massive corporate malfeasance. As her i...

Incontrôlable
2006
as Pierre-Emmanuel
Georges, one morning, became uncontrollable despite himself. Something that has the donkey's voice in Shrek, can control his body.

Le Cactus
2005
as Le producteur
Sami and Patrick are long-time friends. Sami is a hypochondriac. One day, following a misunderstanding at the hospital, Sami thinks he has an incurabl...

La Femme coquelicot
2005
as le professeur de tango
A septuagenarian widow feels revived by an old painter with whom she falls in love.

Coup de vache
2004
as Le chauffeur de taxi
An old man bequeaths his fortune to a television host, much to the chagrin of his own family.

The Great Journey
2004
as Mustapha
Reda, summoned to accompany his father on a pilgrimage to Mecca, complies reluctantly - as he preparing for his baccalaureat and, even more important,...

The Butterfly
2002
as Policeman
An old man who has one interest in life, collecting butterflies, has his life changed by an eight year old girl.
Zone reptile
2002
as Jean-Pierre
17 year old Mic feels constrained in a world which is not his own: a lower middleclass suburb of Marseilles, conformism... His being different drives ...

The Three Kings
2001
as Le moine bouddhiste
The Three Wise Men – Balthazar, Melchior and Gaspard – are on their way to Bethlehem to pay homage to the infant Jesus when they are suddenly, an inex...

Monsieur Naphtali
1999
as Riaz Hiridjee
Monsieur Naphtali is a good-natured but somewhat feeble older man turned away from the rest home where he lives. In search of a place to stay, he find...

Le double de ma moitié
1999
With the help of a hidden twin sister, a couturier tries to take revenge on his wife who cheats on him with his partner.
Vive la mariée... et la libération du Kurdistan
1998
as Remzi
Kurdish expert Hiner Saleem (Shero) wrote and directed this French comedy-drama, set inside the 100,000-population Kurdish community in Paris. The ori...

Christmas at Bunny's
1997
Santa Claus is depressed and refuses to give away gifts as he usually does. Bugs Bunny is charged with finding him and cheering him up back into his j...

The Three Brothers
1995
as Le présentateur du Millionnaire
Three half-brothers are reunited at their mother's funeral. After being told of their inheritance they quickly spend the money, only to find out that ...

Peggio di così si muore
1995
as Flanagan
In this deliberately campy, slightly slapstick European parody of Alfred Hitchcock films from the 1950s, a newlywed couple returns from their honeymoo...

Colonel Chabert
1994
as Delbecq
When Colonel Chabert returns from the war, he discovers that he has lost everything.

Why Is Mother in My Bed?
1994
Following a bet with his friends, Antoine steals a jacket. The life of his parents will be turned upside down.

The Thirst for Gold
1993
as Le représentant
Urbain Donnadieu's first love is money. It's also his second, third and fourth love. The only reason he married - a tax inspector named Fleurette - wa...

Les Mamies
1992
as Le prêtre
When 12 year old Alex runs away, his grandmother ask her 6 friends for help and follow the kid from Paris to Lisbon.

588 rue Paradis
1992
as Apkar
A successful playwright reflects on his journey from his Armenian roots to adapting in France, forty years after his family's move to Marseilles. He n...

Mother
1991
as Apkar
Henri Verneuil was born Achod Malakian of Armenian parentage on October 15, 1920, in Rodosto, Turkey, and his family fled to France and settled in Mar...