Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Eriq Ebouaney is a French film actor. He is best known for his portrayal as the Congolese President Patrice Lumumba in the 2000 film Lumumba, as "Blacktie" in Brian De Palma's Femme Fatale and as "Ice" in the 2008 action film Transporter 3 in which he starred opposite Jason Statham. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eriq Ebouaney, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Hyacinthe
2025
as Césaire

L2: Empuraan
2025
as Kabuga
Five years after becoming Chief Minister of Kerala, Jathin Ramdas's move to align with communal forces led by Balraj 'Baba' Bajrangi, triggers Stephen...

Here and There
2024
as Professeur Ibrahima
A visa problem forces Adrien back to Paris after 15 years in Senegal with his wife Aminata. Her cousin Sékou, now distanced from his Senegalese origin...

Ritual
2022
as Cézaire Nduka
The discovery of a chopped-off hand in a Brussels canal forces Belgian police diver Kiki to face deep guilt from the past, her own and her country’s. ...

De Charles de Gaulle à Emmanuel Macron, les gardiens de l'empire
2022
as Narrator (voice)

Lingui: The Sacred Bonds
2021
Thanks
On the outskirts of the capital of Chad, determined single mother Amina works tirelessly to provide for herself and her 15-year old daughter Maria. Wh...

Rogue City
2020
as Stephan Jankovic
Caught in the crosshairs of police corruption and Marseille’s warring gangs, a loyal cop must protect his squad by taking matters into his own hands.

Earth and Blood
2020
as Adama
A sawmill owner and his teenage daughter become tangled in a deadly feud when a drug dealer stashes stolen cocaine on their remote property.

I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere
2020
as Doctor
In the beautiful family home, at the end of the summer, Monique celebrates her 70th birthday, surrounded by her 4 children, all of whom have come for ...

Domino
2019
as Ezra Tarzi
Seeking justice for his partner’s murder by an ISIS member, a Copenhagen police officer finds himself caught in a cat and mouse game with a duplicitou...

Kaniama Show
2018
Kaniama Show is a satire of national TV in an African country, spreading its propaganda of soft power between complaisant interviews and musical inter...

Belleville Cop
2018
as Ladji Touré
When a childhood friend from Miami gets killed after he comes to warn of encroaching drug gangs, Baaba moves to Miami and teams up with a local office...

A Season in France
2018
as Abbas Mahadjir
An African high school teacher flees his war-torn country for France, where he falls in love with a Frenchwoman who offers a roof for him and his fami...

China Salesman
2017
as Sheik Asaid
Yan Jian, a young Chinese IT engineer who volunteers to go to North Africa and help the company he works for to win a competition. The winner can own ...

African Storm: A Continent Under Influence
2017
as Dolomey
The president of an African country, suffering from seeing its rich natural resources exploited only by western corporations, decides to nationalize a...

Past Imperfect
2017
as Michel
Alice leads a routine life as an escort and dodges social contact. When she's forced to take care of her son after the death of her ex, her apparent i...

Gang of the Caribbean
2016
as Politik
A gun to be heard, a pen to make yourself understood. The identical course of four young West Indians men who arrived to Paris in the 70's.

Bastille Day
2016
as Baba
Michael Mason is an American pickpocket living in Paris who finds himself hunted by the CIA when he steals a bag that contains more than just a wallet...

All Three of Us
2015
as Adama
An Iranian family survives the shah and the ayatollah and moves to France. This story follows the family through it all. Despite the politics, revolut...

Mother(s)
2015
as Alioune
The 8-year-old Aida lives in an apartment in the Parisian suburb. The daily life of Aida and the whole family is overwhelmed when her father comes bac...

SMS
2014
as Le grand flic
At 9:00, Laurent receives a worrying text message. 9:01, his mobile's stolen. 9:30, his son disappears. 10:00, his house burns down. 10:15, his wife l...

Le Crocodile du Botswanga
2014
as Lieutenant Yaya
Leslie Konda young talented French footballer spotted in his teens by Didier , a small-scale agent who was able to take under his wing , has signed it...

3 Days to Kill
2014
as Jules
A dangerous international spy is determined to give up his high stakes life to finally build a closer relationship with his estranged wife and daughte...

Stalingrad Lovers
2013
as Jupiter

Aya of Yop City
2013
as Hyacinthe
While Aya has dreams of becoming a doctor, her two best friends, Adjoua and Bintou, just like to hang out and spend their evenings dancing, drinking a...

Italian Movies
2013
as Zahur
Dakar Trottoirs
2013
as Maitre
Tough gangster film from Senegal centering around a young dealer and his girlfriend.

Henry
2012
as Karanja
The detective Silvestri has a zealous wife, a child on the way and a double murder to be solved in a livid Rome selling drugs and consuming lives. Hi...

Black Gold
2011
as Hassan Dakhil
On the Arabian Peninsula in the 1930s, two warring leaders come face to face. The victorious Nesib, Emir of Hobeika, lays down his peace terms to riva...

Case départ
2011
as Isidore
Two contempo Frenchmen of Antillean descent visit their ancestor's time as well as their land in the slavery-themed French era.

Implosion
2011
as Wilhelm
Seventeen-year-old Thomas and his father Niels spend their summer holidays at the Spanish coast. But their father and son time out takes a turn when a...

The White Line
2010
as François
Jean, a respected theater actor, leads a dissolute life. Separated from the mother of his child, he devotes most of his time to work, alcohol, and wom...

In Gold We Trust
2010
as Melchior
A group of adventurers make off with 600 kilograms of gold in Guyana, but when their helicopter crashes in the jungle, gold fever takes over.

Carlos
2010
as Hassan al-Tourabi
The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the OPEC headquarters in 1975 ...

Blackout
2010
as Monsieur-la-Bête
Paris, April 1994. Young freelance journalist Antoine Rives is making a report on Westerners who have been repatriated from Rwanda, fleeing the massac...

Le temps de la kermesse est terminé
2010
as Lieutenant Bado

Thelma, Louise et Chantal
2010
as Agent immobilier
Chantal, Gabrielle and Nelly, three fiftyish women, decide to make the trip to the wedding of an ex together.

The Horde
2010
as Adewale
A bunch of crooked cops raid a ruined building located in an impoverished suburb of Paris, determined to furiously avenge the death of one of them, mu...

Fais danser la poussière
2010
as Suleyman

Omar
2009
as Le père d'Omar
The story of Omar, a young gay man who lives in a neighbourhood he loves and neighbours that love him. But he is under pressure because he has fallen ...

Thirst
2009
as Immanuel
A respected priest volunteers for an experimental procedure that may lead to a cure for a deadly virus. He gets infected and dies, but a blood transfu...

35 Shots of Rum
2009
as Blanchard
A widower and his daughter witness the retirement of a colleague of his and the closing of her department at her university.

King Guillaume
2009
as Le curé
Magali plays in a brass band. Guillaume drives a small tourist train. Both spin a perfect love, they share modest dreams and their baby is about to co...

Baby Love
2008
as l'assistant social
They were the perfect loving couple, well, almost. Emmanuel wanted a child but Philippe didn't. One day, however, Emmanuel decides to take the plunge,...

Transporter 3
2008
as Ice
Frank Martin puts the driving gloves on to deliver Valentina, the kidnapped daughter of a Ukrainian government official, from Marseilles to Odessa on ...

Disgrace
2008
as Petrus
Disgrace is the story of a South African professor of English who loses everything: his reputation, his job, his peace of mind, his good looks, his dr...

Ca$h
2008
as Letallec
A man meets up with two "good guys" to recover what is unlawfully his, taking them on his whirlwind ride, doing things they never would have imagined,...

Black and White
2008
as Bertrand
Racial integration is Elena's profession and passion, not only filling her working day as a cultural mediator assisting immigrants, but spilling over ...

Hitman
2007
as Bwana Ovie
A genetically engineered assassin with deadly aim, known only as "Agent 47" eliminates strategic targets for a top-secret organization. But when he's ...
Magic Paris
2007
Kate comes alone to Paris for the week-end. In this city she doesn't know, she is going to meet a man and his dog.

Africa Paradise
2007
as M'Doula
France, 2033. Olivier, an engineer, and Pauline, a teacher, decide to emigrate to the United States of Africa because they can no longer live in their...

The Nativity Story
2006
as Balthasar
Mary and Joseph make the hard journey to Bethlehem for a blessed event in this retelling of the Nativity story. This meticulously researched and visua...

The Front Line
2006
as Joe Yumba
An African immigrant bank security guard turns the tables on Dublin's nastiest criminals when they force him to be the "inside man" on a bank robbery.

The Trail
2006
as Kadjiro
After her mothers death, Grace, 14, decides to go back to Africa to find her father whom she hasn't seen since her parents divorced. After his plane c...

Kingdom of Heaven
2005
as Firuz
After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.

San Antonio
2004
as Jérémie Blanc
While a terrorist epidemy strikes the world leaders, the commissaire San-Antonio and his partner, the lieutenant Bérurier, have to escort the French a...

Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse
2004
as Policier
No one is safe when seemingly random killings emerge as a deadly pattern intended to usher in the end of the world. A murder victim with the same DNA...

The Silence of the Forest
2003
as Gonaba
A film about the difficulty for even the most well-intentioned person to know and respect another culture. In this case, the problem is so acute that ...

French Wedding, Caribbean Style
2002
In Julius Amédée-Laou's biting dramedy, a supposedly joyful interracial wedding descends into chaos when long-buried prejudices and family secrets ris...

Femme Fatale
2002
as Black Tie
A $10-million diamond rip-off, a stolen identity, a new life married to a diplomat. Laure Ash has risked big, won big. But then a tabloid shutterbug s...

The Three Kings
2001
as Babar le videur
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...
Villa mon rêve
2001
as Touré Dialo
Because they could no longer stand the xenophobic comments and behavior of their neighbors, Véronique and Sylvain Marchand, parents of a little girl a...

Bàttu
2000
The star-stubbed cast includes Issac de Bankolè as Saar, a blind beggar, and Danny Glover as a corrupt president. In this often hilarious mix of polit...

Lumumba
2000
as Patrice Émery Lumumba
The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumu...

The Children of the Marshland
1999
as 'Banania'
The film is set in Marais, a quiet region along the banks of Loire river in 1918. Riton is afflicted with a bad-tempered wife and three unruly childre...

La Mort du Chinois
1998
Michel, a children's book author, has always been successful in life until the day his wife leaves him for a Chinese person. Planning on killing his r...

XXL
1997
as Omar
Tunisian-Jewish businessman Alain Berrebi (Michel Boujenah) courts Ashkenazi princess Arlette Stern (Elsa Zylberstein). Her father David (Maurice Chev...

When the Cat's Away
1996
as Ouvrier ébéniste
When Chloe, a young Parisian, decides to take a long-overdue vacation, she has to find someone to look after Gris-Gris, her beloved cat. Everyone, inc...