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Saïd Taghmaoui

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Villepinte, Seine-Saint-Denis, France, 1973-07-19

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1994	Putain de porte		50
2	1995	J'aime beaucoup ce que vous faites	Maxime	10
3	1995	Brothers: Red Roulette	Paul	0
4	1995	La Haine	Saïd	81
5	1997	Heroines	JP	50
6	1998	The Garden of Eden	Aziz	60
7	1999	Hideous Kinky	Bilal	61
8	1999	Before the Sunset	Alì Ben Sellam	0
9	1999	Three Kings	Captain Said	67
10	1999	Last Minute Kasbah	Raschid	40
11	2000	The Slammer	L'innocent	0
12	2000	Nationale 7	Rabah	64
13	2001	Gamer	Tony	28
14	2001	Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets	Dib	66
15	2001	Room to Rent	Ali	55
16	2001	Confession of a Dredger	Fabio	51
17	2001	Absolutely Fabulous	Manu	50
18	2001	Tom Thumb	le chef de troupe	55
19	2002	Alive	The DJ Box	50
20	2002	The Good Thief	Paulo	61
21	2002	Break of Dawn	Werner	49
22	2003	Crime Spree	Sami	56
23	2004	Hidalgo	Prince Bin Al Reeh	69
24	2004	Spartan	Tariq Asani	62
25	2004	For Bread Alone		72
26	2004	I ♥ Huckabees	Translator	63
27	2006	Five Fingers	Dark Eyes	60
28	2006	O Jerusalem	Saïd Chahine	60
29	2006	Djihad!	Youssef	60
30	2007	The Kite Runner	Farid	73
31	2008	Vantage Point	Suarez	64
32	2008	Traitor	Omar	66
33	2008	Mogadischu	Captain Mahmud	65
34	2008	Kandisha	Dakir Nesri	53
35	2009	Linear	Cop/Biker	0
36	2009	G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra	Breaker	58
37	2010	Stranded	Aroui	51
38	2010	An Unhealed Wound - The Harkis in the Algerian War	Narrator (voice)	100
39	2011	Conan the Barbarian	Ela-Shan	53
40	2012	My Brother the Devil	Sayyid	65
41	2012	Il était une fois... « La Haine »	Self	60
42	2013	American Hustle	Irv's Sheik Plant	69
43	2016	The Infiltrator	Amjad Awan	67
44	2016	Money Man		90
45	2017	Wonder Woman	Sameer	72
46	2017	Etta's Mission	Sameer	100
47	2017	Espionage Tonight	Iskandar Yasin	34
48	2018	At First Light	Cal	57
49	2019	John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum	The Elder	74
50	2020	Embattled	Claude	66
51	2022	The Forgiven	Anouar	57
52	2023	The Family Plan	Augie	73
53	2024	The Killer	Prince Majeb Bin Faheem	64
54	2025	Tin Soldier	Shinja Atlas	49

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1999	The West Wing	Umar Usef	83
2	2004	Lost	Caesar	79
3	2005	Sleeper Cell		75
4	2007	Suspectes	Stan Lamérat	56
5	2008	one hour in hell		0
6	2008	House of Saddam	Barzan Ibrahim	69
7	2012	Touch	Guillermo Ortiz	66
8	2015	Ballers	Psychiatrist	68
9	2020	All the Way Up	Nasser Berou	67
10	2020	Professionals	Tariq Basari	61