Saïd Taghmaoui

Actor

Born July 19, 1973 in Villepinte, Seine-Saint-Denis, France

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.

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Acting

Kraken
Film, 2026
as Bachir
Tin Soldier
Film, 2025
as Shinja Atlas
The Killer
Film, 2024
as Prince Majeb Bin Faheem
The Family Plan
Film, 2023
as Augie
The Forgiven
Film, 2022
as Anouar
Professionals
TV series, 2020
as Tariq Basari
Embattled
Film, 2020
as Claude
All the Way Up
TV series, 2020
as Nasser Berou
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
Film, 2019
as The Elder
At First Light
Film, 2018
as Cal
Espionage Tonight
Film, 2017
as Iskandar Yasin
Etta's Mission
Film, 2017
as Sameer
Wonder Woman
Film, 2017
as Sameer
Money Man
Film, 2016
The Infiltrator
Film, 2016
as Amjad Awan
Ballers
TV series, 2015
as Psychiatrist
The Missing
TV series, 2014
as Khalid Ziane
American Hustle
Film, 2013
as Irv's Sheik Plant
Touch
TV series, 2012
as Guillermo Ortiz
My Brother the Devil
Film, 2012
as Sayyid
Conan the Barbarian
Film, 2011
as Ela-Shan
An Unhealed Wound - The Harkis in the Algerian War
Film, 2010
as Narrator (voice)
Stranded
Film, 2010
as Aroui
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Film, 2009
as Breaker
Linear
Film, 2009
as Cop / Biker
Kandisha
Film, 2008
as Dakir Nesri
Mogadischu
Film, 2008
as Captain Mahmud
Traitor
Film, 2008
as Omar
House of Saddam
TV series, 2008
as Barzan Ibrahim
1 Hour in Hell
TV series, 2008
31 episodes