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Zinedine Soualem
Highest Rated: 100% Someone, Somewhere (2019)
Lowest Rated: 61% Mood Indigo (2013)
Birthday: Apr 17, 1957
Birthplace: Thiers, Puy-de-dôme, France
French actor Zinedine Soualem is notorious for playing characters with a Middle Eastern background, and doing it exceptionally well. Even though Soualem started appearing in films in the 1980s, including Costa-Garvas's "Hanna K.," his acting career didn't take off until the '90s. Soualem often works with fellow Frenchman Cédric Klapisch, and can be seen in quite a number of the director's films, including "Lila Lili," "Family Resemblances," and "Le péril jeune," among others. Soualem has worked in his share of well known films over the years, but some of his best-known roles were in Alain Chabat's comedy "Didier," James Huth's "Serial Lover," and Catherine Hardwicke's controversial biblical tale "The Nativity Story." Soualem has also acted in many French television series, such as "Venus and Apollo," "L'état de Grace," and "Pas si simple."
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Divertimento | Abdel Ziouali (Character) | - | 2022 |
| 92% | 85% | You Resemble Me | Unknown (Character) | - | 2021 |
| 100% | 77% | Someone, Somewhere | Le pharmacien (Character) | - | 2019 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | The Dude in Me | Le père de Yassine (Character) | - | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Two Birds, One Stone | Lyess (Character) | - | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Heaven Will Wait | Samir Bouzaria (Character) | - | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Patchwork Family | Patrick Fellous (Character) | - | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Murder in Pacot | Leonetti (Character) | - | 2014 |
| 61% | 53% | Mood Indigo | Le vieil homme de l'usine d'armement (Character) | $303.0K | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | State Conspiracy | Commissaire Brindier (Character) | - | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | 7% | Max | Mario (Character) | - | 2012 |
| 70% | 53% | The Prey | Lucciani (Character) | - | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Télé Gaucho | Jimmy (Character) | - | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | Operation Casablanca | Hassan (Character) | - | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | 74% | What Love May Bring | L'accordéoniste (Character) | - | 2010 |
| 73% | 78% | The Names of Love | Mohamed Benhmamoud (Character) | $513.2K | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Women's Strike | François Blanchet (Character) | - | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | 17% | So Woman! | Farid (Character) | - | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Divorces! | Marc (Character) | - | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Moloch Tropical | Jean de Dieu Théogène, le président (Character) | - | 2009 |
| 66% | 66% | Paris | Mourad (Character) | $1.0M | 2008 |
| 83% | 74% | JCVD | L'homme au bonnet (Character) | - | 2008 |
| 87% | 76% | Crossed Tracks | The Commissioner (Character) | $1.9M | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | 29% | Dream House | Mouloud Mami (Character) | - | 2006 |
| 72% | 78% | Russian Dolls | M. Boubaker (Character) | $323.3K | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | Emmenez-moi | Unknown (Character) | - | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Vive la vie | Unknown (Character) | - | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Demon Stirs | Samir (Character) | - | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | 75% | Local Call! | Unknown (Character) | - | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | 62% | Not for or Against | Mouss (Character) | - | 2003 |
| 86% | 79% | Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatre | Le carreleur (Character) | $2.0M | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | If I Were a Rich Man | Kader Benhassine (Character) | - | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | 33% | Mademoiselle | Karim Coutard (Character) | $60.9K | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | Inch'Allah Sunday | Ahmed (Character) | - | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tar Angel | Ahmed Kasmi (Character) | - | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fortune Tellers and Misfortune | Roland Bardet (Character) | - | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trafic D'Influence | Gilles (Character) | - | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | 56% | Perhaps | Kader (Character) | $5.9K | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Influence Peddling | Gilles, le garagiste (Character) | - | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | 77% | Serial Lover | Prince Hakim (Character) | $7.9K | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | 81% | Forbidden Woman | Unknown (Character) | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | 57% | Didier | Camel Mimouni (Character) | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Banned Woman | L'homme à la contravention (Character) | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | La Femme défendue | L'homme à la contravention (Character) | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Messieurs les Enfants | Unknown (Character) | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | 0% | Le clone | Elias (Character) | - | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | 43% | Hikers | L'animateur (Character) | - | 1997 |
| 88% | 77% | When the Cat's Away... | Djamel (Character) | $1.8M | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rock of Acapulco | Ahmed (Character) | - | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Close Shave | l'avocat (Character) | - | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Everyone Searches for One's Cat | Unknown (Character) | - | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | 92% | The Apprentices | Waiter (Character) | - | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Soul Split in Two | Unknown (Character) | - | 1993 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 80% | Off the Hook | Philippe (Character) | 2022 |
| 97% | 98% | Call My Agent! | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2015 |