Assaad Bouab

{{Short description|French actor (born 1980)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}}

{{Expand French|topic=bio|Assaâd Bouab|date=April 2021}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Assaad Bouab

| image =

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1980|07|31}}

| birth_place = Aurillac, Cantal, France

| years_active = 1997–present

| occupation = Actor

| education = CNSAD

}}

Assaad Bouab (born 31 July 1980) is a French-Moroccan{{Cite web |title=Assaad Bouab jouera aux côtés de Michael Douglas dans une série consacrée à Benjamin Franklin |url=https://lematin.ma/express/2022/assaad-bouab-jouera-aux-cotes-michael-douglas-serie-consacree-benjamin-franklin/377062.html |date=2022-07-14 |access-date=2025-03-02}}{{Cite web |title=French-Moroccan Actor Assaad Bouab Broadens His Canvas |url=https://variety.com/2017/film/news/french-moroccan-actor-assaad-bouab-broadens-his-canvas-1201960819/ |date=2017-01-16 |access-date=2025-03-02}} actor whose first co-starring role was in Whatever Lola Wants, directed by Nabil Ayouch and co-starring Laura Ramsey as Lola. The film premiered on 11 December 2007 at the Dubai International Film Festival. Bouab attended Cours Florent from 1999 to 2002, and graduated from CNSAD in Paris in 2006. He has had a regular role in the awarded and popular French television series Call My Agent!.

Career

From 2017 to 2020, Bouab starred as Hicham Janowski in the French comedy-drama series Call My Agent!.{{cite news |url=https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/assaad-bouab-call-my-agent-the-pursuit-of-love-bbc1-lily-james-dominic-west-982798 |title=Call My Agent!'s Assaad Bouab on The Pursuit of Love: 'Being a heartthrob is pleasant' |work=inews.co.uk |date=4 May 2022}} He also played CIA operative Qamar Maloof in the Netflix series Messiah.

In 2021, Bouab starred in the romantic drama television miniseries written and directed by Emily Mortimer, The Pursuit of Love alongside Lily James and Andrew Scott.{{cite news |url=https://www.tatler.com/article/assaad-bouab-fabrice-pursuit-of-love |title=Meet Assaad Bouab: The actor playing Linda Radlett's sexy French paramour in 'The Pursuit of Love' |first=Rebecca |last=Cope |work=tatler.com |date=21 May 2021}} Bouab joined the cast for the sixth and final season of Peaky Blinders in 2022.{{cite news|url=https://moroccanladies.com/breaking-news/moroccan-actor-assaad-bouab-joins-peaky-blinders-final-season-38184 |title=Moroccan actor Assaad Bouab Joins Peaky Blinders' Final Season |work=moroccanladies.com |year=2022}}

Filmography

=Film=

class="wikitable sortable"

! Year

! Title

! Role

! Director

! class="unsortable"|Notes

2002

| Seventeen Times Cecile Cassard

| The Waiter

| Christophe Honoré

|

rowspan="2"|2005

| Mao

| Laïla Marrakchi

|

Zaïna, cavalière de l'Atlas

| Kadour

| Bourlem Guerdjou

|

2006

| Days of Glory

| Larbi

| Rachid Bouchareb

|

2007

| Whatever Lola Wants

| Zack

|

2008

| The Cabalist

| Jérôme Cohen-Olivar

|

2009

| Rose et noir

| Flocon

| Gérard Jugnot

|

2010

| Outside the Law

| Ali

| Rachid Bouchareb (2)

|

2012

| Road Nine

| Yanis

| Sebastien Rossi

|

2014

| Fadhma N'Soumer

| Boubaghla

| Belkacem Hadjadj

|

rowspan="3"|2015

| Queen of the Desert

| Sheik

| Werner Herzog

|

Made in France

| The Imam

| Nicolas Boukhrief

|

Le Chant des hommes

| H

| Bénédicte Liénard & Mary Jimenez

|

2016

| Ali and Nino

| Ilyas

|

2020

| The Bay of Silence

| Pierre Laurent

| Paula van der Oest

|

2022

| Overdose

| Richard Cross

| Olivier Marchal

|

TBA

| Untitled Cliffhanger film

| {{TBA}}

| Jaume Collet-Serra

=Television=

class="wikitable sortable"

! Year

! Title

! Role

! Director

! class="unsortable"|Notes

2002

| Close to Leo

| Aymeric

| Christophe Honoré (2)

| Television film

2007

| Une famille formidable

| Walid

| Joël Santoni

| Episode: "Vacances marocaines"

2013

| Le Clan des Lanzac

| Brahim Hassani

| Television film

rowspan="2"|2015

| Waleed

| Lesli Linka Glatter

| Episode: "The Tradition of Hospitality"

Tyrant

| Commander Naga

| Ciaran Donnelly

| Episode: "Desert Storm"

rowspan="3"|2016

| Redouane Buzoni

| Xavier Palud

| 8 episodes

Ghoul

| Jad

| Jean Luc Herbulot, Mehdi El Azam, ...

| 12 episodes

Cannabis

| Jalil Djebli

| Lucie Borleteau

| 2 episodes

2017

| Kaboul Kitchen

| Yazad

| Frédéric Berthe

| 10 episodes

2017–2020

| Call My Agent!

| Hicham Janowski

| Laurent Tirard

| 18 episodes

2020

| Qamar Maalof

| Michael Petroni

| 7 episodes

rowspan="2"|2021

| The Pursuit of Love

| Fabrice de Sauveterre

| Emily Mortimer

| Miniseries, 2 episodes

Pour te retrouver

| Alexis

| Bruno Garcia

| Television film

rowspan="3"|2022

| Inventing Anna

| Mehdi Harrak

| David Frankel

| Episode: "Friends in Low Places"

Peaky Blinders

| Henri

| Anthony Byrne

| 2 episodes

Bad Sisters

| Gabriel

| Dearbhla Walsh, Josephine Bornebusch,
Rebecca Garward

| 6 episodes

2024

| Pierre Beaumarchais

| Tim Van Patten

| 5 episodes

Theatre

class="wikitable"

! Year

! Title

! Author

! Director

1997

| The Italian Straw Hat

| Eugène Marin Labiche

| Jacques Mandréa

1998

| Jacques Mandréa (2)

2002

| Spring Awakening

| Frank Wedekind

| Jean-Pierre Garnier

rowspan="2"|2003

| Twelfth Night

| William Shakespeare

| Andrzej Seweryn

La Reine écartelée

| Christian Siméon

| Julien Girardet

rowspan="2"|2004

| Nada Strancar

Hippolyte

| Robert Garnier

| Nada Strancar (2)

2005

| I pettegolezzi delle donne

| Carlo Goldoni

| Muriel Mayette-Holtz

2009

| The Plough and the Stars

| Irène Bonnaud

2011

| One Thousand and One Nights

| Tim Supple & Hanan El-Cheikh

| Tim Supple

2023

| Simon Stone after Euripides, Seneca and Racine

| Simon Stone

References

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External links

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Category:1980 births

Category:French people of Moroccan descent

Category:Living people

Category:French National Academy of Dramatic Arts alumni

Category:Cours Florent alumni