Assaad Bouab

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Assaad Bouab
Born (1980-07-31) 31 July 1980 (age 44)
Aurillac, Cantal, France
Education CNSAD
OccupationActor
Years active1997–present

Assaad Bouab (born 31 July 1980) is a French 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! .

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Career

From 2017 to 2020, Bouab starred as Hicham Janowski in the French comedy-drama series Call My Agent! . [1] He also played CIA operative Qamar Maloof in the Netflix series Messiah . [1]

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. [2] Bouab joined the cast for the sixth and final season of Peaky Blinders in 2022. [3]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleDirectorNotes
2002 Seventeen Times Cecile Cassard The Waiter Christophe Honoré
2005 Marock Mao Laïla Marrakchi
Zaïna, cavalière de l'AtlasKadourBourlem Guerdjou
2006 Days of Glory Larbi Rachid Bouchareb
2007 Whatever Lola Wants Zack Nabil Ayouch
2008 Kandisha The Cabalist Jérôme Cohen-Olivar
2009Rose et noirFlocon Gérard Jugnot
2010 Outside the Law Ali Rachid Bouchareb (2)
2012Road NineYanisSebastien Rossi
2014Fadhma N'SoumerBoubaghlaBelkacem Hadjadj
2015 Queen of the Desert Sheik Werner Herzog
Made in France The Imam Nicolas Boukhrief
Le chant des hommesH Bénédicte Liénard & Mary Jimenez
2016 Ali and Nino Ilyas Asif Kapadia
2020 The Bay of Silence Pierre Laurent Paula van der Oest
2022OverdoseRichard Cross Olivier Marchal
TBA Untitled Cliffhanger film TBAFilming

Television

YearTitleRoleDirectorNotes
2002 Close to Leo Aymeric Christophe Honoré (2)Television film
2007 Une famille formidable Walid Joël Santoni Episode: "Vacances marocaines"
2013Le clan des LanzacBrahim Hassani Josée Dayan Television film
2015 Homeland Waleed Lesli Linka Glatter Episode: "The Tradition of Hospitality"
Tyrant Commander Naga Ciaran Donnelly Episode: "Desert Storm"
2016 Braquo Redouane BuzoniXavier Palud8 episodes
GhoulJad Jean Luc Herbulot, Mehdi El Azam, ...12 episodes
Cannabis Jalil DjebliLucie Borleteau2 episodes
2017 Kaboul Kitchen YazadFrédéric Berthe10 episodes
2017–2020 Call My Agent! Hicham Janowski Laurent Tirard 18 episodes
2020 Messiah Qamar Maalof Michael Petroni 7 episodes
2021 The Pursuit of Love Fabrice de Sauveterre Emily Mortimer Miniseries, 2 episodes
Pour te retrouvesAlexisBruno GarciaTelevision film
2022 Inventing Anna Mehdi Harrak David Frankel Episode: "Friends in Low Places"
Peaky Blinders HenriAnthony Byrne2 episodes
Bad Sisters GabrielDearbhla Walsh, Josephine Bornebusch,
Rebecca Gatward
6 episodes
2024 Franklin Pierre Beaumarchais Tim Van Patten 5 episodes

Theatre

YearTitleAuthorDirector
1997 The Italian Straw Hat Eugène Marin Labiche Jacques Mandréa
1998 Zadig Voltaire Jacques Mandréa (2)
2002 Spring Awakening Frank Wedekind Jean-Pierre Garnier
2003 Twelfth Night William Shakespeare Andrzej Seweryn
La Reine écarteléeChristian SiméonJulien Girardet
2004 Phèdre Jean Racine Nada Strancar
Hippolyte Robert Garnier Nada Strancar (2)
2005 I pettegolezzi delle donne Carlo Goldoni Muriel Mayette-Holtz
2009 The Plough and the Stars Sean O'Casey Irène Bonnaud
2011 One Thousand and One Nights Tim Supple & Hanan El-CheikhTim Supple
2023 Phaedra Simon Stone after Euripides, Seneca and RacineSimon Stone

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References

  1. 1 2 "Call My Agent!'s Assaad Bouab on The Pursuit of Love: 'Being a heartthrob is pleasant'". inews.co.uk. 4 May 2022.
  2. Cope, Rebecca (21 May 2021). "Meet Assaad Bouab: The actor playing Linda Radlett's sexy French paramour in 'The Pursuit of Love'". tatler.com.
  3. "Moroccan actor Assaad Bouab Joins Peaky Blinders' Final Season". moroccanladies.com. 2022.