Assaad Bouab (born 31 July 1980) is a French-Moroccan 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!. 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. Bouab joined the cast for the sixth and final season of Peaky Blinders in 2022.
Filmography Film Year Title Role DirectorNotes 2002 Seventeen Times Cecile Cassard The Waiter Christophe Honoré 2005 Marock Mao Laïla Marrakchi Zaïna, cavalière de l'Atlas Kadour Bourlem Guerdjou 2006 Days of Glory Larbi Rachid Bouchareb 2007 Whatever Lola Wants Zack Nabil Ayouch 2008 Kandisha 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 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 Asif Kapadia 2020 The Bay of Silence Pierre Laurent Paula van der Oest 2022 Overdose Richard Cross Olivier Marchal 2027 Cliffhanger Jaume Collet-Serra
Television Year Title Role DirectorNotes 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 Josée Dayan Television film2015 Homeland Waleed Lesli Linka Glatter Episode: "The Tradition of Hospitality" Tyrant Commander Naga Ciaran Donnelly Episode: "Desert Storm"2016 Braquo 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 Messiah Qamar Maalof Michael Petroni 7 episodes2021 The Pursuit of Love Fabrice de Sauveterre Emily Mortimer Miniseries, 2 episodes Pour te retrouver Alexis Bruno Garcia Television film2022 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 Franklin Pierre Beaumarchais Tim Van Patten 5 episodes
Theatre Year Title Author Director 1997 The Italian Straw Hat Eugène Marin Labiche Jacques Mandréa 1998 Zadig Voltaire Jacques Mandréa (2) 2002 Spring Awakening Frank Wedekind Jean-Pierre Garnier2003 Twelfth Night William Shakespeare Andrzej Seweryn La Reine écartelée Christian Siméon Julien Girardet2004 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-Cheikh Tim Supple 2023 Phaedra Simon Stone after Euripides, Seneca and Racine Simon Stone
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