Assaad Bouab

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. 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

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