Simon Abkarian (born 5 March 1962) is a French actor.
Born in Gonesse, Val d'Oise of Armenian descent, Abkarian spent his childhood in Lebanon. He moved to Los Angeles, where he joined an Armenian theater company managed by Gerald Papazian. He returned to France in 1985, settling in Paris.
He has appeared in about thirty films, the most notable being Atom Egoyan's Ararat, and Yes, in which he played the lead role. Abkarian played the role of villain Alex Dimitrios in the most recent James Bond film, Casino Royale. The character is a government contractor and arms dealer working against Bond.
He is supposed to play the lead role of a modern-times rebel in the movie La Bombe Humaine (Human Bomb), a political thriller written by Laurent Touil-Tartour, for a shooting in 2007. He has also played Dariush Bakhshi, the Iranian Special Consul, in the BBC drama Spooks.
Filmography
Ararat (2002), Arshile Gorky
The Truth About Charlie (2002)
Aram (2002), Aram
Yes (2004), unnamed, shares lead role
Le Voyage en Arménie (2006), Sarkis Arabian
Casino Royale (2006), (Alex Dimitrios)
Persepolis
External links
Simon Abkarian at the Internet Movie Database
Brief biography in French
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