MARITAL STATUS
Profession Actor
Nationalities Moroccan, French
Birth July 31, 1980 (Aurillac – France)
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Aurillac, to a French mother and a Moroccan father, Assaad Bouab nevertheless spent his entire childhood in Morocco, obtaining his baccalaureate in a French high school in Rabat. His dual nationality allows him to speak French, Arabic and English fluently, and is a major asset for his professional ambitions. When he came of age, he moved to Paris and joined the class of 1999 at Cours Florent. After three years of theater training, he was admitted to the Conservatoire competition and graduated in 2006. Alongside his studies, the young man took to the stage and appeared in two feature films by Christophe Honoré (17 times Cécile Cassard and Tout contre Leo ).
It is above all Marock by Laïla Marrakchi , recounting the carefreeness of Moroccan golden youth, which reveals it to the general public. Gaining notoriety internationally, Assaad Bouab plays supporting roles in the cinema. First in Indigènes , then in its sequel Hors-la-loi , thus reuniting with director Rachid Bouchareb and actors Jamel Debbouze , Samy Naceri and Roschdy Zem . Nominated at the Cannes Film Festival in different categories, the two films focus on the journey of four soldiers of the Liberation Army from the French colonies of North Africa. On the other hand, he lends his features to Zack, a young Egyptian who rejects the protagonist of Whatever Lola Wants , because of their cultural differences. The actor then appears in the French production by Gérard Jugnot , Rose & Noir .
In 2015, he joined James Franco and Robert Pattinson in Queen of the Desert , where Nicole Kidman played a political analyst who came to defend British interests in the Middle East at the beginning of the 20th century. The same year, Assaad Bouab took on the role of a fundamentalist imam in Made in France by Nicolas Boukhrief , the release of which was canceled following the attacks of November 13, in favor of a VAD broadcast. After a brief appearance in Homeland , it was truly in 2016 and in France that his face was recognized. Successively, he appeared in an episode of Cannabis , obtained the role of Redouane Buzoni, right-hand man of the mafia godfather in the last season of the police series Braquo ; then joined the third season of the comedy Kaboul Kitchen, in the shoes of Yazad, a trafficker who is infatuated with the Colonel’s daughter. Finally, the agents of Dix pour cent welcome him into their ranks for season 2. Joining Camille Cottin , Thibault de Montalembert and Liliane Rovère , Assaad Bouab plays Hicham Janowski, new majority shareholder of the artistic agency ASK .
Lucie Peronne
