Eriq Ebouaney (born 3 October 1967) is a French actor. He is best known for his portrayal as the Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba in the 2000 film Lumumba, as "Blacktie" in Brian De Palma's Femme Fatale and as "Ice" in the 2008 action film Transporter 3 in which he starred opposite Jason Statham. Recently, Eriq appeared in the 2025 Indian-Malayalam film L2: Empuraan, playing the role of Kabuga. Ebouaney was born in Angers, France, the son of Cameroonian immigrants. As a child he didn't show any interest in acting and was set on becoming a businessman. However, at the age of 30, he joined a theatre company and left his job as a sales manager to become a professional actor. He made his film debut in 1996 in the Cédric Klapisch directed film Chacun cherche son chat. He landed a leading role in the 2000 film Lumumba in which he portrayed Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba. The film was shot in Beira, Mozambique. In 2002, he starred in Brian De Palma's Femme Fatale alongside Antonio Banderas. In 2004, he played the character of Jean Claude in Mark Bamford's debut feature Cape of Good Hope. In 2005 he starred in the award-winning Ridley Scott film, Kingdom of Heaven, in which he starred alongside Michael Sheen, Liam Neeson, Orlando Bloom, David Thewlis, Martin Hancock and Nathalie Cox. In 2006, he starred in The Front Line and La piste. In 2008, he played a supporting role in the critically acclaimed Australian film Disgrace featuring American actor John Malkovich, a small role in the Italian film Bianco e nero and later was cast as "Ice" in Transporter 3, featuring British actor Jason Statham. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eriq Ebouaney, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2026Soumsoum, the Night of the Stars — Garba
• 2025Hyacinthe — Césaire
• 2025L2: Empuraan — Kabuga
• Un dîner presque parfait Afrique — Ériq Ebouaney
• 2024Here and There — Professeur Ibrahima
• Lex Africana — Racine Malik Niang
• Liaison — Bob Foret
• The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon — Fallou Boukar
• 2022De Charles de Gaulle à Emmanuel Macron, les gardiens de l'empire — Narrator (voice)
• 2022Ritual — Cézaire Nduka
• 2021Lingui, the Sacred Bonds — Thanks
• 2020Earth and Blood — Adama
• 2020I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere — Doctor
• 2020Rogue City — Stephan Jankovic
• 2019Domino — Ezra Tarzi
• 2018A Season in France — Abbas Mahadjir
• 2018Belleville Cop — Ladji Touré
• 2018Kaniama Show
• 2017African Storm: A Continent Under Influence — Dolomey
• 2017China Salesman — Sheik Asaid
• 2017Past Imperfect — Michel
• 2016Bastille Day — Baba
• 2016Gang of the Caribbean — Politik
• 2015All Three of Us — Adama
• Capitaine Marleau — Colonel Douala
• 2015Mother(s) — Alioune
• 20143 Days to Kill — Jules
• 2014Le Crocodile du Botswanga — Lieutenant Yaya
• 2014SMS — Le grand flic
• 2013Aya of Yop City — Hyacinthe
• 2013Dakar Trottoirs — Maitre
• Falco — Père de Simon
• 2013Italian Movies — Zahur
• Jo — Amadou
• 2013Stalingrad Lovers — Jupiter
• Clash — Abel Diop, père d'Hugo
• 2012Henry — Karanja
• Metal Hurlant Chronicles — Kaskoff
• 2011Black Gold — Hassan Dakhil
• 2011Case départ — Isidore
• Death in Paradise — Theo Frazier
• 2011Implosion — Wilhelm
• 2011The King's Necklace — Octave Bumi
• 2010Blackout — Monsieur-la-Bête
• 2010Carlos — Hassan al-Tourabi
• 2010Fais danser la poussière — Suleyman
• 2010In Gold We Trust — Melchior
• 2010Le temps de la kermesse est terminé — Lieutenant Bado
• 2010The Horde — Adewale
• 2010The White Line — François
• 2010Thelma, Louise et Chantal — Agent immobilier
• 200935 Shots of Rum — Blanchard
• 2009King Guillaume — Le curé
• 2009Omar — Le père d'Omar
• 2009Thirst — Immanuel
• 2008Baby Love — l'assistant social
• 2008Black and White — Bertrand
• 2008Ca$h — Letallec
• 2008Disgrace — Petrus
• 2008Transporter 3 — Ice
• 2007Africa Paradise — M'Doula
• 2007Hitman — Bwana Ovie
• 2007Magic Paris
• 2006The Front Line — Joe Yumba
• 2006The Nativity Story — Balthasar
• 2006The Trail — Kadjiro
• 2005Kingdom of Heaven — Firuz
• 2004Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse — Policier
• 2004San Antonio — Jérémie Blanc
• 2003The Silence of the Forest — Gonaba
• 2002Femme Fatale — Black Tie
• 2002French Wedding, Caribbean Style
• 2001My Wife Is an Actress — Le videur de la boite
• 2001The Three Kings — Babar le videur
• 2001Villa mon rêve — Touré Dialo
• 2000Bàttu
• 2000Lumumba — Patrice Émery Lumumba
• 1999The Children of the Marshland — 'Banania'
• 1998La Mort du Chinois — Bekate, nurse
• 1997XXL — Omar
• 1996When the Cat's Away — Ouvrier ébéniste
• Judgement — Thierry Lombard

Appearances as themselves (2)

• Exterminate All the Brutes — Self
• Vivement dimanche — Self