Saïd Taghmaoui (born July 19, 1973) is a French actor and screenwriter of Moroccan background. One of his defining screen roles was that of Saïd in the award winning 1995 French film La Haine directed by Mathieu Kassovitz. However, Saïd has also appeared in a number of more recent English Language films, with roles such as the U.S.-trained philosophical Iraqi interrogator Captain 'My Main Man' Saïd in Three Kings, and as "Omar", the close radical Islamic associate of Don Cheadle (Samir), in the 2008 thriller Traitor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Saïd Taghmaoui, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2026Kraken — Bachir
• 2025Tin Soldier — Shinja Atlas
• 2024The Killer — Prince Majeb Bin Faheem
• 2023The Family Plan — Augie
• 2022The Forgiven — Anouar
• All the Way Up — Nasser Berou
• 2020Embattled — Claude
• Professionals — Tariq Basari
• 2019John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum — The Elder
• 2018At First Light — Cal
• 2017Espionage Tonight — Iskandar Yasin
• 2017Etta's Mission — Sameer
• 2017Wonder Woman — Sameer
• 2016Money Man
• 2016The Infiltrator — Amjad Awan
• Ballers — Psychiatrist
• The Missing — Khalid Ziane
• 2013American Hustle — Irv's Sheik Plant
• 2012My Brother the Devil — Sayyid
• Touch — Guillermo Ortiz
• 2011Conan the Barbarian — Ela-Shan
• 2010An Unhealed Wound - The Harkis in the Algerian War — Narrator (voice)
• 2010Stranded — Aroui
• 2009G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra — Breaker
• 2009Linear — Cop / Biker
• 1 Hour in Hell
• House of Saddam — Barzan Ibrahim
• 2008Kandisha — Dakir Nesri
• 2008Mogadischu — Captain Mahmud
• 2008Traitor — Omar
• 2008Vantage Point — Suarez
• Suspectes — Stan Lamérat
• 2007The Kite Runner — Farid
• 2006Djihad! — Youssef
• 2006Five Fingers — Dark Eyes
• 2006O Jerusalem — Saïd Chahine
• Sleeper Cell
• 2004For Bread Alone — Young Mohamed Choukri
• 2004Hidalgo — Prince Bin Al Reeh
• 2004I ♥ Huckabees — Translator
• Lost — Caesar
• 2004Spartan — Tariq Asani
• 2003Crime Spree — Sami
• 2003The Good Thief — Paulo
• 2002Alive — The DJ Box
• 2002Break of Dawn — Werner
• 2001Absolutely Fabulous — Manu
• 2001Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets — Dib
• 2001Confession of a Dredger — Fabio
• 2001Gamer — Tony
• 2001Room to Rent — Ali
• 2001Tom Thumb — le chef de troupe
• 2000Nationale 7 — Rabah
• 2000The Slammer — L'innocent
• 1999Before the Sunset — Alì Ben Sellam
• 1999Hideous Kinky — Bilal
• 1999Last Minute Kasbah — Raschid
• The West Wing — Umar Usef
• 1999Three Kings — Captain Said
• 1998The Garden of Eden — Aziz
• 1997Heroines — JP
• 1995Brothers: Red Roulette — Paul
• 1995J'aime beaucoup ce que vous faites — Maxime
• 1995La Haine — Saïd
• 1994Putain de porte

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2012Il était une fois... « La Haine » — Self - Actor (archive footage)