Known For
Acting
Born
Oct 03, 1967
Place of Birth
Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France
Credits
83 titles
Ériq Ebouaney
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Soumsoum, the Night of the Stars
Garba
Un dîner presque parfait Afrique
Ériq Ebouaney
Hyacinthe
Césaire
L2: Empuraan
Kabuga
Lex Africana
Racine Malik Niang
Here and There
Professeur Ibrahima
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon
Fallou Boukar
Liaison
Bob Foret
Ritual
Cézaire Nduka
De Charles de Gaulle à Emmanuel Macron, les gardiens de l'empire
Narrator (voice)
Lingui, the Sacred Bonds
Thanks
Exterminate All the Brutes
Self
Rogue City
Stephan Jankovic
Earth and Blood
Adama
I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere
Doctor
Domino
Ezra Tarzi
Kaniama Show
Belleville Cop
Ladji Touré
A Season in France
Abbas Mahadjir
China Salesman
Sheik Asaid
African Storm: A Continent Under Influence
Dolomey
Past Imperfect
Michel
Gang of the Caribbean
Politik
Bastille Day
Baba
All Three of Us
Adama
Capitaine Marleau
Colonel Douala
Mother(s)
Alioune
SMS
Le grand flic
Le Crocodile du Botswanga
Lieutenant Yaya
3 Days to Kill
Jules
Stalingrad Lovers
Jupiter
Aya of Yop City
Hyacinthe
Italian Movies
Zahur
Falco
Père de Simon
Jo
Amadou
Dakar Trottoirs
Maitre
Metal Hurlant Chronicles
Kaskoff
Clash
Abel Diop, père d'Hugo
Henry
Karanja
Black Gold
Hassan Dakhil
Death in Paradise
Theo Frazier
Case départ
Isidore
The King's Necklace
Octave Bumi
Implosion
Wilhelm
The White Line
François
In Gold We Trust
Melchior
Carlos
Hassan al-Tourabi
Blackout
Monsieur-la-Bête
Le temps de la kermesse est terminé
Lieutenant Bado
Thelma, Louise et Chantal
Agent immobilier