1. Simon Abkarian moved to Los Angeles, where he joined an Armenian theater company managed by Gerald Papazian.
13 Facts About Simon Abkarian
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Simon Abkarian returned to France in 1985, settling in Paris.
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Simon Abkarian took classes at the Acting International school, then he joined Ariane Mnouchkine's Theatre du Soleil and played, among others, in L'Histoire terrible mais inachevee de Norodom Sihanouk, roi du Cambodge by Helene Cixous, and in the House of Atreus four-play cycle by Aeschylus.
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Simon Abkarian was featured in Sally Potter's Yes, in which he played the lead role.
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Simon Abkarian then played Mehdi Ben Barka in the thriller J'ai vu tuer Ben Barka by Serge Le Peron, about the kidnapping and the murder of the leader of the Moroccan opposition.
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Simon Abkarian then played in Prendre Femme by Ronit Elkabetz which won him several acting awards.
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Simon Abkarian has appeared in Atom Egoyan's Ararat, he was Albert in Almost Peaceful by French director Michel Deville, and he was featured in Your Dreams by Denis Thybaud.
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Simon Abkarian was featured as Sahak in the thriller Les Mauvais Joueurs by Frederic Balekdjian.
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Simon Abkarian played the role of villain Alex Dimitrios in the James Bond film, Casino Royale.
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Simon Abkarian has been the voice of Ebi in the French version of the animated feature Persepolis.
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Simon Abkarian played the role of the Armenian poet Missak Manouchian in The Army of Crime by Robert Guediguian, a French filmmaker based in Marseille, who is of Armenian parentage.
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Simon Abkarian has played Dariush Bakhshi, the Iranian Special Consul, in the BBC drama Spooks.
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Simon Abkarian has the lead role in a two-part biopic of Charles de Gaulle which filmed in 2023 and 2024.