Ériq Ebouaney

Known for ActingBorn 1967-10-03 (age 58)Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Lex Africana

French Wedding, Caribbean Style

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon

Villa mon rêve

All Three of Us

Exterminate All the Brutes

Death in Paradise

Fais danser la poussière

Aya of Yop City

Falco

De Charles de Gaulle à Emmanuel Macron, les gardiens de l'empire

Thirst

Kingdom of Heaven

Carlos

The Children of the Marshland

The Trail

The Nativity Story

Lumumba

35 Shots of Rum

Lingui, the Sacred Bonds

Ritual

Black Gold

Liaison

Bastille Day

L2: Empuraan

Jo

The Front Line

I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere

African Storm: A Continent Under Influence

The Silence of the Forest

Earth and Blood

La Mort du Chinois

Disgrace

Hitman

Soumsoum, the Night of the Stars

Transporter 3

Capitaine Marleau

3 Days to Kill

Femme Fatale

When the Cat's Away

Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse

Here and There

Case départ

Rogue City

My Wife Is an Actress

The Horde

Metal Hurlant Chronicles

Past Imperfect