Actor Saïd Taghmaoui

Saïd Taghmaoui

1973 (52 года)
Saïd Taghmaoui (born 19 July 1973) is a French actor known for his role as Saïd in the 1995 film La Haine, directed by Mathieu Kassovitz. His English-language film credits include Captain Said in Three Kings (1999), Breaker in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009), Sameer in Wonder Woman (2017), and The Elder in John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019).

Born in Villepinte, Seine-Saint-Denis, Taghmaoui came from a large family with eight siblings. His Moroccan Berber parents immigrated from Essaouira. He grew up in the Rose des Vents area of Aulnay-sous-Bois and left school to pursue boxing, reaching No. 2 in his weight class in France. Taghmaoui moved to the U.S. in 1999 and became an American citizen in 2008. He is a practicing Muslim.