Assaad Bouab

Assaad Bouab (Arabic: أسعد بواب, born July 31, 1980) is a French-Moroccan actor whose first co-starring role was in Whatever Lola Wants, directed by Nabil Ayouch and co-starring Laura Ramsey as Lola. The film premiered on 11 December 2007 at the Dubai International Film Festival. Bouab attended Cours Florent from 1999 to 2002, and graduated from CNSAD in Paris in 2006. He has had a regular role in the awarded and popular French television series Call My Agent!.

Assaad Bouab
Born (1980-07-31) 31 July 1980
Aurillac, Cantal, France
EducationCNSAD
OccupationActor
Years active1997–present

Career

From 2017 to 2020, Bouab starred as Hicham Janowski in the French comedy-drama series Call My Agent!.[1] He also played CIA operative Qamar Maloof in the Netflix series Messiah.[1]

In 2021, Bouab starred in the romantic drama television miniseries written and directed by Emily Mortimer, The Pursuit of Love alongside Lily James and Andrew Scott.[2] Bouab joined the cast for the sixth and final season of Peaky Blinders in 2022.[3]

Theatre
Year Title Author Director
1997 The Italian Straw Hat Eugène Marin Labiche Jacques Mandréa
1998 Zadig Voltaire Jacques Mandréa (2)
2002 Spring Awakening Frank Wedekind Jean-Pierre Garnier
2003 Twelfth Night William Shakespeare Andrzej Seweryn
La Reine écartelée Christian Siméon Julien Girardet
2004 Phèdre Jean Racine Nada Strancar
Hippolyte Robert Garnier Nada Strancar (2)
2005 I pettegolezzi delle donne Carlo Goldoni Muriel Mayette-Holtz
2009 The Plough and the Stars Sean O'Casey Irène Bonnaud
2011 One Thousand and One Nights Tim Supple & Hanan El-Cheikh Tim Supple
2023 Phaedra Simon Stone after Euripides, Seneca and Racine Simon Stone

Filmography
Year Title Role Director Notes
2002 Seventeen Times Cecile Cassard The waiter Christophe Honoré
Close to Leo Aymeric Christophe Honoré (2) TV movie
2003 Phares dans la nuit The stranger Laurence Côte Short
2005 Marock Mao Laïla Marrakchi
Zaïna, cavalière de l'Atlas Kadour Bourlem Guerdjou
2006 Days of Glory Larbi Rachid Bouchareb
2007 Whatever Lola Wants Zack Nabil Ayouch
Une famille formidable Walid Joël Santoni TV series (1 episode)
2008 Kandisha The Cabalist Jérôme Cohen-Olivar
2009 Rose et noir Flocon Gérard Jugnot
2010 Outside the Law Ali Rachid Bouchareb (2)
2012 Road Nine Yanis Sebastien Rossi
2013 Le clan des Lanzac Brahim Hassani Josée Dayan TV movie
2014 Fadhma N'Soumer Boubaghla Belkacem Hadjadj
Terra X Nina Koshofer & Judith Voelker TV series (1 episode)
2015 Queen of the Desert Sheik Werner Herzog
Made in France The imam Nicolas Boukhrief
Le chant des hommes H Bénédicte Liénard & Mary Jimenez
Homeland Waleed Lesli Linka Glatter TV series (1 episode)
Tyrant Commander Naga Ciaran Donnelly TV series (1 episode)
Le Princess Jalil Djebli Lucie Borleteau TV series (1 episode)
2016 Ali and Nino Ilyas Asif Kapadia
Braquo Redouane Buzoni Xavier Palud TV series (6 episodes)
Ghoul Jad Jean Luc Herbulot, Mehdi El Azam, ... TV series (8 episodes)
2017-2020 Call My Agent! Hicham Janowski Laurent Tirard TV series (12 episodes)
2020 Messiah Qamar Maalof Michael Petroni TV series, 10 episodes
2021 The Pursuit of Love Fabrice de Sauveterre Emily Mortimer Miniseries, 3 episodes
TBA Franklin Pierre Beaumarchais Tim Van Patten Upcoming miniseries
2022 Peaky Blinders Henri Anthony Byrne (TV Series, 2 episodes)
2022 Bad Sisters Gabriel Dearbhla Walsh, Josephine Bornebusch, Rebecca Gatward (TV Series, 10 episodes)

References
  1. "Call My Agent!'s Assaad Bouab on The Pursuit of Love: 'Being a heartthrob is pleasant'". inews.co.uk. May 4, 2022.
  2. Cope, Rebecca (21 May 2021). "Meet Assaad Bouab: The actor playing Linda Radlett's sexy French paramour in 'The Pursuit of Love'". tatler.com.
  3. "Moroccan actor Assaad Bouab Joins Peaky Blinders' Final Season". moroccanladies.com. 2022.
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