Ériq Ebouaney
Known For
Acting
Born
1967-10-03 in Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France
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.
Most Known For
Death in Paradise
as Theo Frazier
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon
as Fallou Boukar
Vivement dimanche
as Self
Kingdom of Heaven
as Firuz
Capitaine Marleau
as Colonel Douala
Transporter 3
as Ice
Liaison
as Bob Foret
Hitman
as Bwana Ovie
Femme Fatale
as Black Tie
3 Days to Kill
as Jules
Bastille Day
as Baba
XXL
as Omar
Falco
as Père de Simon
Disgrace
as Petrus
Exterminate All the Brutes
as Self
Jo
as Amadou
Thirst
as Immanuel
Metal Hurlant Chronicles
as Kaskoff
Implosion
as Wilhelm
The Nativity Story
as Balthasar