
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.

as Fallou Boukar

as Theo Frazier
2011

as Self
1998

as Fallou Boukar
2023

as Firuz
2005

as Colonel Douala
2015

as Bob Foret
2023

as Père de Simon
2013

as Bwana Ovie
2007

as Ice
2008

as Baba
2016

as Immanuel
2009

as Black Tie
2002
as Kabuga
2025

as Garba
2026

as Césaire
2025

as Kabuga
2025

as Professeur Ibrahima
2024

as Cézaire Nduka
2022

as Narrator (voice)
2022

as Stephan Jankovic
2020

as Adama
2020

as Doctor
2020

as Ezra Tarzi
2019

2018

as Ladji Touré
2018

as Abbas Mahadjir
2018

as Sheik Asaid
2017

as Dolomey
2017

as Michel
2017

as Politik
2016

as Baba
2016

as Adama
2015

as Alioune
2015

as Le grand flic
2014

as Lieutenant Yaya
2014

as Jules
2014

as Jupiter
2013
as Fallou Boukar
9 ep.

as Theo Frazier
1 episodes

as Self
1 episodes

as Fallou Boukar
9 episodes

as Colonel Douala
1 episodes

as Bob Foret
6 episodes

as Père de Simon
1 episodes

as Amadou
8 episodes

as Kaskoff
1 episodes

as Self
1 episodes

as Abel Diop, père d'Hugo
6 episodes

as Racine Malik Niang
6 episodes

as Ériq Ebouaney
1 episodes