Isaach de Bankolé
Acting
Biography
Isaach or Isaac de Bankolé (born 12 August 1957; Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire) is an Ivorian actor.
De Bankolé was born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, to Yoruba parents from Benin. His grandparents are from Nigeria. He moved to Paris in 1975 for his last year of lycée and pursued a master's degree in physics and mathematics. He then attended an aviation school and earned a private pilot licence, before a chance encounter with French director Gérard Vergez led him to enroll in the Cours Simon, a Parisian drama school.
As actor 78
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2001
S.W.A.T.
2017
The Sopranos
1999
The Good Wife
2009
Sacrée soirée
1987
Champs-Elysées
1982
White Collar
2009
The Unit
2006
The Brutalist
2024
Godfather of Harlem
2019
Black Panther
2018
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2022
Task
2025
Dune: Part Three
2026
Casino Royale
2006
Les Nuls, l'émission
1990
The Boss Baby: Back in the Crib
2022
The Last Witch Hunter
2015
The Skeleton Key
2005
Parish
2024
Miami Vice
2006
Stay
2005
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
1999
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2007
Night on Earth
1991
French Exit
2021
The People We Hate at the Wedding
2022
Shaft
2019
Manderlay
2005
Coffee and Cigarettes
2004
The Fence
2026
The Limits of Control
2009
Battle in Seattle
2007
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
2016
Calvary
2014
White Material
2010
Chocolat
1988
The Syringe
1984
Cherry
1999
Black Mic Mac
1986
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Oganga, the Giver and Taker of Life
1999
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
1998
Before It Had a Name
2005
Heart of Darkness
1994
Muganga
2025
No Fear, No Die
1990
Chaos
2012
Vanille fraise
1989
Black Is Beltza
2018
Oka!
2011
Femme Noire
2017
Taxi Boy
1986
3 A.M.
2001
I Am Slave
2010
Homework
2004
Snakeeater
2024
Ada in the Jungle
1988
How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired
1989
Where the Road Runs Out
2014
Double Play
2017
A Violent Man
2019
From Other Worlds
2004
The Keeper
1995
Otomo
1999
Kiss Me!
2017
The Guitar
2008
Comment draguer tous les mecs
1984
The Fifth Patient
2007
Mother of George
2013
Lady Cops
1987
Casa de Lava
1995
The Killing Zone
2003
Mirage
2014
Behind Jim Jarmusch
2010
Noir et blanc
1986
Run
2014
Bàttu
2000
Machetero
2008