Sami Bouajila

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Sami Bouajila
Sami Bouajila in 2012
Born	(1966-05-12) 12 May 1966 Grenoble, France
Awards	Best Supporting Actor Les Témoins (2008)
Website
samibouajila.com

Sami Bouajila (born 12 May 1966) is a French award-winning actor of Tunisian origin.

Childhood

Bouajila's father emigrated from Tunisia to France in 1956, and worked as a building painter, a professionally recognized skill requiring specific technical knowledge. His grandfather was a Berber born in Tripoli, Libya and immigrated to Tunisia. Sami was born and grew up in Échirolles, a suburb south of Grenoble. He studied theatre.

Filmography

1991: La Thune as Kamel
1993: Les Histoires d'amour finissent mal... en général as Slim Touati
1993: L'Avocat (The Hour of the Pig) as Mahmoud
1994: Les Silences du palais (Samt el qusur) as Lofti
1995: Bye-Bye as Ismaël
1996: Anna Oz as Marc
1997: Artemisia as the assistant of Tassi
1997: Le Déménagement as Jean
1997: Né quelque part as Driss Bourafia
1998: The Siege as Samir Nazhde
1998: Une voix en or (TV feature)
1999: Inséparables as Boris
1999: La Peur du vide
1999: Nos vies heureuses as Ali
2000: Douce France
2000: Drôle de Félix by Jacques Martineau and Olivier Ducastel as Félix
2000: Faites comme si je n'étais pas là as Tom
2000: La Faute à Voltaire as Jallel
2000: Nouvelle de la tour L as "Le dealer"
2001: Change moi ma vie as Fidel
2001: Combats de femme - Libre à tout prix (TV) as the supervisor
2001: La Répétition as Nicolas
2002: Embrassez qui vous voudrez as Kévin
2002: Nid de guêpes (The Nest) as Selim
2002: Vivre me tue as Paul Smaïl
2003: La Légende de Parva as Agni (voice)
2003: Léo, en jouant "Dans la compagnie des hommes" as Léonard
2003: Pas si grave as Charlie
2005: Avant l'oubli as Augustin Burger
2005: Zaïna, cavalière de l'Atlas as Mustapha
2006: Indigènes (Days of Glory) as AbdelKader
2006: Le Concile de Pierre as Lucas
2007: 24 mesures as Chris
2007: Le Dernier gang as Casa
2007: Les Témoins (The Witnesses) as Mehdi
2009: Le Premier Cercle as Saunier
2010: De vrais mensonges as Jean
2010: Outside the Law
2011: Omar Killed Me

Awards

2008: César Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Les Témoins of André Téchiné.
2006: "Best Male Interpretation" at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival for his role in Indigènes by Rachid Bouchareb^[1]
2000: "Best Young Actor" at the Festival du film romantique de Cabourg for his role in Drôle de Félix.

References

↑ "Festival de Cannes: Days of Glory". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-12-13.

External links

Sami Bouajila at the Internet Movie Database

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 161653759 LCCN: nr99035100 ISNI: 0000 0001 2197 1330 GND: 142903817 BNF: cb140379355

v t e Cannes Film Festival Best Actor Award

1946–1959	Ray Milland (1946) Edward G. Robinson (1949) Michael Redgrave (1951) Marlon Brando (1952) Charles Vanel (1953) Spencer Tracy/cast of Bolshaya Semya (1955) John Kitzmiller (1957) Paul Newman (1958) Bradford Dillman/Dean Stockwell/Orson Welles (1959)

1960–1979	Anthony Perkins (1961) Dean Stockwell/Jason Robards/Ralph Richardson/Murray Melvin (1962) Richard Harris (1963) Antal Páger/Saro Urzì (1964) Terence Stamp (1965) Per Oscarsson (1966) Oded Kotler (1967) Jean-Louis Trintignant (1969) Marcello Mastroianni (1970) Riccardo Cucciolla (1971) Jean Yanne (1972) Giancarlo Giannini (1973) Jack Nicholson (1974) Vittorio Gassman (1975) José Luis Gómez (1976) Fernando Rey (1977) Jon Voight (1978) Jack Lemmon (1979)

1980–1999	Michel Piccoli (1980) Ugo Tognazzi (1981) Jack Lemmon (1982) Gian Maria Volonté (1983) Alfredo Landa/Francisco Rabal (1984) William Hurt (1985) Michel Blanc/Bob Hoskins (1986) Marcello Mastroianni (1987) Forest Whitaker (1988) James Spader (1989) Gérard Depardieu (1990) John Turturro (1991) Tim Robbins (1992) David Thewlis (1993) Ge You (1994) Jonathan Pryce (1995) Pascal Duquenne/Daniel Auteuil (1996) Sean Penn (1997) Peter Mullan (1998) Emmanuel Schotte (1999)

2000–present	Tony Leung Chiu-Wai (2000) Benoît Magimel (2001) Olivier Gourmet (2002) Muzaffer Ozdemir/Emin Toprak (2003) Yūya Yagira (2004) Tommy Lee Jones (2005) Jamel Debbouze/Samy Naceri/Roschdy Zem/Sami Bouajila/Bernard Blancan (2006) Konstantin Lavronenko (2007) Benicio del Toro (2008) Christoph Waltz (2009) Javier Bardem/Elio Germano (2010) Jean Dujardin (2011) Mads Mikkelsen (2012) Bruce Dern (2013)

v t e César Award for Best Supporting Actor

	1976 Jean Rochefort 1977 Claude Brasseur 1978 Jacques Dufilho 1979 Jacques Villeret 1980 Jean Bouise 1981 Jacques Dufilho 1982 Guy Marchand 1983 Jean Carmet 1984 Richard Anconina 1985 Richard Bohringer 1986 Michel Boujenah 1987 Pierre Arditi 1988 Jean-Claude Brialy 1989 Patrick Chesnais 1990 Robert Hirsch 1991 Jacques Weber 1992 Jean Carmet 1993 André Dussollier 1994 Fabrice Luchini 1995 Jean-Hugues Anglade 1996 Eddy Mitchell 1997 Jean-Pierre Darroussin 1998 Jean-Pierre Bacri 1999 Daniel Prévost 2000 François Berléand 2001 Gérard Lanvin 2002 André Dussollier 2003 Bernard Le Coq 2004 Darry Cowl 2005 Clovis Cornillac 2006 Niels Arestrup 2007 Kad Merad 2008 Sami Bouajila 2009 Jean-Paul Roussillon 2010 Niels Arestrup 2011 Michael Lonsdale 2012 Michel Blanc 2013 Guillaume de Tonquédec

Persondata
Name	Bouajila, Sami
Alternative names
Short description	French actor
Date of birth	12 May 1966
Place of birth	Grenoble, France
Date of death
Place of death

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