Isaach de Bankolé
Department: 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.
Known For
Night on Earth
1991
Coffee and Cigarettes
2004
Manderlay
2005
The People We Hate at the Wedding
2022
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2007
Heart of Darkness
1993
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
1999
The Limits of Control
2009
The Skeleton Key
2005
The Fifth Patient
2007
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
2022
Casino Royale
2006
Chocolat
1988
Black Mic Mac
1986
The Brutalist
2024
I Am Slave
2010
White Material
2010
The Guitar
2008
The Keeper
1995
Oka!
2011
No Fear, No Die
1990
Lady Cops
1987
From Other Worlds
2004
Casa de Lava
1995
Muganga
2025
Chaos
2012
How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired
1989
Mother of George
2013
Machetero
2008
Vanille fraise
1989
Snakeeater
2024
Calvary
2014
3 A.M.
2001
Run
2014
Battle in Seattle
2007
Miami Vice
2006
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
1998
The Syringe
1984
Otomo
1999
Noir et blanc
1986
The Last Witch Hunter
2015
Before It Had a Name
2005
Mirage
2014
Comment draguer tous les mecs
1984
Cherry
1999
Behind Jim Jarmusch
2010
Where the Road Runs Out
2014
Double Play
2017
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
2016
Black Panther
2018
Kiss Me!
2017
Bàttu
2000
A Violent Man
2019
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Oganga, the Giver and Taker of Life
1999
Ada in the Jungle
1988
Homework
2004
Black Is Beltza
2018
Shaft
2019
French Exit
2021
Stay
2005
The Killing Zone
2003
The Fence
2026
Taxi Boy
1986
Femme Noire
2017
Dune: Part Three
2026
The Sopranos
1999
The Unit
2006
24
2001
White Collar
2009
Champs-Elysées
1982
Parish
2024
Godfather of Harlem
2019
Les Nuls, l'émission
1990
Sacrée Soirée
1987
The Good Wife
2009
S.W.A.T.
2017
Task
2025
The Boss Baby: Back in the Crib
2022