Isaach de Bankolé
Acting • Born 1957-08-12
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.
Filmography
76 credits
Night on Earth
Movie • 1991
Cab Driver Paris
Coffee and Cigarettes
Movie • 2004
Isaach (segment "No Problem")
Manderlay
Movie • 2005
Timothy
The People We Hate at the Wedding
Movie • 2022
Henrique
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Movie • 2007
Laurent
Heart of Darkness
Movie • 1993
Mfumu
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Movie • 1999
Raymond
The Limits of Control
Movie • 2009
Lone Man
The Skeleton Key
Movie • 2005
Creole Gas Station Owner
The Fifth Patient
Movie • 2007
Cpt. Mugambe
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Movie • 2022
River Tribe Elder
Casino Royale
Movie • 2006
Steven Obanno
Chocolat
Movie • 1988
Protée
Black Mic Mac
Movie • 1986
Lemi
The Brutalist
Movie • 2024
Gordon
I Am Slave
Movie • 2010
Bah
White Material
Movie • 2010
Boxer
The Guitar
Movie • 2008
Roscoe Wasz
The Keeper
Movie • 1995
Jean Baptiste
Oka!
Movie • 2011
Bassoun
No Fear, No Die
Movie • 1990
Dah
Lady Cops
Movie • 1987
Inspecteur Lacroix
From Other Worlds
Movie • 2004
Abraham
Casa de Lava
Movie • 1995
Leão
Muganga
Movie • 2025
Denis Mukwege
Chaos
Movie • 2012
Vincent
How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired
Movie • 1989
Vieux
Mother of George
Movie • 2013
Ayodele Balogun
Machetero
Movie • 2008
Vanille fraise
Movie • 1989
Hippolyte N'Go
Snakeeater
Movie • 2024
Frank
Calvary
Movie • 2014
Simon
3 A.M.
Movie • 2001
Angus
Run
Movie • 2014
Assa
Battle in Seattle
Movie • 2007
Abasi
Miami Vice
Movie • 2006
Neptune
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
Movie • 1998
Mamadou
The Syringe
Movie • 1984
Otomo
Movie • 1999
Otomo
Noir et blanc
Movie • 1986
The Last Witch Hunter
Movie • 2015
Max Schlesinger
Before It Had a Name
Movie • 2005
Waiter
Mirage
Movie • 2014
Francis
Comment draguer tous les mecs
Movie • 1984
Honoré Clair
Cherry
Movie • 1999
Menu Man
Behind Jim Jarmusch
Movie • 2010
Self
Where the Road Runs Out
Movie • 2014
George
Double Play
Movie • 2017
Ernesto
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
Movie • 2016
Black Panther
Movie • 2018
River Tribe Elder
Kiss Me!
Movie • 2017
Bernard
Bàttu
Movie • 2000
Saar
A Violent Man
Movie • 2019
Pete
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Oganga, the Giver and Taker of Life
Movie • 1999
Sgt. Barthelmy
Ada in the Jungle
Movie • 1988
Bumbo
Homework
Movie • 2004
Jean
Black Is Beltza
Movie • 2018
Wilson Clever (voice)
Shaft
Movie • 2019
Pierro 'Gordito' Carrera
French Exit
Movie • 2021
Julius
Stay
Movie • 2005
Professor
The Killing Zone
Movie • 2003
Malcolm
The Fence
Movie • 2026
Alboury
Taxi Boy
Movie • 1986
Touré
Femme Noire
Movie • 2017
The Sopranos
TV • 1999
Father Obosi
The Unit
TV • 2006
General Togar
24
TV • 2001
Ule Matobo
White Collar
TV • 2009
Luc Renaud
Champs-Elysées
TV • 1982
Self
Parish
TV • 2024
Tongai Sr.
Godfather of Harlem
TV • 2019
Monsieur 98
Les Nuls, l'émission
TV • 1990
Self - Guest
Sacrée Soirée
TV • 1987
Self
The Good Wife
TV • 2009
Larry Oliver
S.W.A.T.
TV • 2017
Aden Syed
Task
TV • 2025
Father Daniel Georges