Early life

Driss Roukhe was born in a poor neighborhood ("Dyour Jdad B’ni M’Hamed") in Meknes

Meknes

Meknes is a city in northern Morocco, located from the capital Rabat and from Fes. It is served by the A2 expressway between those two cities and by the corresponding railway. Meknes was the capital of Morocco under the reign of Moulay Ismail , before it was relocated to Marrakech. The...

, he lost his father when he was 7. He practiced Theater in high-school and with various youth associations. He later joined the "Institut supérieur d’art dramatique et d’animation culturelle" (ISADAC) where he was trained as an actor. He first appeared at Moroccan director Ahmed Essyad's opera

Opera

Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...

 "Le Collier des ruses", in 1993.

Films

• Black Gold
  Black Gold (2011 film)
  Black Gold is an upcoming drama film co-produced and directed by Jeta Amanta. One local Niger Delta community's struggle against their own government and a multi-national oil corporation who has plundered their land and destroyed the environment.- Plot :...
  
   (2011) as Magroof
• Love in the Medina (2011) as the "Mokkadem"
• Agadir Bombay (2011)
• Pegase
  PEGASE
  PEGASE is a proposed space mission to build a double-aperture interferometer composed of three free-flying satellites. The goal of the mission is the study of Hot Jupiters , brown dwarfs and the interior of protoplanetary disks. The mission would be performed by the Centre National d'Études...
  
   (2011) as Chrif
• Green Zone
  Green Zone
  The Green Zone is the most common name for the International Zone of Baghdad. It is a area of central Baghdad, Iraq, that was the governmental center of the Coalition Provisional Authority and remains the center of the international presence in the city...
  
   (2010) as Tahir al-Malik
• Die zwei Leben des Daniel Shore
  Die zwei Leben des Daniel Shore
  Die zwei Leben des Daniel Shore is a 2009 German film by Michael Dreher; written by him and produced by Karim Debbagh, Rüdiger Heinze, Rainer Kölmel and Stefan Sporbert. It stars Nikolai Kinski, Katharina Schüttler, Morjana Alaoui and Sean Gullette...
  
   (2009) as Commandant
• Casanegra (2008) as Adil's stepfather
• Gud, lukt och henne (2008)
• Secret défense (2008) as Natrif
• Arn – The Kingdom at Road's End
  Arn – The Kingdom at Road's End
  Arn – The Kingdom at Road's End is a 2008 epic film based on Jan Guillou's trilogy about the fictional Swedish Knights Templar Arn Magnusson...
  
   (2008) as Fakhr
• Number One (2008) as Toro
• Arn: The Knight Templar (2007) as Fakhr
• Rendition
  Rendition
  Rendition may refer to:*Rendition , a legal term meaning "handing over"*Extraordinary rendition by the United States, the abduction and illegal transfer of a person from one nation to another*"Rendition" , an episode of Torchwood...
  
   (2007) as Bahi
• The Satanic Angels (2007) as Kader
• The Situation
  The Situation
  The Situation can refer to:*The Situation , a 2007 film*Michael "The Situation" Sorrentino, a cast member on the MTV reality show Jersey Shore*The former name of the MSNBC show Tucker*The Situation Room, a newscast on CNN...
  
   (2006) as Walid
• Babel (2006) as Alarid
• Syriana
  Syriana
  Syriana is a 2005 geopolitical thriller film written and directed by Stephen Gaghan, and executive produced by George Clooney, who also stars in the film with an ensemble cast. Gaghan's screenplay is loosely adapted from Robert Baer's memoir See No Evil...
  
   (2005) as Guard
• Le regard (2005) as Ramzi
• La chambre noire (2005)
• One Way Ticket
  One Way Ticket
  "One Way Ticket" is the leading single from British rock band The Darkness's second studio album, One Way Ticket to Hell... And Back. It reached number eight on the UK Singles Chart...
  
   (2001) as Omar

Television

• The Passion (TV serial)
  The Passion (TV serial)
  The Passion is a television drama serial produced by the BBC and HBO Films in association with Deep Indigo Productions. It tells the story of the last week in the life of Jesus. The serial was first proposed by Peter Fincham in 2006, on the success of the contemporary-set Manchester Passion...
  
  Episode #1.2 (2008) as Roman Soldier at Procession
• The Grid (TV mini-series) (2004) as Saudi Customs Officer

External links

• IMDB profile
• Official website