Person
Tchéky Karyo
Born 4 October 1953 Died 31 October 2025, aged 72 Istanbul, Turkey TMDB ↗
Tchéky Karyo was a Turkish-born French actor.
FR·01
The numbers
28age in their first credit on record (1982)
43years on screen and counting
6credits in 2020, their busiest year
135dated credits on record
FR·02
Movie credits
The Sword of Thyrus
as Maardin
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Berlin Berlin
Age: 71 Steel Butterfly
2025as Robert
Age: 71 Faster
2025as Le Duc
Age: 71 Immortel Nougaro
2024as interprete
Age: 70 The Killer
2024as Tessier
Age: 69 Serial Driver
2023as Jean-Yves Lapick
Age: 69 Romantique
2022as Pascal
Age: 69 Fraîche
2022as Alex
Age: 68 The Life Before
2021as André
Age: 68 Vicky and Her Mystery
2021as Bruno
Age: 68 Christmas Next Door
2021as Georges, le mari de Nicoletta
Age: 66 A Mermaid in Paris
2020as Camille
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Age: 66 Charon
2020as L'homme
Age: 64 Mary Magdalene
2018as Elisha
Age: 64 Belle and Sebastian 3: The Last Chapter
2018as César
Age: 63 I Didn't Shoot Jesse James
2017as Bob Ford
Age: 63 Daydreams
2017as Marc
Age: 62 L'araignée rouge
2016as Simon Delaunay
Age: 62 Belle and Sebastian: The Adventure Continues
2015as César
Age: 61 Through the Air
2015as Armand Cavelle
Age: 61 Les brigands
2015as Old Man
Age: 60 De guerre lasse
2014as Armand
Age: 60 Belle and Sebastian
2013as César
Age: 59 Le Roman d’un trader
2013as le directeur général
Age: 59 Jappeloup
2013as Marcel Rozier, French team coach
Age: 59 Pieces of Me
2013as Edern
Age: 59 Morning Star
2012as Heroy
Age: 58 A Gang Story
2011as Serge Suttel
Age: 58 Special Forces
2011as Admiral Guezennec
Age: 57 Coup d'éclat
2011as Mérendon
Age: 57 Requiem for a Killer
2011as L'Arménien
Age: 56 The Way
2010as Captain Henri
Age: 56 Among Us
2010as Walter
Age: 56 A Previous Engagement
2009as Alex Belmont
Age: 55 A Man and His Dog
2009as Le guitariste
Age: 54 L'Affaire Bruay-en-Artois
2008as Le Juge Marceau
Age: 54 Vampire Party
2008as Le duc de Journiac
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Age: 54 The Resistance: Live Free or Die
2008as Narrator (voice)
Age: 53 Les Cerfs-volants
2007as Ambroise
Age: 53 Boxes
2007as Jean
Age: 53 The Lark Farm
2007as Aram
Age: 53 Jacquou the Rebel
2007as Le chevalier
Age: 53 The Gravedancers
2006as Vincent Cochet
Age: 52 S.A.C. : Des hommes dans l'ombre
2005as Louis Routier
Age: 51 D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers
2005as Le cardinal de Richelieu
Age: 51 Old Goriot
2004as Vautrin
Age: 51 A Very Long Engagement
2004as Captain Favour
Age: 50 Ne quittez pas !
2004as Raveu
Age: 50 Taking Lives
2004as Leclair
Age: 50 Renegade
2004as Uncle
Age: 49 The Core
2003as Serge
Age: 49 Utopia
2003as Hervé
Age: 49 The Good Thief
2003as Roger
Age: 47 Kiss of the Dragon
2001as Richard
Age: 47 The King Is Dancing
2000as Molière
Age: 46 The Patriot
2000as Jean Villeneuve
Age: 46 Saving Grace
2000as Jacques Chevalier
Age: 46 The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
1999as Jean de Dunois
Age: 45 My Life So Far
1999as Gabriel Chenoux
Age: 45 Like a Fish Out of Water
1999as B. B.
Age: 45 Wing Commander
1999as Cmmdre. James 'Paladin' Taggart
Age: 45 Babel
1999as Nemrod
Age: 44 Let There Be Light!
1998as Harper
Age: 43 The Thousand Wonders of the Universe
1997as Professor Larsen
Age: 43 Dobermann
1997as Inspecteur Sauveur Cristini
Age: 43 Addicted to Love
1997as Anton
Age: 43 Habitat
1997as Hank Symes
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Age: 43 Les liens du cœur
1996as Silas Marner
Age: 43 To Have and to Hold
1996as Jack
Age: 42 Hotel Rome
1996as Federale Apolloni
Age: 42 Foreign Land
1996as Kraft
Age: 42 Passage to Paradise
1996as Renato
Age: 42 Follow Your Heart
1996as Ernesto
Age: 42 GoldenEye
1995as Dmitri Mishkin
Age: 41 Operation Dumbo Drop
1995as Goddard
Age: 41 Crying Freeman
1995as Detective Netah
Age: 41 Bad Boys
1995as Fouchet
Age: 41 Moon Shadow
1995as Lorenzo
Age: 41 Zadoc and Happiness
1995as Zadoc
Age: 41 The Black Angel
1994as Paul Delorme
Age: 40 Nostradamus
1994as Nostradamus
Age: 40 Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
1994as Mr. Jacques, the 1st projectionist
Age: 40 Red Shoe Diaries 3: Another Woman's Lipstick
1993as Phillip (archive footage)
Age: 39 And the Band Played On
1993as Dr. Willy Rozenbaum
Age: 39 L'Atlantide
1992as Lieutenant Morhange
Age: 38 1492: Conquest of Paradise
1992as Martín Alonso Pinzón
Age: 38 Sketch Artist
1992as Paul Korbel
Age: 38 On Guard
1992as Jean Vergier
Age: 38 Too Close to the Gods
1992as Henri Georges
Age: 38 Isabelle Eberhardt
1991as Slimene
Age: 37 Husbands and Lovers
1991as Paolo
Age: 37 High Art
1991as Hermes, the Knife master
Age: 37 Vincent and Me
1990as Vincent van Gogh
Age: 36 La fille des collines
1990as Vincent
Age: 36 Nikita
1990as Bob
Age: 36 Corps perdus
1990as Eric Desange
Age: 35 Australia
1989as Julian Pierson
Age: 35 The Bear
1988as Tom
Age: 33 Sorceress
1987as Etienne de Bourbon
Age: 33 Spiral
1987as Kino
Age: 32 États d'âme
1986as Bertrand
Age: 32 Blue Hell
1986as Franck
Age: 32 L'unique
1986as Michel
Age: 31 Grottenolm
1985as Gerome Holm
Age: 31 Mad Love
1985as Micky
Age: 31 Le Matelot 512
1984as The scarred one / André
Age: 30 Full Moon in Paris
1984as Remi
Age: 30 Rita Ritter
1984as Man
Age: 30 The Outsider
1983as Francis Pierron
Age: 29 Shadow Dance
1983as Xavier
Age: 29 La Balance
1982as Petrovic
Age: 29 Will the High Salaried Workers Raise Their Hands!
1982
Age: 29 All Night Long
1982
Age: 28 The Return of Martin Guerre
1982as Augustin
FR·03
TV credits
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Vendetta
Age: 70 Boat Story
2023as The Tailor
Age: 69 Liaison
2023as Francis Miller
Age: 69 Forest of the Missing
2022as Franz Agerland
Age: 69 I3P
2022as Paul Arkan
Age: 68 Women at War
2022as Général Duvernet
Age: 67 Possessions
2020as Joël
Age: 67 Possessions
2020as Yoel
Age: 66 The Eddy
2020as Daniel Perrin
Age: 66 ZeroZeroZero
2020as François Salvage
Age: 65 The Name of the Rose
2019as Pope John XXII
Age: 65 Baptiste
2019as Julien Baptiste
Age: 65 War on Beasts
2018as Serge Tokarev
Age: 63 Genius
2017as Henri Rousseau
Age: 62 Section Zéro
2016as Franck Varnove
Age: 61 The Missing
2014as Julien Baptiste
Age: 59 No Limit
2012as Franck Koskas
Age: 52 The Accursed Kings
2005as Philippe le Bel
Age: 51 D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers
2005as Le cardinal de Richelieu
Age: 51 Kaamelott
2005as Manius Macrinus Firmus
Age: 46 Arabian Nights
2000as Black Coda
Age: 44 From the Earth to the Moon
1998as George Melies
Age: 38 Red Shoe Diaries
1992as Phillip