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name: "Emmanuel de Merode"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/emmanuel-de-merode"
fi1m_id: "emmanuel-de-merode"
imdb_id: "nm5313975"
tmdb_id: 1462831
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "5 May 1970"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-01T23:28:54.345752+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Emmanuel de Merode

## Identity

Emmanuel de Merode

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/emmanuel-de-merode
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** emmanuel-de-merode
- **IMDb ID:** nm5313975
- **TMDB ID:** 1462831
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5313975/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1462831

Actor. Born 5 May 1970 in Carthage, Tunisia.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 5 May 1970, Carthage, Tunisia
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5313975/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1462831

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Virunga*](https://film.one/film/virunga.md) (84)

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## Biography

Emmanuel de Merode is a conservationist and anthropologist who has served as director of Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 2008. He appears as himself in the 2014 documentary *Virunga*, which follows efforts to protect the park during the M23 rebellion.

Born on 5 May 1970 in Carthage, Tunisia, de Merode was raised in Kenya and studied at Durham University and University College London, where he earned a PhD in anthropology focused on Congolese conservation. He co-founded WildlifeDirect and has worked in the region since the 1990s.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Virunga* (2014), Fi1m 84, Actor — [page](https://film.one/film/virunga.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Virunga* (2014), Actor — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/virunga.md)

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