---
name: "Hichem Yacoubi"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/hichem-yacoubi"
fi1m_id: "hichem-yacoubi"
imdb_id: "nm1311741"
tmdb_id: 89625
wikidata_id: "Q3135198"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "4 April 1964"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 83
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-09-17T15:23:17.854768+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."
---

# Hichem Yacoubi

## Identity

Hichem Yacoubi

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/hichem-yacoubi
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** hichem-yacoubi
- **IMDb ID:** nm1311741
- **TMDB ID:** 89625
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3135198
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hichem_Yacoubi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3135198, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1311741/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/89625

Actor. Born 4 April 1964 in Tunis, Tunisia.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 4 April 1964, Tunis, Tunisia
- **Active:** 2005–present
- **Also known as:** هشام اليعقوبي, Ішем Якубі
- **Average Fi1m score:** 83, as actor, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 83 (2), 2010s 88 (1), 2020s 78 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 83 to 80 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 3 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 4, Adventure 1, Crime 1, History 1, Thriller 1, War 1
- **Screen time:** 9 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $150m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hichem_Yacoubi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3135198, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1311741/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/89625

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*Timbuktu*](https://film.one/film/timbuktu.md) (88)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Io Capitano*](https://film.one/film/io-capitano.md) (78)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Hichem Yacoubi is a Tunisian-born French actor. He trained in theatre, including at the Actors Studio, and in dance.

He is known for roles including an Arab guard in *Munich* (2005), Reyeb in *A Prophet* (2009), a jihadist in *Timbuktu* (2014), Muhajid in *Speak No Evil* (2022) and Ahmed in *Io Capitano* (2023). He co-directed and co-wrote the short film *Bon Anniversaire!* (2007) with Daniel Kupferstein.

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

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Io Capitano* (2023), Fi1m 78, as Ahmed — [page](https://film.one/film/io-capitano.md)
- *Timbuktu* (2014), Fi1m 88, as Jihadist — [page](https://film.one/film/timbuktu.md)
- *A Prophet* (2009), Fi1m 86, as Reyeb — [page](https://film.one/film/a-prophet.md)
- *Munich* (2005), Fi1m 80, as Arab Guard — [page](https://film.one/film/munich.md)

## Complete filmography (20)

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

- *Agent Zero* (2025), as Reda
- *Trek Salama* (2025), Actor
- *Monsieur Spade* (2024), series, as Imam
- *Io Capitano* (2023), as Ahmed — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/io-capitano.md)
- *Speak No Evil* (2022), as Muhajid
- *Les secrets des bâtisseurs de pyramides* (2020), series, as Pharaon Khéops
- *Ali's Circle* (2020), as Hichem
- *Arab Blues* (2020), as Raouf
- *The Breitner Commando* (2019), as Youcef
- *Thugocratie* (2018), as Karim
- *The Nile Hilton Incident* (2017), as Nagy
- *Caffè* (2016), as Hamed
- *Totem* (2016), as Karim
- *Terremere* (2014), Actor
- *Timbuktu* (2014), as Jihadist — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/timbuktu.md)
- *Printemps tunisien* (2014), as Moha
- *Un enfant en danger* (2013), as Selim
- *A Prophet* (2009), as Reyeb — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/a-prophet.md)
- *Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest* (2006), as (voice)
- *Munich* (2005), as Arab Guard — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/munich.md)

## Gallery

- ![Hichem Yacoubi](https://film.one/media/person/11779/gallery-fde6f0a26a7b.jpg) Hichem Yacoubi — Verdoyant, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Hichem_Yacoubi.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Hichem Yacoubi](https://film.one/media/person/11779/gallery-2d8c92e221dc.jpg) Hichem Yacoubi — Image via TMDB

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