---
name: "Karim Leklou"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/karim-leklou"
fi1m_id: "karim-leklou"
imdb_id: "nm3588254"
tmdb_id: 587142
wikidata_id: "Q3193200"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "20 June 1982"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 76
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-24T11:52:03.228808+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."
---

# Karim Leklou

## Identity

Karim Leklou

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/karim-leklou
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** karim-leklou
- **IMDb ID:** nm3588254
- **TMDB ID:** 587142
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3193200
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karim_Leklou, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3193200, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3588254/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/587142

Actor. Born 20 June 1982 in Sèvres, France.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 20 June 1982, Sèvres, France
- **Active:** 2009–present
- **Also known as:** 카림 르클로
- **Frequently works with:** [Antonin Baudry](https://film.one/person/antonin-baudry.md), [Ardavan Safaee](https://film.one/person/ardavan-safaee.md), [Axelle Boucaï](https://film.one/person/axelle-boucai.md), [Bérénice Vila](https://film.one/person/berenice-vila.md), [Jérôme Seydoux](https://film.one/person/jerome-seydoux.md), [Simon Abkarian](https://film.one/person/simon-abkarian.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 76, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 86 (1), 2020s 71 (2)
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 2 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 3, History 2, Crime 1
- **Screen time:** 8 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $50m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karim_Leklou, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3193200, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3588254/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/587142

## Coming up

- *Le Faux Soir* (2026-12-02)
- *Secondes chances* (2027-01-13)

## Biography

Karim Leklou is a French actor born on 20 June 1982 in Sèvres, Hauts-de-Seine. He made his screen debut in a small role in Jacques Audiard's *A Prophet* (2009).

Leklou has appeared in *The World Is Yours* (2018), *Playground* (2021), *The Stronghold* (2021), *Vincent Must Die* (2023) and *Jim's Story* (2024). He took a lead role across both seasons of the series *Hippocrate* (2018, 2021). In 2025 he received the César Award for Best Actor for *Jim's Story*. He is credited as Blazej in *De Gaulle: Liberté* (2026).

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

## On Fi1m (3)

- *De Gaulle: Liberté* (2026), Fi1m 72, as Blazej — [page](https://film.one/film/de-gaulle-liberte.md)
- *De Gaulle: Résistance* (2026), Fi1m 70, as Blazej — [page](https://film.one/film/de-gaulle-resistance.md)
- *A Prophet* (2009), Fi1m 86, as Muslim in the hallway — [page](https://film.one/film/a-prophet.md)

## Complete filmography (45)

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

- *Secondes chances* (2027), Actor
- *Le Faux Soir* (2026), Actor
- *De Gaulle: Liberté* (2026), as Blazej — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/de-gaulle-liberte.md)
- *De Gaulle: Résistance* (2026), as Blazej — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/de-gaulle-resistance.md)
- *The Piano Accident* (2025), as Roméo
- *Beating Hearts* (2024), as Le père de Clotaire
- *Tales of Taipei* (2024), as Adan (segment "The Imaginary Child")
- *Jim's Story* (2024), as Aymeric
- *Vincent Must Die* (2023), as Vincent
- *Time Out* (2023), as Bonnard
- *Loving Memories* (2023), as L'homme
- *Sons of Ramses* (2023), as Ramsès
- *For My Country* (2023), as Ismaël
- *Playground* (2021), as Father
- *The Third War* (2021), as Hicham
- *The Stronghold* (2021), as Yass
- *Interns* (2018), series, as Arben Bascha
- *The World Is Yours* (2018), as Farés
- *Treat Me Like Fire* (2018), as Nacim
- *If You Saw His Heart* (2017), as Michel
- *Orphan* (2017), as Friend of Kiki's Father
- *Heal the Living* (2016), as Virgilio Breva
- *Toril* (2016), as Bruno
- *The Stopover* (2016), as Max
- *The Anarchists* (2015), as Biscuit (Marcel Deloche)
- *Heatwave* (2015), as Josef Bousou
- *Young Tiger* (2015), as Frédéric
- *Sous X* (2015), as Lamo
- *Suzanne* (2013), as Vince
- *Grand Central* (2013), Actor
- *11.6* (2013), as Bruno Morales
- *Marseille la nuit* (2012), as Teddy
- *Tata Bakhta* (2012), as Paul
- *Chase* (2011), as Gérard
- *Sans pudeur ni morale* (2011), Actor
- *The Giants* (2011), as Angel
- *Changing Room* (2011), as Luc
- *Special Treatment* (2010), as Bruno
- *A Prophet* (2009), as Muslim in the hallway — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/a-prophet.md)
- *Cramé* (2008), Actor
- *Poil de carotte*, Actor
- *Eldorado*, series, as Léo Sarda
- *The Hunchback, Soul of Paris*, Actor
- *Le Monde trop grand*, Actor
- *Le Grand réveil*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Karim Leklou](https://film.one/media/person/94270/gallery-9cbdb53191fd.jpg) Karim Leklou — Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Karim_Leklou_Cabourg_2018.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Karim Leklou at Series Mania 2026](https://film.one/media/person/94270/gallery-30b1d5fc4d74.jpg) Karim Leklou at Series Mania 2026 — Elyot Boudart, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Karim_Leklou_at_Series_Mania_2026.jpg/1280px-Karim_Leklou_at_Series_Mania_2026.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won

- César Award for Best Actor 2025: César Award for Best Actor (won), for *Le Roman de Jim*
- Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award 2023: Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award (won), for *Vincent Must Die*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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