---
name: "Marc Zinga"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/marc-zinga"
fi1m_id: "marc-zinga"
imdb_id: "nm3207271"
tmdb_id: 578512
wikidata_id: "Q19629963"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "21 October 1983"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 63
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-02T23:28:23.775108+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."
---

# Marc Zinga

## Identity

Marc Zinga

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/marc-zinga
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** marc-zinga
- **IMDb ID:** nm3207271
- **TMDB ID:** 578512
- **Wikidata ID:** Q19629963
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Zinga, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19629963, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3207271/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/578512

Actor. Born 21 October 1983 in Likasi, Repubblica Democratica del Congo.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 21 October 1983, Likasi, Repubblica Democratica del Congo
- **Average Fi1m score:** 63, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Zinga, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19629963, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3207271/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/578512

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*Dheepan*](https://film.one/film/dheepan.md) (68)

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## Biography

Marc Zinga is a Congolese-Belgian actor, singer and filmmaker. Born on 21 October 1984 in Likasi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, he moved with his family to Belgium at the age of five.

He began his acting career in the late 2000s with small roles, including in *Mr. Nobody* (2009) and *Diamant 13* (2009). His breakthrough came in 2014 with leading parts in *Scouting for Zebras* (for which he won the Magritte Award for Most Promising Actor) and *May Allah Bless France!*, the latter earning a César Award nomination for Most Promising Actor. He trained at the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles.

Zinga appeared as Youssouf in Jacques Audiard’s *Dheepan* (2015) and as Moreau in the James Bond film *Spectre* (2015). He has collaborated repeatedly with the Dardenne brothers on *The Unknown Girl* (2016), *Young Ahmed* (2019), *Tori and Lokita* (2022) and *Young Mothers* (2025). Other notable roles include the title part in *The African Doctor* (2016) and Sergeant Xavier in *The Mercy of the Jungle* (2018), for which he won Best Actor at FESPACO. He also directed the 2013 short film *Grand Garçon*.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Dheepan* (2015), Fi1m 68, as Youssouf — [page](https://film.one/film/dheepan.md)
- *Spectre* (2015), Fi1m 58, as Moreau — [page](https://film.one/film/spectre.md)

## Complete filmography (31)

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

- *Au sein des autres* (2026), as Xavier
- *Allah is Not Obliged* (2026), as (voice)
- *Prime Rush* (2025), as Pikel
- *Young Mothers* (2025), as Professeur de coiffure
- *Blood River* (2024), series, as Kosa
- *9.3 BB* (2024), series, as Dominique Dealer
- *9/12* (2024), series, as Martine/Jean-François Donjon
- *Omen* (2023), as Koffi
- *Black Box* (2023), as Thibaut Monier
- *The Nannies* (2022), as Koffi
- *Tori and Lokita* (2022), as Firmin
- *Moloch* (2020), series, as Jimmy
- *Brutus vs Cesar* (2020), as Claudius
- *Les Justes* (2019), as Ivan Kaliayev
- *The Mercy of the Jungle* (2019), as Sergeant Xavier
- *Our Patriots* (2017), as Addi Bâ
- *The Unknown Girl* (2016), as Pimp
- *The African Doctor* (2016), as Seyolo Zantoko
- *Spectre* (2015), as Moreau — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/spectre.md)
- *Les amoureuses* (2015), as Lilian
- *Le centre* (2015), series, as Le casque bleu
- *Dheepan* (2015), as Youssouf — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/dheepan.md)
- *The Night Watchmen* (2015), as Ketu
- *Peplum* (2015), series, as Narcissus
- *May Allah Bless France!* (2014), as Régis / Abd Al Malik
- *Zebra Stripes* (2014), as Yaya
- *Asylum Blackout* (2012), as Asian Inmate Corridor A
- *Mister Bob* (2011), as General Mobutu
- *Vampires* (2010), as Le sans-papiers
- *Mr. Nobody* (2009), as Gay Man 1
- *Diamond 13* (2009), as Ali Baba Mike

## Gallery

- ![Marc Zinga](https://film.one/media/person/641253/gallery-0ea7054fbdcb.jpg) Marc Zinga — Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Marc_Zinga_Lumi%C3%A8res_2015.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Marc Zinga](https://film.one/media/person/641253/gallery-5fd158784fa2.jpg) Marc Zinga — Image via TMDB

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