--- name: "Salif Cissé" canonical: "https://film.one/person/salif-cisse" fi1m_id: "salif-cisse" tmdb_id: 2541773 roles: ["Actor"] born: "7 October 1993" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-22T02:55:01.272323+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." --- # Salif Cissé ## Identity Salif Cissé - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/salif-cisse - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** salif-cisse - **TMDB ID:** 2541773 - **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2541773 Actor. Born 7 October 1993 in Saint-Denis, France. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 7 October 1993, Saint-Denis, France - **Active:** 2021–present - **Also known as:** Salif Cisse - **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2541773 ## Coming up - *Paolo* (2026-09-25) — [page](https://film.one/tv/paolo.md) ## Streaming the US now - **The Roku Channel:** [*All Hands on Deck!*](https://film.one/film/all-hands-on-deck.md) (77) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Salif Cissé > Salif Cissé is the one in the scene who is listening. In *All Hands on Deck* he turned the friend who came along for the ride into the person we watched, and the parts since have been a test of whether that stillness can carry a film. Halfway through Guillaume Brac's *All Hands on Deck* (2021) there is a campsite, a mother with a small child, and Chérif sitting near them saying not very much. Félix, the boy whose chase after a girl the film is supposedly about, is off somewhere talking. Cissé plays Chérif as a man who has noticed everyone else before they have noticed him, and he lets the noticing do the work. We liked him more the less he did, and by the tent scenes we were waiting for the film to return to him. The reason is simple: in a comedy about a boy performing for a girl, Cissé plays the one man who is not performing for anyone. He came to the screen from the stage, trained at the Paris conservatoires, and has kept working in theatre while the film parts arrived. Brac's film was his first lead, one of three, and it set the pattern for what directors have asked of him since: supporting parts in films by Arnaud Desplechin and Valérie Donzelli, a recurring role in the television series *Lupin* (2023), and, for Desplechin again, the director's own alter ego at thirty in *Spectateurs* (2024). He wrote and directed a short, *Alliés*, in 2023. His first proper lead came with Fabienne Godet's comedy *Le Répondeur* (2025), opposite Denis Podalydès, with *Météors* (2025) alongside it and *Paolo* (2026) still in post-production. We have not reviewed these and will not judge them here. What we can say from the one we have seen is what he is good at. He plays ordinary men from the suburbs without underlining that they are ordinary or that they are from the suburbs, which is rarer than it sounds. He is funny without reaching for it. He has the theatre actor's habit of holding a position and letting the other person move, and on screen that reads as ease. The risk is the flip side of the same coin. Cissé has said his method is being willing to adapt to any situation he is in, and an actor who adapts to everything can vanish into whichever director he is working for. What we have not yet seen from him is a man who is wrong, or angry, or wanting something badly enough to be embarrassing about it. Brac found the watchfulness. Someone now needs to make him do something with it other than watch. ## Biography Salif Cissé is a French actor, screenwriter and director. He trained at the Conservatoire national supérieur d’art dramatique after discovering theatre at secondary school. He made his feature-film debut as Chérif in Guillaume Brac’s *All Hands on Deck!* (2020), which premiered at the Berlinale. Subsequent screen credits include the Netflix series *Lupin* (2021 and 2023) as the younger Jean-Luc Keller, *Just the Two of Us* (2023), *Brother and Sister* (2022), *This Is My Mother* (2023), *Juliette in Spring* (2024) and *Guess Who’s Calling!* (2025). He is also attached to the series *Paolo* (2026). Cissé wrote and directed the short film *Alliés* (2023) and the mini-series *Couronnes* (2020). He is due to represent France at the European Shooting Stars in 2026. *Sources: imdb.com, fr.wikipedia.org, pro.festivalscope.com, en.unifrance.org.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *All Hands on Deck!* (2021), Fi1m 77, as Chérif — [page](https://film.one/film/all-hands-on-deck.md) ## Complete filmography (26) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Paolo* (2026), series, Actor — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/tv/paolo.md) - *Love Me Tender* (2025), as Psychiatrist expert - *Meteors* (2025), as Tony Mathurin - *Guess Who's Calling!* (2025), as Baptiste Mendy - *Filmlovers!* (2025), as 30-year-old - *Stages of Love* (2024), as David - *Juliette in Spring* (2024), as Pollux - *The Trigger* (2024), series, as Yellow Submarine - *This is My Mother* (2024), as Ibou - *Children of Paradise* (2023), as Sid - *La mécanique des tournesols* (2023), as Ernest Constant - *Alliés* (2023), Director, Screenplay - *Welfare* (2023), Actor - *Just the Two of Us* (2023), as L'interne - *Derive* (2023), as Yohann - *Endless Night* (2022), series, as Idris - *Brother and Sister* (2022), as Le pharmacien - *In the Afternoon Shade* (2022), as Adrien - *All Hands on Deck!* (2021), as Chérif — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/all-hands-on-deck.md) - *Le bon rôle* (2021), as Le réalisateur - *Lupin* (2021), series, as Jean-Luc Keller 1998 - *The Dance to Come* (2019), Actor - *Frangin frangine*, Actor - *16 mesures*, as XIII - *Up-and-coming*, as Le dépanneur - *Une heure et demie en été*, Actor --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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