Tchéky Karyo
118 movies · 22 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Oct 4, 1953
- Died
- Oct 31, 2025 (age 72)
- Place of birth
- Istanbul, Turkey
- Also known as
- Tcheky Karyo · Techky Karyo · צ'קי קאריו · Baruh Djaki Karyo
Biography
Tchéky Karyo (French: [tʃeki kɑʁjo]; born Baruh Djaki Karyo; October 4, 1953 – October 31, 2025) was a Turkish-born French actor and musician.
Beginning his career as an actor on stage in classical and contemporary plays, he later worked as a character actor in films in the 1980s. He acted in numerous films by Hollywood and French directors, including Luc Besson. He was nominated for a César Award for Most Promising Actor for his performance in the 1982 film La Balance.
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Baruh Djaki Karyo was born in 1953 in Istanbul, Turkey. His mother was Greek Jewish, and his father, a delivery man and builder, was from a Turkish Sephardic Jewish family; both families had Spanish roots. When he was young, his family moved to Paris, France. The spelling of his name, Djaki, was changed to Tchéky in a form of French transliteration. At age 13, his parents separated, and his mother ordered him to leave her home as well.
He attended the Parisian secondary school Lycée Arago. As a young man, Karyo studied drama at the Cyrano Theatre, and later became a member of the Daniel Sorano Company, playing many classical roles.
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Known for
Tchéky Karyo: movies and TV shows
Acting (139)
- Upcoming The Sword of Thyrus
as Maardin
- Upcoming
- 2026
- 2025 Steel Butterfly
as Robert
- 2025 Faster
as Le Duc
- 2024 Immortel Nougaro
as interprete
- 2024 The Killer
as Tessier
- 2023
- 2023 Serial Driver
as Jean-Yves Lapick
- 2023
- 2022
- 2022 Romantique
as Pascal
- 2022
- 2022 Fraîche
as Alex
- 2022
- 2021 The Life Before
as André
- 2021 Vicky and Her Mystery
as Bruno
- 2021 Christmas Next Door
as Georges, le mari de Nicoletta
- 2020
- 2020
- 2020 A Mermaid in Paris
as Camille
- 2020 Charon
as L'homme
- 2020
- 2019
- 2019
- 2018
- 2018 Mary Magdalene
as Elisha
- 2018
- 2017 I Didn't Shoot Jesse James
as Bob Ford
- 2017
- 2017 Daydreams
as Marc
- 2016 Wild Tales From The Village
as Narrator
- 2016
- 2016 L'araignée rouge
as Simon Delaunay
- 2015
- 2015 Through the Air
as Armand Cavelle
- 2015 Les brigands
as Old Man
- 2014
- 2014 De guerre lasse
as Armand
- 2013 Belle and Sebastian
as César
- 2013 Le Roman d’un trader
as le directeur général
- 2013 Jappeloup
as Marcel Rozier, French team coach
- 2013 Pieces of Me
as Edern
- 2012 Morning Star
as Heroy
- 2012
- 2011 A Gang Story
as Serge Suttel
- 2011 Special Forces
as Admiral Guezennec
- 2011 Coup d'éclat
as Mérendon
- 2011 Requiem for a Killer
as L'Arménien
- 2010 The Way
as Captain Henri
- 2010 Among Us
as Walter
- 2009 A Previous Engagement
as Alex Belmont
- 2009 A Man and His Dog
as Le guitariste
- 2008 L'Affaire Bruay-en-Artois
as Le Juge Marceau
- 2008 Vampire Party
as Le duc de Journiac
- 2008 The Resistance: Live Free or Die
as Narrator (voice)
- 2007 Les Cerfs-volants
as Ambroise
- 2007 Boxes
as Jean
- 2007 The Lark Farm
as Aram
- 2007 La masseria delle allodole
as Aram
- 2007 Jacquou the Rebel
as Le chevalier
- 2006 The Gravedancers
as Vincent Cochet
- 2005 S.A.C. : Des hommes dans l'ombre
as Louis Routier
- 2005
- 2005
- 2005 D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers
as Le cardinal de Richelieu
- 2005
- 2004 Old Goriot
as Vautrin
- 2004 A Very Long Engagement
as Captain Favour
- 2004 Ne quittez pas !
as Raveu
- 2004 Taking Lives
as Leclair
- 2004 Blueberry
as Uncle
- 2003 The Core
as Serge
- 2003 Utopia
as Hervé
- 2003 The Good Thief
as Roger
- 2001 Kiss of the Dragon
as Richard
- 2000 The King Is Dancing
as Molière
- 2000 The Patriot
as Jean Villeneuve
- 2000
- 2000 Saving Grace
as Jacques Chevalier
- 1999 The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
as Jean de Dunois
- 1999 My Life So Far
as Gabriel Chenoux
- 1999 Like a Fish Out of Water
as B. B.
- 1999 Wing Commander
as Cmmdre. James 'Paladin' Taggart
- 1999 Babel
as Nemrod
- 1998 Let There Be Light!
as Harper
- 1998
- 1997 The Thousand Wonders of the Universe
as Professor Larsen
- 1997 Dobermann
as Inspecteur Sauveur Cristini
- 1997 Addicted to Love
as Anton
- 1997 Habitat
as Hank Symes
- 1996 Les liens du cœur
as Silas Marner
- 1996 To Have and to Hold
as Jack
- 1996 Hotel Rome
as Federale Apolloni
- 1996 Foreign Land
as Kraft
- 1996 Passage to Paradise
as Renato
- 1996 Follow Your Heart
as Ernesto
- 1995 GoldenEye
as Dmitri Mishkin
- 1995 Operation Dumbo Drop
as Goddard
- 1995 Crying Freeman
as Detective Netah
- 1995 Bad Boys
as Fouchet
- 1995 Moon Shadow
as Lorenzo
- 1995 Zadoc and Happiness
as Zadoc
- 1994 The Black Angel
as Paul Delorme
- 1994 Nostradamus
as Nostradamus
- 1994 Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
as Mr. Jacques, the 1st projectionist
- 1993 Red Shoe Diaries 3: Another Woman's Lipstick
as Phillip (archive footage)
- 1993 And the Band Played On
as Dr. Willy Rozenbaum
- 1992 L'Atlantide
as Lieutenant Morhange
- 1992 Sketch Artist
as Paul Korbel
- 1992 1492: Conquest of Paradise
as Martín Alonso Pinzón
- 1992
- 1992 On Guard
as Jean Vergier
- 1992 Too Close to the Gods
as Henri Georges
- 1991 Isabelle Eberhardt
as Slimene
- 1991 Husbands and Lovers
as Paolo
- 1991 High Art
as Hermes, the Knife master
- 1990 Vincent and Me
as Vincent van Gogh
- 1990 La fille des collines
as Vincent
- 1990 Nikita
as Bob
- 1990 Corps perdus
as Eric Desange
- 1989 Australia
as Julian Pierson
- 1988 The Bear
as Tom
- 1987 Sorceress
as Etienne de Bourbon
- 1987 Spiral
as Kino
- 1986 États d'âme
as Bertrand
- 1986 Blue Hell
as Franck
- 1986 L'unique
as Michel
- 1985 Grottenolm
as Gerome Holm
- 1985 Mad Love
as Micky
- 1984 Le Matelot 512
as The scarred one / André
- 1984 Full Moon in Paris
as Remi
- 1984 Rita Ritter
as Man
- 1983 The Outsider
as Francis Pierron
- 1983 Shadow Dance
as Xavier
- 1982 La Balance
as Petrovic
- 1982
- 1982
- 1982 The Return of Martin Guerre
as Augustin
Behind the camera (1)
- 2011 The Extraordinary Voyage
Thanks
Talk shows and appearances (7)
- 2022
- 2015 Folie passagère
1 episode
- 2015 Top Gear France
1 episode
- 2012 The Unexpected Getaway
1 episode
- 1990 Les Nuls, l'émission
1 episode
- 1990
- 1982 Champs-Elysées
1 episode