Photo : Mélanie Cipango, CC BY-SA 3.0
Emil Abossolo-Mbo
Stage and screen actor, from "Night on Earth" to "Plus belle la vie"
Born in 1958
Related city : Yaoundé
On screen : Les Saignantes (2005)
Who are they?
Emil Abossolo-Mbo is a Cameroonian actor born in 1958 in Yaoundé. After attending the bilingual secondary school in Buea, he joined the University of Yaoundé theatre company and co-founded the XYZ trio, mixing comedy, song and dance, which made his name in Cameroon. He moved to France in 1984, where he played on stage in "Hamlet", "Titus Andronicus" and "La Tragédie du roi Christophe".
What made them famous
On screen he has appeared in Jim Jarmusch's "Night on Earth", "Les Savates du bon Dieu", "Africa Paradis", Jean-Pierre Bekolo's "Les Saignantes", "Ezra" and "Un homme qui crie". French audiences know him as Damien Mara, father of Rudy Torres, in the series "Plus belle la vie".
Key facts
- He acts in several languages, including English, Spanish and Portuguese, which opened the door to international productions such as "Highlander" and "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles".
- "Ezra", in which he plays Rufus, won the Stallion of Yennenga at FESPACO in 2007.
- He voices the uncle in "Kirikou and the Wild Beasts" (2005) and plays Pamplemousse in "OSS 117: From Africa with Love" (2021).