Actor Isaach Zachari Bankolé was born in Ivory Coast on August 12, 1957.
He is well-known for his parts in the Jim Jarmusch movies, Chocolat, Casino Royale, Black Panther, and its sequel.
Isaach de Bankolé parents: Who are his father and mother?
De Bankolé was born to parents from the Yoruba ethine group in Benin. Specific details about his African parents are not readily available at the moment.
In 1975, he relocated to Paris for his final year of high school and began a master’s program. After that, he went to an aviation college and graduated with a private pilot’s license.
He enrolled in a Paris drama school as a result of a chance meeting with the French director Gérard Vergez.
De Bankolé portrayed terrorist Steven Obanno in the James Bond movie Casino Royale from 2006 and assassin “The Lone Man” in Jim Jarmusch’s The Limits of Control.
In Andrew Dosunmu’s Mother of George, which had its world premiere at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, he portrayed Ayodele Balogun.
