Education
He studied theater (including a course at the Actor"s Studio) and dance.
He studied theater (including a course at the Actor"s Studio) and dance.
He has appeared in several films including a short film which he co-directed and co-wrote the screenplay with Daniel Kupferstein. Yacoubi"s most recent role was as an incarcerated Arab named Reyeb who was a witness to a crime. He is a hostile witness, willing to testify against the Corsican mafia group which is led by a fellow inmate, César Luciani (Niels Arestrup).
Luciani, having no direct access to his target, enrolls the movies lead character, Malik El Djebani, to kill Reyeb.
Though the character is killed early on, he appears throughout most of the film as a manifestation of Malik"s conscience.