Karim Leklou
Acting
Biography
Karim Leklou (born June 20, 1982) is a French actor who started his career in small role in Jacques Audiard 's film A Prophet (2009) and followed by Suzanne and Grand Central. Leklou undertook a lead role in Hippocrate for both seasons (2018, 2021). He has also starred in Sons of Ramses (2022), For My Country (2022), and Time Out (2023). In 2025, at the 50th César Awards he won for Best Actor for his performance in Jim's Story.
Born: June 20, 1982
Place of Birth: Sèvres, France
Known For
Sans pudeur ni morale
In this world of media, where you can film someone's private life or the worst acts of violence, 'No Pain No Shame' breaks through the boundaries between reporting and cinema. Issa, a young French man originating from Africa, just got out of prison. His father decided to send him back to Ivory Coast in order to drive him away from bad company. To immortalize his last 24 hours in his suburbs, Issa decides to film everything with his video camera. Where will the exhilaration and euphoria of this departure lead this group of friends?
Interns
Following sanitary measures, the doctors holding the internal medicine service at the Raymond-Poincaré hospital find themselves confined to their homes for 48 hours. Three inexperienced interns and a medical examiner, who do not yet know each other, will have to work together to manage the service and the patients alone. But the quarantine continues...
A Prophet
Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of a group of Corsicans who enforce their rule in the prison. As the 'missions' go by, he toughens himself and wins the confidence of the Corsican group.
The Stronghold
A police brigade works in the dangerous northern neighborhoods of Marseille, where the level of crime is higher than anywhere else in France.
Beating Hearts
Local rebellious teenager Clotaire falls for his schoolmate Jackie, but gang violence leads him to a darker destructive path. After years apart, the star-crossed lovers discover that every path they've taken leads them back together.
Playground
When Nora witnesses Abel being bullied by other kids, she rushes to protect him by warning their father. But Abel forces her to remain silent. Caught in a conflict of loyalty, Nora will ultimately try to find her place, torn between children's and adult's worlds.
The Giants
Brothers Danny and Zak, ages 15 and 13 ¾, are spending the summer in their deceased grandfather's house, waiting in vain for their mother, who is otherwise busy, and running low on cash. To make some money, they decide to rent out the house to a local drug dealer, but things don't go exactly as planned...
Suzanne
The story of a family and a love affair told through the journey of a young woman called Suzanne.
Jim's Story
Aymeric runs into Florence, a former coworker, one evening in Saint-Claude in the Haut-Jura. She is six months pregnant and single. When she gives birth to Jim, Aymeric is there. They spend happy years together until Christophe, Jim's biological father, shows up... It could be the start of a melodrama, it's also the start of an odyssey into fatherhood.
The World Is Yours
To escape his life of crime, a Paris drug dealer takes on one last job involving Spain, unhinged gangsters, his longtime crush and his scheming mother.
Filmography
as Blazej
as Roméo
as Le père de Clotaire
as Adan (segment "The Imaginary Child")
as Aymeric
as Vincent
as Self - Guest
as Bonnard
as L'homme
as Ramsès
as Ismaël
as Self - Guest
as Father
as Hicham
as Yass
as Self - Guest
as Arben Bascha
as Farés
as Nacim
as Michel
as Friend of Kiki's Father
as Virgilio Breva
as Bruno
as Max
as Biscuit (Marcel Deloche)
as Josef Bousou
as Frédéric
as Lamo
as Vince
as Self - Guest
as Bruno Morales
as Teddy
as Paul
as Gérard
as Angel
as Luc
as Bruno
as Self - Guest
as Muslim in the hallway