Personal Info
Birth date
1970-07-22 (54 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Brussels, Belgium
Also known as
-Jonathan Zaccaï
Biography
Jonathan Zaccaï (born 22 July 1970) is a Belgian actor, film director and screenwriter. He is the nephew of René Kalisky. His acting credits include The Beat That My Heart Skipped, A Distant Neighborhood, The True Story of My Life in Rouen, The Role of Her Life, They Came Back. He received the Magritte Award for Best Actor for Private Lessons.
Filmography
The Bureau
8.2
Overview:
Within the DGSE (General Directorate for External Security), a department called the Office Of Legends (BDL) forms and remote pilot the most important agents of the French intelligence services: Clandestine. Immersion in hostile country, their mission is to identify individuals who may be recruited as sources of information. Operating "under caption", that is to say in a fabricated identity from scratch, they live for many years in a permanent duplicity. Our hero just returned from a clandestine mission six years in Damascus. But contrary to what is required by safety rules, he does not abandon his legend and the identity under which he lived in Syria, thus putting in danger the whole system.Highlander: The Series
7.398
Overview:
Duncan MacLeod cannot die -- he is a 400-year-old immortal, who has seen his share of humanity's history. Still, he risks his life in battle against other immortals and tries to save people from harm.Burger Quiz
7.6
Overview:
A French humorous game show taking place in a burger restaurant which is managed by the TV host.Kaboul
7.6
Overview:
Kabul, August 14, 2021. The Taliban are at the gates of the city, and France prepares to evacuate its embassy. But the sudden fall of Kabul the next day rushes all the plans. French, Italian, German, American diplomats and the police must improvise the evacuation of hundreds of Afghans and refugees to the airport. While chaos reaches the city, the Afghans will soon have only two choices: to kneel or to run away.Monsieur Spade
6.4
Overview:
Detective Sam Spade is pulled out of his tranquil retirement in France to investigate a series of brutal murders.Robin Hood
6.398
Overview:
When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to his family in Nottingham. There, he assumes Robert's identity; romances his widow, Marion; and draws the ire of the town's sheriff and King John's henchman, Godfrey.Unfaithful
4.7
Overview:
The story of Emma Sandrelli, a doctor who is close to her patients and caring mother, whose life is about to explode when she learns that her husband has had an affair with a young woman for several months. Then begins for her a real descent into hell that will lead her very, very far... Adaptation of the British series "Doctor Foster."Serial Lover
4.7
Overview:
Camille's life changes when the man she loves disappears overnight after emptying his bank account.Intrusion
6.7
Overview:
Renowned pianist Philippe Kessler is preparing for an important recital. But recently, sounds and images seem deformed around him, as if one reality was superimposed on another. Worrying that he is going mad, he gradually withdraws into himself. The evening of the recital, he collapses at his piano...(S)He
NYR
Overview:
(S)HE is the story of a transgender child named Juju, a girl born into a boy’s body. With the onset of puberty, JuJu’s discomfort explodes. Our film follows a child’s struggle to get her parents and friends to accept her true gender, as she transitions from boy to girl. But in this tiny rural town, where everyone knows everyone else, it’s an impossible challenge. Juju will have to move in with her mother while her parents break up. Juju becomes Emma, and sings in a rock band at her new high school. With everyone seeing her as a girl, she’ starts to blossom. But as her popularity grows, social networking sit’s rekindle the nightmare she thought she’d left behind...Downton Abbey: A New Era
7.2
Overview:
The Crawley family goes on a grand journey to the south of France to uncover the mystery of the dowager countess's newly inherited villa. Meanwhile, a Hollywood director seeks to film his latest production at Downton.Remi, Nobody's Boy
7.9
Overview:
At the age of 10 years, young Rémi is snatched from his adoptive mother and entrusted to the signor Vitalis, a mysterious itinerant musician. Has its hard sides - he will learn the harsh life of acrobat and sing to win his bread. Accompanied by the faithful dog capi and of the small monkey Joli-Coeur, his long trip through France, made for meetings, friendships and mutual assistance, leads him to the secret of its origins.Sink or Swim
6.922
Overview:
40-year-old Bertrand has been suffering from depression for the last two years and is barely able to keep his head above water. Despite the medication he gulps down all day, every day, and his wife's encouragement, he is unable to find any meaning in his life. Curiously, he will end up finding this sense of purpose at the swimming pool, by joining an all-male synchronised swimming team.The White Crow
6.615
Overview:
The story of Rudolf Nureyev, whose escape to the West stunned the world at the height of the Cold War. With his magnetic presence, Nureyev emerged as ballet’s most famous star, a wild and beautiful dancer limited by the world of 1950s Leningrad. His flirtation with Western artists and ideas led him into a high-stakes game of cat and mouse with the KGB.Room of Death
6.273
Overview:
While on a joyride with the headlights turned off, two men hit and kill another man carrying a satchel full of money. The two men decide to take the money and throw the body into a pond and bury the money in a coal hill. The next morning the police discover the body of a kidnapped 12-year blind girl, Melody, in a warehouse near the site of the hit-and-run. They determine that the kidnapper saw the girl's father bringing the ransom to him and also witnessed the hit-and-run and the men stealing the ransom.The Beat That My Heart Skipped
6.92
Overview:
A ruthless real estate agent discovers a passion for piano and auditions with help from a young virtuoso, but the pressures of his corrupt career threaten to derail his musical aspirations.With Love... from the Age of Reason
5.5
Overview:
The day she turns 40, Marguerite Flora, a successful rep for a nuclear power company, begins receiving letters she'd sent to herself at age seven. The letters tell her what to do if her life hasn't turned out the way she thought it should, when she was living in poverty with her mother and brother in a small village in southern France. She decides to go back to her birthplace to get the lawyer to stop the letters, but also to visit her childhood sweetheart and her long-forgotten brother, in order to find peace within herself.Cornouaille
6
Overview:
A young woman inherits her family's historic home on the coast of Brittany, a house she has not been to since her father died there when she was age 12.On the Wandering Paths
6.377
Overview:
Pierre, a famous explorer and writer, travels regularly through the world. Someday, climbing a hotel frontage while drunk, he falls from high and into a deep coma. When he awakes, he has difficulties walking but, against everyone's advices, he decides to walk through France, following forgotten pathways...The Man in the Basement
5.6
Overview:
A Parisian couple decides to sell an unsanitary basement in their building. A very ordinary, nondescript man, Mr. Fonzic, shows up to buy it. Nothing unusual there, until the man moves into the cellar and makes it his permanent residence. The couple tries desperately to cancel the sale but to no avail. Worse, Mr. Fonzic becomes a threat to their family as he befriends their teenage daughter on whom he seems to exert a perverted influence.Private Lessons
5.3
Overview:
An aspiring tennis player is taken under the wing of an established player as his family life falls apart.A Distant Neighborhood
7.139
Overview:
Thomas, a father in his fifties, returns by chance to the town where he grew up. He collapses and wakes up forty years earlier in the body of his teenage self. Thrown back into his past, Thomas will not only have to re-live his first love, but also try to understand the reasons for his father’s mysterious departure. Can you change the past by living it again?The Morning After
5.544
Overview:
Fed up with her cheating husband, Louise, 45, takes off for a weekend in Corsica. But after a wild night of unbridled passion with a man who winds up dead, Louise is unwittingly mistaken for his secret, longtime girlfriend by his Corsican fearsome but loving mother.If You Die, I'll Kill You
6
Overview:
In Paris' cosmopolitan and colorful 10th arrondissement, Philippe, who's fresh out of prison, crosses paths with Avdal, a Kurd who is trying to track down an Iraqi war criminal. Avdal, who dreams of staying in France, plans to bring his fiancee Siba to Paris. She's due to arrive in the next few days. The two men strike up a friendship and when Avdal dies suddenly and unexpectedly, Philippe finds himself left to organize the funeral arrangements. What should he do with the body? Siba arrives in Paris, and soon learns that Avdal has died. She is taken in by a group of Kurdish men and before long she also meets Philippe - all of whom are quite smitten by her beauty. Meanwhile, Avdal's father Cheto, a devout Muslim, comes to Paris to grieve for his son. He intends to force Siba to return to her homeland, but the young woman has now had a taste of freedom.The Returned
5.677
Overview:
The lives of the residents of a small French town are changed when thousands of the recently dead inexplicably come back to life and try to integrate themselves into society that has changed for them.Life Lessons
6.4
Overview:
Noémie, an experienced screenwriter, meets up with Vincent, her first childhood love, at the film school where he is now the director. Through an extraordinary masterclass where intimacy rubs shoulders with the universal and reality flirts with fiction, Noémie will teach Vincent and his students that the art of writing a screenplay is the art of living passionately.Un petit miracle
6.1
Overview:
Nothing goes well for Juliette! The school where she used to teach has burned down, and her unique class will have to be dispatched to the four corners of the department. To avoid this, she proposes a surprising solution: to install her class at the Poppies, the local old people's home, the only place that can accommodate them for the time of the work. For the children as well as for the residents, the cohabitation will not be easy, but will transform them forever. Inspired by a true story.The Poisoning Angel
4.4
Overview:
In 1800, Brittany is on its knees, overwhelmed by the regime in place and by the omnipotent clergy. It founders in an economic slump without end in sight and, in the middle of all this, a young, suffering girl pushes back as best she can. She is known as the "Poisoning Angel," an isolated child, mistreated by life and rocked by morbid thoughts. She will become one of the world's most notorious serial killers and will sow death, perhaps merely to be looked at and loved.Acting
2025Résistantes as Armand Gauthier / Maire
2025Kaboul (6 Episodes) as Unknown
2024Les Malvenus as Luc Ancelin
2024Monsieur Spade (6 Episodes) as Philippe Saint-André
2023La Tribu (6 Episodes) as Martin
2023Life Lessons as Vincent Lartigue
2023On the Wandering Paths as Arnaud, un ami de Pierre
2023Un petit miracle as Antoine
2022Serial Lover (4 Episodes) as Guillaume / Amaury / Nathan / Roman
2022Downton Abbey: A New Era as Montmirail
2021(S)He as Cédric
2021The Man in the Basement as David Sandberg
2020(S)He (2 Episodes) as Cédric
2020The Morning After as Anto Lucciani
2019L'Employé as Unknown
2019Unfaithful (12 Episodes) as Matteo Sandrelli
2018Remi, Nobody's Boy as Jérôme Barberin
2018Sink or Swim as Thibault
2018The White Crow as Serge Lifar
2017Wildcats as Elvis Egger
2017The Poisoning Angel as Le juge Vannier
2016Miséricorde as Thomas Berger
2015Intrusion (3 Episodes) as Marc/Philippe
2015The Bureau (50 Episodes) as Raymond Sisteron
2015Cerise as Cerise's Father
2014French Dolls as Stéphane
2014Hôtel de la plage (12 Episodes) as Martin
2014Je te survivrai as Unknown
2013Paper Souls as Nathan
2013Chambre noire as Jeff
2013Sous le figuier as Christophe
2012Cornouaille as Fabrice
2012Yann Piat: A Chronicle of Murder as Pascal Felli
2012Play It Like Godard as Journaliste
2011If You Die, I'll Kill You as Philippe
2010With Love... from the Age of Reason as Philibert
2010A Distant Neighborhood as Bruno Verniaz
2010Robin Hood as King Philip of France
2010White Snow as Abel
2009A NY Thing as Antoine
2009Simon Konianski as Simon
2009Private Lessons as Pierre
2008La vie des bêtes as Cédric
2008Blindfold as Théo
2007Room of Death as Vigo
2007Vent mauvais as Franck
2006You and I as Marc
2005In His Hands as Fabrice
2005The Beat That My Heart Skipped as Fabrice
2005The Best Day of My Life as Arthur
2004The Returned as Mathieu
2004The Role of Her Life as Mathias Curval
2004Les parallèles as Benjamin Robert
2003The Rashevski Tango as Jonathan Rashevski, le fils de Simon
2003My Life on Ice as Laurent
2002Seaside as Paul
2001A Hell of a Day as Pierre
2001Burger Quiz (1 Episode) as Self
2000Little Darling as Victor
1999Tørst - Framtidens forbrytelser as Olivier
1992Highlander: The Series (1 Episode) as Louis
1992The Children's Rebellion as 'Grande Gueule'
1992Guilty of Innocence as Maximilien Bardo
Directing
2012Play It Like Godard ... Director
Writing
2012Play It Like Godard ... Writer
Production
2012Play It Like Godard ... Producer