Shockwave: Countdown to Disaster

Soufiane El Khalidy (born July 22, 1987) is a French-Moroccan actor, filmmaker, and writer. Born in Agadir, Morocco, he has acted in films and television series such as Ghosts of Beirut (2023), NCIS: Los Angeles (2017), Shockwave: Countdown to Disaster (2017), and the upcoming Netflix biopic Mary. He also played the role of Ridwan in the film Riley Parra (2017) and its sequel Riley Parra: Better Angels (2019). Furthermore, Soufiane El Khalidy has starred alongside Lambert Wilson in the German film, Klandestin (2024) directed by Angelina Maccarone and the five times César Awards winner, Benoît Magimel in the upcoming big budget French diptych, De Gaulle, directed by Antonin Baudry. He starred as The Father in the commercial Heroic Girl (2017) directed by Aaron Weldon, the head of Layout at Blur Studios and the second unit director for David Fincher on the third season of Love, Death and Robots (2022). He played the character Youssef in the Shahid action series The Eight. Soufiane El Khalidy is also a writer and filmmaker. He wrote the book Les Riffs d'un Moroccan Rebel (2022), and has received accolades for his short film Flags and Masks Down (2014) and his screenplays, Just Like You Imagined and Jukebox Zero.