Elyes Gabel

Elyes Cherif Gabel (born 8 May 1983) is an English actor, musician and filmmaker.

Gabel made his debut in 2001 as the character Jean-Claude Tournier in episode titled Breaking point of Series 15 of BBC medical drama Casualty.

In 2002, Gabel dropped out of drama school to appear on the children's fantasy sitcom I Love Mummy where he portrayed Pharaoh Prince Nuffratuti (Prince Nuff) of Abu Simbel, who is unable to ascend to the afterlife until he has completed his scroll of tasks.

Earlier he gained recognition as series regular Dr. Gurpreet "Guppy" Sandhu in the BBC medical drama Casualty (2004–2007), as Dothraki Rakharo in Seasons 1 and 2 of the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011–2012), as PE teacher Rob Cleaver in Season 4 of BBC One's school-based drama series Waterloo Road (2010) and as DC Jose Rodriguez in the ITV drama Identity (2010).

In 2004, he appeared as Steve in BBC One medical soap opera Doctors.

In the same year, Gabel appeared as two different characters in different episodes of Casualty.

He joined as series regular character Gurpreet Guppy Sandhu in the same show as a part of Series 19.

He was nominated as Most Popular Newcomer at the 2005 National Television Awards for the role.

He also appeared as Gurpreet in episode four titled "Teacher's Pet" of Casualty@Holby City, a nine part special crossover series of Casualty and its spin off Holby City in 2005.

He decided to leave Casualty in 2007 to pursue new acting challenges and concentrate on recording music with his band.

In 2008, he made his film debut portraying the character Ben in American supernatural horror film Boogeyman 3, the final installment of Boogeyman film series.

He went on to appear as Danny in Charlie Brooker's horror comedy drama miniseries based on zombie outbreak titled Dead Set.

In the same year, Gabel appeared as Vimal, a trainee priest, in the BBC drama Apparitions, alongside Martin Shaw.

The first episode aired on BBC One on 13 November 2008.

He then starred as P.E. teacher Rob Cleaver in the BBC One school drama Waterloo Road from series 4, which began on 7 January 2009.

In 2010, Gabel starred in the 6-part British police procedural series Identity as DC Jose Rodriguez on ITV, a member of the identity unit.

In the same year, he lent his voice to Apache: Air Assault, a combat flight simulator video game.

In 2011 he appeared as Prince Djem in a guest-star-role in the 3-times Emmy awarded TV show The Borgias, and appeared later in 2011 as Shahrouz in the British dark comedy Psychoville.

In 2011, He played Prince Djem, brother of Sultan Bayezid II of the Ottoman Empire in Showtime's The Borgias.

In the same year, he played Shahrouz in the second series of British psychological horror-thriller black comedy mystery television series Psychoville and as Ahmed in war torn Baghdad based hostage drama Kingdom of Dust (2011).

He appeared as the Dothraki "Bloodrider" Rakharo, loyal bodyguard of Daenerys Targaryen in the season-1 and beginning of season-2 of HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones.

According to the showrunners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, journey of his character in the show had to be cut short as he quit the show to pursue projects that put him more front and center.

In 2011, he joined the cast of CIA procedural Fox pilot Exit Strategy, portraying transport expert Tarik Fayad alongside Ethan Hawke but the show was dropped after being considered for a midseason airing and later released as a television film.

In the same year, he appeared as Jaz in British coming of age drama Everywhere and Nowhere alongside James Floyd and Adam Deacon.

In 2012, he appeared as Troy Vargas in David Hubbard's CBS's Widow Detective.

In the same year, he appeared as Umar in the Silent Witness two-part episode "And Then I Fell in Love".

That same year Elyes founded his own production company Roughened Verse Entertainment and went to pursue more roles in the USA.

He moved to the US and was starting to be cast in US TV shows, as series-regular Detective Adam Lucas in season 3 of Body of Proof (2013).

Gabel was last seen as Sean Tilson in Apple TV's 8-part-thriller Suspicion (2022).

His most notable film appearances are as virologist Andrew Fassbach in the post-apocalyptic thriller World War Z (2013), as Julian in J.C. Chandor's Golden Globe and Independent Spirit Award nominated crime drama A Most Violent Year (2014), and as Adem Qasim in the spy thriller Spooks: The Greater Good (2015).

In 2013, Gabel starred as Detective Adam Lucas in the third season of the American medical/crime comedy drama television series, Body of Proof on ABC.

His character Adam Lucas was described as young, smart, a rebel and a Philadelphia native, who is a new entrant in the Philadelphia Homicide division.

The show was ABC's third most-watched show and yet was cancelled by the channel after the third season.

He appeared as Ruan Sternwood in Eran Creevy's action thriller Welcome to the Punch alongside James McAvoy, Mark Strong, and Andrea Riseborough.

Gabel's global breakout role was portraying computer genius Walter O'Brien in the CBS series Scorpion (2014–2018).

He voiced Thom Kallor / Star Boy in Justice League vs. the Fatal Five (2019).

Gabel was born in Westminster, London and lived in Canada before returning to the UK to live in Bristol and Manchester.

He is of French-Algerian, Anglo-Indian, Spanish, Dutch, Irish and Portuguese descent.

He attended St Damian's Roman Catholic Science College in Ashton-Under-Lyne and later trained at Strodes College, the Oldham Theatre Workshop, the Northern Kids Theatre Company and at Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, London.

At the age of 18, he left school to shoot for a TV show in Toronto.