David Atrakchi

David Atrakchi (born 10 December 1978) is an actor best known for his role of Malcolm Manville in Transporter 3. He played Lanyon in the 2011 thriller Faces in the Crowd. He was an actor and co-producer of Frank & Lola, a 2016 noir love story written and directed by Matthew Ross. Most recently David is featured as an android in Detroit: Become Human, an adventure game blockbuster developed by Quantic Dream and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for PlayStation 4, released worldwide on 25 May 2018.

In 2019, he produced the French portion of Prentice Penny's feature Uncorked for Netflix with Mandalay Pictures. David is shortlisted at the Academy_Awards for Rise of a Star with Catherine Deneuve. In 2023 David receives his first BAFTA nomination for Bazigaga with director Jo Ingabire Moys. David produces Riddle of Fire directed by Weston Razooli that will premiere at Directors' Fortnight in Cannes 2023 and Midnight Madness at TIFF. Born in Yugoslavia, David Atrakchi spent his childhood in Opatija and Baghdad, Iraq. Now based between Los Angeles and Paris, he studied theatre, dramatic arts and film at New York University with esteemed acting coach Jack Waltzer, a member of the Actors Studio. In 2005 he became one of the founding partners of the French film production company and artists collaborative FullDawa Films. He has directed & produced several short films as well as a documentary for UNESCO titled A World for Inclusion featuring Philip Seymour Hoffman.

With his company FullDawa Films, he has recently handled the production services and coproduced the feature films, My Old Lady by Israël Horovitz, starring Kevin Kline, Dame Maggie Smith and Dame Kristin Scott Thomas, and Frank & Lola a Sundance premiere in 2016, directed by Matthew Ross with Imogen Poots, Michael Shannon, Rosanna Arquette, and Emmanuelle Devos.