Alex Dimitrios is a villain in the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale. He is portrayed by French actor Simon Abkarian.

Simon Abkarian as Alex Dimitrios in ‘Casino Royale’.

Alex Dimitrios is a government contractor who has worked in Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Rwanda, Nicaragua, and El Salvador. He is also a dealer in arms and information, with ties to various death squads and rightwing paramilitary groups around the world. He is a known associate of terrorist financier Le Chiffre, who uses him to do the dirty work in many of his stock shorting schemes. He is married to Solange. In the film he’s tasked with hiring someone to blow up a new superjumbo airliner that is to be unveiled at Miami International Airport.

Dimitrios and Solange are in the Bahamas when they encounter Bond. He and Bond play a game of poker, which results in Bond winning an Aston Martin DB5. Later that night when 007 seduces Solange, Dimitrios calls to tell her that he is on his way to Miami. Bond tails Dimitrios to Miami where he is to meet Carlos at a Body Worlds exhibit. While he is there, Dimitrios leaves his baggage that contains the Miami International Airport Security uniform for Carlos to pick up. He is killed when Bond quietly stabs him and leaves his body at the exhibit after a struggle with the latter’s stilleto.

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