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Yasin el Harrouk, born in 1991 in Stuttgart, grew up in Stuttgart-Feuerbach in a Moroccan guest worker family with six siblings. After attending a secondary school (Hauptschule), he spent several years living in Morocco before returning to Germany. He then went on to study acting at the Stuttgart University of Music and Performing Arts.
During his studies, he gained stage experience at various theatres, including Schauspiel Stuttgart, Theater Freiburg, Volksbühne Basel, and Theater Münster. He appeared in productions such as "Wut," the Shakespeare adaptation "Selam Habibi" (playing Romeo), and "Othello," in which he took on the title role.
El Harrouk made his television debut in 2014 with a leading role as the son of the Emir of Kumar in the Munich "Tatort" episode "Der Wüstensohn," directed by Rainer Kaufmann - a performance that brought him to the attention of a wider audience and won him the Studio Hamburg Newcomer Award 2015. This was followed by numerous roles in TV series and crime dramas such as "Helen Dorn" (2017), "Stralsund," "Alarm für Cobra 11," "Die Füchsin," and two films in the "Usedom-Krimi" series (2023). He gained international visibility in 2018 with the Netflix series "Dogs of Berlin," a ten-part crime thriller by Christian Alvart set in Berlin's underworld of clan crime, neo-Nazis, football fan culture, and political corruption. El Harrouk appeared in two episodes of the series.
On the big screen, he played a central role in Oskar Roehler's dark comedy "HERRliche Zeiten" ("Subs", 2018) as a hard-partying neighbor of a wealthy, decadent couple. In 2022, he appeared in "Xoftex," a film that portrays life in a Greek refugee camp through poetically bleak imagery, capturing the tension between hope and resignation. A year later, he appeared alongside Senta Berger and Günther Maria Halmer in the tragicomedy "Weißt du noch" ("Remember Me").
At the 2024 Hof International Film Festival, the coming-of-age drama "Die feige Schönheit" ("About Them") premiered, in which el Harrouk also had a supporting role. In 2025, he appeared in two feature films: in March, in "Der Prank – April, April!" ("Prank"), a Swiss-German comedy directed by Benjamin Heisenberg, and in July in the underdog comedy "#SchwarzeSchafe," the sequel of sorts to "Schwarze Schafe" (2006). In the film, he plays a character attempting to make the clan world and drug trade climate-neutral.
In parallel with his acting career, el Harrouk is also known as a rapper under the stage name Yonii. Since 2016, he has been signed to the label Kopfticker Records and has released several albums, including "Entre 2 Mondes" (2017), "Randale" (2019), and "Ça Va Aller" (2020), in which he explores themes such as origin, identity, and migration.