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Waleed Zuaiter
American actor and producer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Waleed F. Zuaiter (Arabic: وليد زعيتر) is a Palestinian-American actor and producer who has performed in on-stage productions in Washington, D.C.; Berkeley, California; and New York City, as well as several film and television productions. He is the producer and co-star of Omar (2013), which was nominated for an Oscar at the 86th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.
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Early life and education
Waleed Zuaiter, an American with Palestinian ancestry, was born in Sacramento, California, but grew up in Kuwait.[citation needed]
He returned to the United States to earn his degree in philosophy and theatre at George Washington University, in Washington, D.C..[citation needed]
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Zuaiter began his acting career with several productions in Washington, before relocating to New York City.[citation needed]
On the New York stage, he received critical acclaim for his portrayal of a former Iraqi translator for the U.S. military, in George Packer's Betrayed.[citation needed] He also has starred in David Greig's The American Pilot at the Manhattan Theatre Club, Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul, Ilan Hatsor's Masked, Eliam Kraiem's Sixteen Wounded, and Victoria Brittain and Gillian Slovo's Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom.[citation needed] He performed alongside Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline in Mother Courage at the Public Theater.[citation needed]
Zuaiter has produced the annual New York Arab-American Comedy Festival and has been a member of the Arab-American theater collective NIBRAS.[citation needed]
Zuaiter's film and television productions include the HBO/BBC miniseries House of Saddam, Sex and the City 2, and The Men Who Stare at Goats, in which he played the role of Mahmud Daash. In the 2011 suspense-thriller Elevator, directed by Stig Svendsen, he plays a man trapped in a Wall Street elevator with several people, one of whom has a bomb.[citation needed]
Zuaiter produced and starred in Omar, a thriller written and directed by Hany Abu-Assad (Paradise Now). The film was selected as the Palestinian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards,[1] and was nominated for an Academy Award.[2][3] It also won Best Feature Film at the 2013 Asian Pacific Screen Awards.[4]
He also was featured in an NBC Universal Pilot written by Tom Fontana and Barry Levinson and directed by Spike Lee, starring Bobby Cannavale. Alongside Bobby Cannavale, Waleed's son, Laith Zuaiter, was featured in the pilot.[citation needed] Waleed Zuaiter starred in London Has Fallen as Kamran Barkawi, Aamir Barkawi's son and henchman and second in command of a terrorist strike.[citation needed]
He starred as the recurring character Samir Abboud in the Netflix adaptation of the novel Altered Carbon. Zuaiter starred in Billionaire Boys Club as The Persian, Hedayat Eslaminia and Izzy’s Father.[5] In 2019, Waleed Zuaiter starred in Netflix limited series The Spy, as the Syrian Colonel Amin al-Hafiz.[6]
In 2020, he played the role of a former Iraqi police officer collaborating with US forces while trying to find his missing daughter in the series Baghdad Central.[7] The role earned him a leading actor nomination in the 2021 British Academy Television Awards.[8]
In 2021, he starred as Hassan Asfour, senior Palestine Liberation Organization negotiator, in the HBO film Oslo about the negotiations that led to the Oslo I Accord.[9]
In 2022 Zuaiter starred as Koba, a Georgian assassin and crime boss, in the second season of Gangs of London, a London crime drama series airing on Sky Atlantic in the UK and Germany, and on AMC in the US.[citation needed]
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