Amr Waked

Amr Waked

Born: April 12, 1973
in Cairo, Egypt
Amr Waked was born in Cairo, Egypt on 12 April 1973. He studied economics and theatre in the American University in Cairo. In his early experience as an actor Amr joined the Temple Theatre Troop in 1994, and Yaaru Theatre Troop in 1999, where he trained and developed his tools as a stage performer. With his experience onstage, Waked managed to film his first role on the big screen in 1998 when he joined Ossama Fawzy's of "Gannet El Shayateen". Waked's award winning performance paved his way to become a popular actor famous for his gravity and vast range. In 2003, Waked joined Stephen Gegan's cast of Syriana, which was his first appearance in an international film. His performance was acclaimed and presented him with other opportunities in international productions, like House Of Saddam and Salmon Fishing In The Yemen. In 2005, Amr co-established "zad communication & production llc" to begin his experience as a producer. The communication agency and production house was to focus on developmental and social issues in Egypt and the Middle East. In 2012, zad produced its first feature film "Winter Of Discontent", directed by Ibrahim El Batout, which opened in the 69th Venice Film Festival in 2012.

Movies for Amr Waked...

The Builders of the Alhambra
Title: The Builders of the Alhambra
Character: Ibn al-Khatib
Released: November 24, 2022
Type: Movie
Kingdom of Granada, al-Andalus, 14th century. After recognizing that his land, always under siege, is hopelessly doomed to be conquered, Sultan Yusuf I undertakes the construction of a magnificent fortress with the purpose of turning it into the landmark of his civilization and his history, a glorious monument that will survive the oblivion of the coming centuries: the Alhambra.
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Under Spanish Skies
Title: Under Spanish Skies
Character: Andrés
Released: April 15, 2022
Type: Movie
After the death of her husband, a reclusive artist invites lifelong friends to her farm in Spain and reveals a shocking plan. Before the weekend ends, the friends must share secrets from the past and force her to make a choice.
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Superwho?
Title: Superwho?
Character: le schizo
Released: February 2, 2022
Type: Movie
A struggling actor seems doomed to live life as a loser. When he finally snatches a lead role as a superhero named “Badman,” he feels like everything is possible, but fate strikes again.
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Wonder Woman 1984
Title: Wonder Woman 1984
Character: Emir Said Bin Abydos
Released: December 16, 2020
Type: Movie
A botched store robbery places Wonder Woman in a global battle against a powerful and mysterious ancient force that puts her powers in jeopardy.
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Title: Ramy
Character: Farouk Hassan
Released: April 19, 2019
Type: TV
Ramy, the son of Egyptian immigrants, is on a spiritually conflicting journey in his New Jersey neighborhood, pulled between his Muslim community that thinks life is a constant test, his millennial friends who think life is full of endless possibilities, and a God who's always watching.
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Writing on Snow
Title: Writing on Snow
Character: Dark Man
Released: November 4, 2017
Type: Movie
A film about the absurdity of not accepting the other despite the difference.
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Geostorm
Title: Geostorm
Character: Ray Dussette
Released: October 12, 2017
Type: Movie
After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong: the system built to protect Earth is attacking it, and it becomes a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out everything and everyone along with it.
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Title: Riviera
Character: Karim Delormes
Released: June 15, 2017
Type: TV
After newlywed Georgina's billionaire husband Constantine is killed in a yacht explosion, she is shocked to discover the fortune and lifestyle he maintained was surrounded by violence, lies and murder. She soon must step out of her comfort zone to protect the family...and herself.
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Monkey Talks
Title: Monkey Talks
Character: Taha ElShenawy
Released: January 26, 2017
Type: Movie
Two magician brothers, Taha and Rashad El-Shenawy, prepare to pull off a magic trick to free their wrongfully imprisoned father.
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El ott
Title: El ott
Character: El-Ott
Released: October 27, 2014
Type: Movie
When Al-Ott learns that a group of his neighborhood's children was kidnapped as a part of an organ-trafficking scheme, he kills one of Master Fathy's men and rescues the lone survivor. He and Ghagary find themselves a part of a long chase to find Master Fathy.
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Colt 45
Title: Colt 45
Character: Baron
Released: August 6, 2014
Type: Movie
Vincent Miles, a gunsmith and shooting instructor at the National Police, is an expert in combat shooting who stubbornly refuses to join a field brigade, a choice which their colleagues do not understand. When he meets Milo Cardena, a mysterious and skilled cop, his life changes in such way that he cannot ignore his true nature anymore.
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Lucy
Title: Lucy
Character: Pierre Del Rio
Released: July 25, 2014
Type: Movie
A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
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Winter of Discontent
Title: Winter of Discontent
Character: Amr
Released: August 23, 2013
Type: Movie
Amr is a 35 year old man who wakes up one day to a very different Egypt. Amr rarely leaves home as he works from his place designing software. It is January 25, 2011 and Amr starts the day with news of protests all over Cairo and marches leading to Tahrir square. Something tells him that these protests will lead to major political change. Farah, a woman in her early 30’s, is a news anchor on Egyptian television. The news Farah gives her audience is very different from the news presented online or on international news channels.
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Title: The Second Wife
Released: July 10, 2013
Type: TV
The peasants of a rural village live in a state of subjugation and injustice under the iron fist of a powerful Mayor. He decides to marry one of the village's women after losing all hope with his barren wife. He intends to force the peasant Abu El-Ela to divorce his wife, Fatma, so he can marry her.
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Title: Odysseus
Character: Eukharistos
Released: June 13, 2013
Type: TV
The sovereign Greek island of Ithaca, 8th century B.C. The Trojan War has been over for ten years, and the Greeks have come home victorious. Only one man is missing: the king of Ithaca, Odysseus, who is lost at sea. The island’s economy is getting worse by the day as the region’s many princes have invaded the kingdom, devouring its resources, and pressuring Queen Penelope to choose a new husband. To delay her suitors, she promises to choose once she’s finished weaving King Laertes’ burial shroud. But she undoes her work every night. Odysseus’ son Telemachus doesn’t dare lay claim to his father’s throne. His only dream is to sail out to rescue Odysseus.
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Winter of Discontent
Title: Winter of Discontent
Released: March 13, 2013
Type: Movie
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Title: Flight of the Storks
Character: Dr. Djuric
Released: January 21, 2013
Type: TV
Jonathan, a young academic teams up with Max, an amateur ornithologist, to follow storks on their migration from Switzerland to Africa. When Max is found dead in mysterious circumstances, Jonathan decides to make the trip alone. Following the route of the birds, Jonathan discovers dark secrets surrounding Max’s death. A mesmeric thriller from literary luminary Jean-Cristophe Grange.
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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Title: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Character: Sheikh Muhammad
Released: March 9, 2012
Type: Movie
A fisheries expert is approached by a consultant to help realize a sheik's vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert and embarks on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible possible.
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Contagion
Title: Contagion
Character: Rafik (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 2011
Type: Movie
As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself.
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18 Days
Title: 18 Days
Character: Essam Maher Youssef
Released: September 6, 2011
Type: Movie
10 filmmakers provide 10 separate stories focusing on the 18 days of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. Ten stories they have experienced, heard, or imagined.
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Title: Fear Doors
Released: June 18, 2011
Type: TV
Adam Yassin is a journalist and a translator who has an interest in the paranormal. As he pursues freak accidents and strange occurrences, even those that happened long ago, his investigations occasionally bring him into conflict with the police.
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Title: Soft Life
Released: August 11, 2010
Type: TV
Farida is the daughter of Shaker Elwan, the owner of a big empire in the world of contracting and luxury housing who is also corrupt. Soon the empire crumbles and he escapes out of the country and Farida finds herself alone after everyone left her.
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Title: Al-Gama'a
Released: August 1, 2010
Type: TV
Al-Gama'a is an Egyptian television drama, Historical and Political drama series written by Wahid Hamid, directed by Mohammed Yasin and produced by Kamel Abu Ali. The series began filming in January 2010 with a budget of 50 million Egyptian pounds. The show deals with the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s largest Islamist political group, which was officially banned but nonetheless tolerated to an extent before the revolution. Critics have decried the show's pro-government stance, charging that it plays into the Egyptian government's agenda prior to the 2010 Egyptian parliamentary elections.
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The Father and the Foreigner
Title: The Father and the Foreigner
Character: Waid
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
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The Traveller
Title: The Traveller
Character: Fuad
Released: June 25, 2009
Type: Movie
Love, passion, responsibility and loss follow a man over the course of half a century in this powerful drama from Egypt. In 1948, Hassan (Khaled El Nabawy) is working his first day on the job for a telegraph company when he has to deliver a telegram to Noura (Cyrine Abdelnour), a beautiful woman who is waiting on a ship docked in the harbor. The message is from Noura's fiancé, but when Hassan sees her, he acts on an impulse, and by the end of the day he's slept with Noura. In 1973, Hassan crosses paths with Noura again; her brother is in the hospital, and Hassan happens to meet Nadia, the beautiful woman's daughter who he may have fathered. And in 2001, elderly Hassan (now played by Omar Sharif) visits Cairo and meets Ali, Nadia's son, and both are taken aback at the similarities between them.
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Al Moshtabah
Title: Al Moshtabah
Released: June 23, 2009
Type: Movie
Embodies the artist Amr Waked in his new film [suspected Zero] characters twins, one a prosecutor, and the other a businessman, and the film is set in the framework of Action Choiky and social humane at the same time, about a shocking incident of a man who acts which shows that many of the ironies and vague positions, and are identify the perpetrator in the end the incident,
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Ibrahim El-Abyad
Title: Ibrahim El-Abyad
Character: Ashri
Released: May 14, 2009
Type: Movie
After witnessing the murder of his father as a child, Ibrahim is drawn into the criminal underworld of Egypt. While making a name for himself with his best friend Ashri, he finds his high school sweetheart Houria and manages to rekindle their love, but paths intertwine with Abdel Malik Zarzor, the city's crime lord, who is connected somehow to Houria.
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The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall
Title: The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall
Character: Mohamed
Released: October 13, 2008
Type: Movie
After Tom Hurndall is shot in the head in Gaza, his parents Anthony and Jocelyn arrive in Israel wanting to know how it could have happened. They expect sympathy and cooperation from the Israeli authorities, but are instead met with an official explanation that fails to tally with any eye-witness accounts, and a wall of silence. When an Israeli army report attempts to whitewash the incident, the Hurndalls decide the only way to establish the truth is to launch their own investigation into the shooting, a process which brings them face to face with both the Open-Fire regulations of the Israeli army in Gaza, and the soldier who pulled the trigger.
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Title: House of Saddam
Character: Hussein Kamel
Released: July 30, 2008
Type: TV
The intimate world of Saddam Hussein and his closest inner circle is in this gripping four-part drama that charts the rise and fall of one of the most significant political figures in recent history.
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The Aquarium
Title: The Aquarium
Character: Youssef
Released: February 8, 2008
Type: Movie
Youssef is a hotshot anesthesiologist who often sleeps in his car for privacy. Laila is the careerist host of a late night radio call-in show. These two members of Cairo's elite, lost souls traveling parallel paths of longing and disconnection, are the principal fish in Yousry Nasrallah's The Aquarium, a meditation on the intellectual capital of the Middle East, now bent under the sway of repression in all its forms.
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Title: Critical Moments
Released: February 7, 2007
Type: TV
A medical drama about the stories of a large number of doctors, staff and patients at Dr. Galal's hospital, and the daily challenges that the hospital staff faces both in their work and their personal lives.
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Title: أولاد الشوارع
Released: June 1, 2006
Type: TV
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Syriana
Title: Syriana
Character: Mohammed Sheik Agiza
Released: November 23, 2005
Type: Movie
The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a Switzerland-based energy analyst, experiences both personal tragedy and opportunity during a visit with Arabian royalty. Meanwhile, veteran CIA agent Bob Barnes uncovers an assassination plot with unsettling origins.
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Deer blood
Title: Deer blood
Character: Atef
Released: September 20, 2005
Type: Movie
The unemployed Reda develops feelings for his neighbor Hanan who runs away and lives with an aristocratic lady for whom she works, leaving Reda to get involved with terrorist groups. Meanwhile, Jaber earns his living by fraud and deceit and eventually dies in an accident.
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You Leave and I'll leave
Title: You Leave and I'll leave
Character: Karim
Released: November 13, 2004
Type: Movie
Farid travels abroad on a surprise mission, leaving his two children, a child and a child in a villa, in the care of two young men, Karim and Halim. The film shows the nature of the relationship between the two children and the two young people. The difference between two different generations shows that we see children at the top of intelligence dealing with technology, while the young are in a state of loss and disrespect due to living conditions and different education. The randomness of the two young men and their naiveté until the surprise occurs, and everyone gets involved in a difficult confrontation in front of an unknown force, and all unite to face the danger. Can children change their minds and push a new and different way of life?
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Tito
Title: Tito
Character: Fares
Released: June 23, 2004
Type: Movie
Tito is the second installment in the new-wave Egyptian action movies. After Mafia by Sherif Arafa, which was a breakthrough in Egyptian cinema making, Tarek El-Aryan brings us Tito, the next logical step. Very simply, this movie is about an ex-con who tries to escape his sinful life by starting a new one, but his past comes back to haunt him. The reason, why Tito is better than Mafia is because the script and story line in Tito is more complex, and some of the characters had real depth in them and where fully developed throughout the movie.
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Auntie Faransa
Title: Auntie Faransa
Released: June 23, 2004
Type: Movie
Batta and Wezza are two siblings living with their aunt Faransa at a local neighborhood as the latter works as a hired mourner. Batta accepts to pursue the same career as her aunt, under one condition: to keep Wezza away from all the mourning and the weeping and let her continue her studies.
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Talking About Love
Title: Talking About Love
Character: Hassan
Released: April 14, 2004
Type: Movie
(Nahid) is a waitress from an average family,after she gets divorced,she tries to overcome her loneliness by looking for a new love. Her colleague (Salma) is attracted to (Hassona) the assistant director,who had the opportunity to direct a music video,so he turns to (Salma) to be in the clip.
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Best Times
Title: Best Times
Character: Hisham Jalal
Released: April 4, 2004
Type: Movie
Ahla el-Awqat (The Best of Times) tells the story of a successful middle-aged woman (Salma, played by Hanan Tork) who is left to live with her step father after a not-so-tragic accident that claims the life of her mother. Salma goes on a quest to find out the identity of the sender of mystery letters and packages. One letter includes a picture of her and her two best friends from school (played by the Hend Sabry and Menna Shalaby), whom she has not seen for 14 years. Reunited, the girls embark on the quest of finding the identity of the sender.
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From First Sight
Title: From First Sight
Released: April 4, 2004
Type: Movie
Akram is a perfectionist wedding photographer who dreams of finding Miss Right. He indeed finds her in the unlikeliest of places: her wedding ceremony.
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A matter of principle
Title: A matter of principle
Character: Shandid
Released: October 26, 2003
Type: Movie
The events revolve around a representative in Parliament who represents one of the constituencies in Upper Egypt. He was able to achieve great successes, but he dies. The family nominates his daughter, a law school graduate, to take his place, but she encounters many problems.
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Sleepless Nights
Title: Sleepless Nights
Released: July 16, 2003
Type: Movie
A social romance that portrays the lives of 4 married couples who are friends. As they gather to celebrate the birthday of the daughter of one of them, their fundamental differences and their unstable marriages come to the surface as the men decide to leave for Alexandria.
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The Fish Tail
Title: The Fish Tail
Character: Ahmed
Released: January 13, 2003
Type: Movie
Ahmed Al-Morsi Owais is a young man who has a technical diploma. A lover of poetry, he searches for a job until he eventually finds one as a conductor on electricity meters, allowing him to enter numerous houses from different classes.
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Title: Morning and Evening Talk
Released: November 15, 2001
Type: TV
The latest that deals with the social and political history of Egypt revolves through three personalities, its children and grandchildren branches, and follows their conflicts, social roles, their human relationship and their different attitudes towards life and the homeland through the direct effects of economic interests on the relationships between the characters and the origins of these three trees.
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Friends or Business
Title: Friends or Business
Character: Gehad
Released: August 15, 2001
Type: Movie
Karim Nour and Tarek Al-Seyoufy are two successful TV hosts whose shows attract many viewers, which gradually turns them into rivals. When the channel director dispatches Karim to Palestine at the time of the Palestinian Intifada, he reluctantly goes, as he embarks on an eye-opening journey.
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Li Li
Title: Li Li
Character: Sheikh Abd-Elaal
Released: February 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Sheikh Abdul-Al, the imam of Al-Shobokshi Mosque in Al-Batiniyya. The drug trafficker, which is home to a group of traders and drug dealers, is surrounded by a beautiful girl, Lee, who is chasing him in his dreams and is in a conflict between his desire and his faith. And it ends on her door.
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Fallen Angels' Paradise
Title: Fallen Angels' Paradise
Character: Nonna
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Tabel abandons his luxurious family life in favor of a bohemian life with his eccentric marginalized friends. When Tabel dies, his daughter attempts to give him a decent burial, but his friends take the corpse away to bid him farewell in their own way.
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Title: The Listeners
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Claire, a popular English teacher, begins to hear a low humming sound that no one else around her can hear. This seemingly innocuous noise gradually upsets the balance of her life, increasing tension between herself and her husband, Paul, and daughter, Ashley. But despite multiple doctors, no obvious source or medical cause can be found.