Khalid Abdalla

Khalid Abdalla

Born: October 26, 1981
in Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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Khalid Abdalla (born 1980) is a British-Egyptian actor. He came to international prominence after starring in the 2006 Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA-winning film, United 93. Written and directed by Paul Greengrass, it chronicles events aboard United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked as part of the September 11 attacks. Abdalla played Ziad Jarrah, the pilot and leader of the four hijackers on board the flight. He starred as Amir in the film of The Kite Runner and acted with Matt Damon in Green Zone, his second film with director Paul Greengrass

Abdalla is on the board of the National Student Drama Festival..

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Birds Like Us
Title: Birds Like Us
Character: Bat (voice)
Released: June 30, 2022
Type: Movie
The story follows a group of birds on a journey where they try to find a better life for themselves and the ones they love.
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Title: Moon Knight
Character: Selim
Released: March 30, 2022
Type: TV
When Steven Grant, a mild-mannered gift-shop employee, becomes plagued with blackouts and memories of another life, he discovers he has dissociative identity disorder and shares a body with mercenary Marc Spector. As Steven/Marc’s enemies converge upon them, they must navigate their complex identities while thrust into a deadly mystery among the powerful gods of Egypt.
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Undergods
Title: Undergods
Character: Octavius The Storyteller
Released: November 21, 2020
Type: Movie
An otherworldly journey through a Europe in decline - a collection of darkly humorous, fantasy tales about ill-fated characters and doomed fortune.
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Title: Hanna
Character: Jerome Sawyer
Released: March 28, 2019
Type: TV
This thriller and coming-of-age drama follows the journey of an extraordinary young girl as she evades the relentless pursuit of an off-book CIA agent and tries to unearth the truth behind who she is. Based on the 2011 Joe Wright film.
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Title: Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
Character: Interrogator
Released: September 17, 2017
Type: TV
A diverse anthology of ambitious, moving tales inspired by Philip K Dick's short stories.
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Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere
Title: Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere
Character: Various
Released: July 22, 2017
Type: Movie
Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere is about different kinds of popular protest. Written and performed by Paul Mason, former economics editor of Channel 4 News and BBC's Newsnight, the play is a personal account of how we got from the optimism of the Arab Spring and the Occupy Movement to the election of Donald Trump. Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere is directed by David Lan and performed by Paul Mason, Khalid Abdalla, Sirine Saba and Lara Sawalha. It is directed for TV by Tim van Someren and produced by the Young Vic in partnership with Totally Theatre Productions.
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Assassin's Creed
Title: Assassin's Creed
Character: Sultan Muhammad XII
Released: December 21, 2016
Type: Movie
Through unlocked genetic memories that allow him to relive the adventures of his ancestor in 15th century Spain, Callum Lynch discovers he's a descendant of the secret 'Assassins' society. After gaining incredible knowledge and skills, he is now poised to take on the oppressive Knights Templar in the present day.
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Title: The Crown
Character: Dodi Fayed
Released: November 4, 2016
Type: TV
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.
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Title: The Crown
Character: Dodi Fayed (archive footage)
Released: November 4, 2016
Type: TV
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.
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In the Last Days of the City
Title: In the Last Days of the City
Character: Khalid
Released: September 7, 2016
Type: Movie
In the fading grandeur of downtown Cairo, Khalid, a 35-year-old filmmaker is struggling to make a film that captures the pulse of his city at a moment when all around him dreams as much as buildings are disintegrating. With the help of his friends who send him footage from their lives in Beirut, Baghdad and Berlin, he finds the strength to keep going through the difficulty and beauty of living IN THE LAST DAYS OF THE CITY.
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Our Kind of Traitor
Title: Our Kind of Traitor
Character: Luke
Released: May 5, 2016
Type: Movie
A young Oxford academic and his attorney girlfriend holiday in Morocco. They bump into a Russian millionaire who owns a peninsula and a diamond watch. He wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the lovers on a tortuous journey to the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain's intelligence establishment, to Paris and the Alps.
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1001 Inventions and the World of Ibn Al-Haytham
Title: 1001 Inventions and the World of Ibn Al-Haytham
Character: Ibn Al- Haytham
Released: December 13, 2015
Type: Movie
The fascinating story of a brave young scientist from 11th century Arabia. Ibn Al-Haytham embarks upon a quest to uncover ancient mysteries that would change our world forever. A journey of science from darkness into light.
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Tigers
Title: Tigers
Character: Nadeem
Released: November 8, 2014
Type: Movie
Ayan, a pharmaceutical salesman in Pakistan, takes on the multinational health care corporation he works for after he realizes they knowingly marketed a baby formula that's responsible for the death of hundreds of babies everyday.
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The Narrow Frame of Midnight
Title: The Narrow Frame of Midnight
Released: September 5, 2014
Type: Movie
The intersecting destinies of three people — a Moroccan-Iraqi writer searching for his brother, the lover whom he left behind, and a young orphan on the run — create an incisive and unsettling portrait of a land riven by violence and fundamentalism.
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The Square
Title: The Square
Character: Himself
Released: June 7, 2013
Type: Movie
The Square looks at the hard realities faced day-to-day by people working to build Egypt’s new democracy. Cairo’s Tahrir Square is the heart and soul of the film, which follows several young activists. Armed with values, determination, music, humor, an abundance of social media, and sheer obstinacy, they know that the thorny path to democracy only began with Hosni Mubarak’s fall. The life-and-death struggle between the people and the power of the state is still playing out.
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Title: East To West
Character: Self
Released: March 6, 2012
Type: TV
This six-part series tells the story of the birth and flourishing of civilisation in the Middle East and its huge influence on the West. From the foundation of science, monotheism, commerce, justice, civil rights and artistic expression - look Eastward. The series contends that history that starts from an ancient Greek perspective distorts the true path of civilisation. For crucial phases in world history, the political, economic and cultural centre was the Middle East.
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Green Zone
Title: Green Zone
Character: Freddy
Released: March 11, 2010
Type: Movie
During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors are dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that threatens to invert the purpose of their mission.
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The Kite Runner
Title: The Kite Runner
Character: Amir
Released: December 14, 2007
Type: Movie
After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.
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Hush Your Mouth
Title: Hush Your Mouth
Character: JJ Farouk
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
A young man is killed for trying to stop what he sees as evil and his friends seen as fun. Whilst his sister starts an unwitting relationship with the killer and his mother sinks deeper into grief, it is left to his younger brother, seventeen Leo to avoid easy revenge and uncover the uncomfortable truth.
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United 93: The Families and the Film
Title: United 93: The Families and the Film
Released: December 13, 2006
Type: Movie
A film interviewing the families of the heroes of United Flight 93, prior to the theatrical release of the feature film, United 93.
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United 93
Title: United 93
Character: Ziad Jarrah
Released: April 28, 2006
Type: Movie
A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
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Title: Spooks
Character: Yazdi
Released: May 13, 2002
Type: TV
Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid.
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Title: The Day of the Jackal
Character: Ulle Dag Charles
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
A contemporary reimagining of the beloved and respected novel of the same name where a professional assassin is contracted by a French paramilitary dissident to kill French President Charles de Gaulle.