Marwan Kenzari
Marwan Kenzari | |
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 Marwan Kenzari in 2013 | |
| Born | 16 January 1983 |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 2008–present |
| Website | www |
Marwan Kenzari (born 16 January 1983) is a Tunisian-Dutch actor. He has performed in Dutch- and English-language films. He won a Golden Calf for Best Actor in 2013.
Life and career
Marwan Kenzari was born on 16 January 1983 in The Hague in the Netherlands.[1] He has Dutch citizenship,[1] and is of Tunisian descent.
Kenzari began acting as a teenager when a girl he was seeing signed them up to audition for the Dutch version of the musical Chicago.[2] He has acted in films and TV series in his native Netherlands since 2008. In 2013, he won a Golden Calf for Best Actor at the Netherlands Film Festival for his role in the feature film Wolf (2013).[3] The film was translated into Russian by Russian film translator Andrey Efremov and screened at the 2013 VOLOGDA Film Festival.. In 2014, he won a Shooting Stars Award at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Kenzari speaks Arabic, Dutch, French and English.[4] He can be seen in the English-language films Collide and Ben-Hur. In the 2015 film Bloedlink, he appears in a long scene completely naked. It was announced that Kenzari would play the villain Jafar in Disney's live-action adaptation of Aladdin.[5][6]
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Director(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Katia's Sister | Giac | Mijke de Jong | |
| 2009 | The Last Days of Emma Blank | Martin | Alex van Warmerdam | |
| 2010 | Loft | Tom Fenneker | Antoinette Beumer | |
| 2011 | Rabat | Zakaria | Victor D. Ponten & Jim Taihuttu | |
| 2012 | Black Out | Youssef | Arne Toonen | |
| 2013 | Wolf | Majid | Jim Taihuttu | |
| 2014 | Hartenstraat | Daan | Sanne Vogel | |
| Accused | Det. Ron Leeflang | Paula van der Oest | ||
| Reckless | Rico | Joram Lürsen | ||
| Grab My Heart | Richard | Kees van Nieuwkerk | ||
| Bloedlink | Rico | Joram Lürsen | ||
| 2016 | Collide | Matthias | Eran Creevy | |
| Ben-Hur | Druses | Timur Bekmambetov | ||
| The Promise | Emre Ogan | Terry George | ||
| 2017 | The Mummy | Malik | Alex Kurtzman | |
| What Happened to Monday? | Adrian Knowles | Tommy Wirkola | ||
| Murder on the Orient Express | Pierre Michel | Kenneth Branagh | ||
| 2018 | The Angel | Ashraf Marwan | Ariel Vromen | Post-production |
| 2019 | Aladdin | Jafar | Guy Ritchie | Post-production |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008–2010 | Flikken Maastricht | Luca de Keyzer | TV series, 7 episodes |
| 2009 | Maite was hier | Vuc | TV movie |
| 2012 | Van God Los | Frank Hendrikx | TV series, 1 episode |
| 2012–2013 | Penoza | Mustafa | TV series, 8 episodes |
References
- ^ a b Resume Marwan Kenzari, Nummer 19. Retrieved on 28 March 2015.
- ^ "International Star You Should Know: Marwan Kenzari". Variety. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
- ^ Template:Nl icon Gouden Kalf winnaars Archived 2 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine, Netherlands Film Festival. Retrieved on 28 March 2015.
- ^ "Marwan Kenzari, The Netherlands". Shooting Stars. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
- ^ Kroll, Justin. "Disney's Live-Action 'Aladdin' Reboot Casts 'Mummy' Actor as Jafar". Variety. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
- ^ https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/disney-aladdin-jafar-live-action-remake-marwan-kenzari-nasim-pedrad-release-date-a7879141.html
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