Khalid Abdalla
Known For
Acting
Born
1981-10-26 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Biography
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. In 2011, he became one of the founding members of the Mosireen ("We Insist") Collective in Cairo: a group of revolutionary filmmakers and activists dedicated to supporting citizen media across Egypt in the wake of Hosni Mubarak's fall. Three months after it began, Mosireen became the most watched non-profit YouTube channel in Egypt of all time, and in the whole world in January 2012. Abdalla was educated at King's College School, an independent school for boys in Wimbledon in south-west London and his classmates included actor Ben Barnes and comedian Tom Basden. He became interested in acting after becoming involved in his school's thriving drama scene. In 1998, he directed a production of Someone Who'll Watch Over Me by Frank McGuinness, which ended up having a successful run at the Edinburgh Festival and earned five stars in The Scotsman newspaper, making him the youngest director to receive this accolade.
Most Known For
The Crown
as Dodi Fayed
The Crown
as Dodi Fayed (archive footage)
The Day of the Jackal
as Ulle Dag Charles
Moon Knight
as Selim
Spooks
as Yazdi
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
as Interrogator
Hanna
as Jerome Sawyer
Assassin's Creed
as Sultan Muhammad XII
Green Zone
as Freddy
Tigers
as Nadeem
The Kite Runner
as Amir
United 93
as Ziad Jarrah
Our Kind of Traitor
as Luke
East To West
as Self
Secret Service
Birds Like Us
as Bat (voice)
Birds Like Us
as Bat / Wise Bird 3 (voice)
Undergods
as Octavius The Storyteller
The Square
as Himself
Together for Palestine
as Self