Khalid Abdalla

Known for ActingBorn 1981-10-26 (age 44)Glasgow, Scotland, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Day of the Jackal

The Crown

Moon Knight

The Square

Spooks

Hanna

The Kite Runner

Tigers

Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams

United 93

Secret Service

United 93: The Families and the Film

Green Zone

In the Last Days of the City

Our Kind of Traitor

East To West

Undergods

Together for Palestine

Assassin's Creed

1001 Inventions and the World of Ibn Al-Haytham

The Narrow Frame of Midnight

Birds Like Us

Hush Your Mouth

Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere

Weapons of Choice

In the Shadow of a Man

Rubberheart