Khalid Abdalla
Born: 1981-10-26 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2024
- The Day of the Jackal as Ulle Dag Charles
2022
- Moon Knight as Selim
- Birds Like Us as Bat (voice)
2021
- Undergods as Octavius The Storyteller
2019
- Hanna as Jerome Sawyer
2017
- Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams as Interrogator
- Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere as Various
2016
- The Crown as Dodi Fayed
- Assassin's Creed as Sultan Muhammad XII
- Our Kind of Traitor as Luke
- In the Last Days of the City as Khalid
2015
- 1001 Inventions and the World of Ibn Al-Haytham as Ibn Al- Haytham
2014
- Tigers as Nadeem
- The Narrow Frame of Midnight as Zacaria
2013
- The Square as Himself
2012
- East To West as Self
- In the Shadow of a Man ... (Co-Producer)
2010
- Green Zone as Freddy
2007
- The Kite Runner as Amir
- Rubberheart ... (Script Supervisor)
- Hush Your Mouth as JJ Farouk
2006
- United 93 as Ziad Jarrah
- United 93: The Families and the Film
2002
- Spooks as Yazdi