Marwan Kenzari

























Marwan Kenzari

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Marwan Kenzari in 2013

Born
(1983-01-16) 16 January 1983 (age 36)

The Hague, Netherlands

Occupation Actor
Years active 2008 – present
Website www.marwankenzari.nl

Marwan Kenzari (Arabic: مروان كنزاري‎, born 16 January 1983) is a Dutch-Tunisian actor. He has performed in Dutch- and English-language films. He won a Golden Calf for Best Actor in 2013.




Contents






  • 1 Life and career


  • 2 Filmography


    • 2.1 Film


    • 2.2 Television




  • 3 References


  • 4 External links





Life and career


Marwan Kenzari was born on 16 January 1983 in The Hague, Netherlands to a Tunisian family. He is of Dutch nationality.


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.[1] 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).[2] 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.[3] 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.[4][5]



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
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





  1. ^ "International Star You Should Know: Marwan Kenzari". Variety. 2014-03-14. Retrieved 18 March 2015..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ (in Dutch) Gouden Kalf winnaars Archived 2 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine, Netherlands Film Festival. Retrieved on 28 March 2015.


  3. ^ "Marwan Kenzari, The Netherlands". Shooting Stars. Retrieved 18 March 2015.


  4. ^ Kroll, Justin (2017-08-04). "Disney's Live-Action 'Aladdin' Reboot Casts 'Mummy' Actor as Jafar". Variety. Retrieved 4 August 2017.


  5. ^ "Disney's Aladdin remake has finally found its Jafar". 2017-08-06.




External links











  • Official website


  • Marwan Kenari on IMDb










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