Marwan Kenzari
Marwan Kenzari | |
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![]() Marwan Kenzari in 2013 | |
Born | (1983-01-16) 16 January 1983 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 |
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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 |
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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
^ "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}
^ (in Dutch) 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 (2017-08-04). "Disney's Live-Action 'Aladdin' Reboot Casts 'Mummy' Actor as Jafar". Variety. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
^ "Disney's Aladdin remake has finally found its Jafar". 2017-08-06.
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