Ali Suliman

Ali Suliman made his American movie debut with a starring role in Peter Berg's The Kingdom, opposite Jamie Foxx and Chris Cooper.  Suliman then played the role of Omar Sadiki in Warner Bros. Pictures' Body of Lies, alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe.  More recently, Suliman played the lead role of Amin in Ziad Doueiri's feature The Attack, which won a top prize at the 2012 San Sebastián International Film Festival and made its world premiere at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival.

Suliman came to international attention in 2005's award-winning feature Paradise Now, playing the role of Khaled, one of two boyhood friends recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv in what may be the last two days of his life.  The landmark film, directed by Hany Abu-Assad, collected an Academy Award® nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, the first Palestinian movie ever to earn that distinction.  The film also won a Golden Globe, Independent Spirit Award, National Board of Review Award, the Blue Angel Award at the Berlin International Film Festival, the Golden Calf at the Netherlands Film Festival and the VFCC Award from the Vancouver Film Critics Circle.

Suliman has also appeared in a half-dozen other big-screen productions, including The Syrian Bride, The Barbecue People, The Diary of a Male Prostitute, The Check Point, The Border and Elia Suleiman's drama Chronicle of a Disappearance, which won the Luigi De Laurentiis Award at the Venice International Film Festival.  His television work includes The Battle of Jerusalem, Puzzle, Hafuch and the pilot episode of Showtime's Homeland.

The Nazareth, Israel, native began his career in theater, logging roles in plays from some of the world's most distinguished playwrights including Tennessee Williams (The Glass Menagerie), Arthur Miller (A View from the Bridge), Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot), Oscar Wilde (Salome) and William Shakespeare (The Tempest).  Suliman's additional stage credits include Victor Lanou's Can Opener; Ach Ach Boom Trach, at the Arab-Hebrew Theatre of Jaffa, for which he won the Best Actor Award at the Haifa International Children's Theater Festival; and Martin Crug's Eyes Can See, Antar, Missing and The Heart's Key, staged by the Arab-Hebrew Theatre of Jaffa; Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Nathan the Wise; Heiner Müller's The Mission; the original production of The Freedom Trap at the Acco Festival in Israel; and Slawomir Mrozeck's Out at Sea.

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