Amr Waked

Amr Waked

Nascimento : 1973-04-12, Cairo, Egypt

História

Amr Waked was born in Cairo, Egypt on 12 April 1973. He studied economics and theatre in the American University in Cairo. In his early experience as an actor Amr joined the Temple Theatre Troop in 1994, and Yaaru Theatre Troop in 1999, where he trained and developed his tools as a stage performer. With his experience onstage, Waked managed to film his first role on the big screen in 1998 when he joined Ossama Fawzy's of "Gannet El Shayateen". Waked's award winning performance paved his way to become a popular actor famous for his gravity and vast range. In 2003, Waked joined Stephen Gegan's cast of Syriana, which was his first appearance in an international film. His performance was acclaimed and presented him with other opportunities in international productions, like House Of Saddam and Salmon Fishing In The Yemen. In 2005, Amr co-established "zad communication & production llc" to begin his experience as a producer. The communication agency and production house was to focus on developmental and social issues in Egypt and the Middle East. In 2012, zad produced its first feature film "Winter Of Discontent", directed by Ibrahim El Batout, which opened in the 69th Venice Film Festival in 2012.

Perfil

Amr Waked

Filmes

Los Constructores de la Alhambra
Ibn Al-Khatib
Men and women who built the emblematic fort, as they strove to reach the formula for perfect beauty.
Super Quem? Heróis Por Acaso
le schizo
Cedric é um ator que, após anos tendo sua carreira vista como chacota, encontra uma oportunidade que promete mudar sua vida: dar vida ao personagem super-herói Badman! Nome familiar, não? Só que um acidente de carro não estava nos planos de Cedric. Assim que o ator desperta da batida, sua vida real se torna um apagão, e ele passa a acreditar que é legitimamente Badman, o super-herói.
Under Spanish Skies
Andrés
After the death of her husband, a reclusive artist invites lifelong friends to her farm in Spain and reveals a shocking plan. Before the weekend ends, the friends must share secrets from the past and force her to make a choice.
Mulher-Maravilha 1984
Emir Said Bin Abydos
Em 1984, Diana Prince entra em conflito com dois inimigos formidáveis, Maxwell Lord e a Mulher-Leopardo, enquanto reencontra misteriosamente com seu antigo interesse amoroso Steve Trevor.
Writing on Snow
Dark Man
A film about the absurdity of not accepting the other despite the difference.
Tempestade: Planeta em Fúria
Ray Dussette
Após uma série de desastres naturais sem precedentes ameaçam o planeta, líderes mundiais se reúnem para criar um sistema de satélites capaz de controlar o clima e manter todos a salvo. Mas alguma coisa dá errado, e o sistema criado para proteger a Terra na verdade está atacando-a. Assim começa uma corrida contra o relógio para descobrir a real ameaça antes que uma tempestade mundial acabe com tudo.
Monkey Talks
Taha ElShenawy
Two magician siblings prepare an unexpected magic stunt in hopes of freeing their dad.
El ott
El-Ott
An Egyptian gangster, El Ott, divorced his wife, Salma, and left the family soon after his daughter, Amina, was mysteriously kidnapped and lost in Cairo. El Ott discovers that Fathi, a human and organ trafficking monster boss, has recently kidnapped street children from his neighborhood, in order to sell their organs.
Colt 45
Baron
No filme seguimos um jovem policial, Vincent, que possui um dom, mas que é incompreendido pelos seus colegas. Quando ele cruza o seu destino com o de Milo Cardena, um policial problemático, as consequências serão dramáticas, entrando a dupla numa espiral de violência onde as inúmeras rivalidades entre agentes serão colocadas a prova. Será o jovem ‘Flic’ capaz de ingressar no seu lado negro para sobreviver?
Lucy
Pierre Del Rio
Quando a inocente jovem Lucy (Scarlett Johansson) aceita transportar drogas dentro do seu estômago, ela não conhece muito bem os riscos que corre. Por acaso, ela acaba absorvendo as drogas, e um efeito inesperado acontece: Lucy ganha poderes sobre-humanos, incluindo a telecinesia, a ausência de dor e a capacidade de adquirir conhecimento instantaneamente.
The Winter of Discontent
Amr
Amr is a 35 year old man who wakes up one day to a very different Egypt. Amr rarely leaves home as he works from his place designing software. It is January 25, 2011 and Amr starts the day with news of protests all over Cairo and marches leading to Tahrir square. Something tells him that these protests will lead to major political change. Farah, a woman in her early 30’s, is a news anchor on Egyptian television. The news Farah gives her audience is very different from the news presented online or on international news channels.
Winter of Discontent
Amor Impossível
Sheikh Muhammad
A história do Dr. Alfred Jones, um cientista de pesca que encontra-se relutantemente envolvido em um projeto para trazer a pesca do salmão para as terras altas do Iêmen - um projeto que vai mudar a sua vida e o curso da história política britânica para sempre.
Contágio
Rafik (uncredited)
Pouco depois de voltar de uma viagem de negócios, Beth Emhoff morre de uma suposta gripe. Enquanto a epidemia mortal se espalha, os médicos precisam identificar o vírus para conseguir combatê-lo e acabar com o pânico da população.
18 Days
Essam Maher Youssef
10 Film makers made 10 Separate stories about the "25January " revolution in Egypt and the Egyptian people in the revolution and the protests against the previous President Hosni Mubarak and the departure of President Hosni Mubarak and also displays what happened in Tahrir Square since the start of the sit-in
The Father and the Foreigner
Waid
The Traveller
Fuad
Love, passion, responsibility and loss follow a man over the course of half a century in this powerful drama from Egypt. In 1948, Hassan (Khaled El Nabawy) is working his first day on the job for a telegraph company when he has to deliver a telegram to Noura (Cyrine Abdelnour), a beautiful woman who is waiting on a ship docked in the harbor. The message is from Noura's fiancé, but when Hassan sees her, he acts on an impulse, and by the end of the day he's slept with Noura. In 1973, Hassan crosses paths with Noura again; her brother is in the hospital, and Hassan happens to meet Nadia, the beautiful woman's daughter who he may have fathered. And in 2001, elderly Hassan (now played by Omar Sharif) visits Cairo and meets Ali, Nadia's son, and both are taken aback at the similarities between them.
Al Moshtabah
Embodies the artist Amr Waked in his new film [suspected Zero] characters twins, one a prosecutor, and the other a businessman, and the film is set in the framework of Action Choiky and social humane at the same time, about a shocking incident of a man who acts which shows that many of the ironies and vague positions, and are identify the perpetrator in the end the incident,
Ibrahim El Abyad
Ashry
Ibraham Al Abyad young child is exposed and his father killed before his eyes by a great band trading in drugs say takbeer the child and the image of his father's death does not leave his eyes and hoped that the proceeding by the time quickly in order to take revenge on all its members, led, of course, the gang leader and for this train Ibrahim Abyad exercises cruel and violent and finds that the best way to take revenge on the gang members is to approach them and join them to be able to kill them in his own way. in order to this shared their operations dangerous to gain their trust and before he began to implement the old dream is captured in one of the processes and able leader of the gang smuggled out and save his neck from a rope the gallows.
The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall
Mohamed
After Tom Hurndall is shot in the head in Gaza, his parents Anthony and Jocelyn arrive in Israel wanting to know how it could have happened. They expect sympathy and cooperation from the Israeli authorities, but are instead met with an official explanation that fails to tally with any eye-witness accounts, and a wall of silence. When an Israeli army report attempts to whitewash the incident, the Hurndalls decide the only way to establish the truth is to launch their own investigation into the shooting, a process which brings them face to face with both the Open-Fire regulations of the Israeli army in Gaza, and the soldier who pulled the trigger.
The Aquarium
Youssef
Youssef is a hotshot anesthesiologist who often sleeps in his car for privacy. Laila is the careerist host of a late night radio call-in show. These two members of Cairo's elite, lost souls traveling parallel paths of longing and disconnection, are the principal fish in Yousry Nasrallah's The Aquarium, a meditation on the intellectual capital of the Middle East, now bent under the sway of repression in all its forms.
Syriana: A Indústria do Petróleo
Mohammed Sheik Agiza
Muito petróleo significa muito dinheiro. Muito dinheiro mesmo. E este fato libera um esquema de corrupção que se estende desde Houston, passando por e Washington, até o Oriente Médio. E envolve industriais, príncipes, espiões, políticos, exploradores de petróleo e terroristas em uma teia mortal de ações e reações enganosas. Este thriller de ação inteligente e envolvente exige toda a atenção e os nervos do espectador, em intensidade narrativa que não permite descuido por um segundo sequer.
Deer blood
Atef
The unemployed Reda develops feelings for his neighbor Hanan who runs away and lives with an aristocratic lady for whom she works, leaving Reda to get involved with terrorist groups. Meanwhile, Jaber earns his living by fraud and deceit and eventually dies in an accident.
You Leave and I'll leave
Karim
Farid travels abroad on a surprise mission, leaving his two children, a child and a child in a villa, in the care of two young men, Karim and Halim. The film shows the nature of the relationship between the two children and the two young people. The difference between two different generations shows that we see children at the top of intelligence dealing with technology, while the young are in a state of loss and disrespect due to living conditions and different education. The randomness of the two young men and their naiveté until the surprise occurs, and everyone gets involved in a difficult confrontation in front of an unknown force, and all unite to face the danger. Can children change their minds and push a new and different way of life?
Auntie Faransa
Batta and Wezza are two siblings living with their aunt Faransa at a local neighborhood as the latter works as a hired mourner. Batta accepts to pursue the same career as her aunt, under one condition: to keep Wezza away from all the mourning and the weeping and let her continue her studies.
Tito
Fares
Tito is the second installment in the new-wave Egyptian action movies. After Mafia by Sherif Arafa, which was a breakthrough in Egyptian cinema making, Tarek El-Aryan brings us Tito, the next logical step. Very simply, this movie is about an ex-con who tries to escape his sinful life by starting a new one, but his past comes back to haunt him. The reason, why Tito is better than Mafia is because the script and story line in Tito is more complex, and some of the characters had real depth in them and where fully developed throughout the movie.
Talking About Love
Hassan
(Nahid) is a waitress from an average family,after she gets divorced,she tries to overcome her loneliness by looking for a new love. Her colleague (Salma) is attracted to (Hassona) the assistant director,who had the opportunity to direct a music video,so he turns to (Salma) to be in the clip.
Men Nazret Ein
Akram is a perfectionist wedding photographer who dreams of finding Miss Right. He indeed finds her in the unlikeliest of places: her wedding ceremony.
Best Times
Hisham Jalal
Ahla el-Awqat (The Best of Times) tells the story of a successful middle-aged woman (Salma, played by Hanan Tork) who is left to live with her step father after a not-so-tragic accident that claims the life of her mother. Salma goes on a quest to find out the identity of the sender of mystery letters and packages. One letter includes a picture of her and her two best friends from school (played by the Hend Sabry and Menna Shalaby), whom she has not seen for 14 years. Reunited, the girls embark on the quest of finding the identity of the sender.
Sleepless Nights
A social romance that portrays the lives of 4 married couples who are friends. As they gather to celebrate the birthday of the daughter of one of them, their fundamental differences and their unstable marriages come to the surface as the men decide to leave for Alexandria.
The Fish Tail
Ahmed
The journey of an electricity inspector "Amr Waked" whose job duties obliges him to meet various types and levels of people.
Friends or Business
Gehad
Karim Nour and Tarek Al-Seyoufy are two successful TV hosts whose shows attract many viewers, which gradually turns them into rivals. When the channel director dispatches Karim to Palestine at the time of the Palestinian Intifada, he reluctantly goes, as he embarks on an eye-opening journey.
Li Li
Sheikh Abdul-Al, the imam of Al-Shobokshi Mosque in Al-Batiniyya. The drug trafficker, which is home to a group of traders and drug dealers, is surrounded by a beautiful girl, Lee, who is chasing him in his dreams and is in a conflict between his desire and his faith. And it ends on her door.
Fallen Angels' Paradise
Nonna
Tabel abandons his luxurious family life in favor of a bohemian life with his eccentric marginalized friends. When Tabel dies, his daughter attempts to give him a decent burial, but his friends take the corpse away to bid him farewell in their own way.