Khaled Abol Naga

Khaled Abol Naga

Nascimento : 1966-11-02, Cairo, Egypt

História

Kal Naga (aka: Khaled Abol Naga) is a Multi Award-winning Actor, Producer, and Director from Egypt, based in California. He is a well-established movie star in the middle-east and considered one of the top talents of his generation, his work extends from Film, TV, to Theatre, and Radio and TV hosting. He has been a lead in feature films since his first lead role in "A Citizen, An Informant & A Thief" by Egyptian acclaimed director Daoud Abdel Sayed in 2001. As an actor he collected numerous Best Actor Awards from his home country Egypt, European & International Film Festivals since 2001, culminating in a historic winning of ALL-important Best Actor Awards offered in his home country Egypt in 2014 (Egypt's National Film Festival, Film Society Festival for Egyptian Cinema, The Catholic Centre festival for Egyptian Cinema) for his critically acclaimed portrayal of a terminally ill older man: Hussein in "Villa 69". In the same year, Naga won The Best Actor Award (Silver Pyramid) from the prestigious Cairo International Film Festival CIFF for his role as a Palestinian father searching for his daughter in the Palestinian Oscar's submission "Eyes of a thief" (Lead Actor), as well as other several regional awards for "Villa 69" including the Best Actor Award from Festival Cinema Africain Khouribga, Morocco. Naga's English speaking work started gaining momentum since he moved to California in 2017, where he appeared in the main role (Al Kady) in the Fox TV show "Tyrant", then his enigmatic appearance in the BBC TV mini-series "The Last Post", to a much-celebrated guest-star appearance in The History Channel TV show "Vikings" season 5 in 2019 In a film festival in 2016 celebrating Arabic film submissions to the Oscars, he was honored for being the most submitted actor in Arabic film submissions to the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (The Oscars). He is often tagged in western media as Egypt's "Brad Pitt" for his many career similarities with the latter, Also tagged as the next "Omar Sharif" especially after his American debut movie Civic Duty in 2007, he was also tagged as "Egypt's International treasure" for his unprecedented courage advocating for freedom & standing up against injustice in his home country Egypt, He also has a very celebrated and successful career across the Middle-east TV networks as a TV & radio host in prime-time shows from 1997 till 2005. Famous for his unexpected yet smart choices of scripts & roles, Naga created a vast & diverse filmography with unprecedented wide acclaim from critics & audiences throughout the Arab & international film societies creating a unique phenomenon in his generation of actors, almost all of his films have an "exportable" nature to other cultures. He created special attention to his choices and subtle yet deep performances. Naga as a Producer since 2009, created with others a new wave of possibilities in the Egyptian independent film industry, from co-producing "Heliopolis" 2009 which went on to feature in over a dozen festivals, to the revolutionary production of "Microphone" 2010 in which a new generation of photography DSLR cameras were used, He is among a leading "iTeam Cairo" that is becoming a seed of to help indie filmmakers. He was appointed as a UNICEF UN Goodwill Ambassador in Egypt 2007 till 2015.

Perfil

Khaled Abol Naga

Filmes

Miss Fisher e a Cripta das Lágrimas
Sheikh Kahlil Abbas
Depois de libertar uma jovem da sua prisão injusta em Jerusalém, Phryne Fisher começa a desvendar um mistério sobre esmeraldas inestimáveis, maldições antigas e a verdade por trás do desaparecimento suspeito da tribo esquecida de Shirin.
Nasser's Republic: The Making of Modern Egypt
Nasser (voice)
NASSER'S REPUBLIC: THE MAKING OF MODERN EGYPT is the first film for an American audience about Gamal Abdel Nasser, one of the Arab world's most transformative leaders.
From A to B
Senior Syrian Officer
Para honrar a memória do companheiro falecido, três amigos tentam se reaproximar embarcando em uma aventura na estrada de Abu Dhabi para Beirute.
Out of the Ordinary
Yehia
When Yehia's scientific investigation of the paranormal yields nothing, he takes a forced vacation from his work and regular life. Wandering aimlessly, he settles in a seaside guest house that is inhabited by a group of quirky characters. As Yehia grows intimate with the owner and close to her charismatic young daughter, he believes he's stumbled across the magic he had sought for so long. It appears that something out of the ordinary seems to exist within them all, and perhaps also within himself.
Eyes of a Thief
A father with a dangerous secret searching for his daughter.
Decor
Sherif
Apaixonada por cinema, a cenógrafa Maha se especializou em criar mundos imaginários. Sob imensa pressão no trabalho, ela começa a transitar por dois universos: um deles se parece com o cenário que inventou; o outro, com sua suposta vida real. Conforme a fronteira entre imaginação e realidade fica cada vez menos clara, Maha precisa decidir —pela primeira vez— o que realmente deseja.
Villa 69
A dramedy about illness, intimacy and death sparkles with the lighthearted touch of Director Ayten Amin. Hussein, played by Khaled abol Naga, is a terminally ill, yet charming architect who enjoys a solitary routine in his old family home, and a variety of female visitors. Not realising his past is about to catch up with him, Hussein's sister and her grandson move into the house, disrupting a well established lifestyle, and forcing him to re-examine his ideas about life, love, and family.
Over My Dead Body
Raouf is an interior designer and an owner of a home furniture gallery. He is a very suspicious person when it comes to dealing with all people around him. It is only when he goes into a coma, he started to realise his mistakes and discover what all his friends and family think of him. Is it too late ?
Microphone
Producer
Upon his return to Alexandria, Khaled becomes intrigued with a graffiti mural opposite his apartment. As he pursues this further, a larger underground arts scene slowly reveals itself, composed of musicians, filmmakers, and graffiti artists. As they struggle to get their voices heard, Khaled is compelled to help them acquire some much deserved visibility.
Microphone
Upon his return to Alexandria, Khaled becomes intrigued with a graffiti mural opposite his apartment. As he pursues this further, a larger underground arts scene slowly reveals itself, composed of musicians, filmmakers, and graffiti artists. As they struggle to get their voices heard, Khaled is compelled to help them acquire some much deserved visibility.
Heliopolis
Ibrahim
8 characters skew lifelines that never really intersect in the suburb of Heliopolis in Cairo within a frame of time of 24 hours all in a very stagnant state and never achieving goals.
My Sleeping Lover
Ramez
Após fazer hipnose, Ramez finalmente conhece a mulher dos seus sonhos, só que ela é bem diferente do que ele imagina.
One-Zero
شريف
Encrypted Letter
Himself
Fayez discovers a code sheet that his grandfather left to him before he was killed, of a treasure map in Jerusalem, drawn by the Jews fleeing to Egypt. He goes on an adventure with his friends, Ismail and Bedair, to search for the map hidden in an archaeological temple in Luxor.
Agamista
عز
Kashf Hesab
Farid
(Soha) works with the Police as a sketch artist,and falls in love with the mysterious decoration designer (Farid). When a girl gets raped, (Soha) draws the face of the perpetrator but finds it matching to Farid's. Even the victim accuses him of being the rapist. Did he commit the crime or not?
In the Heliopolis Flat
Yehia
Najwa, a music teacher from the city of Minya, Upper Egypt, seizes the opportunity to come to Cairo on a trip with her students to search for Tahany, her first teacher that taught her music and used to live in an apartment in Heliopolis.
None But That!
Nader
"Nahed" (Nabila Ebeid) as the Greedy Mother fight over "Dina" (Arwa) the innocent talent who falls in love with "Nader" (Khaled Abol Naga) as a Music Talent Hunter & Famous icon/Director & shatters her Family apart when she becomes a big success.
Game of love
Essam
Laila, who is abandoned by her lover dentist because of her excessive freedom, and collected by the Egyptian station for trains, "Essam," who lives a married life and monotonous and tense with his wife, "Hanan" to which he was associated without love Issam Laila attracted after joining the work as a fashion designer in the company that works In the marketing department, their relationship is deepened. Issam divorces his wife, Hanan, but after a period of separation from Leila, she feels very humiliated and decides to travel to Alexandria to try to remedy her harsh experience.
Paranóia Americana
Gabe Hassan
Contador americano bombardeado pelas notícias na TV a cabo, sobretudo aquelas com temática terrorista após o fatídico 11 de setembro, entra em choque quando descobre que seu novo vizinho é um estudante de origem islâmica.
Downtown Girls
Samir
Story of two working girls and their adventures in the city.
Italia's War
Fouad
Yaseen is a lawyer who works for senior attorney, Kamaal. When he discovers that Kamal is involved in an illegal business with a tycoon, he gets publicly disbarred and loses his job. His fiance gets abducted to Italy when he tries to redeem himself, so he relentlessly forms a plan to set things right.
Double Faces
Tareq
Mahmoud is a professor of acting, who lives an isolated life, a shift in his personality occurs when he discovers the betrayal of his wife with a young man, and meets a young actress who tries to make him live a different life.
Youm El-Karama
Girl's Love
Kimo (Karim El Sharkawy)
The story of three half-sisters who are united when their father dies and his will dictates they live together if they are to get their inheritance. The three sisters; the passionate Nada, the westernized Roqaya, and the tempered Ghada, have to work out their differences.
Sleepless Nights
Ali
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.
A Citizen, a Detective and a Thief
Selim (The citizen)
Selim, a handsome and successful writer triggers an elaborate chain of events when he visits police headquarters to report his car stolen. There he runs into the bumbling Sergeant Fathy Abdel Ghafour, an old family friend who now works as a detective. When the meddlesome Sergeant Fathy insists on hiring a live-in housekeeper for his old friend, Selim’s life becomes inextricably intertwined with that of his beautiful new housemaid, her thieving husband and the well-meaning detective.
Jebel Banat
Producer
The retelling of a melancholic 19th century Egyptian legend about two Bedouin sisters escaping forced marriages.