Biographies: Amr Waked - Actor

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Amr Waked is an Egyptian film, television and stage actor. Western audiences best know him for his roles as the terrorist leader in Syriana (2005) opposite George Clooney, Rafik in Soderbergh's Contagion (2011), and as Yemeni Sheikh Muhammad in Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011). Waked graduated from the American University in Cairo with a degree in political science. He worked full-time as a stock trader and moonlit as an actor before fully committing to his acting career. He got his break in 2001 with Friends or Business. He got his first lead role in The Fish's Tail in 2003, for which he won a Best Actor award at the Alexandria International Film Festival. The next year, he honored the revolution in his critically acclaimed film "Winter of Discontent" directed by documentary-maker Ibrahim El-Batout.

• 8 December 2010
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