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Marwan Kenzari

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Marwan Kenzari at an event for The Promise (2016)
During the post-WW2 Indonesian War of Independence, a young Dutch soldier joins an elite unit led by a mysterious captain known only as "The Turk." When the fighting intensifies, the young soldier finds himself questioning, and ultimately challenging, his commander's brutal strategy to stop the resistance.
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Marwan Kenzari is an award-winning Dutch actor. He received critical acclaim for his powerful and brooding performance in the Dutch crime drama Wolf, in which he plays a recently paroled Moroccan immigrant struggling to toe the line between promising boxer and rising criminal enforcer. His performance won him the Golden Calf for Best Actor at the Netherlands Film Festival in 2013. The International Film Festival Berlin selected Marwan as a Shooting Star 2014, while Variety introduced him as 'International Talent to Watch' in February 2014, followed by a listing in The Hollywood Reporter's '15 International Break Out Talents of 2016'.

In 2016, he had turns in Timur Bekmambetov's Ben Hur and Terry George's period drama The Promise starring Christian Bale and Oscar Isaac, which premiered in Toronto. 2017 will see him feature alongside Tom Cruise in The Mummy, opposite Noomi Rapace and Glenn Close in What Happend to Monday, and together with Anthony Hopkins, Ben Kingsley and Nicholas Hoult in actioner Collide.

In 2017 he can also be seen in the 20th Century Fox's Murder on the Orient Express with Kenneth Branagh, Penelope Cruz, Johnny Depp and Judi Dench, with Branagh also directing. Kenzari will play the French conductor of the train. In the new Netflix film The Angel he will play the lead.
BornJanuary 16, 1983
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Aldis Hodge and Marwan Kenzari in Black Adam (2022)
Charlize Theron, Matthias Schoenaerts, Luca Marinelli, Marwan Kenzari, and KiKi Layne in The Old Guard (2020)
Navid Negahban, Marwan Kenzari, and Naomi Scott in Aladdin (2019)
Marwan Kenzari and Mena Massoud in Aladdin (2019)
Navid Negahban and Marwan Kenzari in Aladdin (2019)
Marwan Kenzari in Aladdin (2019)
Marwan Kenzari in Aladdin (2019)
Noomi Rapace and Marwan Kenzari in What Happened to Monday (2017)
Guy Ritchie, Numan Acar, Nasim Pedrad, Marwan Kenzari, and Naomi Scott in Aladdin (2019)
Pierce Brosnan, Aldis Hodge, Dwayne Johnson, Sarah Shahi, Marwan Kenzari, Noah Centineo, and Quintessa Swindell at an event for Black Adam (2022)
Kenneth Branagh, Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench, Derek Jacobi, Penélope Cruz, Josh Gad, Olivia Colman, Lucy Boynton, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Marwan Kenzari, Sergei Polunin, and Daisy Ridley at an event for Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
Christian Bale, Oscar Isaac, Angela Sarafyan, Marwan Kenzari, and Charlotte Le Bon at an event for The Promise (2016)

Known for

Will Smith, Alan Tudyk, Navid Negahban, Numan Acar, Marwan Kenzari, Naomi Scott, Mena Massoud, Adam Alzoubi, and Nathaniel Ellul in Aladdin (2019)
Aladdin
6.9
  • Jafar
  • 2019
Charlize Theron, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Matthias Schoenaerts, Luca Marinelli, Marwan Kenzari, and KiKi Layne in The Old Guard (2020)
The Old Guard
6.6
  • Joe
  • 2020
Pierce Brosnan, Aldis Hodge, Dwayne Johnson, Sarah Shahi, Noah Centineo, Bodhi Sabongui, and Quintessa Swindell in Black Adam (2022)
Black Adam
6.4
  • Ishmael
  • Sabbac
  • King Ahk-Ton
  • 2022
Glenn Close, Noomi Rapace, and Christian Rubeck in What Happened to Monday (2017)
What Happened to Monday
6.8
  • Adrian Knowles
  • 2017

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  • Any Other Night
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  • The Old Guard 2
    • Post-production
  • Pierce Brosnan, Aldis Hodge, Dwayne Johnson, Sarah Shahi, Noah Centineo, Bodhi Sabongui, and Quintessa Swindell in Black Adam (2022)
    Black Adam
  • Martijn Lakemeier in The East (2020)
    The East
  • Charlize Theron, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Matthias Schoenaerts, Luca Marinelli, Marwan Kenzari, and KiKi Layne in The Old Guard (2020)
    The Old Guard
  • Carice van Houten and Marwan Kenzari in Instinct (2019)
    Instinct
  • Will Smith, Alan Tudyk, Navid Negahban, Numan Acar, Marwan Kenzari, Naomi Scott, Mena Massoud, Adam Alzoubi, and Nathaniel Ellul in Aladdin (2019)
    Aladdin
  • Marwan Kenzari in The Angel (2018)
    The Angel
  • Kenneth Branagh, Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench, Penélope Cruz, Josh Gad, Leslie Odom Jr., and Daisy Ridley in Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
    Murder on the Orient Express
  • Glenn Close, Noomi Rapace, and Christian Rubeck in What Happened to Monday (2017)
    What Happened to Monday
  • The Mummy (2017)
    The Mummy
  • Christian Bale, Oscar Isaac, and Charlotte Le Bon in The Promise (2016)
    The Promise
  • Toby Kebbell and Jack Huston in Ben-Hur (2016)
    Ben-Hur
  • Nicholas Hoult and Felicity Jones in Collide (2016)
    Collide
  • Benja Bruijning, Fedja van Huêt, Beppie Melissen, Halina Reijn, Frank Sheppard, Bram van der Vlugt, Chantal Janzen, Leo Alkemade, Manuel Broekman, Loes Haverkort, Marwan Kenzari, and Nathan Meeter in Pak van mijn hart (2014)
    Pak van mijn hart
  • Reckless (2014)
    Reckless
  • Accused (2014)
    Accused

Producer

  • Martijn Lakemeier in The East (2020)
    The East
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The East
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    • January 16, 1983
    • The Hague, Netherlands

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    Is of Tunisian descent.
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    I find it quite difficult to watch the film once it is done, because in your head or imagination it is totally different. In the beginning it is quite hard, and I don't mean hard as in a negative or a positive. It is difficult to see the film being edited and see the real images for the first time coming out of your head and onto the screen. Sometimes you are surprised that he left something in and he took something out. The director is the creator; he's the captain of the ship when it comes to the creative journey of the film, along of course with the producer. So when you start out acting you have to find a way to understand and to deal with that. But as I say I don't mean it as a negative or a positive.

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