Mido Hamada

Mido Hamada
Mido Hamada
Born	Cairo, Egypt
Alma mater	Oxford School of Drama

Mido Hamada (Egyptian Arabic: ميدو حمادة) is an Egyptian-German actor in film, theatre, and television.

Early life and education

Mido Hamada was born in Cairo, Egypt, to an Egyptian family who moved to Germany.^{[citation needed]}

He studied at an American school in Germany, and later attended the Oxford School of Drama.^{[citation needed]}

Career

His roles include Ahmed Shah Massoud in the television mini-series The Path to 9/11 and smaller roles in the British television film Hannibal and the series Feel the Force. In 2004, he played in the film Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. In the 2011 film Unknown, Hamada played a Saudi sheikh involved in an assassination attempt at a Berlin hotel and in funding biotechnological research.

Hamada has also appeared in season 8 of the Fox series 24 as Samir Mehran, a rogue intelligence agent from the fictional Middle Eastern country of Kamistan who assassinates its president Omar Hassan (Anil Kapoor). He served as the season's arch-villain for most of its episodes.

He appeared again in a Fox series on Terra Nova, where he portrayed Guzman, one of the colony security personnel and a trusted colleague to Commander Nathaniel Taylor.

In 2012, Hamada had a role in the Showtime series Homeland, playing a key member of a terrorist cell planning an attack on the United States. In The Situation, he played Zaid, an Iraqi photographer. He portrayed "The Butcher" in the film American Sniper.^[1] He also lent his voice for the video game Disney Infinity 3.0.^[2] In 2017, he played Eamonn, captain of the bodyguards of the Wizard of Oz, in Emerald City.

In 2019, Hamada played congressman Daniel Maloof in the fourth season of Veronica Mars, produced by Hulu.^[3] He also has a role in the 2021 science fiction series Foundation.

Personal life

Hamada is fluent in German, English, and Arabic.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role
2004	Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow	Soldier
2005	Red Mercury	Translator
2006	The Situation	Zaid
2011	Unknown	Prince Shada
2014	American Sniper	The Butcher
2019	Guddiyan Patole	Kash
2021	Wildcat	Abu Khalid

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	Believe Nothing	Captain	1 Episode
2004	Spooks	Butterfly (Uncredited)	1 Episode
2005	Transit	Ruben	Television Movie
2005	The English Harem	Sassan Sahar
2006	Hannibal	Mago
	Assault on Waco	Special Agent Alsakka
	Feel the Force	Mr. Fuentes	1 Episode
	The Path to 9/11	Massoud	2 Episodes
2007	Judge John Deed	Mullah Al Sakka	2 Episodes
	State of Mind	Taj Kalid, MD	8 Episodes
	2057	N/A	1 Episode
2010	NCIS	Prince Abdalla Ibn Alwaan
	Holby City	Donald Bass
	24	Samir Mehran	10 Episodes
2011	Terra Nova	Guzman	2 Episodes
2012	Homeland	M.M	3 Episodes
2012	Whispers of the Desert	Halid	Television Movie
2013	The Forbidden Woman	Khalid	Television Movie
2013	Red Widow	Agent Khalil	N/A
2014	NCIS: Los Angeles	Fincen Agent Kazimi	1 Episode
	Hawaii Five-O	Amir Khan	1 Episode
	Legends	Prince Abboud	2 Episodes
2015	The Dovekeepers	Eleazar Ben Ya'ir	2 Episodes
2017	Niches Con Platanito	Himself	1 Episode
2017	Emerald City	Eamonn	9 Episodes
2018	Counterpart	Cyrus	Series Regular
2019	Veronica Mars	Daniel Maloof	6 Episodes
2021	Foundation	Shadow Master Obrecht	Recurring role
2023	Alexandre Le Grand : au rang des Dieux	Darius III	6 Episodes

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2015	Disney Infinity 3.0	Additional Voices
2019	Jumanji: The Video Game	Dr. Smolder Bravestone	German voice^[4]

References

^ Movies (2014-11-11). "'American Sniper' Review: War Plays Out Like a Video Game in Clint Eastwood's Navy SEAL Biopic". Thewrap.com. Retrieved 2015-02-23.
^ Avalanche Software. Disney Infinity 3.0. Scene: Closing credits, 5:39 in, Featuring the Voice Talents of.
^ "Who Plays Daniel Maloof in 'Veronica Mars' Season 4? Mido Hamada is Already an Action Star".
^ "Mido Hamada (visual voices guide)". behindthevoiceactors.com. Retrieved 2024-07-06. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)

External links

Mido Hamada on Facebook
Mido Hamada at IMDb

[1] Movies (2014-11-11). "'American Sniper' Review: War Plays Out Like a Video Game in Clint Eastwood's Navy SEAL Biopic". Thewrap.com. Retrieved 2015-02-23.

[2] Avalanche Software. Disney Infinity 3.0. Scene: Closing credits, 5:39 in, Featuring the Voice Talents of.

[3] "Who Plays Daniel Maloof in 'Veronica Mars' Season 4? Mido Hamada is Already an Action Star".

[4] "Mido Hamada (visual voices guide)". behindthevoiceactors.com. Retrieved 2024-07-06. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)

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