Khalid Abdalla
Khalid Abdalla (born 1980) is a British-Egyptian actor. He came to international prominence after starring in the 2006 Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA-winning film, United 93. Written and directed by Paul Greengrass, it chronicles events aboard United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked as part of the September 11 attacks. Abdalla played Ziad Jarrah, the pilot and leader of the four hijackers on board the flight. He starred as Amir in the film of The Kite Runner and acted with Matt Damon in Green Zone, his second film with director Paul Greengrass
Abdalla is on the board of the National Student Drama Festival. In 2011, he became one of the founding members of the Mosireen ("We Insist") Collective in Cairo: a group of revolutionary filmmakers and activists dedicated to supporting citizen media across Egypt in the wake of Hosni Mubarak's fall. Three months after it began, Mosireen became the most watched non-profit YouTube channel in Egypt of all time, and in the whole world in January 2012. Abdalla was educated at King's College School, an independent school for boys in Wimbledon in south-west London and his classmates included actor Ben Barnes and comedian Tom Basden. He became interested in acting after becoming involved in his school's thriving drama scene. In 1998, he directed a production of Someone Who'll Watch Over Me by Frank McGuinness, which ended up having a successful run at the Edinburgh Festival and earned five stars in The Scotsman newspaper, making him the youngest director to receive this accolade.
Acting
Movie
Assassin's Creed
as Sultan Muhammad XII
2016
TV
Moon Knight
as Selim
2022
Movie
Green Zone
as Freddy
2010
TV
The Crown
as Dodi Fayed
2016
TV
The Crown
as Dodi Fayed (archive footage)
2016
Movie
United 93
as Ziad Jarrah
2006
Movie
The Kite Runner
as Amir
2007
TV
The Day of the Jackal
as Ulle Dag Charles
2024
TV
Hanna
as Jerome Sawyer
2019
Movie
Our Kind of Traitor
as Luke
2016
TV
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
as Interrogator
2017
Movie
The Square
as Himself
2013
TV
Spooks
as Yazdi
2002
Movie
Undergods
as Octavius The Storyteller
2021
Movie
Tigers
as Nadeem
2014
TV
Secret Service
as Zak Hussein
2026
Movie
Birds Like Us
as Bat (voice)
2017
Movie
Birds Like Us
as Bat / Wise Bird 3 (voice)
2017
Movie
In the Last Days of the City
as Khalid
2016
Movie
United 93: The Families and the Film
as Self
2006
Movie
Hush Your Mouth
as JJ Farouk
2007
Movie
1001 Inventions and the World of Ibn Al-Haytham
as Ibn Al- Haytham
2015
Movie
The Narrow Frame of Midnight
as Zacaria
2014
Movie
Together for Palestine
as Self
2025
