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Khalid Laith (Khaled)
Originally from the island of Bahrain, Khalid grew up and was educated between the Middle East, the UK, and the United States. He trained as an actor at Central School of Speech and Drama in London, where he currently resides.
Khalid played the part of Yassem El-Helou in The Devil’s Double - starring Dominic Cooper and directed by Lee Tamahori - which has recently been screened at The Sundance Film Festival and The Berlin Film Festival, and will go on public release Fall/Autumn 2011.
Other Film & Television credits include Missing (BBC), Occupation (BBC/Kudos), The Bill (ITV); Saddam’s Tribe, The Mark of Cain, The Hamburg Cell (Channel4/Mentorn); Spooks, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (BBC). Recent Theatre includes Damascus by David Greg (The Tricycle Theatre in London including a North American tour, British Council Middle Eastern tour, and The Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh); Shadow Language (Theatre 503), Leaving Home (King’s Head Theatre).
Razane Jammal (Salama)
Razane Jammal was born in Beirut and started acting at the age of six at school and her love of drama has carried on all throughout her life. At the age of 15, she was scouted to appear in a hair commercial, which opened a new door in Razane’s life, and she traveled all around the Middle-East for Commercials such as Nivea, Lux, Showtime, Du, Maymouna, Mtc touch.
At the age of 18, she moved to London to study Business management at the prestigious Kings College. However, she never lost sight of her dream to become an actress. As a result, every summer she would take acting workshops in many acting schools such as the ’Cours Florent’ in Paris, The ’RADA’ in london and the ’NYFA’ in New York.
In July 2009, Razane filmed her first feature film, ’Carlos’, directed by Olivier Assayas and staring Edgar Ramirez, and in May 2010, she attended the ’Cannes Film Festival’ for ’Carlos’.
Abdullah Al Junaibi (Nasser)
Abdullah Al Junaibi has over 25 years in the industry, and is a renowned director, actor and writer for Commercials, A V/O and heritage jingles. He is the Director of the "Hamdoon" animation cartoon, and also won an award for his work on the film "Mata” under the category "Films from the Emirates” in 2002.
His experience includes directing video clips, commercials, TV series, awareness campaigns, radio spots, and plays. Al Junaibi has a wealth of international experience in acting, due to his experience in TV commercials and drama, and has worked with many international directors.
Saood Al Kaabi (Mubarak)
Saoud Al Kaabi is one of the Emirates biggest stars and a much loved TV personality. Born in Al Ain, Al Kaabi’s media career started early, when he was discovered at the age of nine and became the first ever child television presenter on Dubai TV.
Ever since then Kaabi became a firm fixture on Dubai TV, building up a huge fan base. Currently he is presenting the acclaimed talent show “Almaidan” under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, which features Emiratis performing traditional dance.
A recent graduate of mass communication from the American University in Sharjah, Al Kaabi’s biggest achievement in film was his acting debut as the lead Emirati in Ali F. Mostafa’s ‘City of Life’.
Ahmed Abdullah (Saeed)
Ahmed Abdullah, a 24 year old Emirati, started presenting shows in 1997, and in 2001 he won the best presenter award in the Arab world at the Cairo television festival.
His first acting experience was in the Emirati feature film "City of Life", where he played the character "Rashed", following that appearing in another Emirtai feature film called "Sundress".
Ahmed is currently hosting his own show on Sama Dubai called "Sama Cinema", and has covered the red carpet for the Dubai International film festival for the past 4 years.
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