Marwan Kenzari


Marwan Kenzari is a Tunisian-Dutch actor and comedian. He has performed in Dutch and English-language movies. He won a Golden Calf for Best Actor in 2013 for his performance in the film Wolf.

Life and career

Kenzari was born on January 16, 1983 in The Hague, Netherlands, to a Tunisian family. He began acting as a teenager when a girl he was seeing signed them up to audition for the Dutch version of the musical Chicago. He has acted in films and TV series in his native Netherlands since 2008. In 2009 Kenzari graduated at the Maastricht Academy of Dramatic Arts. In 2013, he won a Golden Calf for Best Actor at the Netherlands Film Festival for his role in the feature film Wolf. The film was translated into Russian by Russian film translator Andrey Efremov and screened at the 2013 VOLOGDA Film Festival. In 2014, he won a Shooting Stars Award at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Kenzari speaks Arabic, Dutch, English and French. He can be seen in the English-language films Collide and Ben-Hur.
In 2019, Kenzari played villain Jafar in Disney's live-action adaptation of Aladdin. In July 2020, Kenzari appeared in The Old Guard.

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations