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Sayed Badreya
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Sayed Badreya
Homepage
http://www.sayedbadreya.com/
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1957-05-01,Port Said, Egypt
Gender
Male
Biography
Egyptian-born film-maker and actor Sayed Badreya realized a childhood dream by winning roles in major Hollywood films such as The Insider, Three Kings, and Independence Day. Growing up in poverty in Port Said, Sayed Badreya's dreams of movie stardom looked as bleak as the prospect of peace in the Middle East. From the Six Day War in '67 through the Yom Kippur War in '73, his only escape from the world he knew was the movie theater, where films transported him to a magical land. But it was here that he determined he was destined to be a part of that magic. After attending New York University film school, and then moving to Hollywood, Sayed first worked in the film industry as an assistant to actor/director Anthony Perkins, and then with director James Cameron on True Lies. His mission - to make movies that told the Arabic- American story, since it had yet to be told - led to the creation of his own production company, Zoom In Focus. Under this banner, he directed and produced the documentary, Saving Egyptian Film Classics as well as The Interrogation, which won Best Creative Short Film at New York International Film Festival. He also produced and starred in Hesham Issawi's short, T for Terrorist, which was awarded Best Short Film at the Boston International Film Festival and the San Francisco World Film Festival. In 2007, he played his first leading role in the English language motion picture American East, a film that he also co-wrote. 2008 was Sayed Badreya's breakout year. He captivated audiences as Abu Bakaar, the villainous arms dealer who kidnaps Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) in the summer's blockbuster Iron Man. Also that year, Sayed played the comedic Palestinian cab driver opposite Adam Sandler in You Don't Mess with the Zohan. This summer, Sayed can be seen in Paramount Pictures' feature film El traspatio aka Backyard, directed by Oscar-nominated Carlos Carrera in which he plays a serial killer opposite Ana de la Reguera. Sayed can also be seen this summer in Movie 43, where he plays opposite Halle Berry. Additional forthcoming films include The Three Stooges, his fifth film with the Farrelly brothers; The Dictator, playing Sascha Baron Cohen's father as the original Dictator, and Just Like a Woman, with Oscar nominated director Rachid Bouchareb. Also, Sayed is going to a new frontier in the new video game Uncharted 3, playing Ramses the Great Pirate Captain. Most recently he completed his second leading role in the New York independent feature, Cargo, about human traffickers, directed by Yan Vizinberg. And he just finished co-starring opposite Oscar-nominated actress Melissa Leo in film The Space Between, directed by Travis Fine. Sayed has also worked as an actor, Arabic dialect coach, and Islamic technical advisor on Path to 9/11, a $40 million mini-series about the events leading up to 9/11 produced by ABC/Touchstone. Sayed's efforts to bring attention to Arab-Americans in the motion picture industry have received much coverage over the years on radio, television, and in major publications around the world, such as The New York Times, GQ, NPR, ABC's "Politically Incorrect" with Bill Maher, BBC's "Panorama," CNN, "Fox Report with Shepard Smith", The Hollywood Reporter and Egypt Today.

Filmography

Independence Day

6.893

Independence Day
1996-06-25

Dandelion Season

0

Dandelion Season

7.652

Iron Man
2008-04-30

3.2

Mirage
1995-11-21

You Don't Mess with the Zohan

5.724

You Don't Mess with the Zohan
2008-06-05

6.4

Backyard
2009-02-20

This Narrow Place

0

This Narrow Place
2011-10-20

10

I Am That Man
2019-09-01

5.6

AmericanEast
2008-11-14

6.201

The Dictator
2012-05-15

4.617

Movie 43
2013-01-24

5.5

Cargo
2011-10-17

Just Like a Woman

5.5

Just Like a Woman
2013-03-07

0

Family Prayers
2010-06-01

7.08

True Lies
1994-07-15

perforated calabash

0

perforated calabash

Hello Beautiful

10

Hello Beautiful
2025-04-01

7.453

The Insider
1999-10-28

5.339

Stuck on You
2003-12-10

6.656

Three Kings
1999-09-27

The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story

6.6

The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story
1988-01-01

6.502

Kingpin
1996-07-04

The Three Stooges

5.8

The Three Stooges
2012-04-13

6.161

Shallow Hal
2001-11-01

7

Stargate
1994-10-28

The Princess & the Marine

6.6

The Princess & the Marine
2001-02-18

6.318

Vanguard
2020-01-22

2.25

Hotshot
1987-01-23

Witness to a Rape

2

Witness to a Rape
2020-07-10

5.2

Boiling Pot
2015-09-29

The Space Between

6.844

The Space Between
2011-09-11

Jellyfish and Lobster

8.5

Jellyfish and Lobster
2023-02-27

5.392

Soul Plane
2004-05-28

8.3

Seinfeld
1989-07-05

7.06

Numb3rs
2005-01-23

7.301

The Unit
2006-03-07

7.717

The Practice
1997-03-04

6.5

Apple & Onion
2018-02-23

8.26

The West Wing
1999-09-22

7.475

WondLa
2024-06-27