Marwan Kenzari

Marwan Kenzari (born January 16, 1983) is a Dutch actor. He has performed in Dutch and English language movies. He won a Golden Calf for Best Actor in 2013.

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 (2013). 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, French and English. He can be seen in the English-language films Collide and Ben-Hur. In the 2015 film Bloedlink, he appears in a long scene completely naked. In 2019, Kenzari played villain Jafar in Disney's live action adaptation of Aladdin. In May 2019, Kenzari joined the cast of The Old Guard.