Blade Runner 2049
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Birthday: Apr 10, 1985. Birthplace: Mogadishu, Somalia. Somali-born Barkhad Abdi gave one of the most indelible performances of 2013, playing a real-life pirate who overtook an American...
Mar 8, 2024 · Barkhad Abdi attends Huluween 2019 in New York City. Cindy Ord/Getty Images. One day, Barkhad Abdi was driving taxicabs in Minneapolis and the next, he was on movie sets in Malta and...
Barkhad Abdi was born on April 10, 1985 in Mogadishu, Somalia. He is an actor, known for Captain Phillips (2013), Eye in the Sky (2015) and Good Time (2017). Family. Relatives. Sibling (Sibling) Trademark. Skeletal figure and pronounced front teeth. Trivia. Was working as a chauffeur when he was cast in Captain Phillips (2013).
Jan 5, 2014 · Now 28, Barkhad Abdi has got an agent and is leaving Minneapolis -- and its Somali tea shops -- to pursue a career in Hollywood. So how would he sum up his life in America?
Feb 10, 2014 · The actor, in his first role, stars as Muse, the leader of a band of Somali pirates who board a huge container ship, captained by Tom Hanks. Abdi, a Somalia-born resident of Minnesota, won the ...
Early life. Barkhad Abdi was born to Somali parents on April 10, 1985, in Mogadishu, Banaadir, Somalia. The name Barkhad in the Somali language literally means cistern, with water representing life. Around the age of six or seven, when the Somali Civil War broke out, he and his family moved to Yemen to join his father, who had taken up teaching.
Jan 19, 2014 · This past week, Somali-born actor Barkhad Abdi received an Academy Award nomination for his role opposite Tom Hanks in the film Captain Phillips. The part was his first acting role. Abdi plays...
