Barkhad Abdi

Somali actor and director
Barkhad Abdi ( Somali : Barkhad Cabdi ; [ 1 ] born April 10, 1985 ) is a Somali–American actor and director. He made his acting introduction as Somali pirate Abduwali Muse in the biographic play movie Captain Phillips ( 2013 ), which earned him a british Academy Film Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, along with Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. Following his breakthrough, Abdi appeared in the films Eye in the Sky ( 2015 ), Good Time ( 2017 ), The Pirates of Somalia ( 2017 ), and Blade Runner 2049 ( 2017 ). Outside of film, he was featured as a serial regular on the second season of the Hulu horror anthology Castle Rock ( 2019 ) .

early life [edit ]

Barkhad Abdi was born on April 10, 1985 in Mogadishu, Banaadir, Somalia. Around the long time of six or seven, when the Somali Civil War broke out, he and his family moved to Yemen to join his church father, who had taken up teaching. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He was born to a Somali Bantu father and a Majerten Mother. In 1999, Abdi and his kin relocated to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where there is a big Somali community. He graduated from Roosevelt High School in 2003 and subsequently attended Minnesota State University Moorhead. [ 3 ] The name Barkhad in the Somali linguistic process literally means cisterna, with water representing animation. [ 4 ] Before entering the film industry, Abdi sold fluid phones at his brother ‘s shop at a promenade in Minneapolis. He besides has a significant condemnable history. [ 5 ] He besides worked as a limousine driver at a relative ‘s drive around party and as a DJ. [ 6 ] [ 7 ]

career [edit ]

Abdi made his debut in the 2013 film Captain Phillips, playing embark highjacker and pirate drawing card Abduwali Muse. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] He was cast following a global search for the head roles. Abdi and three other actors were subsequently chosen from more than 700 participants at a 2011 casting call in Minneapolis. According to the casting director, the four were selected because they were “ the chosen ones, that anointed group that stuck out ”. [ 10 ] He was paid $ 65,000 for his appearance in the film and returned to working in his brother ‘s workshop afterwards. [ 11 ] For his employment, Abdi was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actor, the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and a Golden Globe Award. He won a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor. [ 12 ] Abdi ‘s experience in Captain Phillips was his beginning in the film diligence. [ 13 ]

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In 2015, Abdi appeared in an episode of the series Hawaii Five-0, playing erstwhile warlord Roko Makoni. [ 14 ] Later that class, he began exploit on the drollery film Trainwreck, though he did not appear in the finished film. [ 15 ] He besides appeared in the 2015 thriller Eye in the Sky, playing Jama Farah, and he had a function in The Brothers Grimsby. [ 16 ] In the 2017 film The Pirates of Somalia, Abdi played the Somali government-sponsored local anesthetic agentive role and translator for canadian freelance journalist Jay Bahadur. His character coordinates interviews between local pirate leaders and Bahadur, who records the motivations of Somali plagiarism in the weeks leading up to the Maersk Alabama hijacking. In October 2017, Abdi featured in Denis Villeneuve ‘s Blade Runner 2049, in a minor character of a scientist. [ 17 ] Abdi made his directorial debut with the Somali film Ciyaalka Xaafada, and he has besides directed several music videos. [ 3 ]

philanthropy [edit ]

In 2013, Abdi began to serve as an Ambassador for Adeso, a non-governmental organization founded by the Somali environmentalist Fatima Jibrell. [ 18 ]

personal life [edit ]

Abdi resides in Los Angeles, California, [ 19 ] angstrom well as Cedar-Riverside, Minneapolis, Minnesota. [ 20 ] The bump on his brow is from a cable car accident he was in prior to auditioning for Captain Phillips. [ 21 ]

Filmography [edit ]

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luminary quotes [edit ]

“Look at me, I’m the captain now.” — Abdi, in his role as Abduwali Muse, Captain Phillips[24]