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name: "Fares Fares"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "29 April 1973"
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average_fi1m_score: 77
updated: "2026-09-17T03:15:27.209245+00:00"
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# Fares Fares

Actor. Born 29 April 1973 in Beirut, Lebanon.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 29 April 1973, Beirut, Lebanon
- **Active:** 2012–2016
- **Also known as:** Фарес Фарес, فارس فارس

## Biography

Fares Fares is a Swedish actor. Born on 29 April 1973 in Beirut, Lebanon, he moved with his family to Örebro, Sweden, in 1987. He began acting in a local theatre group in Örebro and later studied drama near Gothenburg and with the Theatre Tamauer.

He has frequently collaborated with his brother, director Josef Fares, appearing in films including *Jalla! Jalla!* (2000) and *Kopps* (2003). His international credits include *Safe House* (2012), *Zero Dark Thirty* (2012) as Hakim, *Rogue One: A Star Wars Story* (2016) as Senator Vaspar, and television roles in *Chernobyl* (2019), *Westworld* (2018) and *The Wheel of Time* (2021–). He has received a Guldbagge Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and two Robert Awards for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Westworld* (2016), Fi1m 74, as Antoine Costa — [page](https://film.one/tv/westworld-2016.md)
- *Zero Dark Thirty* (2012), Fi1m 80, as Hakim — [page](https://film.one/film/zero-dark-thirty.md)

## Also known for

- *Rogue One: A Star Wars Story* (2016), Senator Vaspar
- *Chernobyl* (2019), Bacho
- *Safe House* (2012), Vargas
- *The Wheel of Time* (2021), Ishamael
- *Child 44* (2015), Alexei Andreyev
- *The Contractor* (2022), Salim
- *The Keeper of Lost Causes* (2013), Hafez el-Assad
- *The Absent One* (2014), Hafez el-Assad

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