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name: "Faysal  Ahmed"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/faysal-ahmed"
fi1m_id: "faysal-ahmed"
imdb_id: "nm5314015"
tmdb_id: 1266858
wikidata_id: "Q16210099"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "11 July 1985"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:52:49.904611+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Faysal  Ahmed

## Identity

Faysal  Ahmed

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/faysal-ahmed
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** faysal-ahmed
- **IMDb ID:** nm5314015
- **TMDB ID:** 1266858
- **Wikidata ID:** Q16210099
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faysal_Ahmed, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16210099, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5314015/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1266858

Actor. Born 11 July 1985 in Yemen.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 11 July 1985, Yemen
- **Also known as:** فيصل احمد, Faysal Axmed
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faysal_Ahmed, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16210099, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5314015/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1266858

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Captain Phillips*](https://film.one/film/captain-phillips.md) (83)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Faysal Ahmed is a Somali actor. Born in Yemen in 1985 to a Somali family, he moved to the United States with his mother and siblings in 1999 and settled in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Prior to acting professionally, Ahmed worked as a youth programme coordinator at the Bedlam Theater in Minneapolis, where he contributed to plays and poetry, and participated in a local health insurance enrolment drive. He was cast as Najee in the 2013 film *Captain Phillips* after being selected, along with three others, from more than 700 participants at a 2011 open casting call in Minneapolis.

Ahmed has since appeared in *A Stray* (2016), *Sicario: Day of the Soldado* (2018) as Bashiir, the second season of *Castle Rock* (2019) as Hassan, and *438 Days* (2019) as Abdullahi Hussein. He relocated to Los Angeles in 2014 to pursue further acting opportunities.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Captain Phillips* (2013), Fi1m 83, as Najee — [page](https://film.one/film/captain-phillips.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Gazelle* (2025), as Ahmed
- *438 Days* (2019), as Abdullahi Hussein
- *First Person Plural* (2019), as Faysal
- *Castle Rock* (2018), series, as Hassan
- *Sicario: Day of the Soldado* (2018), as Bashiir
- *Watu Wote: All of Us* (2017), as Xassan Yacquub Cali
- *A Stray* (2016), Actor
- *Captain Phillips* (2013), as Najee — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/captain-phillips.md)

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