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name: "Yigal Naor"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "25 June 1958"
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average_fi1m_score: 80
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T19:37:34.836787+00:00"
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# Yigal Naor

Actor. Born 25 June 1958 in Giv'atayim, Israel.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 25 June 1958, Giv'atayim, Israel
- **Active:** 2005–2014
- **Also known as:** Igal Naor, יגאל נאור
- **Average Fi1m score:** 80, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 80 (1), 2010s 80 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igal_Naor, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q940225, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0620981/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/41316

## Biography

Igal Naor, also credited as Yigal Naor, is an Israeli actor born on 25 June 1958 in Givatayim, Israel. He studied at Tel Aviv University and began his professional career in 1987 with a role in the film *Deadline*. He has worked extensively in Israeli theatre and film, winning an Ophir Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1996 for *Saint Clara*.

Naor is known internationally for his performances in films including *Munich* (2005), *Rendition* (2007), *Green Zone* (2010) and *300: Rise of an Empire* (2014), and for television roles such as Saddam Hussein in *House of Saddam* (2008), Shlomo Zahary in *The Honourable Woman* (2014), appearances in *Homeland* and *Fauda*, and Jakob Negrescu in *Riviera* (2017–18). He has also voiced characters in animated features.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, bbc.co.uk, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Honourable Woman* (2014), Fi1m 80, as Shlomo Zahary — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-honourable-woman.md)
- *Munich* (2005), Fi1m 80, as Mahmoud Hamshari — [page](https://film.one/film/munich.md)

## Complete filmography (48)

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

- *Monument* (2026), as Antione Lahad
- *Tahrir* (2025), series, as Tzenaa
- *Highway 65* (2024), as Nissim
- *Pines* (2024), as Zuri
- *Los Farad* (2023), series, as Mawad
- *Wendell & Wild* (2022), as Manberg (voice)
- *Hit & Run* (2021), series, as Tamir Edri
- *Legend of Destruction* (2021), as John of Giscala (voice)
- *Oslo* (2021), as Joel Singer
- *We Are the Revolution* (2020), Acting
- *Little America* (2020), series, as Bassam
- *Shabas* (2019), series, as Sheikh Ibrahim Al Mansour
- *On The Ropes* (2018), series, as Sami Al-Amir
- *Deep State* (2018), series, as Salim Baraket
- *Damascus Cover* (2017), as General Fuad
- *Maktub* (2017), as Tzafuf
- *Stratton* (2017), as Tariq Alawi
- *Riviera* (2017), series, as Jakob Negrescu
- *The Promise* (2016), as Mesrob
- *The Women's Balcony* (2016), Acting
- *False Flag* (2015), series, as Gabi Silver
- *White City* (2015), as Mohammad Dadfar
- *Fauda* (2015), series, as Amos Kavillio
- *White City* (2015), series, Acting
- *Suicide* (2014), as Muki
- *The Honourable Woman* (2014), series, as Shlomo Zahary — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-honourable-woman.md)
- *Farewell Baghdad* (2014), as Salman
- *300: Rise of an Empire* (2014), as King Darius
- *Dead Europe* (2012), as Syd
- *New York* (2012), series, as Jackie Alharizi
- *Homeland* (2011), series, as General Youssef — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/homeland.md)
- *I Am Slave* (2010), as Said
- *Green Zone* (2010), as General Al Rawi
- *The Infidel* (2010), as Arshad El-Masri
- *One Night in Emergency* (2010), as Cyclops
- *Occupation* (2009), as Dr Sadiq Alasadi
- *House of Saddam* (2008), series, as Saddam Hussein
- *10 Days to War* (2008), series, as Ahmed Chalabi
- *Rendition* (2007), as Abasi Fawal
- *Djihad!* (2006), as Colonel Walid
- *Munich* (2005), as Mahmoud Hamshari — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/munich.md)
- *Miss Entebbe* (2003), as Avram
- *Tkuma* (1998), series, as Narrator
- *The Dybbuk of the Holy Apple Field* (1997), as Sender
- *Saint Clara* (1996), as Headmaster Tissona
- *The Mummy Lives* (1993), as Egyptology Official
- *The Seventh Coin* (1993), Acting
- *Deadline* (1987), as Antoine

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Ophir Award for Best Leading Actor 1996: Ophir Award for Best Leading Actor (won), for *Saint Clara*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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