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name: "Juliano Mer-Khamis"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/juliano-mer-khamis"
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imdb_id: "nm0451131"
tmdb_id: 1066798
wikidata_id: "Q455584"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "29 May 1958"
died: "4 April 2011"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T03:13:08.590981+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."
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# Juliano Mer-Khamis

## Identity

Juliano Mer-Khamis

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/juliano-mer-khamis
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** juliano-mer-khamis
- **IMDb ID:** nm0451131
- **TMDB ID:** 1066798
- **Wikidata ID:** Q455584
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliano_Mer-Khamis, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q455584, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0451131/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1066798

Actor. Born 29 May 1958 in Nazareth, Israel. Died 4 April 2011.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 29 May 1958, Nazareth, Israel
- **Died:** 4 April 2011
- **Also known as:** Juliano Merr Khamis, Juliano Mer, Juliano Khamis, ג'וליאנו מר ח'מיס
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliano_Mer-Khamis, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q455584, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0451131/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1066798

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Kippur*](https://film.one/film/kippur.md) (80)

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## Biography

Juliano Mer-Khamis was an Israeli-Palestinian actor, director and political activist. He was born Juliano Khamis on 29 May 1958 in Nazareth, Israel, and died on 4 April 2011 in Jenin, West Bank.

He appeared in films including *The Little Drummer Girl* (1984), *Kippur* (2000) as The Captain, and *Miral* (2010) as Sheikh Saabah. He also directed the documentary *Arna's Children* (2004). In 2006 he co-founded The Freedom Theatre in the Jenin refugee camp.

Mer-Khamis was assassinated by a masked gunman outside the theatre he had established.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Kippur* (2000), Fi1m 80, as The Captain — [page](https://film.one/film/kippur.md)

## Complete filmography (25)

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

- *The Occupation of the American Mind* (2016), In Memory Of
- *Miral* (2010), as Sheikh Saabah
- *Salt of This Sea* (2008), as Hiking Leader
- *Arna's Children* (2004), Director, Writer, Director of Photography
- *3 cm Less* (2003), Actor
- *God's Sandbox* (2002), Actor
- *Kedma* (2002), as Moussa
- *In the Ninth Month* (2002), as Khalil
- *Kippur* (2000), as The Captain — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/kippur.md)
- *The Last Patrol* (2000), as Jesus Carrera
- *Overture 1812* (1997), Actor
- *Under The Domim Tree* (1994), as Ariel
- *Nothing to Lose* (1994), as Ramon (as Juliano Mer)
- *Night Terrors* (1993), as Mahmoud (as Juliano Mer)
- *Deadly Heroes* (1993), as Antonio Valdez (as Juliano Mer)
- *זהר* (1993), as Morris (as Juliano Mer)
- *Hostages* (1992), as Ali
- *Tel Aviv Stories* (1992), Actor
- *Deadly Currents* (1991), Actor
- *Berlin-Jerusalem* (1989), as Menahme (as Juliano Mer)
- *Wedding in Galilee* (1987), Actor
- *Esther* (1986), as Haman
- *Bar 51* (1985), as Thomas
- *The Little Drummer Girl* (1984), as Julio
- *Rage and Glory* (1984), as Eddi the Butcher

## Gallery

- ![Juliano Mer-Khamis](https://film.one/media/person/3932011/gallery-e79a6fdb0b8f.jpg) Juliano Mer-Khamis — francis mckee, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/Juliano_Mer-Khamis.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Juliano Mer-Khamis, Freedom Theatre Jenin (2010)](https://film.one/media/person/3932011/gallery-bac08ab00bce.jpg) Juliano Mer-Khamis, Freedom Theatre Jenin (2010) — francis mckee, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Juliano_Mer-Khamis%2C_Freedom_Theatre_Jenin.jpg/1280px-Juliano_Mer-Khamis%2C_Freedom_Theatre_Jenin.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Medal of Jerusalem 2011: Medal of Jerusalem (won)

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

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