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name: "Khalid Abdalla"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/khalid-abdalla"
fi1m_id: "khalid-abdalla"
imdb_id: "nm2043234"
tmdb_id: 53480
wikidata_id: "Q981897"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "26 October 1981"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-01T20:06:06.049961+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."
---

# Khalid Abdalla

## Identity

Khalid Abdalla

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/khalid-abdalla
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** khalid-abdalla
- **IMDb ID:** nm2043234
- **TMDB ID:** 53480
- **Wikidata ID:** Q981897
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_Abdalla, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q981897, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2043234/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/53480

Actor. Born 26 October 1981 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 26 October 1981, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- **Active:** 2006–2007
- **Average Fi1m score:** 74, as actor, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_Abdalla, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q981897, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2043234/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/53480

## Streaming the US now

- **Pluto TV:** [*The Kite Runner*](https://film.one/film/the-kite-runner.md) (60)

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## Biography

Khalid Abdalla is a British actor. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland, to Egyptian parents and raised in London. He was educated at King's College School in Wimbledon and Queens' College, Cambridge, and trained at École Philippe Gaulier.

Abdalla came to prominence with his role as Ziad Jarrah in *United 93* (2006). He played Amir in *The Kite Runner* (2007) and Freddy in *Green Zone* (2010), both directed by Paul Greengrass. Subsequent credits include roles in *Assassin's Creed* (2016), *Our Kind of Traitor* (2016), *Hanna* (2019), *Moon Knight* (2022) and *The Crown* (2022–2023). He is also known for his work as an activist, including as a founding member of the Mosireen Collective in Cairo.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Kite Runner* (2007), Fi1m 60, as Amir — [page](https://film.one/film/the-kite-runner.md)
- *United 93* (2006), Fi1m 88, as Ziad Jarrah — [page](https://film.one/film/united-93.md)

## Complete filmography (25)

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

- *Secret Service* (2026), series, as Zak Hussein
- *Together for Palestine* (2025), Producer
- *The Day of the Jackal* (2024), series, as Ulle Dag Charles
- *National Theatre Live: Mnemonic* (2024), Actor
- *Moon Knight* (2022), series, as Selim
- *Undergods* (2021), as Octavius The Storyteller
- *Hanna* (2019), series, as Jerome Sawyer
- *Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams* (2017), series, as Interrogator
- *Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere* (2017), as Various
- *Tigers* (2017), as Nadeem
- *Birds Like Us* (2017), as Bat (voice), Bat / Wise Bird 3 (voice)
- *Assassin's Creed* (2016), as Sultan Muhammad XII
- *The Crown* (2016), series, as Dodi Fayed, Dodi Fayed (archive footage) — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-crown.md)
- *In the Last Days of the City* (2016), as Khalid · Producer
- *Our Kind of Traitor* (2016), as Luke
- *1001 Inventions and the World of Ibn Al-Haytham* (2015), as Ibn Al- Haytham
- *The Narrow Frame of Midnight* (2014), as Zacaria
- *Weapons of Choice* (2012), Actor
- *In the Shadow of a Man* (2012), Co-Producer
- *Green Zone* (2010), as Freddy
- *The Kite Runner* (2007), as Amir — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/the-kite-runner.md)
- *Rubberheart* (2007), Script Supervisor
- *Hush Your Mouth* (2007), as JJ Farouk
- *United 93* (2006), as Ziad Jarrah — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/united-93.md)
- *Spooks* (2002), series, as Yazdi — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/spooks.md)

## Gallery

- ![Khalid Abdalla](https://film.one/media/person/302519/gallery-28cd09da964c.jpg) Khalid Abdalla — Raafat Gadelrab, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Khalid_Abdalla.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Khalid Abdalla participating in a call for an end to the genocide in Gaza, one year after its start. (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/302519/gallery-da1abe368f12.jpg) Khalid Abdalla participating in a call for an end to the genocide in Gaza, one year after its start. (2024) — Frank Barat, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Khalid_Abdalla_-_Stop_the_genocide_%282024_film%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Khalid Abdalla](https://film.one/media/person/302519/gallery-95f416dd2b12.jpg) Khalid Abdalla — Image via TMDB

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