---
name: "Marwan Kenzari"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/marwan-kenzari"
fi1m_id: "marwan-kenzari"
imdb_id: "nm3092471"
tmdb_id: 935235
wikidata_id: "Q13817318"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "16 January 1983"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-23T14:42:09.716879+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."
---

# Marwan Kenzari

## Identity

Marwan Kenzari

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/marwan-kenzari
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** marwan-kenzari
- **IMDb ID:** nm3092471
- **TMDB ID:** 935235
- **Wikidata ID:** Q13817318
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marwan_Kenzari, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13817318, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3092471/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/935235

Actor. Born 16 January 1983 in The Hague, Netherlands.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 16 January 1983, The Hague, Netherlands
- **Also known as:** Chico Kenzari, Marwan Chico Kenzari, مروان کنزاری
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marwan_Kenzari, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13817318, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3092471/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/935235

## Coming up

- *Any Other Night* (2026-12-31), as Sam

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Aladdin*](https://film.one/film/aladdin-2019.md) (57)

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

## Biography

Marwan Kenzari is a Dutch actor of Tunisian descent. He graduated from the Maastricht Academy of Dramatic Arts in 2009 and began acting in Dutch films and television from 2008, later joining Toneelgroep Amsterdam.

He first came to prominence for his leading role in the 2013 film *Wolf*, winning the Golden Calf for Best Actor. Since 2016 he has appeared in English-language films and series, including *Ben-Hur* (2016), *Murder on the Orient Express* (2017), *Aladdin* (2019) as Jafar, *The Old Guard* (2020) as Yusuf Al-Kaysani, *Black Adam* (2022) and *The Night Agent* (2023).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Aladdin* (2019), Fi1m 57, as Jafar — [page](https://film.one/film/aladdin-2019.md)

## Complete filmography (33)

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

- *Any Other Night* (2026), as Sam
- *The Old Guard 2* (2025), as Yusuf Al-Kaysani / Joe
- *The Return* (2024), as Antinous
- *Ghosted* (2023), as Marco
- *The Night Agent* (2023), series, as Sami Saidi
- *Black Adam* (2022), as Ishmael / Sabbac / King Ahk-Ton
- *The East* (2021), as Raymond "De Turk" Westerling · Executive Producer
- *The Old Guard* (2020), as Yusuf Al-Kaysani / Joe
- *Instinct* (2019), as Idris
- *Aladdin* (2019), as Jafar — Fi1m 57, [page](https://film.one/film/aladdin-2019.md)
- *The Angel* (2018), as Ashraf Marwan
- *Murder on the Orient Express* (2017), as Pierre Michel
- *What Happened to Monday* (2017), as Adrian Knowles
- *The Mummy* (2017), as Malik
- *The Promise* (2016), as Emre Ogan
- *Ben-Hur* (2016), as Drusus
- *Collide* (2016), as Matthias
- *Gift from the Heart* (2014), as Richard
- *Reckless* (2014), as Rico
- *Accused* (2014), as Detective Ron Leeflang
- *Heart Street* (2014), as Daan
- *Wolf* (2013), as Majid
- *Black Out* (2012), as Youssef
- *Rabat* (2011), as Zakaria
- *Mix Tape* (2011), as Alain
- *Godforsaken True Killers* (2011), series, as Frank Hendrikx
- *Loft* (2010), as Tom Fenneker
- *Penoza* (2010), series, as Mustafa 'Moes' Eski
- *Maite Was Here* (2009), as Vuc
- *The Last Days of Emma Blank* (2009), as Martin
- *Katia's Sister* (2008), as Giac
- *Flikken Maastricht* (2007), series, as Luca de Keyzer
- *De stilte*, series, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Nederlands acteur Marwan Kenzari](https://film.one/media/person/1451545/gallery-4d70030a4923.jpg) Nederlands acteur Marwan Kenzari — Janey van Ierland, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Marwan-kenzari-1391101948.jpg/1280px-Marwan-kenzari-1391101948.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Marwan Kenzari](https://film.one/media/person/1451545/gallery-4a88606c5f0d.jpg) Marwan Kenzari — Image via TMDB
- ![Marwan Kenzari](https://film.one/media/person/1451545/gallery-6753d3379481.jpg) Marwan Kenzari — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Golden Calf for Best Actor 2013: Golden Calf for Best Actor (won)

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

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