Atheer nobility

Atheer Adel (born June 24, 1985 in Baghdad , Iraq ) is a German actor and musician of Iraqi descent. He gained international fame primarily through his role as Numan in the US television series Homeland , in which he was seen in the fifth season in 2015.

life and career

Atheer Adel came to Germany with his family from the Iraqi capital Baghdad as a child. Adel, who speaks fluent English and Arabic as well as German and has basic knowledge of Spanish , came to the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin at an advanced age . During his studies he played in the Kampnagel Hamburg and BAT Berlin in the play Helden staged by Ewald Palmetshofer and directed by the young director Roscha A. Säidow . In the same year he was for his commitment to heroes with the 10,000 € doped Vontobel Prize awarded. He graduated from the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin in 2012 with a diploma and in the same year was employed in the one-act Salome at the Frankfurt Theater, directed by Günter Krämer, in the role of Jochanaan . Also in 2012 he was booked for the television film Tatort: Who breaks the silence , which at that time was still known in the law under the working titles Greetings from Manchuria and Thieves . The film, in which he was seen in the role of Mustafa Zeydan , was first shown on April 14, 2013 on Das Erste .

From 2014 he was seen in larger productions, for example in the film Jack , in whose cast director Edward "Edi" Berger , who already acted as a director at the scene of the crime last year, brought him. This year he was also seen in Tim Ellrich's short film Schleierhaft , in which he mimed his father and the Austrian Amira El Sayed of Egyptian roots. He also had other television appearances in 2014 in Josephine Klick - Alone Among Cops , when he played the character Walid Ismael in the third episode of the first season and as Nouredine in an episode of the ORF series CopStories . In addition to the character Arian Jahani , whom he played in two episodes of the German thriller series Blochin , his role as Numan in the US series Homeland also contributed to his growing breakthrough . In the fifth season of the series, which was shot exclusively in Germany and with a correspondingly large number of German actors, he appeared in nine of the twelve episodes as the computer hacker Numan . In 2016 he played a supporting role in the novel A Hologram for the King based on the novel by Dave Eggers . In 2016 he also took on one of the main characters in the NRK series Nobel, Salif .

At the Screen Actors Guild Awards 2016 he was nominated together with eleven other actors from Homeland for a Screen Actors Guild Award in the category " Screen Actors Guild Award / Best Acting Ensemble in a TV Series - Drama ".

In addition to acting, Adel also appears as a musician, above all as a singer. He published various singles on iTunes and Youtube . As a musician he plays drums, guitar and bass. He also practices various martial arts such as Muay Thai or submission wrestling .