Neil Malik Abdullah

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Neil Malik Abdullah (2017)

Neil Malik Abdullah (* 1977 in Schwaz , Tyrol ) is an Austrian actor .

Life

Neil Malik Abdullah has Arab , Turkish and Greek ancestors. He comes from a Greek Orthodox family. He was born in Austria and grew up in Germany . From August 2002 to September 2005, Abdullah completed an acting training at the School for Drama Hamburg . He also attended master classes at HB Studio (Herbert Berghof Studio) in New York City, as well as at the Sanford Meisner Center and the Meisner Studio in Los Angeles .

Abdullah has been an actor in motion pictures , television films and television series since 2003 . Due to his Mediterranean appearance, he embodied in particular oriental characters from Turkey, the Middle East and the Middle East , but also characters from southern Europe . He participated in several international cinema and film projects, including a. in the British television film The Hamburg Cell (2004). In this film, he played the radical Islamist Ahmed al-Haznawi, one of the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93 in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 . In the movie Chiko (2008), which was produced by Fatih Akin's production company Corazón International , Abdullah was given the role of Samir, which was written into the script especially for him . In the movie Kaddisch für eine Freund (2012), which received the German Film Prize in 2013 in the category “Best Full-Program Children's Film”, Abdullah played the role of Walid, a Palestinian who was tolerated in Germany .

In 2007 he played a supporting role in the Bremer Tatort crime thriller Schwelbrand . He played the poster sticker Ahmed Aksu, who was critically injured by Bremen neo-Nazis in the run-up to a rock concert because of his foreign appearance . In 2010 he had a supporting role in the television film The Golgotha ​​Files ; he played the villain Nabot. Abdullah had episode roles a. a. in the series GSG 9 - Ihr Einsatz ist ihr Leben (2009), Lasko - Die Faust Gottes (2009; as Persian Jaffar), SOKO Leipzig (2010; as Coman al-Zayed, first-born son of a Saudi Arabian family clan), The Criminalist (2011; as bouncer Erdogan), Unser Charly (2012; as secretary Omar), Die Pfefferkörner (2012; as drug dealer Dragan), Großstadtrevier (2013; as Florim Tahani, protection racket and “Crown Prince” of the criminal Tahani family), In all Friendship (2013; as German-Arab Hassan Teyar-Schmidt) and Alarm for Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei (2014; as Turk Ali Öger).

In March 2015 he was seen in the ZDF television series "Herzkino" in the television film Nele in Berlin . He played, alongside Katharina Müller-Elmau , the Iranian taxi driver and ex-student Ajmal. In January 2016 he was seen in the ZDF series SOKO Stuttgart in an episode role; he played Antonio Schmidt, the former assistant and ex-lover of a successful crime writer ( Sunnyi Melles ). In the RTL comedy series Magda it does! (2017) he embodies the Arab bus driver Nadir. He played a key role in the Syrian- born Imam Sheik Ibrahim Al-Khatib in the ARD television series Der Zürich-Krimi (February 2019) . In the dramedy series Patchwork Gangsta (2019) by Christian Karsch and Eric Hordes produced by SWR for the funk media offer , Abdullah plays the part of the villain alongside Katy Karrenbauer .

In addition to Austrian citizenship, Abdullah also has Turkish citizenship . His hobbies include boxing and Bō (Japanese stick fighting). He lives in Hamburg-Lurup and in Berlin .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Neil Malik Abdullah  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Neil Malik Abdullah . Profile and vita at Schauspielervideos.de. Retrieved March 1, 2015
  2. ↑ a b c d e Neil Malik Abdullah Profile on E-TALENTA. Retrieved March 1, 2015
  3. ↑ In Dan Brown's footsteps ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Heilbronner Voice ; with a still from Neil Malik Abdullah. Retrieved March 1, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stimme.de
  4. ↑ The Zurich crime thriller: Borchert and murderous greed . Official website Das Erste . Retrieved March 15, 2019.
  5. ^ "Zurich-Krimi": Kohlund plays a lawyer among Islamists . In: Berliner Morgenpost from February 28, 2019.
  6. ↑ Neil Malik Abdullah (38) Hamburg's fittest villain . In: Hamburger Morgenpost from May 5, 2016. Accessed August 1, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Abdullah, Neil Malik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actor
DATE OF BIRTH 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwaz , Tyrol