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Fares Fares
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Fares in 2019.
Born (1973-04-29) 29 April 1973 (age 51)
Beirut, Lebanon
Nationality Swedish
Occupation Actor, Producer, Director
Years active 2000–present
Spouse(s) Clara Hallencreutz
Relatives Josef Fares (brother)

Fares Fares (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈfǎːrɛs ˈfǎːrɛs]; Arabic: فارس فارس; born 29 April 1973) is a Swedish actor, producer, and director. He is known for his collaborations with Swedish director Tarik Saleh in The Nile Hilton Incident (2017) and Boy from Heaven (2022). He has received various accolades, including a Guldbagge Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and a Robert Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.

Fares is also known for his performances in Jalla! Jalla! (2000), Days Like This (2001), Zero Dark Thirty, Safe House and Easy Money II: Hard to Kill (all 2012), The Keeper of Lost Causes (2013), The Absent One (2014), The Commune and A Conspiracy of Faith (both 2016), Westworld (2018), and Chernobyl (2019).

Early life

Fares was born in Beirut, Lebanon. His younger brother is director Josef Fares, and he has four sisters. In 1987, when Fares was 14 years old, his family moved to Sweden, residing in Örebro. They moved to escape the Lebanese Civil War and chose Sweden because they had relatives who had already lived there. Fares says he learned Swedish within three months of living in Sweden.

From the age of 15, Fares acted in a local theater group in Örebro. When he was 19, he attended drama school in Mölnlycke near Gothenburg, Sweden. He spent six years working in the Theatre Tamauer.

Career

Film

Fares has played major parts in his brother, director Josef Fares' films, including his debut acting performance in 2000's Jalla! Jalla! and 2003's Kopps. He starred in Bang Bang Orangutang (2005) and Kill Your Darlings (2006).

In 2010, Fares starred in the Swedish crime thriller Easy Money with Joel Kinnaman. The film was critically acclaimed and was picked up for American distribution by Harvey Weinstein. In 2012, Fares made his Hollywood debut in the Denzel Washington movie Safe House. He played CIA officer Hakim in Zero Dark Thirty. Fares had a role in Child 44 (2014) with Tom Hardy and Gary Oldman. Fares played Senator Vaspar in the Star Wars franchise movie Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016).

For 2013's Kvinden i buret (English title: The Keeper of Lost Causes), which was set in Denmark, Fares learned to speak Danish. Keeper of Lost Causes is based on a novel by Jussi Adler-Olsen, the first of four features based on his Department Q novels. Fares and Nikolaj Lie Kaas will appear in all four films. Keeper of Lost Causes was Denmark's top film of 2013. Fasandræberne (English title: The Absent One) is the second film in the series. It also broke Danish film grosses, setting new records. The third film in the series, A Conspiracy of Faith (Flaskepost fra P), premiered in Denmark in March 2016 and in the United States in June.

Television

Fares Fares i De tre musketörerna 2009
Fares at the Stockholm City Theatre, 2009

In 2014, Fares portrayed Fauzi Nadal in the TV show Tyrant on the FX Network. Tyrant was renewed for a second season, which began airing in the summer of 2015, and a third season in summer 2016. From 2018 to 2019, Fares appeared in the two HBO series Westworld and Chernobyl. He portrayed the Forsaken Ishamael in The Wheel of Time in 2021 and 2023.

Theater

  • 1996: Samuel Beckett's I väntan på Godot (Waiting for Godot) at Teater Tamauer, Sweden
  • 2000: Dom, directed by Jasenko Selimovic, with Torkel Petersson, at the Gothenburg City Theatre (Göteborgs Stadsteater), Gothenburg, Sweden
  • 2000: Natten före skogarna at Teater Tamauer, Sweden
  • 2001: Tillbaka till öknen at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm, Sweden
  • 2002: Köket at the Gothenburg City Theatre, Gothenburg, Sweden
  • 2003: Brott, hemtjänst, straffpengar, pensionärsmord at Backstage, Sweden
  • 2003: Den arabiska natten at Backstage, Sweden

Other work

  • Fares appears in two music videos for Lykke Li; 2011 single, "I Follow Rivers", directed by Tarik Saleh and 2014 album teaser, "I Never Learn"
  • Appeared in Daniel Lemma's music video "If I Used To Love You" with Torkel Pettterson
  • 2011: TV commercial for Tanqueray "Tonight We Tanqueray" - Actor - the bartender
  • 2012: Short film, sponsored by Maiyet called Sleepwalking In the Rift, directed by Cary Fukunaga
  • 2018: Plays Leo in the video game A Way Out
  • 2021: Did additional voices for It Takes Two.

Personal life

Fares has stated that he spends time in Stockholm and Los Angeles.

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
2000 Before the Storm Hostage taker
Jalla! Jalla! Roro
2001 Days Like This Michel
2003 Kopps Jacob Peñíscola Comedy Film Festival Best Actor Award
2004 I'm Your Man Omar Short film
Day and Night Kristian Chicago International Film Festival Best Ensemble Acting Award
Chlorox, Ammonium and Coffee Jesus
Fakiren fra Bilbao Frank Flambert
2005 Zozo The Chicken (voice)
Bang Bang Orangutang Patrik
2006 Kill Your Darlings Omar
7 miljonärer Kristoffer El-Zeid
2007 Leende guldbruna ögon Roshan Television miniseries
2008 For a Moment, Freedom Manu
Maria Wern – Främmande fågel Jonathan Sauma Television series
The Fur Richardt Short film
2009 Metropia Firaz Sanoman (voice)
2010 Easy Money Mahmoud
2012 Sleepwalking in the Rift Short film
Safe House Vargas
Easy Money II: Hard to Kill Mahmoud Nominated – Guldbagge Award for Best Supporting Actor
Zero Dark Thirty Hakim
2013 The Keeper of Lost Causes Assad Danish cinema film adaptation of Jussi Adler-Olsen's book
2014–2016 Tyrant Fauzi Nadal Television series (19 episodes)
2014 The Absent One Assad Danish cinema film adaptation of Jussi Adler-Olsen's book. Won - Danish Film Gala for Best Supporting Actor
2015 Child 44 Alexei Andreyev
2016 The Commune Allon
A Conspiracy of Faith Assad Danish cinema film adaptation of Jussi Adler-Olsen's book
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Senator Vasp Vaspar
2017 The Nile Hilton Incident Noredin Mustafa
2018 Westworld Antoine Costa Television series
The Purity of Vengeance (Journal 64) Assad Danish cinema film adaptation of Jussi Adler-Olsen's book
A Way Out Leo Caruso (voice) Video game; also motion capture
2019 Chernobyl Bacho Television miniseries
2021, 2023 The Wheel of Time Ishamael/Ba'alzamon Television series
2022 The Contractor Salim
Boy from Heaven Ibrahim
2023 A Day and a Half Lukas Malki

See also

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