
Sayed Badreya
Biography
Egyptian-born film-maker and actor Sayed Badreya realized a childhood dream by winning roles in major Hollywood films such as The Insider, Three Kings, and Independence Day. Growing up in poverty in Port Said, Sayed Badreya's dreams of movie stardom looked as bleak as the prospect of peace in the Middle East. From the Six Day War in '67 through the Yom Kippur War in '73, his only escape from the world he knew was the movie theater, where films transported him to a magical land. But it was here …
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Filmography
Acting (44)
Movies (34)
Hello Beautiful
2025
Jellyfish and Lobster
2023as Mido
Vanguard
2020as Abati
Witness to a Rape
2020as himself
I Am That Man
2019as Harry
Boiling Pot
2015as Anwar Seif
Movie 43
2013as Large Man (segment "Truth or Dare")
Just Like a Woman
2013as Tarek
The Dictator
2012as Omar
The Three Stooges
2012as Orderly
The Space Between
2011as Imam
Cargo
2011as Sayed
This Narrow Place
2011as Aziz
Family Prayers
2010as Hussein
Backyard
2009as El Sultán
Iron Man
2008as Abu Bakaar
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
2008as Hamdi
AmericanEast
2008as Mustafa Marzouke
Soul Plane
2004as Middle Eastern Passenger
Stuck on You
2003as Assisting Surgeon
Shallow Hal
2001as Doctor Sayed
The Princess & the Marine
2001as Chauffeur
The Insider
1999as Hezbollah Head Gunman
Three Kings
1999as Iraqi Tank Major
Independence Day
1996as Arab Pilot
Kingpin
1996as Fatima
Mirage
1995as Sayed
Stargate
1994as Arabic Interpreter
True Lies
1994as Arab Terrorist (uncredited)
Intimate Stranger
1991as Clerk
The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story
1988as Skull & Crossbones
Hotshot
1987as Mohamed
Dandelion Season
as Omar
perforated calabash
as himself
Television (10)
WondLa
2024as Bartender (voice)
Apple & Onion
2018as Falafel (voice)
The Unit
2006as Afghan Commander
Numb3rs
2005as Sayed Malik
Lost
2004as Mr. Jarrah
Alias
2001as Vendor
The West Wing
1999as Fatah Official
The Practice
1997as Adman Fajiz
The Nanny
1993as Guard
Seinfeld
1989as Foreign Man
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