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Waleed F. Zuaiter (born January 19, 1971) is an American actor and producer who has performed in on-stage productions in Washington, DC, Berkeley, California, and New York City, as well as several film and television productions. He currently lives in Los Angeles, California. He is the producer and co-star of ''Omar'' (2013), which was nominated for an Oscar at the 86th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Oscar Winners 2015: The Complete List - 86th Academy Awards )〕 ==Life and career== Zuaiter, an American with Palestinian ancestry, was born in Sacramento, California, but grew up in Kuwait. He returned to the United States to earn his degree in Philosophy and Theatre at George Washington University, in Washington, DC. He began his acting career with several productions in Washington, DC, before relocating to New York City. On the New York stage, he received critical acclaim for his portrayal of a former Iraqi translator for the U.S. military, in George Packer's ''Betrayed''. He also has starred in David Greig's ''The American Pilot'' at the Manhattan Theatre Club, Tony Kushner's ''Homebody/Kabul'', Ilan Hatsor's ''Masked'', Eliam Kraiem's ''Sixteen Wounded'', and Victoria Brittain and Gillian Slovo's ''Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom''. He also performed alongside Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline in ''Mother Courage'' at the Public Theater. Zuaiter is also the producer of the annual New York Arab-American Comedy Festival and a member of the Arab-American theater collective NIBRAS. Zuaiter's film and television productions include the HBO/BBC miniseries ''House of Saddam'', ''Sex and the City 2'' and ''The Men Who Stare at Goats'', in which he played the role of Mahmud Daash. Recently, he completed filming the suspense-thriller ''Elevator'', directed by Stig Svendsen, in which he plays a man trapped in a Wall Street elevator with several people, one of whom has a bomb. Most recently Waleed produced and starred in ''Omar'', a gripping thriller written and directed by Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominee Hany Abu-Assad (''Paradise Now''). The film was selected as the Palestinian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Foreign Language Oscar: Israel Submits ‘Bethlehem’; Palestine Goes With ‘Omar’ )〕 and was nominated for an Academy Award.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Oscars: Main nominations 2014 )〕 It also won Best Feature Film at the 2013 Asian Pacific Screen Awards.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Australia Network News )〕 His latest project is a film adaptation of the Ibrahim Fawal novel ''On The Hills of God''. He also was featured in an NBC Universal Pilot written by Tom Fontana and Barry Levinson and directed by Spike Lee, starring Bobby Cannavale. Alongside Bobby Cannavale, Waleed's son, Laith Zuaiter, was featured in the pilot. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Waleed Zuaiter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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