Mourad Zaoui

Biography

Mourad Zaoui was born in the Aïn Sebaâ district of Casablanca, Morocco, on 23 April 1980.

After earning his bachelor's degree in business communication at the Lycée Elbilia in Casablanca in 1999, he moved to New York to study English at Queens College, where he discovered his passion for theatre and cinema.

In 2005, at the age of 25, Mourad was cast as the lead role in his first feature film, Wake Up Morocco. Since then he has appeared in more than 60 film and television projects in Morocco and internationally.

Film

• The Forgiven – Supporting – Dir. John Michael McDonagh
• The Green March – Lead – Entourage
• Pari Pimente – Lead – Dir. Simohamed Karat
• Chaïbia – Lead – H-Films
• The Gospels – Lead – BigBookMedia
• Rock the Casbah – Supporting – Pathé
• Saga – Lead – Hemera Film
• The Physician – Supporting – Dir. Philip Stölzl
• Morocco / Exit Marrakech – Supporting – Dir. Caroline Link
• Homeland – Supporting – Quad Productions
• À l’aube – Lead – Casablanca Pictures
• You Kiss Like the Devil – Supporting – Dir. Marie Polednakova
• The Lighter – Lead – H-Films
• The End – Supporting – Dir. Hisham Lasri
• La Grande Villa – Supporting – Cinetelema
• Smile – Supporting – Istituto Luce
• Kandisha – Supporting – Dir. Jerome Cohen-Olivar
• Française – Supporting – Dir. Souad Bouhati
• Les Larmes d’Argent – Lead – Les Films du Météore
• Wake Up Morocco – Lead – Dir. Nargiss Nejjar

Additional Filmography

• Les larmes d'argent (2007)
• Française (2008)
• Kandisha (2008)
• H'rash (Short, 2009)
• You Kiss like a God / Líbáš jako Bůh (2009)
• Smile (2009)
• La grande villa (2010)
• The Shepherd (Short, 2011)
• Casa Riders (Short, 2011)
• The End (2011)
• Chaala (Short, 2012)
• Líbáš jako ďábel (2012)
• La vie des autres (2013)
• Né quelque part (2013)
• Desert Dancer (2014)
• Atlantic. (2014)
• The Gospel of John (2014)
• The Gospel of Matthew (2014)
• The Gospel of Mark (2015)
• The Gospel of Luke (2015)
• The Foreigner (Short, 2015)

Television

• The Spy – Recurring – Netflix
• The Blacklist – Guest Star – NBC
• The Originals – Guest Star – CW
• The Night Manager – Guest Star – AMC
• TUT – Guest Star – Spike TV
• The Ark – Supporting – BBC
• Killing Jesus – Co-Star – Scott Free Productions
• Tarik Ibn Ziad – Lead – Casablanca Pictures
• Khamsa – Series Regular – Ooreedoo
• The Arabian Nights – Guest Star – Casablanca Pictures
• The Last of the Romantics – Lead – SNRT
• Mankind – Guest Star – History Channel
• Les 5 Saisons – Supporting – 2M
• Ramses III – Lead – Discovery Channel
• The Red Line – Lead – SNRT
• Vacation Getaway – Supporting – Dir. Alexander Wiedl
• El Guerab – Lead – Ali-N
• Spies, Lies and the Superbomb – Guest Star – BBC

Training

• Meisner Technique at Baron and Brown Studio

Special Skills

• Weapons: hand guns, assault/sniper rifles, sword fighting, nunchaku
• Athletic: martial arts (Tae Kwon Do, Muay Thai, Wing Chun), horse riding, weight lifting, surfing, motor racing
• Languages: English, French, Arabic