Sayed Badreya
Birthday
1957/05/01 (67 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Port Said, Egypt
Also know as
سيد بدرية
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 ...Read more
Acting
(1996) Independence Day
as Arab Pilot
Dandelion Season
as Omar
(2008) Iron Man
as Abu Bakaar
(1995) Mirage
as Sayed
(2008) You Don't Mess with the Zohan
as Hamdi
(2009) Backyard
as El Sultán
(2011) This Narrow Place
as Aziz
(2019) I Am That Man
as Harry
(2008) AmericanEast
as Mustafa Marzouke
(2012) The Dictator
as Omar
(2013) Movie 43
as Large Man (segment "Truth or Dare")
(2011) Cargo
as Sayed
(2013) Just Like a Woman
as Tarek
(2010) Family Prayers
as Hussein
(1994) True Lies
as Arab Terrorist (uncredited)
perforated calabash
as himself
Hello Beautiful
as ---
(1999) The Insider
as Hezbollah Head Gunman
(2003) Stuck on You
as Assisting Surgeon
(1999) Three Kings
as Iraqi Tank Major
(1988) The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Derickson Story
as Skull & Crossbones
(1996) Kingpin
as Fatima
(2012) The Three Stooges
as Orderly
(2001) Shallow Hal
as Doctor Sayed
(1994) Stargate
as Arabic Interpreter
(2001) The Princess & the Marine
as Chauffeur
(2020) Vanguard
as Abati
(1987) Hotshot
as Mohamed
(2020) Witness to a Rape
as himself
(2015) Boiling Pot
as Anwar Seif
(2011) The Space Between
as Imam
(2023) Jellyfish and Lobster
as Mido
(2004) Soul Plane
as Middle Eastern Passenger
(1989) Seinfeld
as Foreign Man
(2005) Numb3rs
as ---
(2006) The Unit
as Afghan Commander
(1997) The Practice
as ---
(2018) Apple & Onion
as Falafel (voice)
(1999) The West Wing
as Fatah Official
(2024) WondLa
as Bartender (voice)