Atheer adel bio

Atheer Adel moved from Iraq to Germany right before his teen years. He attended one of the most prestigious German acting schools and went on to have parts in movies like the recent A Hologram For the King with Tom Hanks, and Homeland from which you might remember him best as Numan.

It seemed like a good idea to ask Adel about stereotypes, and if what we hear about actors from the MENA region always getting the same type of roles abroad was something he’d experienced.

 “This is the question: What is a stereotype?

If someone called me now and asked me to play an Iraqi in a film, am I supposed to be like WTF!? I am an Iraqi,” Adel answers.

Atheer Adel with Claire Danes in Homeland, Season 5.

Atheer adel bio

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Our Iraqi-German actor enlightens us, “I always take the example of Christoph Waltz. He got his marvelous breakthrough by playing a Nazi. So imagine Christoph Waltz sitting somewhere in an office with [Quentin] Tarantino and telling him: ‘Ok I’ll stop playing