
Acting
Dec 7, 1984
Saudi Arabia
Yaqoub Al-Farhan
Acting
Biography
A Saudi actor. He began his artistic life by working in the theater, and among his notable plays Quick Meal, Secret of Life, The Lucky One and Second Symphony. He also appeared in several series, including Between You and Me, Women's Play Is a Man and Girls' Extension.
Feature Films (7)

In 1996 Majed opens a photography shop to get away of the suspicion of him being a terrorist.
Zero Distance

Set in a small remote Saudi Arabian village in the 90s, when artistic expression was banned, NORAH is a story about the arrival of a new teacher, formerly an artist, into the tiny community where he meets a young woman named Norah.
Norah

Hamed's mid-life crisis prompts him to repent and change the course of his life, (deciding to go to Makkah) to seek forgiveness. However, during the desert road trip, something happens that prevents him from completing his long spiritual journey and makes him return to meet someone who lives in his past, still.
Old Phone Number

Hayat, a 12-year-old strong-willed girl, lives in a poor fishing village governed by dark tradition, in which every family must give away a daughter to the sea creatures who inhabit the waters near by. In turn, the sea creatures are hunted by the men of the village. Saved from this ordeal by her father, Hayat is outcasted by her village and considered a curse. But Hayat never surrenders. When Hayat’s mother gives birth to her new-born brother, Hayat must accept the brutal custom by sacrificing herself to these creatures or find a way to escape.
Scales

Al-Gaid emerges as a captivating epic adventure, unfolding against the backdrop of the 20th-century wintery northern Arabian desert. Boldly redefines the adventure revenge genre and Bedouin soap operas, crafting a unique narrative.
AlGaid

A young guy find himself forced to corroborate with the Department for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice to catch a guy and his girlfriend red-handed in the apartment
Apartment 6

Fate brings Haya, a superstitious artist convinced she knows her date of death, together with Youssef, an introverted cardiac surgeon whose own heart is failing him.
A Matter of Life and Death
Television & Series (10)

Set in old Jeddah during the final years of the Ottoman era, this Saudi period drama follows two brothers raised in the same neighbourhood who take opposite paths in life — one falls into gang life and criminality, the other chooses righteousness and virtue. Rooted in Hijazi folk tradition, the show paints a vivid picture of community, honour, and moral struggle in a bygone era.
Harat Alsheikh

Inspired by real events, the powerful series narrates the story of the notorious criminal of the same name in the 1980s, and the Saudi police’s efforts to bring him to justice.
Rashash

A thriller following the lives of a group of strangers brought together by their connection to an old hotel, an experience that changes their lives forever.
The Fates Hotel

An Arab anthology drama unfolding across six cities — Beirut, Cairo, Riyadh, Jeddah, Dubai, and El Gouna — weaving together separate stories about love in its many forms: right person, wrong time; wrong person, right time; love lost, love deferred. Featuring a stellar pan-Arab cast, each episode is a self-contained meditation on modern relationships and longing.
This Other Thing

After returning home, Talal is pulled into a dark psychological journey where the lines between guilt, desire and his own disturbing impulses begin to blur. As buried feelings connected to a past love resurface, the darkness inside him grows stronger. Talal is forced to confront a terrifying question: can he free himself from his past, or will it consume him completely?





