Acting
Mar 6, 1978
Lyon, France
Karim Saleh
Acting
Biography
Karim Saleh (born March 7, 1978, in Lyon, France) is a French actor of Lebanese descent, raised in Beirut, Lebanon, and fluent in Arabic, English, and French. He trained in London, and his career was launched when Egyptian director Youssry Nassrallah introduced him to director Andy Litvack. He is currently based in the United States and also works as a director and cinematographer. His most notable film credits include Ziad Jarrah in The Hamburg Cell (2004, HBO, directed by Antonia Bird), Issa (Luttif Afif / Mohammed Massalha) in Munich (2005, directed by Steven Spielberg), the Saracen Messenger in Kingdom of Heaven (2005, directed by Ridley Scott), a Guard in Iron Man 2 (2010, directed by Jon Favreau), Karim in The Imperialists Are Still Alive! (2010), Adel in The Attack (2012, directed by Ziad Doueiri), Rafik in 45 Minutes to Ramallah (2013), a Zealot Leader in Risen (2016), Raymond Davis in The Narrow World (2017), a Translator in Vice (2018, with Christian Bale), Sultan in Luxor (2020, with Andrea Riseborough), Gene in Please Baby Please (2022), and Israeli Juliano in Yes Repeat No (2023). On television he is best known as Hussen in Transparent (2014, 3 episodes, Amazon Prime), Marcel in Counterpart (2017, Starz), Hussein Kamel in House of Saddam (2008, BBC/HBO), Joshua in The Ten Commandments (2006), Nabil Kahn in Lie to Me (2009), and Akim Al Farouk in Cellule de crise (2020, 6 episodes), with earlier credits in Highlander: The Series (1995, 1996).
Feature Films (28)
With the world now aware of his dual life as the armored superhero Iron Man, billionaire inventor Tony Stark faces pressure from the government, the press and the public to share his technology with the military. Unwilling to let go of his invention, Stark, with Pepper Potts and James 'Rhodey' Rhodes at his side, must forge new alliances – and confront powerful enemies.
Iron Man 2
An Arab surgeon living in Tel Aviv discovers a dark secret about his wife in the aftermath of a suicide bombing.
The Attack
Juggling the sudden abduction of her childhood sweetheart as well as a blooming love affair, a French Manhattanite makes her way as an artist in an indifferent, sometimes hostile world.
The Imperialists Are Still Alive!
During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.
Munich
Turbulent comedy about two Palestinian brothers who smuggle the dead body of their father from Jerusalem to Ramallah with the Israeli Police, a bunch of terrorists and the Russian Mafia breathing down their necks.
45 Minutes to Ramallah
Television & Series (7)
Howard Silk is a lowly cog in a bureaucratic UN agency who is turning the last corner of a life filled with regret when he discovers the agency he works for is guarding a secret: a crossing to a parallel dimension.
Counterpart
Duncan MacLeod cannot die -- he is a 400-year-old immortal, who has seen his share of humanity's history. Still, he risks his life in battle against other immortals and tries to save people from harm.
Highlander: The Series
Duncan MacLeod cannot die -- he is a 400-year-old immortal, who has seen his share of humanity's history. Still, he risks his life in battle against other immortals and tries to save people from harm.
Highlander: The Series
Newly elected president of one of the largest humanitarian organisations in the world, Suzanne Fontana is put to the test when a young delegate and a dozen employees of the organisation are kidnapped in Yemen.
Cellule de crise
One biblical figure is revered by Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike. His name is Moses, the man who rose in power to defend a people, to free them, and to live in history like no other... The Ten Commandments dramatizes the biblical story of Moses.
