Amr Waked

Amr Waked

Amr Waked was born in Cairo, Egypt on 12 April 1973. He studied economics and theatre in the American University in Cairo. In his early experience as an actor Amr joined the Temple Theatre Troop in 1994, and Yaaru Theatre Troop in 1999, where he trained and developed his tools as a stage performer. With his experience onstage, Waked managed to film his first role on the big screen in 1998 when he joined Ossama Fawzy's of "Gannet El Shayateen". Waked's award winning performance paved his way to become a popular actor famous for his gravity and vast range. In 2003, Waked joined Stephen Gegan's cast of Syriana, which was his first appearance in an international film. His performance was acclaimed and presented him with other opportunities in international productions, like House Of Saddam and Salmon Fishing In The Yemen. In 2005, Amr co-established "zad communication & production llc" to begin his experience as a producer. The communication agency and production house was to focus on developmental and social issues in Egypt and the Middle East. In 2012, zad produced its first feature film "Winter Of Discontent", directed by Ibrahim El Batout, which opened in the 69th Venice Film Festival in 2012.

  • Popularity : 9.218
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1970-08-07
  • Place of Birth : Cairo, Egypt
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Amr Waked Movies

  • 2005
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    Syriana

    Syriana

    6.428 2005 HD

    The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American...

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  • 2004
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    From First Sight

    From First Sight

    1 2004 HD

    Akram is a perfectionist wedding photographer who dreams of finding Miss Right. He indeed finds her in the unlikeliest of places: her wedding...

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  • 2010
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    The Father and the Foreigner

    The Father and the Foreigner

    6.5 2010 HD

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  • 2003
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    Sleepless Nights

    Sleepless Nights

    6.5 2003 HD

    A social romance that portrays the lives of 4 married couples who are friends. As they gather to celebrate the birthday of the daughter of one of...

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  • 2012
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    Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

    Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

    6.4 2012 HD

    A fisheries expert is approached by a consultant to help realize a sheik's vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert and embarks on...

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  • 2009
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    Ibrahim El-Abyad

    Ibrahim El-Abyad

    7.4 2009 HD

    After witnessing the murder of his father as a child, Ibrahim is drawn into the criminal underworld of Egypt. While making a name for himself with...

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  • 2009
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    Al Moshtabah

    Al Moshtabah

    1 2009 HD

    Embodies the artist Amr Waked in his new film [suspected Zero] characters twins, one a prosecutor, and the other a businessman, and the film is set...

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  • 2004
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    Tito

    Tito

    7.6 2004 HD

    Tito is the second installment in the new-wave Egyptian action movies. After Mafia by Sherif Arafa, which was a breakthrough in Egyptian cinema...

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  • 2004
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    Best Times

    Best Times

    7.6 2004 HD

    Ahla el-Awqat (The Best of Times) tells the story of a successful middle-aged woman (Salma, played by Hanan Tork) who is left to live with her step...

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  • 2013
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    Winter of Discontent

    Winter of Discontent

    6.2 2013 HD

    Amr is a 35 year old man who wakes up one day to a very different Egypt. Amr rarely leaves home as he works from his place designing software. It is...

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  • 2003
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    The Fish Tail

    The Fish Tail

    5 2003 HD

    Ahmed Al-Morsi Owais is a young man who has a technical diploma. A lover of poetry, he searches for a job until he eventually finds one as a...

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  • 2011
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    18 Days

    18 Days

    7 2011 HD

    10 filmmakers provide 10 separate stories focusing on the 18 days of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. Ten stories they have experienced, heard, or...

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  • 2014
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    Lucy

    Lucy

    6.455 2014 HD

    A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.

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  • 1999
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    Fallen Angels' Paradise

    Fallen Angels' Paradise

    5.8 1999 HD

    Tabel abandons his luxurious family life in favor of a bohemian life with his eccentric marginalized friends. When Tabel dies, his daughter attempts...

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  • 2008
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    The Aquarium

    The Aquarium

    6.7 2008 HD

    Youssef is a hotshot anesthesiologist who often sleeps in his car for privacy. Laila is the careerist host of a late night radio call-in show. These...

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  • 2003
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    A matter of principle

    A matter of principle

    1 2003 HD

    The events revolve around a representative in Parliament who represents one of the constituencies in Upper Egypt. He was able to achieve great...

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  • 2014
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    Colt 45

    Colt 45

    5.664 2014 HD

    Vincent Miles, a gunsmith and shooting instructor at the National Police, is an expert in combat shooting who stubbornly refuses to join a field...

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  • 2022
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    The Builders of the Alhambra

    The Builders of the Alhambra

    7 2022 HD

    Kingdom of Granada, al-Andalus, 14th century. After recognizing that his land, always under siege, is hopelessly doomed to be conquered, Sultan Yusuf...

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  • 2017
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    Monkey Talks

    Monkey Talks

    5.7 2017 HD

    Two magician brothers, Taha and Rashad El-Shenawy, prepare to pull off a magic trick to free their wrongfully imprisoned father.

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  • 2017
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    Geostorm

    Geostorm

    6.1 2017 HD

    After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of...

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  • 2014
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    El ott

    El ott

    5.5 2014 HD

    When Al-Ott learns that a group of his neighborhood's children was kidnapped as a part of an organ-trafficking scheme, he kills one of Master Fathy's...

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  • 2005
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    The Blood of the Innocent

    The Blood of the Innocent

    6 2005 HD

    The unemployed Reda develops feelings for his neighbor Hanan who runs away and lives with an aristocratic lady for whom she works, leaving Reda to...

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  • 2008
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    The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall

    The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall

    6.8 2008 HD

    After Tom Hurndall is shot in the head in Gaza, his parents Anthony and Jocelyn arrive in Israel wanting to know how it could have happened. They...

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  • 2009
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    The Traveller

    The Traveller

    8 2009 HD

    Love, passion, responsibility and loss follow a man over the course of half a century in this powerful drama from Egypt. In 1948, Hassan is working...

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  • 2004
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    Talking About Love

    Talking About Love

    5.5 2004 HD

    (Nahid) is a waitress from an average family,after she gets divorced,she tries to overcome her loneliness by looking for a new love. Her colleague...

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  • 2004
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    You Leave and I'll leave

    You Leave and I'll leave

    4 2004 HD

    Farid travels abroad on a surprise mission, leaving his two children, a child and a child in a villa, in the care of two young men, Karim and Halim....

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  • 2004
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    Auntie Faransa

    Auntie Faransa

    5.3 2004 HD

    Batta and Wezza are two siblings living with their aunt Faransa at a local neighborhood as the latter works as a hired mourner. Batta accepts to...

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  • 2001
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    Friends or Business

    Friends or Business

    5 2001 HD

    Karim Nour and Tarek Al-Seyoufy are two successful TV hosts whose shows attract many viewers, which gradually turns them into rivals. When the...

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  • 2001
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    Li Li

    Li Li

    6 2001 HD

    Sheikh Abdul-Al, the imam of Al-Shobokshi Mosque in Al-Batiniyya. The drug trafficker, which is home to a group of traders and drug dealers, is...

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  • 2017
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    Writing on Snow

    Writing on Snow

    1 2017 HD

    The film discusses different ideologies in terms of religion, geography and intellect reflected as well in the current rifts between different parts...

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  • 2011
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    Contagion

    Contagion

    6.644 2011 HD

    As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control...

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  • 2022
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    Under Spanish Skies

    Under Spanish Skies

    1 2022 HD

    After the death of her husband, a reclusive artist invites lifelong friends to her farm in Spain and reveals a shocking plan. Before the weekend...

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  • 2020
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    Wonder Woman 1984

    Wonder Woman 1984

    6.428 2020 HD

    A botched store robbery places Wonder Woman in a global battle against a powerful and mysterious ancient force that puts her powers in jeopardy.

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  • 2022
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    Superwho?

    Superwho?

    6.4 2022 HD

    A struggling actor seems doomed to live life as a loser. When he finally snatches a lead role as a superhero named “Badman,” he feels...

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  • 2024
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    Firebrand

    Firebrand

    6.4 2024 HD

    Katherine Parr, the sixth wife of King Henry VIII, is named regent while the tyrant battles abroad. When the king returns, increasingly ill and...

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  • 2008
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    House of Saddam

    House of Saddam

    6.8 2008 HD

    The intimate world of Saddam Hussein and his closest inner circle is in this gripping four-part drama that charts the rise and fall of one of the...

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  • 2007
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    Critical Moments

    Critical Moments

    8 2007 HD

    A medical drama about the stories of a large number of doctors, staff and patients at Dr. Galal's hospital, and the daily challenges that the...

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  • 2017
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    Riviera

    Riviera

    6.2 2017 HD

    After newlywed Georgina's billionaire husband Constantine is killed in a yacht explosion, she is shocked to discover the fortune and lifestyle he...

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  • 2006
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    أولاد الشوارع

    أولاد الشوارع

    1 2006 HD

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  • 2010
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    Al-Gama'a

    Al-Gama'a

    1 2010 HD

    Al-Gama'a is an Egyptian television drama, Historical and Political drama series written by Wahid Hamid, directed by Mohammed Yasin and produced by...

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  • 2001
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    Morning and Evening Talk

    Morning and Evening Talk

    8.7 2001 HD

    The latest that deals with the social and political history of Egypt revolves through three personalities, its children and grandchildren branches,...

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  • 2013
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    Flight of the Storks

    Flight of the Storks

    6.6 2013 HD

    Jonathan, a young academic teams up with Max, an amateur ornithologist, to follow storks on their migration from Switzerland to Africa. When Max is...

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  • 2013
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    Odysseus

    Odysseus

    6.7 2013 HD

    The sovereign Greek island of Ithaca, 8th century B.C. The Trojan War has been over for ten years, and the Greeks have come home victorious. Only one...

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  • 2019
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    Ramy

    Ramy

    7.3 2019 HD

    Ramy, the son of Egyptian immigrants, is on a spiritually conflicting journey in his New Jersey neighborhood, pulled between his Muslim community...

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  • 2010
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    Soft Life

    Soft Life

    1 2010 HD

    Farida is the daughter of Shaker Elwan, the owner of a big empire in the world of contracting and luxury housing who is also corrupt. Soon the empire...

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  • 2013
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    The Second Wife

    The Second Wife

    1 2013 HD

    The peasants of a rural village live in a state of subjugation and injustice under the iron fist of a powerful Mayor. He decides to marry one of the...

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  • 2011
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    Fear Doors

    Fear Doors

    10 2011 HD

    Adam Yassin is a journalist and a translator who has an interest in the paranormal. As he pursues freak accidents and strange occurrences, even those...

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  • 2024
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    The Listeners

    The Listeners

    4.1 2024 HD

    Claire, a popular English teacher, begins to hear a low humming sound that no one else around her can hear. This seemingly innocuous noise gradually...

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