Khaled Abol Naga

Khaled Abol Naga

Personal Info

  • Name: Khaled Abol Naga
  • Birthday:

    1966-11-02

  • Place of Birth: Cairo, Egypt
  • Gender:

    Male

  • Website:http://Kalnaga.com
  • Know For:

    Acting

  • Popularity: 0.1881
  • Also Known As

    خالد أبو النجا

    Kal Naga

Khaled Abol Naga

Biography

Kal Naga (aka: Khaled Abol Naga) is a Multi Award-winning Actor, Producer, and Director from Egypt, based in California. He is a well-established movie star in the middle-east and considered one of the top talents of his generation, his work extends from Film, TV, to Theatre, and Radio and TV hosting. He has been a lead in feature films since his first lead role in "A Citizen, An Informant & A Thief" by Egyptian acclaimed director Daoud Abdel Sayed in 2001.

As an actor he collected numerous Best Actor Awards from his home country Egypt, European & International Film Festivals since 2001, culminating in a historic winning of ALL-important Best Actor Awards offered in his home country Egypt in 2014 (Egypt's National Film Festival, Film Society Festival for Egyptian Cinema, The Catholic Centre festival for Egyptian Cinema) for his critically acclaimed portrayal of a terminally ill older man: Hussein in "Villa 69". In the same year, Naga won The Best Actor Award (Silver Pyramid) from the prestigious Cairo International Film Festival CIFF for his role as a Palestinian father searching for his daughter in the Palestinian Oscar's submission "Eyes of a thief" (Lead Actor), as well as other several regional awards for "Villa 69" including the Best Actor Award from Festival Cinema Africain Khouribga, Morocco.

Naga's English speaking work started gaining momentum since he moved to California in 2017, where he appeared in the main role (Al Kady) in the Fox TV show "Tyrant", then his enigmatic appearance in the BBC TV mini-series "The Last Post", to a much-celebrated guest-star appearance in The History Channel TV show "Vikings" season 5 in 2019

In a film festival in 2016 celebrating Arabic film submissions to the Oscars, he was honored for being the most submitted actor in Arabic film submissions to the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (The Oscars). He is often tagged in western media as Egypt's "Brad Pitt" for his many career similarities with the latter, Also tagged as the next "Omar Sharif" especially after his American debut movie Civic Duty in 2007, he was also tagged as "Egypt's International treasure" for his unprecedented courage advocating for freedom & standing up against injustice in his home country Egypt, He also has a very celebrated and successful career across the Middle-east TV networks as a TV & radio host in prime-time shows from 1997 till 2005.

Famous for his unexpected yet smart choices of scripts & roles, Naga created a vast & diverse filmography with unprecedented wide acclaim from critics & audiences throughout the Arab & international film societies creating a unique phenomenon in his generation of actors, almost all of his films have an "exportable" nature to other cultures. He created special attention to his choices and subtle yet deep performances.

Naga as a Producer since 2009, created with others a new wave of possibilities in the Egyptian independent film industry, from co-producing "Heliopolis" 2009 which went on to feature in over a dozen festivals, to the revolutionary production of "Microphone" 2010 in which a new generation of photography DSLR cameras were used, He is among a leading "iTeam Cairo" that is becoming a seed of to help indie filmmakers.

He was appointed as a UNICEF UN Goodwill Ambassador in Egypt 2007 till 2015.

Top Movie Cast

Civic Duty
Civic Dutytrue- Gabe Hassan

2006-04-26

6.1
One-Zero
One-Zerotrue- شريف

2009-03-04

5.5
Italia's War
Italia's Wartrue- Fouad

2005-07-27

6.7
Sleepless Nights
Sleepless Nightstrue- Ali

2003-07-16

6.6
Girl's Love
Girl's Lovetrue- Kimo (Karim El Sharkawy)

2004-01-14

7.0
Stray Cats
Stray Catstrue

2005-01-08

0.0
The Long Nights
The Long Nightstrue

1967-03-20

0.0
Why Did You Make Me Love You?
Why Did You Make Me Love You?true- خالد

2000-12-27

5.0
Rendez-Vous
Rendez-Voustrue

2001-03-05

0.0
The Unknown Sweet Potato Seller
The Unknown Sweet Potato Sellertrue

2016-01-01

0.0
Downtown Girls
Downtown Girlstrue- Samir

2005-11-04

6.3
Decor
Decortrue- Sherif

2014-09-18

8.1
Villa 69
Villa 69true- Hussain

2013-10-06

7.0
My Sleeping Lover
My Sleeping Lovertrue- Ramez

2009-12-04

3.2
Microphone
Microphonetrue- خالد

2010-01-26

7.7
Heliopolis
Heliopolistrue- Ibrahim

2010-04-28

7.2
From A to B
From A to Btrue- Senior Syrian Officer

2015-01-08

7.1
None But That!
None But That!true- Nader

2007-03-02

1.0
In the Heliopolis Flat
In the Heliopolis Flattrue- Yehia

2007-03-14

6.8
Eyes of a Thief
Eyes of a Thieftrue- Tarek Khedr

2014-10-01

5.2
Out of the Ordinary
Out of the Ordinarytrue- Yehia

2015-11-24

6.8
Agamista
Agamistatrue- عز

2007-06-13

5.5
Account Statement
Account Statementtrue- Farid

2007-03-21

0.0
Game of love
Game of lovetrue- Essam

2006-10-23

0.0
A Citizen, a Detective and a Thief
A Citizen, a Detective and a Thieftrue- Selim (The Citizen)

2001-12-15

5.3
Double Faces
Double Facestrue- Tareq

2005-01-01

6.2
Nasser's Republic: The Making of Modern Egypt
Nasser's Republic: The Making of Modern Egypttrue- Nasser Voice-Over (voice)

2016-04-17

0.0
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tearstrue- Sheikh Kahlil Abbas

2020-02-27

6.1
Madness of Love
Madness of Lovetrue

1977-06-13

0.0
Dignity Day
Dignity Daytrue

2004-09-01

0.0
Encrypted Letter
Encrypted Lettertrue- Himself

2008-04-02

6.5
Writing on Snow
Writing on Snowtrue

2017-11-04

0.0

Top Movie Crew

Microphone
Microphonetrue

Production

2010-01-26

7.7
Jebel Banat
Jebel Banattrue

Production

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0.0

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