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Alexander Siddig

  • Birthplace: Sudan
  • Birthday: November 21, 1965

Slender, dashingly handsome actor of Sudanese-English parentage (his mother is the sister of actor Malcolm McDowall) who first made an appearance on the big screen in Stephen Frears' "Sammie and Rosie Get Laid" (1987). He subsequently recreated Alec Guinness' role as Emir Feisal from the 1962 film "Lawrence of Arabia" for the "Great Performances" TV drama, "A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia", as it continued the story of English adventurer T.E. Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes). Siddig, is however, be…more

Career Milestones

  • 2008

    Featured in the sci-fi film, "Doomsday"

  • 2007

    Co-starred with Sir Ben Kingsley and Colin Firth in "The Last Legion"

  • 2007

    Joined the sixth season of FOX's "24" as former terrorist Hamri Al-Assad

  • 2006

    Played the title role in the BBC's "Hannibal - Rome's Worst Nightmare"

  • 2005

    Co-starred in Ridley Scott's "Kingdom of Heaven" about the 12th-Century Crusades