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"I Can't Believe I'm Doing A Scene With The Forrest Gump Guy!". ^ "Oscar nod for Minneapolis' Barkhad Abdi in 'Captain Phillips' ".^ "Filim Soomaali jilay oo la magacaabay".The bump on his forehead is from a car accident he was in prior to auditioning for Captain Phillips. Personal life īefore entering the film industry, Abdi sold mobile phones at his brother's shop at a mall in Minneapolis.Ĭurrently, Abdi resides in Los Angeles, California, as well as Cedar-Riverside, Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 2013, Abdi began to serve as an Ambassador for Adeso, a non-governmental organisation founded by the Somali environmentalist Fatima Jibrell. In 2022, he appeared alongside Mel Gibson in Agent Game. Abdi made his directorial debut with the Somali film Ciyaalka Xaafada, and he has also directed several music videos. In October 2017, Abdi featured in Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049, in a minor role of a scientist. His character coordinates interviews between local pirate leaders and Bahadur, who records the motivations of Somali piracy in the weeks leading up to the Maersk Alabama hijacking.
In the 2017 film The Pirates of Somalia, Abdi played the Somali government-sponsored local agent and translator for Canadian freelance journalist Jay Bahadur. He also appeared in the 2015 thriller Eye in the Sky as Kenyan undercover agent Jama Farah, and he had a role in The Brothers Grimsby. Later that year, he began work on the comedy film Trainwreck, though he did not appear in the finished film.
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In 2015, Abdi appeared in an episode of the series Hawaii Five-0, playing former warlord Roko Makoni. Abdi's experience in Captain Phillips was his first in the film industry. For his work, Abdi was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actor, the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, a Golden Globe Award, and a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor, the latter of which he won. He was paid $65,000 for his appearance in the film and returned to working in his brother's shop afterwards. According to the casting director, the four were selected because they were "the chosen ones, that anointed group that stuck out". Abdi and three other actors were subsequently chosen from more than 700 participants at a 2011 casting call in Minneapolis. He was cast following a worldwide search for the lead roles. Abdi during the Eye in the Sky premiere at the Toronto Film Festival 2015Ībdi made his debut in the 2013 film Captain Phillips, playing ship hijacker and pirate leader Abduwali Muse.
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