Alon Aboutboul

Alon Moni Aboutboul has been appearing in films in his native Israel since the early 1980s, and in 1989 was named Best Actor at the Jerusalem Film Festival for his performance in Uri Barbash's Ehad Mishelanu. He has since been nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Award of the Israeli Film Academy three times, winning the prize in 2003 for his performance in Savi Gabizon's Nina's Tragedies.

He played a pivotal role in Christopher Nolan's blockbuster The Dark Knight Rises and has also appeared in such major films as Steven Spielberg's Munich; Peter MacDonald's Rambo III; and Ridley Scott's Body of Lies, the latter alongside Leonardo DiCaprio.

In the United States, Mr. Aboutboul has guest-starred on such television series as Homeland (in the memorable Season 2 finale), The Leftovers, Low Winter Sun, Fringe, Castle, Burn Notice, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, NCIS: Los Angeles, and The Blacklist.

More recently, he starred in A Place in Heaven, written and directed by Yossi Madmoni, which screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary Film Festival, and the Seattle International Film Festival, among others. Mr. Aboutboul first worked with Gerard Butler of London Has Fallen on the latter's production Septembers of Shiraz, the drama about an Iranian family directed by Wayne Blair and starring Salma Hayek and Adrien Brody.

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