Kal Naga

Quick Facts

Full Name	Kal Naga
Occupation	Movie Actor
Date Of Birth	Nov 2, 1966(1966-11-02)
Age	58
Birthplace	Cairo
Country	Egypt
Horoscope	Scorpio

Kal Naga Biography

Kal Naga is one of the most popular and richest Movie Actor who was born on November 2, 1966 in Cairo, Egypt. Egyptian actor who rose to notoriety due to his performance in Egyptian and English-speaking television and films, including his role on the FX Drama Tyrant. He was praised by critics and fans for his role as a character in the Egyptian movie drama Villa 69, for which he was awarded the HORUS Award for best actor.

He was described as a result of CNN by the name of “Egypt’s He was referred to by CNN as “Egypt’s Brad Pitt” in 2017.” in the year 2017.

Khaled Muhammad Samy Abol Naga (Arabic: خالد محمد سامي أبو النجا ‎; born November 2, 1966 in Cairo, Egypt), credited as Khaled Abol Naga (Arabic: خالد أبو النجا ‎) and by the mononym Kal Naga, is an Egyptian actor, director and producer. He is recognized primarily for his work in Egypt and the Middle East, but has increasingly ventured into American and British film and television roles. He started acting and directing (English and Arabic language) plays and musicals in Egypt while studying theatre at The American University in Cairo. Beginning his professional acting career in 2000, Naga starred in several movies through the next decade with roles encompassing several genres, from musicals None but that! (2007), action Agamista (2007), Eyes Of A Thief (2014), thrillers Kashf Hesab (2007), art-house Heliopolis (2009), Villa 69 (2013), Decor (2014), and slapstick comedy Habibi Naêman (Sleeping Habibi) (2008). Additionally, he has participated in several European film festivals, where he received a range of awards as an actor and producer. Since 2016, he has acted in several English-speaking roles, such as Tyrant on FX, History Channel’s Vikings, and the BBC’s TV mini series The Last Post, and announced to appear in the upcoming Netflix Show Messiah 2019. In a film festival in 2016 that celebrated Arab film submissions to the Oscars, he was noted as being the most submitted actor in Arabic films submissions to the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film (The Oscars). He is often tagged in western media as “Egypt’s Brad Pitt”, and he has also been described as “the next Omar Sharif” especially after his American debut movie Civic Duty in

2007. Chosen as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF in 2007, Naga played a pivotal role in child rights awareness, as well as the very first HIV awareness campaigns in Egypt and the Arab world, and participated in several international causes, including advocating for democracy in his home country Egypt. He is one of the most recognizable celebrity faces of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, taking part in mass demonstrations in Cairo that led to the removal of President Mubarak. He faced defamation campaigns against him by the state-owned media during the Mubarak era before the January 25th, 2011 revolution in Egypt, and several times again from the 2013 “coup d’etat” General Sisi government in Egypt in retaliation for his Advocacy about the deterioration of Human Rights situation in Egypt in the wake of the return to brutal repressive military dictatorship in Egypt.

Naga’s acting career began in 1977 when he was still a child with a part in Egyptian film Madness of Love (Arabic: جنون الحب) (aka: Genoun El Hob) (aka: La Folie De L’amore). Since then he has appeared in a variety of films including psychological thrillers, romances and musical comedies.

There are two brothers named Tarek as well as Seif.

Kal Naga Net Worth

Kal Naga is one of the richest Movie Actor from Egypt. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kal Naga 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a theatre student in the American University in Cairo. He relocated back to the US in 1997 to further study film.

He became a prominent actor in support of Jan. 11, 2011’s Egyptian Revolution. He has served as an ambassador for Goodwill to UNICEF Egypt.

Naga was born in Heliopolis, a cosmopolitan neighborhood of Cairo, Egypt. His father, the late Egyptian army major General Mohamed-Sami Aboul-Naga (Arabic: اللواء أ.ح / محمد سامي السيد أبو النجا ‎), came from a traditional family of major land owners in ad-Daqahliyah, Aga, Egypt that was mostly confiscated during the Nasser revolution of 1952 and its Land reform in Egypt. His mother revealed in 2013 that he is a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad through Fatima Az-Zahraa and Imam Husayn ibn Ali son of Ali ibn Abi Talib. He is the younger brother of American-based Egyptian architect Tarek Naga, and architect Seif Abol Naga, who appeared in the classic film Empire M.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Kal Naga Dating?

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He has also been successful across many Arab TV networks as a host for prime- time shows from 1997 until 2005.

Facts & Trivia

Kal Ranked on the list of most popular Movie Actor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Egypt. Kal Naga celebrates birthday on November 2 of every year.

In 2001 his film career gained momentum when he was chosen by director Daoud Abdel Sayed for the lead in A Citizen, An Informant And A Thief (Mowaten we Mokhber we Haramy) (Arabic: مواطن و مخبر و حرامي). In 2002 he demonstrated his talent for singing in the musical comedy Wust El-Balad (“Downtown”). He was then offered a part in “Sleepless Nights” (aka: “Sahar El Layali”) which became a box office hit in 2003–2004. Later in the same year Abol Naga was awarded Best Actor at the Damascus International Film Festival and the Best Actor Award from the Paris Arab Cinema Biennale of the Institute du Monde Arabe IMA Film Festival.