Biography
Yousef Sweid was born in Haifa in 1976 and grew up in a Christian Arab family. After studying theatre at Tel Aviv University he was one of the founders of the Arab-Hebrew Theatre in Jaffa and later acted in the ensembles of Tel Aviv's Habima and Cameri theatres; in the Israeli version of Sesame Street he performs the puppet Mahboob. He became known internationally through films such as Walk on Water (2004) and The Bubble (2006) and series such as Game of Thrones (2016) and Unorthodox (2020). With the director Yael Ronen he worked on Dritte Generation (2009) and The Day Before the Last Day (2011); he has lived in Berlin since 2013 and has appeared at the Schaubühne, the Maxim Gorki Theater and Vienna's Burgtheater, among others. In 2025 he and the director Isabella Sedlak premiered their jointly written solo play Between the River and the Sea at the Gorki, in which he tells his own life between identities.
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