Mohammed Bakri

Mohammad Bakri
Mohammad Bakri, 2010
Native name	محمد بكري
Born	Mohammad Bakri 1953 (age 63–64) Bi'ina, Israel
Years active	1983-present

Mohammad Bakri (born 1953; Arabic: محمد بكري‎‎, Hebrew: מוחמד בכרי‎‎) is a Palestinian-Israeli actor and film director.

Muhammad Bakri was born in the village of Bi'ina in northern Israel. He went to elementary school in his hometown and received his secondary education in the nearby city of Akko. He studied acting and Arabic literature at Tel Aviv University in 1973 and graduated three years later.

Bakri is married to Leila and have six children. His sons Adam, Ziad and Saleh Bakri are also actors.

Bakri began his professional acting career in with Habima Theatre in Tel Aviv, Haifa theater and al-Kasaba theater in Ramallah. His one-man plays, "The Pessoptimist," 1986, "The Anchor," 1991, "Season of Migration to the North 1993," and "Abu Marmar," 1999, were performed in Hebrew and Arabic.

After a few years of acting in Palestinian and Israeli film, Bakri began to act in international films in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark and Canada. Bakri also directed two documentary films including the controversial "Jenin, Jenin".