Omar Metwally Filmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: When character actor Omar Metwally commenced film appearances in the mid-2000s, he most often tackled roles that took advantage of his Middle Eastern heritage and appearance, such as his work in Steven Spielberg's critically praised docudrama Munich (as a militant PLO leader) and his haunting...Read More

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The City of Your Final Destination

Actors: Omar Metwally, Anthony Hopkins, Laura Linney, Charlotte Gainsbourg

Synopsis: James Ivory's adaptation of Peter Cameron's The City of Your Final Destination tells the story of how the family of a writer makes sense of their past decades after the author commits suicide. The plot begins when a graduate student approaches the writer's offspring about access to their father's Read More

1/1/08
Rendition

Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon, Alan Arkin, Peter Sarsgaard, Omar Metwally

Synopsis: The director of the Academy Award-winning 2006 crime drama Tsotsi returns to the helm with this tale of a Middle East CIA operative who begins to have doubts about his latest assignment after witnessing the interrogation of a suspected suicide bomber by secret police. When Egyptian-born chemical Read More

10/19/07
Grey's Anatomy: Superstition

Synopsis: An unusually high death rate at Seattle Grace has aroused the superstitious instincts of the hospital staff. In particular, Izzie (Katherine Heigl) has a premonition that Denny (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), will not survive his heart-transplant surgery, while an OCD patient whose life is dictated by "the Read More

2006
Munich

Actors: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler

Synopsis: Much as Steven Spielberg followed 1993's special-effects blockbuster Jurassic Park with a far more downbeat and personal project later the same year, Schindler's List, in 2005 after tearing up the box office with War of the Worlds the director closed out the year with a powerful and thoughtful Read More

12/23/05