Sweid was married to Jewish-Israeli Yael Ronen, a director at the Cameri Theatre. They had a son in 2009. In 2015 they divorced. In 2018, he married Jewish-Israeli television host Adi Shilon. Their daughter was born in October 2019. They reside mostly in Berlin, Germany.
Theater and film careeredit
He started out by joining the Arab-Hebrew Theater in Jaffa. He went on to participate in television shows including Dancing again tonight (1991), Lane of White Chairs (a winner at the 1996 Acre Festival), Oh Brother Boom Boom (which in 2003 won at the Haifa festival for children's programming), Dragon (2004), and Immigrants (2005).
On stage, he performed alongside Ruth Kanner in 2001's Things you can see from here, you cannot see from there; in 2002 he appeared in Sea Shadow.
Sweid also participated in the international production The Time We Did Not Know Anything About Each Other, and in the dance production Barefoot. In 2001 he became director of a community theater program for both Arabs and Jews in Ramla, a town with mixed population in Israel.
In 2016, he played in one episode of the HBO series Game of Thrones in its 6th season, as a Meereenese freedman.
Filmographyedit
2002 : It's Not Me It's Not You (TV show) : Bartender
2004 : Maktub ("Destiny", TV movie) : Atef, a Druze policeman
yousef, sweid, confused, with, syrian, politician, joseph, sweid, yousef, sweid, arabic, يوسف, سويد, hebrew, יוסף, סוויד, born, june, 1976, arab, israeli, actor, dancer, born, 1976, june, 1976, haifa, israelspousesyael, ronen, 2015, shilon, 2018, children2, co. Not to be confused with Syrian politician Joseph Sweid Yousef Joe Sweid Arabic يوسف سويد Hebrew יוסף ג ו סוויד born 22 June 1976 is an Arab Israeli actor and dancer Yousef SweidBorn 1976 06 22 22 June 1976 age 47 Haifa IsraelSpousesYael Ronen div 2015 wbr Adi Shilon m 2018 wbr Children2 Contents 1 Early and personal life 2 Theater and film career 3 Filmography 4 References 5 External linksEarly and personal life editYousef Sweid was born in Haifa Israel to a Christian Arab family He is a graduate of the theater department at Tel Aviv University Sweid was married to Jewish Israeli Yael Ronen a director at the Cameri Theatre They had a son in 2009 In 2015 they divorced In 2018 he married Jewish Israeli television host Adi Shilon Their daughter was born in October 2019 They reside mostly in Berlin Germany Theater and film career editHe started out by joining the Arab Hebrew Theater in Jaffa He went on to participate in television shows including Dancing again tonight 1991 Lane of White Chairs a winner at the 1996 Acre Festival Oh Brother Boom Boom which in 2003 won at the Haifa festival for children s programming Dragon 2004 and Immigrants 2005 On stage he performed alongside Ruth Kanner in 2001 s Things you can see from here you cannot see from there in 2002 he appeared in Sea Shadow Sweid also participated in the international production The Time We Did Not Know Anything About Each Other and in the dance production Barefoot In 2001 he became director of a community theater program for both Arabs and Jews in Ramla a town with mixed population in Israel In 2016 he played in one episode of the HBO series Game of Thrones in its 6th season as a Meereenese freedman Filmography edit2002 It s Not Me It s Not You TV show Bartender 2004 Maktub Destiny TV movie Atef a Druze policeman 2004 Walk on Water Rafik an Arab Israeli waiter 2005 Kvish The Road 2005 Telenovela Ltd 2006 Ha Alufa The Champion TV series Jalal Kasum a footballer 2006 The Bubble Ashraf a Palestinian starring role 2008 Restless Arik 2009 Agora Peter a fanatic Christian leader in 4th century Alexandria 2011 Homeland American TV show pilot episode Hasan Ibrahim credited as Yusuf Swade 2012 Hatufim Abdullah bin Rashid Season 2 regular 2013 Omar Torturer 2015 Johnny and The Knights of Galilee Israeli TV show Kais 2015 False Flag Amir Cohen Amir Al Hamati 2016 The Writer Israeli TV show Kateb 2016 Game of Thrones Meereenese freedman 2018 Tel Aviv on Fire General Yehuda Edelman 2019 The Spy George Seif 1 2020 Baghdad Central TV Mini Series 2020 2020 Unorthodox Netflix Series 2020 Sweid also animates the puppet Mahboob beloved in Arabic in Sesame Street on Israel s Hop channel References edit The Spy TV Mini Series 2019 IMDb IMDb Retrieved 24 April 2020 External links editYousef Sweid at IMDb Yousef Sweid on The Champion Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Yousef Sweid amp oldid 1165556856, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
