René Ifrah is an American actor born in Germany and raised in
Brooklyn, New York City. He is best known for his role as Bibi Hamed
on the Showtime series Homeland, for which he was nominated for a
Screen Actors Guild Award (2016). He is also known for his recurring
roles on Showtime's crime drama Sneaky Pete, where he played the
character of Wali (2017â€"2018); the Showtime Drama series The Affair
(2017); and the Showtime comedy series Nurse Jackie (2009â€"2011).Rene
Ifrah was born in Frankfurt, Germany, and raised there and in Sicily
until moving to Brooklyn, New York, with his family around the age of
10. He is of German, Sephardic, and Italian descent.After his film
debut in a small part in the 2002 film Hart's War, starring Bruce
Willis and Colin Farrell, Ifrah went on to co-star in the German
ensemble film September as Ashraf, a Pakistani pizzeria owner in
Hamburg, Germany, at odds with his German wife after the September 11
attacks. He then starred in the German film Grüße aus Kaschmir
(2004), for which he won a Grimme-Preis (2005) for best ensemble. He
then appeared in Beyond the Sea as well as The Taking of Pelham 123.
Brooklyn, New York City. He is best known for his role as Bibi Hamed
on the Showtime series Homeland, for which he was nominated for a
Screen Actors Guild Award (2016). He is also known for his recurring
roles on Showtime's crime drama Sneaky Pete, where he played the
character of Wali (2017â€"2018); the Showtime Drama series The Affair
(2017); and the Showtime comedy series Nurse Jackie (2009â€"2011).Rene
Ifrah was born in Frankfurt, Germany, and raised there and in Sicily
until moving to Brooklyn, New York, with his family around the age of
10. He is of German, Sephardic, and Italian descent.After his film
debut in a small part in the 2002 film Hart's War, starring Bruce
Willis and Colin Farrell, Ifrah went on to co-star in the German
ensemble film September as Ashraf, a Pakistani pizzeria owner in
Hamburg, Germany, at odds with his German wife after the September 11
attacks. He then starred in the German film Grüße aus Kaschmir
(2004), for which he won a Grimme-Preis (2005) for best ensemble. He
then appeared in Beyond the Sea as well as The Taking of Pelham 123.
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