After making his big-screen debut in 2004's romantic comedy The Ski Trip, Sleiman landed his first major role in the reality show satire American Dreamz co-starring Dennis Quaid and Hugh Grant. A string of small roles quickly followed, including that of an American solider on "ER," an Islamic peacemaker on "NCIS" and a terrorist suspect on "24."
In 2007, Sleiman appeared in the sports drama Futbaal: The Price of Dreams and the Thomas McCarthy-helmed The Visitor. For the latter film -- in which he plays an illegal immigrant living in a college professor's New York apartment -- Sleiman received an Independent Spirit Award nod.
The VisitorWidowed professor Walter Vale (Richard Jenkins, in an Oscar-nominated role) finds himself drawn to a different rhythm when he discovers an immigrant couple, Tarek (Haaz Sleiman) and Zainab (Danai Gurira), squatting in his Manhattan flat and becomes wrapped up in their lives. Hiam Abbass co-stars as... Read More
Nurse Jackie (2009) | NR | |
The Visitor (2007) | PG-13 | |
Futbaal: The Price of Dreams (2007) | NR | |
American Dreamz (2006) | PG-13 | |
The Ski Trip (2004) | R | |
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