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Faysal  Ahmed

Faysal Ahmed

In a professional capacity, Ahmed served as a Youth Program Coordinator at the Bedlam Theater in Minneapolis. He worked there on plays and poetry. He has also participated in an enrollment push for MNsure, a health insurance program in Minnesota. Ahmed and three other actors were picked from among more than 700 participants at a 2011 casting call at the Brian Coyle Community Center in Cedar-Riverside, Minneapolis. According to the search casting director, Debbie DeLisi, the four were selected because they were "the chosen ones, that anointed group that stuck out." In early 2014, he revealed that he was going to Los Angeles by the spring season in order to continue his acting career. In 2016 he partook in A Stray that was directed by Musa Syeed.

Known for

Gazelle
Gazelle
2025 • Ahmed
438 Days
438 Days
2019 • Abdullahi Hussein
First Person Plural
First Person Plural
2019 • Faysal
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
2018 • Bashiir
Watu Wote: All of Us
Watu Wote: All of Us
2017 • Xassan Yacquub Cali
A Stray
A Stray
2016
Capturing Captain Phillips
Capturing Captain Phillips
2014 • Self
Captain Phillips
Captain Phillips
2013 • Najee

Full filmography

Gazelle
Gazelle
2025 • Ahmed
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438 Days
438 Days
2019 • Abdullahi Hussein
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Watu Wote: All of Us
Watu Wote: All of Us
2017 • Xassan Yacquub Cali
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Faysal Ahmed – Biography, Known For & Filmography