Bashar Rahal
Birthday: Born in 1974-10-20 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Deathday: Alive
Bashar Mounzer Rahal is the second child to a Bulgarian mother Mariana Rahal - an interior designer and Lebanese father Mounzer Rahal - an OB/GYN. The family moved back to Bulgaria when Bashar was only 6 years old. He first started acting in TV sketches when he was 12. At the age of 14 he became a member of a professional theater group, called "Tears and Laughs", with which he took part in more than 15 performances including Shakespeare and Chekhov. He attended numerous international festivals, including the ones in Avignon, France and Thun, Switzerland among others. His first big screen role at the age of 15 was in 1952: Ivan i Aleksandra (1989) which was followed by more TV and Film appearances. After graduating from The First English Language High School in Sofia, Bashar attended the National Academy of Theater and Film Art, where he received his Masters in Dramatic Arts. Shortly after graduation he was accepted as a permanent member of the national youth theatre and was a guest actor at The National Theatre Sofia Bulgaria. For the next couple of years Bashar appeared in over 25 different TV comedy shows, but became most popular with the hit TV show "It Can't Be"equivalent of SNL ,created & directed by Nellie Andreeva .The show won " Golden Melon", for best comedy show - the most prestigious TV award in Bulgaria. In 1997 Bashar hosted "The Late Night Show" on Channel 3 Sofia , where he met his co-host and future wife Kalina Rahal. In 1999 the couple moved to California so that Bashar could pursue his acting career. He was granted Alien of Extra Ordinary ability as an actor. He is a graduate from the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in Los Angeles. For a long time he was considered to play Azamat Bagatov in Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Initially Bashar was not considered to play in Joshua Seftel's Political Satire War ,Inc. but the producers Danny Lerner and Les Weldon convinced both John Cusack and the Director Seftel that he is the best choice for the part. After the end of the shooting Cusack and Seftel admitted that Bashar had developed the best character. Later Danny Lerner casted Bashar as a lead in his upcoming action movie Direct Contact. Recently he was casted to play Boris in Dominic Sena's "Whiteout",starring Kate Beckinsale.
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The Unit
Character: Cleric Adnan Al-Hilali
A covert team of special forces operatives risk their lives on undercover missions around the globe, while their wives maintain the homefront, protecting their husbands' secrets....
24
Character: General Wasim
Counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each week's episode unfolding in real-time, "24" covers a single day in the life of Bauer each season....
Маскираният певец
Character: Himself - Owl (Guest)
The Masked Singer is a Bulgarian reality singing competition television series based on the Masked Singer franchise which originated from the South Korean version of the show King of Mask Singer. It premiered on Nova on 14 September 2019 to 4 December 2021 All episodes of the series are broadcast live....
My Name Is Earl
Character: Arab Man
When petty criminal Earl Hickey wins the lottery, he sets off on a quest to repair his questionable karma....
Arrested Development
Character: Iraqi Cab Driver
The story of a wealthy family that lost everything, and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together....
Много мой човек
Character: Мирослав
"My Very Own Man is a comedy series for the whole family that follows the lives of three masterminds. Miroslav, played by the beloved Bulgarian actor with a charismatic air and an affinity for comedy Bashar Rahal, is a conservative and happily married man. Viktor (Yulian Malinov) is desperate because he is getting divorced, and Peter (Kaloyan Katincharov) is a highly desirable bachelor. Along with the never-ending renovations they are busy with, the boys of the sympathetic brigade realize that t...
Братя
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The story tells about the irreconcilable family war between the Donkovi brothers - the investigator from the General Directorate for Combating Organized Crime Boris Donkov, head of the anti-drug department. turned into an unscrupulous, cynical, ambitious, cold-blooded and manipulative person, anticipating the actions of others with a few steps forward. The reasons for this war lie in the past, which they both try to turn their backs on, but fail. The two are in love with the same woman - Laura (...
Big Brother България
Character: Self - Host
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Дунав мост
Character: Moldovanetz
The year is 1995. The Diamandie family lives in a Danube town....
Movie Credits
I'm with Me
Character: Pastor Philips
Days before Valentine's day and their wedding, Cindy Hunter, editor-in-chief of a tabloid and Damon Tuckland, a successful therapist encounter a strange plant that magically puts Cindy's mind in Damon's body and vice versa. Now the couple really finds out how the other half lives. In a series of comic mishaps at work, with relatives and at home, Cindy and Damon must become better people and figure out a way to reverse the "awkward" situation before their wedding or face a lifetime as each other....
As Far as I Can Walk
Character: Syrian Father
Strahinja and his wife Ababuo left Ghana with a dream of a better life in Europe. Instead of reaching the western part of the continent, they were deported back to Serbia. Strahinja has started to build himself a career, while Ababuo is unable to fulfil her ambitions and she feels increasingly frustrated. When she disappears one day, Strahinja sets out to find her… A crystal clear, humanistic story about the need to find one’s place in the world. It’s also a tale of love, the most profound testi...
Direct Contact
Character: General Drago
An imprisoned ex-US Special forces operative in Eastern Europe, is offered his freedom and money to rescue an American woman, who has been kidnapped by a ruthless warlord. But, shortly after freeing her discovers that the kidnap story was just a ruse to bring her out into the open....
Target of Opportunity
Character: Ivan
Jim Jacobs and Nick Carlton, childhood friends, are CIA operatives on a sting operation in Chechnya. The raid of a rebel militia group goes bad and the entire teams gets wiped out except for Jim and Nick, who manages to save them both. Five years later, they are out of the CIA game....
War, Inc.
Character: Video Guy #1
In the future, the desert country of Turaqistan is torn by a riot after private corporation Tamerlane, owned by the former Vice President of the United States, has taken over. Brand Hauser, a hitman who suppresses his emotions by gobbling down hot sauce, is hired by the corporation's head to kill the CEO of their competitors....
Conan the Barbarian
Character: Quarter Master
A quest that begins as a personal vendetta for the fierce Cimmerian warrior soon turns into an epic battle against hulking rivals, horrific monsters, and impossible odds, as Conan realizes he is the only hope of saving the great nations of Hyboria from an encroaching reign of supernatural evil....
Sharks in Venice
Character: Medical Examiner
The seemingly tranquil waterways of Venice are terrorized by the perfect killing machine. In search of his father who has mysteriously disappeared diving in the city, David stumbles across the cryptic trail leading to the long-lost fortune of the Medici. As the unwitting pawn in a Mafia plot to recover the treasure, David's girlfriend is kidnapped at gunpoint, plunging him into a desperate race against time. If he has any hope of saving her he must enter the deadly waters. Can David out-gun the ...
Hannibal: Rome's Worst Nightmare
Character: Hasdrubal
It is 200 years before the birth of Christ and Rome is the new superpower of the ancient world. She believes she is invincible - but one man is destined to change that. He is a man bound by oath to avenge the wrongs inflicted on his home and, in pursuit of revenge, he will stop at nothing. Hannibal explores the man behind the myth, revealing what drove the 26-year-old to mastermind one of the most audacious military moves in history. With 40,000 soldiers and 37 elephants, he marched 1,500 miles ...
Survivor
Character: Militiaman #2
A Foreign Service Officer in London tries to prevent a terrorist attack set to hit New York, but is forced to go on the run when she is framed for crimes she did not commit....
The Shepherd: Border Patrol
Character: Soldier
A Texas cop battles ex-navy seals who are trying to traffic drugs from Mexico into the USA....
City of Fear
Character: Phillips
When reporter Steve Roberts acts on a call from his good friend, Charlie, urging him to report on a hot scientific story in Bulgaria, he ends up in a world of disappearance, death and deception....
U.S. Seals
Character: Hidalgo
Dozens of American cargos with high valuable goods have disappeared, probably attacked by modern pirates. The United States decide to mobilize a team of expert SWAT, with Mike Bradley as leader, sending them to destroy the pirates' base, namely a deserted oil rig near Turkey. But these are cleverly waiting for them....
Basilisk: The Serpent King
Character: Bedouin Leader
Two millennia ago, a Lybian king has a basilisk (snake-shaped dragon), which petrifies people, subjected to the same fate with a golden scepter during a solar eclipse. Both these and several victims are dug up by modern archaeologist Harrison 'Harry' McColl's expedition. Despite a cryptic warning from tribal locals, everything goes to his Colorado university's museum. It's all exhibited during another eclipse, which leads to the monster reviving. Harry and some of his friends must try to petrify...
Shark Attack 3: Megalodon
Character: Luis Ruiz
When two researchers discover a colossal shark's tooth off the Mexican coast their worst fears surface - the most menacing beast to ever rule the waters is still alive and mercilessly feeding on anything that crosses its path. Now they must hunt the fierce killer and destroy it... before there is no one left to stop it...
In the Heart of the Machine
Character: Captain Kozarev
Heat, iron, dust and the smell of oil. A typical workday of maximum security inmates will prove to be fateful for all of them. They find something extraordinary inside one of the machines, and an unexpected wave of compassion makes the prisoners take hostages and block the entrance to the workshop and risk their lives, because sometimes the desire to be human is stronger than the survival instinct....
El Gringo
Character: Sullivan
A man crossing into Mexico with a satchel of $2,000,000—and a bloody past—finds himself under sudden attack in the sleepy town of El Fronteras....
Reunion 2
Character: Branimir
"Reunion 2" continues the story of four friends who came from different parts of the world to meet again at their hometown of Plovdiv, 20 years after they left. This time they unite to help a fifth friend who is trying to save one of the last wild beaches at the southwest of the Black Sea from construction. As one of them is an actor, they decide to make a movie about their story and to buy out the beach with the profit. This leads to bunch of comedic and dramatic situations where their friendsh...
Assassin's Bullet
Character: Abdullah Said
In Assassin's Bullet, Slater plays Robert Diggs, a black ops agent who comes to work for Ambassador Ashdown (Hunger Games star Donald Sutherland), tracking down a vigilante assassin in Eastern Europe. The maverick hit(wo)man has been taking out high-profile targets on the U.S. hit list, and Diggs must uncover the killer's identity before there's an international incident. The usual game of cat and mouse ensues....
In the Name of the King III
Character: Ulrich
Hazen Kaine, an American contract killer living in Sofia, Bulgaria, gets more than he bargains for when he enters into a contract with the mob. One last job before he gets out and starts a new life for himself. The targets: the three children of royal billionaire Andon Dupont. Seems simple enough, or so he thought. Hazen apprehends the children, and before he can blink an eye, a simple necklace worn by one of the children sends his life spiraling back to medieval times. Now completely out of his...
Death Train
Character: Lopez
Somewhere in the Mexican countryside, a runaway train is on a collision course with terror. A band of trigger-happy escaped prisoners hold the passengers at gunpoint. Armed with only a gun and his wits, agent Ryan risks his life in a lethal game with the hijackers. Seconds tick away as the unstoppable train rockets toward a head-on impact, leaving Ryan and a trainload of innocent people running out of options... and time....
Whiteout
Character: Russian Pilot
The only U.S. Marshal assigned to Antarctica, Carrie Stetko will soon leave the harsh environment behind for good – in three days, the sun will set and the Amundsen-Scott Research Station will shut down for the long winter. When a body is discovered out on the open ice, Carrie's investigation into the continent's first homicide plunges her deep into a mystery that may cost her her own life....
Disaster
Character: Gamer
When the girlfriend of a cult leader tries to leave the flock, she finds escape to be more difficult than she imagined....
The Tournament
Character: Asa Sadi
Every seven years, in an unsuspecting town, The Tournament takes place. A battle royale between 30 of the world's deadliest assassins. The last man standing receives the $10,000,000 cash prize and the title of World's No. 1 Assassin, which itself carries the legendary million dollar-a-bullet price tag....
The Legend of Hercules
Character: Battalion Commander
In Ancient Greece 1200 B.C., a queen succumbs to the lust of Zeus to bear a son promised to overthrow the tyrannical rule of the king and restore peace to a land in hardship. But this prince, Hercules, knows nothing of his real identity or his destiny. He desires only one thing: the love of Hebe, Princess of Crete, who has been promised to his own brother. When Hercules learns of his greater purpose, he must choose: to flee with his true love or to fulfill his destiny and become the true hero of...
Rapid Response Corps 2: Nuclear Threat
Character: Kutrum
Hilarious comedy about a bunch of crazy private detectives who are trying to save the world from a nuclear disaster! Everything would be easier if there were not so many pretty Bulgarian girls who destract some of the agents, but sometimes help with fighting back. This is a second instalment of the Rapid Response Corps with the same characters from the first movie....
Boyka: Undisputed IV
Character: Scout #2
In the fourth installment of the fighting franchise, Boyka is shooting for the big leagues when an accidental death in the ring makes him question everything he stands for. When he finds out the wife of the man he accidentally killed is in trouble, Boyka offers to fight in a series of impossible battles to free her from a life of servitude....
Septembers of Shiraz
Character: Komiteh Member
In this adaptation of the critically acclaimed debut novel by Iranian American author Dalia Sofer, a secular Jewish family is caught up in the maelstrom of the 1979 Iranian Revolution....
Pulse of the dance
Character: Stefan
FILM ABOUT THE PRICE OF SUCCESS. The story revolves around 10-year-old Martina, who is a dancer. At such a fragile age, she has to cope with her ambitious mother, whose aim is to make Martina champion of Bulgaria. Fortunately, she meets Victor - her new coach, he is an ex-dancer, trying to escape from his past. The film reveals the world of dancesport - the kingdom of glory and beauty, but also its immoral side and dark secrets....
Young Woman and the Sea
Character: Reporter on Boat
This is the extraordinary true story of Trudy Ederle, the first woman to successfully swim the English Channel. Through the steadfast support of her older sister and supportive trainers, she overcame adversity and the animosity of a patriarchal society to rise through the ranks of the Olympic swimming team and complete the 21-mile trek from France to England....
Footsteps in the Sand
Character: Hanny
At the airport, Slavi tells his life's story to a young customs officer. As children, Nelly promises Slavi to marry him. The two teenagers are passionately in love with each other but after some time Nelly falls in love with another guy. Slavi takes up drinking and gets into trouble with the Bulgarian militia (police) because of his family background. This is when he decides to defect to the West. After staying at a refugee camp in Austria and another desperate love, he sets out to the United St...
Automata
Character: Doctor
Jacq Vaucan, an insurance agent of ROC robotics corporation, routinely investigates the case of manipulating a robot. What he discovers will have profound consequences for the future of humanity....
The Throwaways
Character: The Broker
Notorious hacker Drew Reynolds is captured by the CIA and given a proposition - work for them or spend the rest of his life in prison. Agreeing on the condition that he can form his own team, he puts together a group of "throwaways" - the people deemed expendable and seemingly the worst in the organization....
XIa
Character: Ivan
XI "A" follows the story of Lina - a former dancer, who goes in for her dream job, namely to become a literature teacher....
Gasoline
Character: Карим
After spending fifteen years in prison a former race car driver returns to his old life in order to fulfill the promise he made to the love of his life....
Security
Character: Fake US Marshal
An ex-special services veteran, down on his luck and desperate for work, takes a job as a security guard at a run-down mall in a rough area of town. On his first night on the job, he opens the door to a distraught and desperate young girl who has fled the hijacking of a Police motorcade that was transporting her to testify as a witness in a trial. Hot on her heels is the psychopathic hijacker and his team of henchmen, who will stop at nothing to extract and eliminate the witness....
Operation Delta Force 4: Deep Fault
Character: Dmitri Minkov
When a group of seismologists are taken prison, the forces that be know that there is only one team of rescuers to turn to--the highly elite Delta Force. Upon beginning this difficult mission to track down and save the hostages, the men on the Force are met with several surprises--surprises that lead them to think this may be one mission they cannot get out of....
All She Wrote
Character: Michael
When Aaron, an ex-fighter, turns to music after years of being knocked around and left with permanent mental disabilities, he falls for Jana, an off-centered Bulgarian immigrant living in New York. While he recognizes that she is as crazy as he is, Jana does not share the same opinion. But her brother, Bobby, an up and coming wannabe fighter, decides to convince her she is that crazy in order to get Aaron in the ring against him....
Day of the Dead: Bloodline
Character: Daniels
In a world overrun by zombies, military personnel and survivalists live in an underground bunker while they seek a cure....
Attraction
Character: Borisov
The young ravishing history teacher Lora Angelova is torn apart by the love she has for the school her father founded, and her former life as a competitive dancer. As the principal's position at the school becomes vacant, Lora needs to make the difficult decision between staying and fighting for the job, or running away from the intimidation she faces. With the help of the beloved students in her class, she discovers who she really is and easily makes the right decision....
Revolution X
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The cult group "Revolution X" goes on their first big tour at sea, but the producer imposes on Bobby and Philip a new vocalist - the popular in BG singer GARY - NICHOL, which everyone in the group is annoyed with. The two couples plan to see each other secretly and spend a romantic vacation, but the director of the school Tsekov has his own plan for the trip ......
Reunion
Character: Бранимир
Three friends return from abroad and every one of them comes upon at something from his past. Finally they go to their hometown to save the house of one of their childhood friends from being demolished....
The Expendables 3
Character: Chief Commander (uncredited)
Barney, Christmas and the rest of the team comes face-to-face with Conrad Stonebanks, who years ago co-founded The Expendables with Barney. Stonebanks subsequently became a ruthless arms trader and someone who Barney was forced to kill… or so he thought. Stonebanks, who eluded death once before, now is making it his mission to end The Expendables -- but Barney has other plans. Barney decides that he has to fight old blood with new blood, and brings in a new era of Expendables team members, recru...
Index Zero
Character: Andrews
2035, United States of Europe. Some humans are not sustainable anymore....
Search and Destroy
Character: Nikola
When American Ranger John Cutter fails to save a family being held hostage and loses his entire team in a confrontation with infamous Ukrainian arms dealer Igor Rodin, he is discharged from the army....
Monster Ark
Character: Insurgent #2
Archaeologist Nicholas Zavaterro and his student find an antique vase with an inscription that points to where Noah's Ark is hidden. They decide to go looking, but things get out of control when they encounter opposing forces, including a monster named Tama....
Bridge of Dragons
Character: Robert
The tough and cold mercenary Warchild, is working for the man who took care of his war training and upbringing, the greedy General Ruechang. Ruechang is planning to take over the country by marrying Princess Halo. But Halo discovers that Ruechang killed her father to gain more power than he had working for the King, so she decides to run away. Warchild is the one who has to bring her back to Ruechang, but the one thing no one counted on happens... Warchild and Halo falls in love, and together th...
Uncle Claus
Character: Продуцента
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Wingless
Character: The Father
The movie is inspired by the true life story of Bulgarian paralympic ‘Long jump’ triple world champion Mihail Hristov. The film follows Mihail from the moment he loses both his arms in an electric current incident and makes the life-changing decision of becoming a professional athlete as he goes through the catharsis of deciding to start a new life without arms. He goes through a number of difficulties, both on the sports field and in his personal relationships with his parents, his coach, the g...
It's Never Just Sex
Character:
A film that presents the modern woman through the images of the four main archetypes - in search of her strength, sexuality, independence, freedom from prejudice and limitations. A comedy about female emancipation whose plot is built through irony, sarcasm and a moderate dose of audacity. Four women, completely different from each other, with completely different personalities, interests, morals and lifestyles. The protagonists of the film are united by a "karmic situation in a past life"....
Picasso Affair
Character: Georgi
Anton is a 30-year-old artist who deals in forgery of paintings, money and all sorts of petty scams. Extremely brash, cynical and unscrupulous. He has few friends and many enemies. In addition, he borrowed money from the cruel gangster Sofia, who sent the mutt Stambata on his heels to collect the debt. Just when Anton is cornered by the printing press, Major Georgi Stoyanov appears - an ambitious, charming, smart, but at the same time unscrupulous policeman. He offers him, or rather forces him t...
1952: Ivan and Aleksandra
Character: Cvetan
This grim Bulgarian drama explores the effects that the postwar Stalinist-led social reorganization of that country had upon the lives not only of those who suffered public denunciation, but upon those who were coerced into going along with those denunciations against their will, and especially upon the children. In the story, the schoolgirl Alexandra's father was a celebrated partisan who fought against the Nazis in World War Two. His prominence must have been considered a threat, because at th...
The Incredible Adventures of Sinbad the Sailor
Character: (voice)
Simbad, the Sultan's son, is only interested in TV. As a punishment, his father sent him on a sea voyage. A storm plunges the ship to the Sandwich Islands. Simbad eats the Sandwich Islands. Then he married a princess. Simbad fights with sea monsters. He returns to Baghdad with great wealth and buys himself a super-television....
Icefall
Character: Carl
A young Indigenous game warden arrests an infamous poacher only to discover that the poacher knows the location of a plane carrying millions of dollars that has crashed in a frozen lake. When a group of criminals and dirty cops are alerted to the poacher’s whereabouts, the warden and the poacher team up to fight back and escape across the treacherous lake before the ice melts....