Yousef Sweid

AWARDS & NOMINATIONS
Selection
‘Best Actor Award’ for NIGHT THERAPY (Lead Role) 
Israeli Film Academy Awards 2025
Nomination ‘Best Duo’ for MUNICH GAMES (Lead Role)
with Seyneb Saleh | German Actors’ Award 2023
Nomination ‘Best Supporting Actor’ for THE BUBBLE
Israeli Film Academy Awards 2006
Nomination ‘Best Actor’ for MAKTUB
Israeli Film Academy Awards 2004

ROYAL COURT THEATRE
70th Anniversary Season
BETWEEN THE RIVER AND THE SEA
15 April – 9 May 2026

FILM AND TELEVISION
Selection
MEIN FREUND BARRY (Feature Film) | D: Markus Welter
SEELENDORF (TV) | D: Jonathan B. Behr
NIGHT THERAPY  (YES – TV-Channel Israel) | D: Gabi Biblyovitch
TATORT “Ein guter Tag” & “Schwarzer Schnee” | D: Hans Steinbichler
DIE TOTENFRAU 2 (Netflix-Series) |  D: Andreas Prochaska (Lead Role)
DIE TOTENFRAU 1 (Netflix-Series) | D: Nicolai Rohde (Lead Role)
HERRHAUSEN (TV) | D: Pia Strietmann
DIE GESCHÜTZTEN MÄNNER (Feature Film) | D: Irene von Alberti
TENDER HEARTS (SKY) | D: Pola Beck
MUNICH GAMES (SKY-Series) | D: Philipp Kadelbach (Lead Role)
TOUCHED (Feature Film) | D: Claudia Rorarius
UNORTHODOX (Netflix-Series) | D: Maria Schrader
THE WRITER (TV-Series) | D: Shay Capon (Lead Role)
BAGHDAD CENTRAL (Channel 4 UK) | D: Alice Troughton & Ben A. Williams
TEL AVIV ON FIRE (Feature Film) | D: Sameh Zoabi
THE SPY (Netflix) | D: Gideon Raff
GAME OF THRONES (HBO) | D: Daniel Sackheim
INCH’ALLA (Feature Film) | D: Anais Barbeau-Lavalette

STAGE
Selection
2025 BETWEEN THE RIVER AND THE SEA | Maxim Gorki Theatre Berlin
Solo Performance by and with Yousef Sweid
2023-2024 BIRDS OF A KIND | Burgtheater Vienna
by Wajdi Mouawad | directed by Itay Tiran