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Captain Phillips is a 2013 American biographical action-thriller film [4] [5] [6] directed by Paul Greengrass. Based on the 2009 Maersk Alabama hijacking , the film tells the story of Captain Richard Phillips , an American merchant mariner who was taken hostage by Somali pirates .
Barkhad Abdi (Somali: Barkhad Cabdi, [barxad ʕabdi]; [1] born April 10, 1985) is a Somali–American actor. He made his acting debut as the pirate Abduwali Muse in the biographical drama film Captain Phillips (2013), which earned him a British Academy Film Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, along with Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations.
In 2013, he played the role of the U.S. Navy SEAL commander in Paul Greengrass's Academy Award-nominated film Captain Phillips. In 2013, Guillermo del Toro cast Martini and Rob Kazinsky as the Australian father-son pilot duo in Pacific Rim. [3] In 2014, Martini was cast in Legendary Pictures' supernatural thriller Spectral. [4]
Next weekend, the Oscar-winning actor comes to big screens in the titular role in Columbia Pictures' Captain Phillips. If you're Sony , you turn to Hollywood's top earner: Tom Hanks.
Captain Phillips plays out like an anatomy of the real-life siege, and it is indeed harrowing. Hanks and costars Michael Chernus, David Warshofsky, and Corey Johnson are shot at, chased ...
Porter is a professional hostage negotiator, originally hired as the film's technical adviser but then offered the part: [5] he had no lines written for him, as Lindholm wanted to make use of his real-life skills. Abdihakin, the only ethnic Somali in the cast, was cast for his distinctive appearance.
Barkhad Abdi is being praised for his villainous role in 'Captain Phillips,' but not everyone knows just how incredible his rise to fame has been. Abdi was a limo driver when he saw an ad on ...
Captain Phillips may refer to: Richard Phillips (merchant mariner) , captain of the MV Maersk Alabama taken hostage by Somali pirates in April 2009 Captain Phillips (film) , a 2013 film about Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 piracy incident