Barkhad Abdi is in the running for Oscar gold Sunday, but actual wealth eludes him. Abdi has been widely praised for his role in “Captain Phillips” as the desperate pirate Muse, and even ad-libbed the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One day, Barkhad Abdi was driving taxicabs in Minneapolis and the next, he was on movie sets in Malta and Morocco, making his ...

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The Blade Runner sequel is set several decades after the 1982 original, with Harrison Ford reprising his iconic role as Rick Deckard. The film is written by Hampton Fancher and Michael Green, and ...

Barkhad Abdi (Somali: Barkhad Cabdi, IPA:[bàrxád̪ ʕábd̪ì]; 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 ...

Originally born in the city of Galkayo, a city located in the north-central region of Somalia. Barkhad lived most of his life in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, in the south side of Minneapolis.

The cast of Judd Apatow's next comedy Trainwreck was already sounding good with comedian Amy Schumer (who also wrote the project and is helping develop) in the lead, with Bill Hader and Brie Larson in ...

EXCLUSIVE: Barkhad Abdi, who was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 2014 for his role in Captain Phillips opposite Tom Hanks and uttered the catchphrase “I’m the Captain now,” has ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Barkhad Abdi, the former Minneapolis limo driver who earned an Oscar nod for his debut role in "Captain Phillips", has reportedly joined the cast of the "Blade Runner" sequel.