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 ...

When it comes time for "The Envelope, Please …" at the Oscars in March, the talk around Hollywood is that a young man from Minneapolis will be among the finalists for Best Supporting Actor. Our Mo ...

Fate steered a climactic course for Captain Phillips’ Barkhad Abdi. The Somali actor, who immigrated to Minneapolis with his family years ago, earned the lead role in a movie with Tom Hanks as his ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) --Barkhad Abdi, the Somali immigrant who was a Twin Cities limo driver before playing a pirate in "Captain Phillips," won an award at the British Academy Awards over the weekend.

Bafta-winning Somali-American actor Barkhad Abdi is set to join Judd Apatow's new comedy, Trainwreck, alongside Amy Schumer, who wrote the script and has been cast in the lead role. Plot details of ...

Despite missing out on the opportunity to watch the The 86th Annual Academy Awards from the lovely Intercontinental Hotel in downtown Nairobi during the wee hours of the morning, it is clear I was ...