Ali Suliman Ali Süleyman

Ali Suliman — Biography

Ali Suliman is a Palestinian film, stage and television actor who has found steady work in international productions. He is best known for his lead role in Paradise Now (2005) and for playing Mousa Bin Suleiman in Amazon Prime Video's Jack Ryan. In recent years he has played King Saul in the series House of David.

After graduating from the Yoram Loewenstein Performing Arts Studio he began his career in the theatre, appearing in the early 2000s in plays such as A View from the Bridge, Waiting for Godot and The Glass Menagerie. His screen breakthrough was Paradise Now, which won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film and was nominated for an Academy Award in the same category. He then moved into Hollywood and international co-productions: The Kingdom (2007), Body of Lies (2008, as Omar Sadiki), Lemon Tree (2008, a lawyer), The Time That Remains (2009), The Attack (2013, a surgeon) and Lone Survivor (2013, as Gulab) belong to this period.

On television he appeared in Homeland, The Looming Tower (as General Qamish) and Jack Ryan. More recent films include Farha (2021), The Swimmers (2022, as Ezzat Mardini) and Yunan (2025). He also works as a film producer. He was born in Nazareth.