Georges Khabbaz
| Georges Khabbaz | |
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5 November 1976 Beirut, Lebanon |
| Occupation | Actor, Writer, Director, Comedian, Musician, Playwright, Producer, Theater Professor |
| Years active | 1991-present |
| Website | www |
Georges Khabbaz (born in Beirut, November 5, 1976) is a Lebanese actor, writer, director, comedian, musician, playwright, producer and Theater Professor. He is a television, theater and cinema actor in addition to being a director, producer and music composer. Georges has participated as the main actor in more than 25 television shows out of which He was the script writer and director of three sitcoms which were ranked as the most viewed. For the last 11 years, he has produced, directed and starred in 13 plays, each of which was attended by an audience of more than 100,000 spectators. He was the main actor in Under the Bombs and Silina and he was the writer and lead actor of a new Lebanese movie Ghadi released in 2013 and the writer and supervisor of the Lebanese movie Waynon released in 2014.
Georges Khabbaz was born into a family of artists. His father Georges Joubran Khabbaz has played in many plays such as Sahriyyi for Ziad Rahbani and he attended several roles in television programs such as Les Miserables, Youth 73, and in some episodes with the Abu Melhem. His mother Odette Atiyyeh was also represented in many plays, especially in the local festivals. Georges Khabbaz studied at Holy Spirit University of Kaslik and obtained a degree In Musical Comedy. He was four years old, when he stood for the first time on stage, in the school during the play "Life of St. Maron," but professionally, he began his theatre career in 1994.
In 2006, Georges Khabbaz starred with Nada Abou Farhat in the film Under the Bombs (or Sous Les Bombes) directed by Philippe Aractingi. The film, which used "real shots of the war and of the horrors it created among the civilian population", follows a Muslim woman as she tries to find her son in the immediate aftermath of the Lebanese war, accompanied by a Christian taxi driver Georges Khabbaz. London Evening Standard reviewer Derek Malcolm praised (Georges Khabbaz)'s performance as "excellent". However Time Out London reviewer Dave Calhoun described the film as "deeply flawed". The film was one of 16 out of 983 submissions to be selected for screening at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition. Khabbaz was awarded Best Actor in a Feature at the 8th Annual Rotterdam Film Festival for the role.Alain Spira wrote in Paris Match on May 5, 2008 that Georges Khabbaz the star in his country is "literally Al Pacinesque."
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