Georges Khabbaz (born in hasbaya, 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
his 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. 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.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."The 2008
film Silina, directed by Hatem Ali, saw Khabbaz together with Duraid
Lahham and Miriam Fares in a film retelling of the operetta Hala and
the King (originally by Mansour and Assi Rahbani). Khabbaz plays the
King of Silina, who is tricked by his entourage and as a result
proposes marriage to a poor woman, believing her to be a princess he
is destined to marry. Georges Khabbaz Biography, Weight & Height, Age, Nationality & Ethnicity
Subscribe by Email
Follow Updates Articles from This Blog via Email