Barkhad Abdi

Tuesday, January 01, 2013

Barkhad Abdi was born in Somalia in 1985 and immigrated with his family first to Yemen and then to the United States in 1999 due to the outbreak of a civil war. Abdi is an actor who was nominated for an Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actor for the movie Captain Phillips (2013).