# Moe Bar-El

Moe Bar-El (born 18 May 1992) is a British-Iranian actor. He is known for his theatre work, earning an affiliate Laurence Olivier Award nomination, and his roles in the Canal+ series The Bureau (2016) and the ITV drama Honour (2020).

## Early life

Bar-El was born in Shiraz and moved to London with his mother and brother when he was ten. He attended City and Islington College, where he pursued a Level 3 BTEC National Diploma in Performing Arts from 2010 to 2012. He then trained part-time at Identity School of Acting for three years. He speaks Persian and English.

## Career

After appearing in short films and Bola Agbaje's web series Hot Pepper, Bar-El made his television debut in 2016 when he joined the main cast of the French Canal+ political thriller The Bureau for its second season as Shapur Zamani. In 2018, he made his professional stage debut in Moormaid at the Arcola Theatre and Every Day I Make Greatness Happen at the Hampstead Theatre. For the latter, Bar-El was nominated for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre at the 2019 Laurence Olivier Awards. He appeared in the San Francisco production of The Jungle.
In 2020, Bar-El played Karim in the first season of the Apple TV+ spy thriller Tehran and starred as Rahmat Sulemani in the ITV drama Honour. He made his feature film debut with a small role in the 2021 Dutch drama Mitra. He had recurring roles as Reece in the 2022 Amazon Prime science fiction series The Peripheral and Artem in the 2023 BBC One crime drama Better. He went on the Paines Plough tour of You Bury Me.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2014 | C.T.R.L | PJ | Short film |
| 2015 | One Day in Whitechapel | Jay | Short film |
| 2016 | In the Robot Skies | Tamir | Short film |
| 2017 | Tilda & Laila | Ali | Short film |
| 2021 | Mitra | Bewaker Raid | |
| 2022 | Parousia | Kane | Short film |
| 2023 | Femme | Donovan | |
| TBA | Ghetto Heaven | Iziah Anderson | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2015 | Hot Pepper | Akram | Web series; episode: "Home Alone" |
| 2016 | The Bureau (French: Le Bureau des Légendes) | Shapur Zamani | Main role (season 2) Pictures (season 3), Flashback (season 4) |
| 2017 | Snatch | Sheikh Zesan | Episode: "The Smelt Down" |
| 2019 | Casualty | Shah Busnal | 1 episode |
| 2020 | Tehran | Karim | Recurring role (season 1; 4 episodes) |
| 2020 | Honour | Rahmat Sulemani | Miniseries |
| 2022 | The Peripheral | Reece | 4 episodes |
| 2023 | Better | Artem | 4 episodes |
| 2023 | Count Abdulla | Yazan Al Kawalti | |

## Stage

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2018 | Moormaid | Mehdi | Arcola Theatre, London |
| 2018 | Every Day I Make Greatness Happen | Kareem | Hampstead Theatre, London |
| 2019 | The Jungle | Maz | Curran Theatre, San Francisco |
| 2020 | Welcome to Iran | Various | Theatre Royal Stratford East, London |
| 2021 | Lockdown and All That / The Monster Inside | | Tara Theatre, London |
| 2023 | You Bury Me | Tamer | Paines Plough UK tour |

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
| 2019 | Laurence Olivier Awards | Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre | Every Day I Make Greatness Happen | Nominated | |