Majd Mardo
ACTOR
Majd Mardo is a Dutch-Syrian actor. After training at Youth Theatre Groningen, he attended the Theatre School Maastricht, graduating in 2013. He has performed in productions by Het Nationale Theater, De Toneelmakerij, and De Nationale Reisopera. He is also the founder of the youth care organisation Icarus.
From 2014 to 2017, he appeared in the theatre productions Nobody Home and Jihad, and in Germany in Jamal and Kinderen van Judas (2017, dir. Jeroen de Man).
His screen work includes Overspel (2015), Nachtoord (2016), Kamp Holland (2016), Just Friends (2018), and Jungle(2018, dir. Hetty de Kruijf), for which he received the Golden Calf (Dutch Academy Award) for Best Actor.
From 2018 to 2024, Majd was part of the ensemble of International Theater Amsterdam under the direction of Ivo van Hove. His stage work there included A Little Life, Falling Man, The Hours, Battles and Metamorphoses of a Woman, and The Damned. He also appeared in Age of Rage, earning the Arlecchino Award for Best Supporting Theater Performance in 2022.
His recent screen work includes King of the Road (2019), De Liefhebbers (2019), and the television series Red Light(2020) and I.M. (2020). His most recent films are Playboy (2023, dir. Mees Peijnenburg) and A Beautiful Imperfection(2024, dir. Michiel van Erp).
Majd Mardo is alos represented in Los Angeles by Margrit Betty Polak.